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Rock Dog has dismal opening weekend
Lionsgate has another animated bomb on their hands, as their latest toon Rock Dog failed to even make the top ten, Box Office Mojo is reporting. The movie saw a… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…independent release, of the 1987 The Puppetoon Movie that celebrated with style the career of the otherwise unfairly overlooked George Pal complete with additional toons, feature-length documentary and his debut… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…of diminishing sequel returns. The highly commercial Cars was first out of the gate, with a run of Cars Toons offering up non-canon tales of Mater and friends that played… |
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Frozen is now the biggest animated movie ever in terms of worldwide box office
…however, is at the domestic box office, where Shrek 2 still reigns supreme as the biggest toon ever with a take of $441 million. In other Frozen success stories, the… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…animation stalwarts Brad Garrett (various Disney toon series), Stephen Root (King Of The Hill, Ice Age), plus a couple of Pixar crew as additional voices: particularly touching is hearing storyman… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…let’s get on with things! — Ben Simon 1. The Puppetoon Movie Our favorite disc of the year by far was this splendid two-disc set that featured the compilation feature… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…reminded of its strengths too. It’s true that it’s not really a film that younger kids will appreciate, even given the old-school yarning and Saturday morning adventure cartoon feel of… |
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Wart, Robin, Oliver and more Pan come to Disney Blu-ray
…and claim the throne of England. Armed with newfound confidence and the power of friendship, Wart discovers his destiny and learns the best magic is the kind you find inside… |
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Exclusive clip and interview for Adventures in Zambezia
Sony Entertainment released a new direct-to-video cartoon feature called Adventures in Zambezia in the US. The animated movie follows Kai, a young falcon who goes on the basic hero’s journey… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…Finally, those expecting the latest Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex in 3D (6:31) to have turned up on the Finding Nemo set (too obviously, since it was released with that… |
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UPDATED! Mickey Mouse, Roger Rabbit to reunite in The Stooge?
…act needs a “stooge,” the Lewis role to be filled by Roger. According to Wolf, the film will incorporate five specific locations from Disneyland and will introduce the Toon Train,… |
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40th Annual Annie Award winners revealed
…— Pixar Animation Studios JURIED AWARDS Winsor McCay Award — Oscar Grillo, Terry Gilliam, Mark Henn June Foray Award — Howard Green Ub Iwerks Award — Toon Boom Animation Pipeline… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…too coherent, and that’s certainly the end result: is Escape 2 Africa about identity? Coming of age? Responsibility? Perhaps the current CG-toon favorite the environment? Nepotism? It never can make… |
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WALL•E wins over the critics; Brit legend Oliver Postgate RIP…
…James has also just let me know that his animated view on Bolt should be making its way to the Toon Review line-up sometime today, so stay tooned! – Ben…. |
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Exciting new projects to get their first look at Annecy this week
…hit Fly Me to the Moon, an early Euro 3-D film, and the world premiere of Jacques-Remy Girerd’s Mia et le Migou, the latest toon feature from France’s Folimages Studios…. |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…little ditties. The collector in me bought this DVD, but the cartoon fan in me enjoyed it. Is This Thing Loaded? And here’s another example of how Image didn’t just… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…on to do some storyboards in Los Angeles for Toon Town, the only sequence when Eddie Valiant is in a cartoon. From there on, Harald had one foot at the… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…eight-minute cartoon called A Monkey’s Tale for a Buddhist cultural center outside of Hong Kong. The Ngong Ping Village attraction (Ngong Ping 360 as they are officially calling it) was… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…group revealed that Silly Dreamer will soon be working with Shorts International, which provides programming to entertainment companies representing television, broadband internet, airlines, home video, mobile phones, and iTunes. Toon… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…blood was animated in a Disney cartoon. Behind the show were people like Greg Weisman, the creator and producer of the show, and Frank Paur, the show’s co-producer and director… |
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Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
…million dollars domestically and has already made over 100 million dollars worldwide. Anyhoo, toon in tomorrow for my review on the last Super Friends series, a review that would have… |
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Chicken Little comes to BluRay
…high definition disc, over at our Toon Review section. Chicken Little is far from Disney’s best work, but as a completely CGI film, it does offer an eye-popping presentation in… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…compilation features and television programs galore based around old cartoon output combined with new animation. He took Scrooge McDuck – a comics phenomenon – and put him on the screen… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
When continually asked for more Three Little Pigs cartoons after the immense success of his 1933 cartoon short, Walt Disney famously quipped “You can’t top pigs with pigs!” It was,… |
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs sizzles at overseas box office
…season’s bigger surprises. Dawn of the Dinosaurs will soon pass The Dark Knight, which cumed $468.6 million internationally. Toon is now the biggest film of all time in Russia and… |
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¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!: Speedy Gonzales Set for Guest Appearance
Toon Zone reports that everyone’s favorite fleet-footed Mexican mouse, Speedy Gonzales, will be making a guest appearance on the November 8 episode of ¡Mucha Lucha! on the Kids WB. Set… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa dominates foreign box-office
Variety reports that Dreamworks’ Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa dominated weekend’s international box office with $50.2 million at 5,129 playdates in 35 markets. The weekend international gross of the toon was… |
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Disney hoping for a Best Film Oscar nomination for Wall•E
Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Disney and Pixar are going to push hard for a Best Picture Oscar nomination for Wall•E “on the basis of its anti-toon moody darkness and… |
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Fly Me To The Moon's success encouraging for the future of 3D
…3-D product stream once they start promoting the format, says Variety. Fly Me to the Moon, a family animation conceived in 3-D by Belgium toon shop nWave, found a willing… |
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Kung Fu Panda to reach $120M by Sunday
…regardless is that Panda has been playing more like a four-quadrant tentpole than a kiddie toon and a $120M 10-day gross would make for the fourth-best one for an animated… |
