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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (February 6 2007), single disc, 73 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: The classic… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…would have been better to interlink all the story threads as one inter-connecting story, allowing for longer set ups, deeper mid-sections and bigger pay offs, but alas such is the… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…to come in, help them finish it and hopefully raise the bar 10% – 20% to make it presentable as a theatrical release. AV: Whereas the original movie focused on… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
DisneyToon Studios (2009), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (October 27, 2009), 2 discs, 80 mins plus supplements, 16:9 ratio, DTS Master Audio, Not Rated, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Tinker Bell is given… |
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Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced
…screen system and move into computer graphics with the Pinchcliffe video game. The disc also includes a further retrospective interview with Caprino himself (2000, 10 min) and a look at… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…first place votes with 19%. Doubtless it would have done even better if it had been released in more markets. In fourth place with a score of 20/100 was Despicable… |
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The Book of Life
…film. And Kate del Castillo almost steals the show from the rest of the cast as La Muerte. Story, as the saying goes, may be king. But a weak story… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…the enormous popularity of the cartoons, the strip was hugely successful and made him wealthy. A 1936 magazine article placed his annual income at $400,000. The comic strip was taken… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season
Warner Bros. (2006-2007), Warner Home Video (November 20, 2007), 2 discs, 292 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby Surround Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98… |
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Princess Mononoke
…this is one of those epics without human scale. On the contrary, the massiveness of the story comes mainly from its themes, not its content. This is a personal story… |
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Fantasia 2000
…segments developed and how Fantasia 2000 was born. You can also see many of these comments in the “Making of Fantasia 2000” featurette. This follows the history of Fantasia, and… |
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Astro Boy (2003): The Complete Series
Tezuka Productions/Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) (2003), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (March 29, 2005), 5 discs, 1010 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 pan-and-scan, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $34.95 Storyboard: Astro… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…he gathered his lead animators in a little soundstage, and, during four hours, we told and played the whole story for them, even already envisioning the songs. For three years,… |
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Broadway Tarzan battling story problems?
…story, responding to the responses of his readers. According to the article, the main problem with the new Tarzan musical is not necessarily in the seating, but in the story…. |
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Remastered Deluxe Edition
Melendez/Mendelson Productions (1973), Warner Home Video (October 7, 2008), 1 disc, 25 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Charlie… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…musical universe from the 80s on through The Story, a duet with Jennifer Kimball, and then solo success. Hard to believe at first, then, that her style would ever fit… |
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Wonder Woman
…Flight (10:12) has no animation in it, but there are plenty of looks at storyboards and pre-production artwork for the upcoming movie, as well as a truncated history of the… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…production difficulties, including a complete 180 degree turn in story and tone, Disney’s 2000 offering The Emperor’s New Groove averted disaster by going from being an epic, Prince And The… |
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Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!
…game. The disc also includes a further retrospective interview with Caprino himself (2000, 10 min) and a look at what appears to be some kind of life-size theme park/walkthrough exhibition… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
DreamWorks Animation (November 7 2008), DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment (February 6 2009), single disc, 89 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.78:1, Dolby Digital 5.1 True-HD, Rated PG, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: The… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…$29.99 Storyboard: Remember Disney’s 1989 classic The Little Mermaid? Well, imagine Ariel had a daughter and flip the story around so that the young girl wanted to be a mermaid… |
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Inside Out, Ex Machina, Bear Story win Oscars
…make stuff.” JONAS RIVERA: “Right, we do. And on this film, every single storyboard, every single frame, cut, line of dialogue, every single pixel, was done by the amazing artists… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…often. JCK: And it’s also rare to find an animator who can do story, because a lot of times animators are not in story for a reason…they have to animate…. |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…heard was that once the head of Disney TV saw the story pitch he didn’t think it would make a full series if it went past the short phase. AV:… |
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The BFG
…$39.99 Storyboard: Roald Dahl gets another screen outing, this time from director Steven Spielberg, who adapts the story of a young girl caught up between the dream-dispensing Big Friendly Giant… |
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Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life
…story is very much under way but perhaps not completely finished and sometimes the character designs can help shape where the story goes – and it’s not the story certainly… |
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Delgo
…of critics will see the weighty plot as a bad thing. But trying to cram a Tolkien-esque story into 90 minutes can’t have been easy and the writers should be… |
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Begins' Scarecrow revealed in toy form
Taken from Toy News, Issue 42, February 05, a pic which reveals the design of the Scarecrow from Batman Begins is now up at Superhero Hype…. |
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Toy industry looks to film industry for sales
Reuters, via Yahoo! Movies, breaks down the characteristics certain films must carry in order to interest toy companies. Movies mentioned in the composition include the Star Wars saga, The Da… |
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Monsters vs. Aliens toy licensee announced
…next March. ToyQuest’s line for Monsters vs. Aliens will include action figures, non-electronic table top games, vehicles, playsets, role-play products, plush, youth electronics, seasonal toys, activity sets and rack toys…. |
