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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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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…made with animators and their families, Ghez uncovered a trove of previously unpublished artwork, history, and anecdotes which give an unprecedented view into how the films, characters, storylines, and unique… |
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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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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…interview with Caprino himself (2000, 10 min) and a look at what appears to be some kind of life-size theme park/walkthrough exhibition of Caprino’s animated characters (1995, 14 min). This… |
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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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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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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…with Gone With the Wind, the first feature film to be totally storyboarded, the process of drawing story sketches in order to have a global view of the story and… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…story lines were all coming together. So, we wrote a reprise of that number for Sebastian, to tie up his storyline, and for Triton as well, to tie up his… |
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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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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…Storyboard: Set in both our “real world” and the magical Narnia, this animated version of CS Lewis’ evergreen story opens on a cold, wet day in a house in the… |
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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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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…scope (and it would be, considering that there’s a much larger story to tell), and The Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story flows slightly easier (probably due to… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…Golden Rose at the Rose d’Or Light Entertainment Festival. Committed to her progressive vision of Peter’s story, director Suzie Templeton took over 3,000 photographs and shot over 14 hours of… |
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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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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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The Jungle Book 2
…$29.99 Storyboard: As this new Jungle Book begins, we find Mowgli recapping the story of the first film in an imaginative sequence using silhouetted figures. This quickly dealt with, we… |
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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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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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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
Studio Ponoc (2017), Universal/GKids (May 1, 2018), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 103 mins, 1.85:1 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (for Japanese and English), Rated PG, Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: A… |
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The Croods: A New Age
DreamWorks Animation (November 25 2020), Universal Home Entertainment (February 23 2021), two discs, 96 mins plus supplements, 4K UHD and 1080p high-definition widescreen 2.35:1, Dolby Atmos Audio, Rated PG, Retail:… |
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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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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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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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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…drastic need of picking up. Walt’s sense of story prevailed, and he knew it was time to move on to the climax of the story, and final showdown with Shere… |
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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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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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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…The Crocadero, Scrap Happy Daffy and Wholly Smoke). 15×4 = 60 Tuneful encounters! The Sweatbox Review: As sure as clockwork, Warner Brothers have delivered another wonderful collection of 60 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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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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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…. |
