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Kung Fu Panda and DreamWorks battling a lawsuit
DreamWorks Animation is fighting a lawsuit against Terence Dunn, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dunn, a writer, claims he proposed the idea of a “spiritual kung fu fighting panda bear”… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
…Then, you can imagine my desire to work at Disney, all the more since I had learned that some non-American artists like Harald Sieperman (character designer on Tarzan, Brother Bear… |
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Seth MacFarlene to reboot The Flintstones
…do a Flintstones remake for a long time. He is currently working on his first live-action project, Ted, an R-rated buddy comedy about a man and his talking teddy bear…. |
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Poster for The Muppets revealed
…seen on the big screen in more than a decade. Starring Kermit the Frog, Fozzy the Bear and Gonzo the…whatever he is, The Muppets comes to theaters everywhere this Thanksgiving…. |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…he asked his crew to create films on Winnie the Pooh, on that plain and simple and delicate, silly old bear… HJ: What I was impressed with the directors was:… |
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Kung Fu Panda lawsuit thrown out
…film Kung Fu Panda. Dunn’s alleged pitch was about a kung-fu fighting panda bear who was “adopted by five animal friends in the forest (a tiger, a leopard, a dragon,… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…animated film, The Prince of Egypt. SW: Right, but you’ve got to bear in mind Mars was three years in the making. We started writing back in October 2007. So… |
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Tradition Studios First Animated Feature is The Legend of Tembo
…about a baby elephant separated from his family and sent to India. Chuck Williams and Aaron Blaise are on the roister to direct. Blaise co-directed Brother Bear and was a… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…of modern Disney with its attitude and nods – intentional or not – to the Studio’s recent animal and environmentally friendly features Pocahontas, The Lion King and Brother Bear. But… |
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Me & My Shadow cast set
…Train Your Dragon), with a screenplay by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember based on a draft by Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman (Brother Bear, Chicken Little, Open Season)…. |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…a female bear he had fallen for. AV: Ultimately, Jungle Book 2 closely resembled its 1967 predecessor, despite having several writers and drafts. Was that one of Disney’s requirements? I… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…adapted his old Termite Terrace stable mate Frank Tashlin’s 1946 children’s book The Bear That Wasn’t into a 1967 animated short, with much of the same team as behind Dot… |
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del Toro adds animated Day of the Dead to plate
…the Mexican holiday”. They’re shooting for a 2014 release date. Also of note, EW says this is the 16th “yet-to-be-released project currently in the works to bear del Toro’s name”…. |
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Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: Deluxe Edition
…about the importance of the trees to the local ecosystem. At stake is the welfare of bar-ba-loots (bear-like mammals), swomee-swans, and humming fish. The Once-ler pays no heed, and repeatedly… |
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Mad: Season One, Part Two
…the bunch, however, are the very funny Pooh Grit, in which the honey-loving bear (a spot on vocal impersonation of Jim Cummings’ Pooh) is twisted into the Jeff Bridges western,… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…extent until the much more recent Brother Bear. There’s also the obvious love story aspect about it all, too, featuring one of the Studio’s most realistically depicted relationships – canines… |
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Happy Feet Two
…Brother Bear films, come and go without much consequence to the main story arc, even if they do get the best lines: “I’m one in a krillion!” and “Goodbye, krill… |
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Ted trailer now online
…is a living, talking teddy bear who’s alive because of a childhood wish. Also starring Mila Kunis (the voice of Meg on Family Guy) and MacFarlene as the voice of… |
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Avatar: The Legend of Korra
…in harmony and it has since blossomed in a burgeoning metropolis. What does Korra do? She stowaways on a ship and heads to the city with her polar bear dog… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…they’re in just works. And almost stealing the show is King Julian and his new found love Sonya the Bear. Their tour of Rome while Andrea Bocelli sings is worth… |
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Brave
…her family and the kingdom can bear. Live action films have it easier when it comes to scale. A movie about a group of people who spend the whole film… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…reprises his Baloo the bear, as he would again do even more transparently two years later in the Studio’s next, Robin Hood. As always the characters couldn’t be more the… |
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Michael Clarke Duncan passes away
…voice could be heard as the voice of Commander Vachir in Kung Fu Panda and as the voice of Tug in Brother Bear. In addition, Duncan also voiced numorous characters… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…in every couple. 1943’s The Unbearable Bear is much more in keeping with the developing Looney Tunes template of the time, from the UPA-influenced abstract backgrounds to such conventions as… |
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Beyond Beyond From Copenhagen Bombay Gets Financed
…to go searching for her and bring her home. The studio and Jacobsen have teamed up before for the 2011 movie The Great Bear. The film will be animated in… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…of great change at the Studio. While the old guard were heavily involved in fulfilling Walt’s own dream of a Pooh Bear feature with the compilation The Many Adventures Of… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…appearances of another popular character in Señor Droopy and Wags To Riches, plus Symphony In Slang, the hair-in-the-gate fun of Magical Maestro and Rock-A-Bye Bear. All of them represent not… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…the simpsons movie 215 33 mary and max 212 34 tokyo godfathers 207 35 millennium actress 203 36 brother bear 197 37 bolt 180 38 sita sings the blues 160… |
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Ted song to be performed at Oscars
…about a potty mouthed teddy bear more than earned its R rating, the Oscar-nominated song is actually sweet and simple, sounding more like something that would come from a Bing… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…and of course his own Never-Land, the theme park that would bear his name, was very much a priority project for him. Another change at the Studio would be the… |
