Monthly Archives: March 2012

21 Jump Street” bumps “The Lorax” to second place

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

After two weeks lead­ing the box office, Uni­ver­sal Stu­dios’ “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” was moved to sec­ond place by the live-action remake 21 Jump Street.

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Funderful Suburbia (1962) — Modern Madcaps Theatrical Cartoon Series

Funderful Suburbia

CotD: Toward the end of Famous Stu­dios, “Fun­der­ful Sub­ur­bia” was a Mod­ern Mad­cap directed by Sey­mour Kneitel.

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Madagascar 3″ making world premiere at Cannes

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Mada­gas­car 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” will have its world pre­miere at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val in May, mak­ing the Dream­Works Ani­ma­tion film the first major sum­mer release to be on the fest’s schedule.

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Burrell, Charles hired to voice Peabody & Sherman

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Mod­ern Fam­ily” star Ty Bur­rell is the new voice of Mr. Peabody in Dream­Works Animation’s upcom­ing fea­ture film Mr. Peabody & Sher­man, replac­ing Robert Downey Jr.

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The Cat In The Hat comes back as animated feature

Dr. Seuss' The Cat In The Hat

Oh, the places you’ll go when you’re Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat In The Hat”!

Uni­ver­sal Pic­tures is ready to start devel­op­ing a 3D CG-animated fea­ture based on Dr. Seuss’ immor­tal story The Cat in the Hat. Although no release date has been announced, Rob Lieber has just been named to write the script.

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Nagagutsu Sanjûshi (1972) — Tôei Dôga

Nagagutsu Sanjûshi

CotD: Sequel to 1969’s “Nagagutsu O Haita Neko” (Puss In Boots), “Nagagutsu San­jûshi” also fea­tured Pero, the mas­cot and sym­bol of Toei Ani­ma­tion.
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Bosko’s Easter Eggs (1937) — Happy Harmonies Theatrical Cartoon Series

Bosko's Easter Eggs (1937)

CotD: Hugh Har­mon and Rudolph Ising left Warner Bros. and took their char­ac­ter Bosko with them when they made “Bosko’s Easter Eggs” at MGM in 1937.

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Paddington Bear named UK’s best animated character


Paddington Bear

Duf­fle coat-wearing Padding­ton Bear, an import from dark­est Peru, has been voted Britain’s favorite ani­mated character.

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Josie and the Pussycats” model Josie DeCarlo dies


Josie and the Pussycats

Josie DeCarlo, the inspi­ra­tion for singer-guitarist Josie McCoy of the 1970 Hanna-Barbera series Josie and the Pussy­cats and its suc­ces­sors, has died in her sleep, car­toon and comics his­to­rian Mark Evanier said Wednes­day. Her age was not imme­di­ately available.

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Mickey’s Service Station (1935) — Mickey Mouse Theatrical Cartoon Series


Mickey's Service Station

CotD: Peg-Leg Pete’s peg leg switches sides in “Mickey’s Ser­vice Sta­tion” Watch for that, and two appearing/disappearing fin­gers on the video.

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French actor Michel Duchaussoy was voice of Aramis


Michel Duchaussoy

French actor Michel Duchaus­soy, the voice of Aramis in John Halas’ 1974 car­toon movie The Glo­ri­ous Mus­ke­teers, died Mon­day from a heart attack. He was 73.

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Chuck Lorre honored for contributions to TV comedy


Chuck Lorre

Award-winning tele­vi­sion cre­ator, writer and pro­ducer Chuck Lorre will receive the 2012 Sir Peter Usti­nov Com­edy Award on Tues­day, June 12 at Alberta’s Banff World Media Fes­ti­val.
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Jack-Jack Attack (2005) — PIXAR Direct-To-Video Cartoon

Jack-Jack Attack (2005)

CotD: Released on the DVD of The Incred­i­bles, “Jack-Jack Attack” is a great alter­nate slice of time from Brad Bird’s 2005 film.

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Disney-Pixar’s “Brave” premieres at Edinburgh fest

Brave

The much-anticipated Disney-Pixar ani­mated film “Brave” will receive a glit­ter­ing Euro­pean pre­miere on the clos­ing night of the 66th Edin­burgh Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val, Scot­tish First Min­is­ter First Min­is­ter Alex Salmond and fes­ti­val artis­tic direc­tor Chris Fuji­wara announced Tuesday.

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Kristin “Casey” Clayton was painter for Disney

Walt Disney Studios

Spe­cial effects painter and final checker Kris­tine “Casey” Clay­ton, whose career lasted from 1972 until 2003, died Decem­ber 2. Her age was unavailable.

Clay­ton worked for Hanna-Barbera, Fil­ma­tion, Orsatti, Cool Pro­duc­tions and Dis­ney.

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