Monthly Archives: December 2012

1928 Mickey Mouse Poster Sells for Over $100,000


Mickey Mouse Poster

Believed to be the ear­li­est known poster of the world’s most famous mouse, a 1928 movie poster of Mickey Mouse sold Thurs­day for over $100,000, Dallas-based Her­itage Auc­tions announced.

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DWA’s Guardians on Rise Abroad, Collects $40M

Rise Of The Guardians

Though it had tepid results in North Amer­ica, Dream­Works Animation’s Rise of the Guardians col­lected $40 mil­lion in 56 for­eign coun­tries over the weekend.

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Cartoon Of The Day: High Note

High Note

Despite being a rather late entry into the Looney Tunes cat­a­logue raisonné, High Note does hit a rather, uhm, High Note in the oeu­vre. In addi­tion to be one of those car­toons that cat catch and holds one’s inter­est for seven min­utes with­out a word of dia­logue (or per­haps because of the fact), this short was an Acad­emy Award Nom­i­nee for Best Short Sub­ject in 1961.

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Animated Monsters Gets A New Poster

Monsters University

Mon­sters Inc sequel Mon­sters Uni­ver­sity gets a new pro­mo­tional poster. The new film, set for release next June, will reunite Billy Crys­tal and John Good­man as Mike Wazowski and James P. ‘Sul­ley’ Sul­li­van, in a pre­quel of their col­lege days together.

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Cartoon of the Day: Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers

Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers

From the first day of Decem­ber 1933, Betty Boop appeared in Parade Of The Wooden Sol­diers with a gag­gle of toy sol­diers. Betty appears as a doll… but then you knew that.

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