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40th Annie Award nominees and winners list
Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" was named best animated film of 2012 at the 40th Annie Awards on Saturday evening at UCLA's Royce Hall. Rich Moore also was named best director for the animated comedy about a video game villain who dreams of being a hero, and ...
Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Adam Young, John Carter (movie), Piracy, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (movie)
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Animated Feature: Toons look for their own triumph: Eye on the Oscars: Best Picture Preview 2013
VarietyFor the second year running, none of this year's animated feature nominees scored nominations in any other category. That might suggest the Academy has cooled on the medium after the initial excitement of allowing Pixar's "Up" and "Toy Story 3" into the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Frankenweenie (movie), ParaNorman (movie), Wreck-It Ralph (movie), Pixar Animation Studios
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Oscars 2013: ‘Hobbit,’ ‘Skyfall’ nab noms, no ‘Dark Knight Rises’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comThe 85th Academy Award nominations managed to offer some surprises Thursday morning — industry pundits were buzzing about the omission ...... -
Sony rules with No. 1 'Hotel Transylvania,' runner-up 'Looper'
"Hotel Transylvania" sank its teeth into the competition this weekend, as the animated film easily ruled the box office. The 3-D monster flick, which features classic characters such as Dracula and the Mummy, had the biggest September opening ever with...
Tags: Thriller (genre), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Science Fiction (genre), Arthur Christmas (movie), Resident Evil: Retribution (movie)
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Animated 'Hotel Transylvania' to scare off 'Looper'
"Hotel Transylvania" will suck the life out of its rivals at the box office this weekend, as the animated monster flick is set to dominate ticket sales. The 3-D film should easily claim the No. 1 position with a solid debut of around $35 million,...
Tags: Thriller (genre), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Frankenstein's Monster (fictional character), Science Fiction (genre), Premium Rush (movie)
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VOD Spotlight: “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”: a ship-to-shore-up operation
Channel Guide MagazineWorking on a stop-motion animation film like The Pirates! Band of Misfits presents its own brand of troubles. One major problem the filmmakers encountered on this particular set was the fact that the action was to take place largely at sea, but they... -
'ParaNorman' is another boy with ghost trouble ★★★
Here's the historical designation of the new animated film "ParaNorman": It's the third feature made in the painstaking stop-motion process — consciously unrealistic, herky-jerky and rough-hewn, in the George Pal "Puppetoons" or Tim Burton "Corpse...
Tags: The Nightmare Before Christmas (movie), Elaine Stritch, PG Rated Movies, Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities), George Pal
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Box Office: 'Madagascar 3' beats 'Prometheus' with $60.4 million
This post has been updated. Please see note below.Two new 3-D films each debuted with $50 million or more at the box office this weekend, jumpstarting ticket sales at the multiplex after weeks of lackluster business. The weekend's winner was the animated "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted,"which opened...Tags: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (movie), Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (movie), DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Animation (genre), Moonrise Kingdom (movie)
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'Avengers' Rings Up $103 million In Record Weekend
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Avengers," the smash hit movie about Marvel superheroes who team up to save the Earth, crushed competitors for a second weekend with a record $103.2 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales and was poised to top $1 billion...Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., John Carter (movie), Memorial Day, Time Warner Inc., Dark Shadows (movie)
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'Avengers' Muscles To Record $200 Million In Debut
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Avengers" proved that five superheroes are better than one by bursting into Hollywood's record books with a massive $200.3 million in ticket sales over its opening weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, kicking off Hollywood's...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), John Carter (movie), The Lucky One (movie), Action (genre), Entertainment
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Film review: 'The Pirates! Band of Misfits' is arrrrggg-right
Special to The Herald-MailWhy does our culture treat pirates as kid-friendly characters? They're violent criminals with notoriously bad hygiene. At least classic children's literature such as "Treasure Island" and "Peter Pan" had the decency to portray them as bad guys....Tags: PG Rated Movies, Salma Hayek, Piracy, Entertainment, Science and Technology
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'Man' leads domestic movies, 'Avengers' big abroad
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Romantic comedy "Think Like a Man" easily beat four new films to win the U.S. and Canadian box office race for a second time while superhero movie "The Avengers" stormed into overseas theaters with record-breaking sales. "Think...Tags: Jason Statham, The Five-Year Engagement (movie), Safe (movie), Comcast Corporation, Relativity Media
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