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More Enduring Than the Average Bear
This week marks the 52nd anniversary of the premiere of The Yogi Bear Show on television, and it would seem that the smarter-than-the-average bear is busier now than he has been in decades. The 2010 feature Yogi Bear turned out to be a box office hit, and next year will [...]
Gene of All Trades
Some things stay with you for a lifetime. When I was a kid I read a Yogi Bear comic strip in the newspaper in which Ranger Smith punks Yogi by filling his enormous Christmas stocking with an enormous artificial foot. It sounds like a simple, obvious gag, but the memory [...]
Welcome to Brickleberry!
Comedy Central’s crazy new toon features a group of oddball forest rangers and a pampered grizzly cub voiced by Daniel Tosh. Move over, Ranger Smith and Yogi Bear. There’s a new animated comedy about forest rangers coming to town: It’s called Brickleberry, and it’s bound to raise some eyebrows when [...]
Jazwares Unveils New Line of Hanna-Barbera Collectibles
Jazwares is launching a new line of figures and plush based on several classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Products hit toy aisles nationwide earlier this month and rollouts will continue into the fall and feature familiar faces from eight popular Hanna-Barbera properties, including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Tom & Jerry, Yogi [...]
Beyond Talking Pigs and Singing Chipmunks
VFX powerhouse Rhythm & Hues celebrates 25 colorful years, embarks on more ambitious projects and plans bigger expansion overseas. Although average moviegoers may not be able to identify the work of Rhythm & Hues, they’ve been enjoying the impressive handiwork of the studio’s artists for 25 years now. Whether it’s [...]
5-Day Webcam Event Celebrates 100th ‘Robot Chicken’
Adult Swim’s Emmy Award-winning show Robot Chicken will broadcast its 100th episode Sunday, January 15 at 11:30 p.m. during the Adult Swim block on Cartoon Network. Created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich under their Stoopid Monkey Productions banns, Robot Chicken uses stop-motion animation to parody and lampoon popular culture [...]
WB Streams ‘Yogi,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Potter’ on Facebook
Warner Bros. is expanding its experimental Facebook rental program to include five new movies including the hybrid animated feature Yogi Bear. The studio’s digital distribution division made the films available Sunday for rental through the popular social networking site. The films include Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter [...]
‘Yogi Bear,’ ‘Venture Bros.’ Top New Video Releases
Home video buyers who you want to be smarter than the average bear will be heading to Jellystone Park this week. Yogi Bear (Warner Bros., $28.98 DVD, $35.99 Blu-ray, $44.95 3D Blu-ray) arrives on home video. The mix of live-action and animation featured the voices of Dan Aykroyd as Yogi, [...]
‘Gnomeo’ Holds Up With Third-Place, $19M Weekend
Gnomeo & Juliet held up well its second weekend at the box office, landing in third place with an estimated $19.2 million in ticket sales. The CG-animated film just barely missed out on second place, which went to the sci-fi action film I Am Number 4 with $19.4 million. Leading [...]
New Year Weekend Gives Boost to ‘Yogi Bear’
The first box office faceoff of 2011 may have lacked the type of fireworks Hollywood normally likes to trumpet, but the lack of major releases turned out to give a big boost to Yogi Bear. The Warner Bros. 3D feature, which mixes CG animation and live action to bring the [...]
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