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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
When A.A. Milne first wrote of his son’s teddy bear, little did he know the cultural icon Winnie the Pooh would become. Starting with poems in When We Were Very… |
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The Muppets
…a huge white elephant, Disney began to look at what they could do with the frogs and bears and chickens and things that they owned. Various ideas floated around, all… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…Sleeping Beauty Ballet. The Good Bear And The Bad Bear (1940) is another fun hand-drawn Rinso ad. Jasper’s Boobytraps (1945) returns to the battle of wits between Jasper and Scarecrow…. |
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Bee Movie Fun Facts
…KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED Vincent the bear from Over the Hedge appears in both a trailer for Bee Movie and in the courtroom scene in the film. One of the… |
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Paddington enters the real world
Coming Soon reveals that Warner Bros. is once again teaming up with “Harry Potter” producer David Heyman to bring another British classic to the big screen, Paddington Bear. Hamish McColl… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh/Spookable Pooh
…The Monster Frankenpooh, Things That Go Piglet in the Night, and Pooh Moon. Spookable Pooh includes A Knight to Remember, and Rock-A-Bye Pooh Bear. I am not sure whether these… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…Ugly Duckling), the short finds Mickey out in the woods with Pluto, attempting to make his pet a keen hunter. A famous encounter with a great bear ensues (“You know,… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…Of The Neverland: At Wits End, a Keaton-era Batman battling the Joker on Family Feud, Superman’s Fortress Of Solitude on Extreme Renovation, Bear Grylls fighting off a grizzly Pooh Bear,… |
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Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…bear fruit and I was invited to be more involved in the process. So, in the second film, it became more official and my duties were described more as, in… |
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Peanuts Deluxe Holiday Collection
…the Thanksgiving dinner is almost too much to bear. Fortunately, always-steady Linus is there to calm down Charlie Brown and offer a solution. As the Browns will not be leaving… |
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As WDFA-Florida remains dark, Firefly is ready to shine!
…at the Studio were involved on such Disney films as Brother Bear, Lilo And Stitch, Treasure Planet, Tarzan, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and The Lion King, among others. Read… |
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TaleSpin: Volume 2
…her frustrations with the work ethic-impaired bear, and I found her to be a most sympathetic character, in large part to the voice work by Sally Struthers and the character’s… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…fit for Pooh Bear. And yet he was also – he didn’t really alter his voice at all! – it was the same voice that he used for Kaa in… |
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Rupert coming home again!
Famed English adventurer Rupert The Bear is coming back home, with the issue of Paul McCartney’s Rupert And The Frog Song, the first time the little bear was animated on… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…the Studio would then be taking their licensed AA Milne Pooh Bear characters and doing the same with them, I felt the same sinking of heart that greeted my first… |
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Bolt
…the spark, with films like Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, and Chicken Little. A changing of the guard took place and here we are. (I told you it would be… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…vocal talent Phil Harris was brought back for a third time (after Jungle Book) to reprise his “big bear” role as Little John in the unit’s next feature Robin Hood,… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…Kingdom in the Sun), Treasure Planet or Brother Bear. But how did a German artist get to become one of Hollywood’s greatest character designers? Simply because there’s no business like… |
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Pixar references in Up trailer
…airplane from Toy Story and also a stuffed toy bear which, the site suggests, could possibly reference to Pixar’s upcoming film The Bear and the Bow, due out in 2011…. |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…Lion King 1½: Hakuna Matata (which doesn’t mention its DTV origins, simply stating “coming 2004 from Walt Disney Pictures”), and a theatrical preview for Brother Bear (featuring pencil test animation… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…being, I think, a Yogic exercise. It’s this opening that suggests Kung Fu Panda is going to be something different from anything – especially from the DreamWorks stable – that’s… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…composer Mark Mancina, working with Opetaia Foa’i to bring an authentic flavor to the arrangements that often recalls Mancina’s previous Disney work on Tarzan and, especially, the underrated Brother Bear,… |
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Official Word On My Peoples And Disney's Florida Unit
…abandoning the medium, the studio’s current release Brother Bear, produced in Orlando, is only one of two remaining major 2-D movies in Disney’s lineup. The other is next year’s planned… |
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Tarzan II
…being the standout track. While both of these are of the usual Tarzan/Brother Bear style he is famous for, and which worked very well to both those films’ advantage, one… |
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Trailer for Mowgli now online
…India. As he learns the often harsh rules of the jungle, under the tutelage of a bear named Baloo and a panther named Bagheera, Mowgli becomes accepted by the animals… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…Kimball and Frank Thomas, for jam sessions. They were called the Firehouse Five Plus Two! I worked with him again on the “Bear Band Serenade” for the Country Bear Jamboree…. |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…didn’t lead to any breakout character stars other than the slightly anaemic Barney Bear. MGM finally struck gold with Hanna-Barbera’s Tom & Jerry and was hungry for another series. When… |
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School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit
…was nominated for a 2002 Annie Award (the animation industry’s Oscar). He was supervising animator for the bear cub Koda in the animated feature Brother Bear (2003); supervising animator for… |
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Tentative full release schedule from Buena Vista Home Entertainment!
…as The Gnome Mobile, The Haunted Mansion, Mickey’s Three Musketeers, Mary Poppins – Special Edition, Aladdin – Special Edition and Brother Bear being prepped for release! Remember that although it… |
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Toy Story 3
…new character designs. All are well done and fit in nicely. The main new character, a huggable pink bear named Lotso, is especially fun — not to mention marketable! Uncharacteristically… |