...( Walt Disney mortgaged his house to fund it). "No one's gonna pay a dime to see a dwarf picture," Disney 's wife, Lillian , told him. The film made $8 million in its first year of release, and has subsequently made more than $180...

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...this week, the PTC asked the company to go even further, by discontinuing its sponsorship of all programming from Family Guy creator, Seth MacFarlane. The organization's national grassroots director, Gavin McKiernan , delivered a speech to the...

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...in beguiled eyeballs, extended out from skulls an inch more than normal. With the release of " 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea " 55 years ago, Walt Disney stumbled upon a mostly unexplored emotional response from movie audiences. This unique...

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Get the latest updatest in your favorite RSS feed reader. FROM SPLASH PAGE: Last week, I talked to one of comics greatest living legends, Stan Lee , about his arrival on the Twitter scene and why it makes him feel like he's writing his "Stan's...

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...you discover you were much more emotionally invested in the outcome than you realized. Director: Pete Docter , David Silverman , and Lee Unkrich Picking between Pixar flicks is a fool's errand, but here goes. It's not as jaw-droppingly...

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...(voice of Jordan Nagai ) has come along as a stowaway. Bonus features include commentary by director Pete Docter and co-director Bob Peterson , alternate endings, a couple of original short films and a documentary on the filmmakersa trek...

In this article: DVD, Blu-ray, The Ugly Truth, The Echo, Pixar, Katherine Heigl, Jesse Bradford, Gerard Butler, and When Harry Met Sally ...

...-- The International Animated Film Society , ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the Winsor McCay Award recipients for 2009: Tim Burton , Bruce Timm and Jeffrey Katzenberg (see bios below). Named in honor of animator Winsor McCay , best known as a...

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...for Up started in 2D," Docter points out, "again with the focus just on the story and the characters. It was about three years in that John Lasseter ( Pixar pioneer) came to us and said, 'Hey, there are some really cool new developments...

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...the film came when he pitched the story to Pixar and Disney Animation Studios chief creative officer John Lasseter , and saw tears in the executive's eyes. Lasseter connected to the main character, the curmudgeonly old Carl , and the...

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This week, Pixar's UP uses tens of thousands of balloons to lift a house, and our spirits, while Zack Snyder 's Watchmen , Bruce Timm 's Justice League and the animated G.I. Joe series all get definitive DVD releases. Published on: November...

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...goggles. Check all of that out after the jump along with Danny Masterson's criticism for Andre Agassi , " Toy Story 3 " director Lee Unkrich's favorite childhood toy and much more. I'm @brianwarmoth and this is the Twitter -Wood report for...

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...the referendum's defeat a mandate against additional taxes for unnecessary expenditures. Regional Development Authority director Bill Hanna says the proposal had been subjected to much misinformation. The referendum was not held in Lake...

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...transportation district encompassing St. Joseph and nearby counties is in need of "triage," William Hanna said, but is worth supporting. Hanna , executive director of the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority , delivered...

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...lilies. In more Warner Bros. news, the company 's film division has rushed in where Microsoft feared to tread and will be the sole sponsor of Seth MacFarlane 's Fox network variety special airing this Sunday. Warner Bros. will use the...

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...St. Joseph County Voter Registration Board will answer questions about voter registration, required voter ID and polling places Bill Hanna , Regional Development Authority Ron Cenkush , Stop the RTA, local political action committee Forum...

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...began attending Chicago 's Eugene Field Elementary School in the third grade. School was hard for him because he felt that everyone recognized him as a foreigner. He went on to attend Chicago 's prestigious Lane Technical College Prep High...

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... Cartoon Network. Taylor and Obi-Wan go back several years - Taylor first played the character in the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated shorts from Genndy Tartakovsky , and then reprised the famous Jedi in several videogames, leading up to once more...

In this article: Obi-Wan Kenobi, James Arnold Taylor, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Ewan McGregor, Leonardo, Jedi, Alec Guinness, Henry Corden, and Christopher Walken

... Seibert founded Frederator in 1998. He has produced 16 series for television, including Butch Hartman's " The Fairly Oddparents ," Genndy Tartakovsky's " Dexter's Laboratory " and Craig McCraken's " The Powerpuff Girls." Eric Robles ' "Fanboy &...

In this article: Fred Seibert, Frederator Studios, Sony, Next New Networks, Cartoon Network, Adventure Time, and Craig McCraken