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Just in time for the Memorial weekend, fanboy favorite Bryan Singer announced...
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Ten Reasons We Loved 2011!
Here are the “Ten Reasons We Loved 2011!”, written by the editors of Animation Magazine and illustrated by Mike Fisher.
Effects Animator Dorse Lanpher Passes Away
The animation community lost another great talent this past Friday with the passing of effects animators Dorse Lanpher at the age of 76. Lanpher began his career at Disney in the late 1950s, working on such classics as Sleeping Beauty, The Sword in the Stone and Hundred and One Dalmatians. [...]
Disney Unveils Images from Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’
When he’s not designing Thanksgiving parade floats or displaying his art at museums, Tim Burton is also directing movies. His 2012 black-and-white feature Frankenweenie is a full-length version of a short he directed in 1984, about a boy who brings his dog back to life, a la Dr. Frankenstein, after [...]
Warner Pulls ‘Harry Potter’ Vanishing Act
Warner Bros. plans to halt shipping DVD and Blu-ray of all of the Harry Potter movies to retailers after Dec. 29, Deadline.com reports today. The studio hopes to encourage fans to buy the discs before they go back to the vault, a tactic used by Disney for home video releases [...]
Disney Announces Four More 3-D Re-releases
You can call it the Lion King 3-D effect: Disney announced today that it will re-release stereoscopic 3-D versions of Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc. and The Little Mermaid in theaters in 2012 and 2013. This is a direct result of the phenomenal success of The Lion [...]
‘Lion King’ Makes Top Grossing Films List
The stereoscopic 3-D re-release of Disney’s The Lion King has launched the well loved toon to No. 10 on the list of all-time top grossing films at the domestic box office. It joins only two other animated films: Shrek 2 ($441.2 million) and Toy Story 3 ($415 million). The top [...]
‘Lion King’ Swallows ‘Dolphin Tale’ in B.O. Battle
For the second week in a row, Disney’s 3-D retooling of The Lion King ruled the box office, taking in $22.1 million domestically. In addition, the 17-year-old movie brought in an additional $1 million overseas, adding up its global gross to $77.7 million. Disney Home Ent. originally planned to release [...]
‘Lion King’ Is Top Cat at the Box Office
The 3-D re-release of Disney’s The Lion King ruled the weekend box office, 17 years after the original pic hit the big screens. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff and produced by Don Hahn, the beloved 2D animated classic brought in an estimated $29.3 million in North America. The [...]
Roaming Deeper into ‘The Lion King’
Disney’s beloved classic gets a stereoscopic 3-D makeover and theatrical release in advance of its October Blu-ray release. Although movie audiences have grown accustomed to seeing the latest CG-animated movies like Cars 2 or Rio in stereoscopic 3-D, it’s a special thrill to take in 3-D versions of classic 2D [...]
Disney Celebrates Lion King 3D Premiere
Walt Disney Studios celebrated the stereoscopic 3D re-release of their Oscar and Golden Globe award-winning animated feature The Lion King this Saturday, August 27 at the historic El Capitan Theatre. Stars from the film in attendance were Robert Guillaume (voice of Rafiki), Moira Kelly (Adult Nala), Jim Cummings (Ed the [...]
A Real-Life Replica of...
Cowabunga, dude! A real-life replica of Simpsons’ hometown of Springfield is...
Blue Sky’s...
Epic, the new animated adventure from director Chris Wedge and his gifted team...
