Stories By Michael Mallory
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Features
LeBron Gets a New Dream Team in ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’
July 15, 2021***This article was written for the August ’21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 312)*** There’s a...
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Features
‘America: The Motion Picture’: George & Abe’s Excellent Adventure
June 29, 2021***This article originally appeared in the June/July ’21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 311)*** Forget what...
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Anime
On the Right Track: The Remarkable Success of ‘Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train’
April 21, 2021***This article originally appeared in the February ’21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 307) and has...
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Features
Warner Animation’s ‘Scoob!’ Cracks the Case of the Loveable Great Dane
April 25, 2020***This article originally appeared in the May ’20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 300)*** In his...
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Features
Much A-Doo about ‘Scoob!’: An Early, Behind-the-Scenes Sneak Peek
March 5, 2020Director Tony Cervone makes no bones about the latest iteration of animation’s venerable, lovable Great Dane,...
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Features
Oscar Watch: Tunes that Makes Toons Fly
January 3, 2020***This article originally appeared in the February ‘20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 297)*** Feature animation...
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Features
‘Spies in Disguise’: Espionage Takes Wing
December 5, 2019***This article originally appeared in the January ‘20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 296)*** There’s a...
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Television
Hip Tunes for Toons: Top Composers on Creating Eclectic Soundtracks
June 27, 2019It practically goes without saying that children’s animated shows today don’t look like they used to....
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Features
2018’s Animated Feature Composers Strike a Universal Chord
January 18, 2019With the checkered flag about to be waved on the 2019 Academy Award race, the list...
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Features
‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’: Drawn to Reality
December 11, 2018Spanish director Salvador Simó puts an animated spin on a special chapter in Luis Buñuel’s life...
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Features
Your 2018 Animated Feature Oscar Dossier!
November 13, 2018This year’s roster of animated pictures is large and very diverse, though unlike some prior years,...
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Features
The Grinch: Illuminating Dr. Seuss’s Mean One!
October 17, 2018The new CG-animated feature The Grinch digs deeper into the world of the favorite holiday curmudgeon....
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Features
‘Hotel Transylvania’ Third Time’s a Charmer
July 12, 2018In 2015, after captaining two entries in Sony Pictures Animation’s monster franchise Hotel Transylvania, animation maestro...
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Features
Netflix Unleashes Painterly ‘White Fang’ This Friday
July 6, 2018Director Alexandre Espigares leads a noble effort to bring Jack London’s White Fang to CG- animated...
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Features
Score One for Animation
June 22, 2018***This article originally appeared in the June/July issue of Animation Magazine (No. 281)*** Probably no area...
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Features
Renegade Animation at 25: The Little Toon Train that Could
March 30, 2018How much of a challenge has it been to keep an animation studio up and running...
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Features
‘Maya’ Buzzes Off to U.K., Nordics
July 6, 2015Studio 100 Film has secured a new distribution deal for its CG-animated Maya the Bee movie...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Price Was Right, and a Farewell
January 2, 2015After 163 entries over the course of 2½ years — all culled from the thousand or...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Remembering Martha Sigall
December 17, 2014Very few people can be called irreplaceable, but Martha Goldman Sigall, who passed away this week...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Stamps of Approval
December 4, 2014A few days back I was in the post office to buy stamps. “So what?” you...
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