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FOODFIGHT

by Jerry Beck   Monday May 17, 2004   9:58 am

The following are excerpts from an article, “For This Animated
Movie, a Cast of Household Names” By Eric A. Taub published in …

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KID BEGS DISNEY TO KEEP 2-D

by Jerry Beck   Monday May 17, 2004   9:40 am

An eighth grader wrote an editorial in today’s New York NEWSDAY,
begging Disney not to abandon traditional animation:During …

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Emeryville Turning Into Pixarville

by Amid Amidi   Monday May 17, 2004   5:47 am

The SAN FRANCISCO GATE has a piece HERE about Pixar’s ambitious
expansion plans. The studio has a 20-year, $325 million …

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Linkin Park’s “Breaking the Habit”

by Amid Amidi   Monday May 17, 2004   1:17 am

Sunday’s LA TIMES had a short piece on the new Linkin Park music
video “Breaking the Habit” which was supervised (and …

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SIMPSONS Voice Actors Still Fighting?

by Amid Amidi   Monday May 17, 2004   12:21 am

The NY DAILY NEWS reports that even though Fox Television
announced over a week ago that they’d reached a deal with THE …

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BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A JOB?

by Amid Amidi   Monday May 17, 2004   12:11 am

A nicely done black-&-white Fleischer-style anti-Bush cartoon
spot. It was written and directed by Tom Neely and Greg …

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Thanks Mark!

by Amid Amidi   Saturday May 15, 2004   3:01 am

A hearty thanks from Jerry Beck and myself to Mark Mayerson for
being our first guest contributor, and a superb one at that. …

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Katzenberg Genius Moment of the Week

by Amid Amidi   Saturday May 15, 2004   2:50 am

Here’s a photo of Will Smith, Angelina Jolie and Jack Black at
the Cannes Film Festival riding atop an inflatable SHARK TALE …

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Lots of Mickey Mouse statues headed for Portland

by Jerry Beck   Friday May 14, 2004   5:17 pm

More than a dozen 700 pound statues of Mickey Mouse will soon
appear in Portland, Oregon, as part of a year long Disney …

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INCREDIBLES TRAILER

by Jerry Beck   Friday May 14, 2004   9:12 am

Oh, this looks good!A new trailer for Pixar’s The Incredibles is
up – posted here – and it’s hilarious. Any doubt that this …

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Thanks and Some Requests

by Jerry Beck   Friday May 14, 2004   7:20 am

This is going to be my last contribution to Cartoon Brew.
I’d like to thank Jerry and Amid for having me as a guest …

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Directing TV Animation Part 3

by Jerry Beck   Friday May 14, 2004   7:13 am

It’s rare in TV animation these days for the director to be
in the same location as the animators. On Monster By Mistake, …

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Cat-astrophic Cartoons

by Amid Amidi   Friday May 14, 2004   4:20 am

I think I’ve spotted the big new trend in CG animation: eerie,
quasi-realistic looking orange cats. Alright, it’s only …

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AAAGGH! MY EYES!

by Amid Amidi   Friday May 14, 2004   4:14 am

SHREK: FROM THE SWAMP TO THE SCREEN is hands-down the ugliest
“art of” book I’ve ever seen for an animated film, which is …

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ASTRO BOY PLAYSTATION GAME

by Jerry Beck   Thursday May 13, 2004   7:05 pm

I’m not into video gaming, but I am into classic cartoon
characters. Images from the forthcoming Astro Boy Playstation …