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Jeanine Tesori to pen songs for Rapunzel
According to The Internet Movie Database, Jeanine Tesori, who wrote the songs for Mulan II, will pen the songs for Rapunzel Unbraided, set to enchant audiences in 2007…. |
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Tarzan II gets Grate-ful for Terk
…El Dorado, Disney Channel’s ‘Twas the Night) will be replacing the comedian as the voice of ‘Terk’ for the sequel. Tarzan II swings to video stores on June 14, 2005…. |
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Official website for Wallace & Gromit online
The official website for Wallace & Gromit, formerly titled “The Wallace & Gromit Movie: Curse of the Wererabbit”, is now online. Wallace & Gromit hits theaters on October 7, 2005…. |
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Box Office Weekend Estimates: February 18 – 20
From Box Office Guru comes the news that averaging a mild $2,596 from 2,966 theaters, Son of the Mask came in at fourth place this weekend, taking in an estimated… |
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Oscar's Shorts
…Magazine has an article previewing each of this year’s contenders for the coveted Best Animated Short award. A brief Quicktime movie clip of each short is included in the writeup…. |
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The Incredibles not just CGI anymore
Yesterday we posted about The Incredibles going 2D (briefly) but today we point out The Incredibles presented in yet another format. Ultimate Disney has posted five screen captures from the… |
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Bambi's king of the home video forest
…release of Disney’s Bambi reached one million units, knocking out all of the other competition. Not bad for a sixty-three year old movie. Apparently the public does like traditional animation…. |
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Robots preview on TV tonight
Kristin writes in to point out that the FOX Network is hosting a preview tonight at 8PM entitled Assembling ROBOTS: The Magic, The Music and the Comedy. Robots hits theaters… |
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626/Heffalump Mixup?
Kristin writes in to point out that one of the promotional posters for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie looks quite similar in concept to one of the promotional posters used for Lilo… |
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Ward Kimball home movies
On Thursday, April 21, the Hollywood Heritage Museum/Lasky-DeMille Barn will be screening “historic ‘home movie’ footage shot by Ward Kimball,” one of Walt Disney’s legendary Nine Old Men. While animation… |
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Who's doing Horton? Blue Sky's doing Horton
After the debacle of the Cat in the Hat movie, the widow of Dr. Seuss swore to never allow a live-action adaptation of one her husband’s books again. But she… |
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Heff-y Halloween!
Ultimate Disney notices that Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie is available for pre-order at Amazon. Lumpy returns September 13, 2005…. |
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Valiant trailer
A trailer for the upcoming Vanguard-Disney CG movie is available on the official web site. Valiant‘s US release date has recently been pushed back four months by Buena Vista, to… |
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Disney Database's Media Center now online
The Disney Database’s Media Center has debuted online with 11 new movie stills from Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch and 12 new screenshots from Tarzan II…. |
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Spanish poster for Madagascar
The Internet Movie Poster Awards has a new Spanish poster for Madagascar, which arrives in U.S. theaters May 27, 2005…. |
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Box Office Weekend : March 11 – 13, 2005
20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios’ Robots topped the box office this weekend, with an estimated $36.5 million. The numbers bring in the second best March opening for a… |
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Can Iger keep Jobs at Disney?
…two to tango.” The Post also mentions that among the congratulations sent to Iger on Sunday was an e-mail from Jobs, though the newspaper does not reveal the e-mail’s contents…. |
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Buena Vista's DVD battle plans; Incredibles review
…recent Incredibles review – a thorough look at the new 2-disc set, which even includes an Easter egg guide! Finally, the site has also posted the press release for Pooh’s… |
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Curious cast members
…O’Ross in the traditionally animated flick, produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Directed by Jun Falkenstein (The Tigger Movie), Curious George will climb to theaters on February 10, 2006…. |
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Entering Charlotte's Web
The Sydney Morning Herald [free registration required], via Coming Soon, has a look at the set of Charlotte’s Web in Australia. One tidbit from the article is that unlike the… |
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King Kong Animated Series to be Released on DVD
Riding on the upcoming Peter Jackson movie, Sony Music will release the animated King Kong tv series on DVD this November. The 4-disc set collects the 1966 TV series by… |
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Two Jack Sparrows?
…tale long before there was a character named Jack Sparrow in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Perhaps the Pirates of the Caribbean writers were inspired by the earlier story…. |
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APRIL FOOLS STORY: Snow White and the Dwarfs gain an extra companion
The recent news that the previously shelved Dumbo II (due to story problems that apparently mirrored Babe: Pig In The City‘s plot) is back on the cards has opened the… |
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\\Hollywood Reporter\\ review: Valiant disappointing
…and John Cleese, the movie almost certainly will head south for the summer” and that even though the story “sounds vaguely amusing on paper” it is “sadly lacking on screen”…. |
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More on Ward Kimball's home movies
…Follow the ‘More’ link for an exact reproduction of the text of the postcard (right down to the misspelling of Ward’s last name). It appears that the footage to be… |
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Two Chicken Little posters debut online!
The first posters for Disney’s Chicken Little are available to see online, with one being found exclusively at MovieWeb and the other at EZI Productions, via The Internet Movie Poster… |
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Annnouncing Golden Blaze
…receive a theatrical release. The movie features the voice talent skills of Blair Underwood, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neil Patrick Harris, Sanaa Lathan, and Khleo Thomas. “Jason Fletcher was just your… |
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Incredible counterfeits arise after case of demand but no supply
The BBC, via The Internet Movie Database, indicates that following the unfulfilled demand for Incredibles merchandise, counterfeit Incredibles toys have made a huge leap in filling the void, especially in… |
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Madagascar seeks help from Madagascar
…Kenya. Henry Kartagener, president of a New York-based travel consultancy, warns, however, that Madagascar will only benefit from the movie if the island is heavily marketed in travel agencies and… |
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U.S. Howl's Moving Castle poster online
The Internet Movie Poster Awards has the poster for the U.S. release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle, moving into theaters for a limited release on June 10, 2005…. |

