Including Disney magic in your daily routine
Get your daily dose of Disney magic – from the moment you wake up to what you watch, and even go on holiday, there is a Disney something for every occasion
A sweeping Highland-based animation: Pixar’s Brave (review)
Prepare to be swept away to a mythical land of lochs, kilts and haggis in Pixar’s new Scottish fairy tale Brave
Rare Disney original celluloid animations donated to Bill Douglas Centre, Exeter Uni
A rare Walt Disney collection of original animation drawings on celluloid has been donated to the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, at Exeter University. Plus, there’s a free talk from a man who knew Disney himself, on Friday, May 29 at 11am.
ANIMATED EXETER – PITCH PERFECT #3
Pitch Perfect, part of the Animate and Educate Conference that took place during Animated Exeter 2008. This is the final part on all you need to know about making your idea get made. [flash http://newsandmediarepublic.org/images/stories/videos/pitch3.flv] Pitch Perfect Learn how to professionalise yourself and your ideas and how to pitch them to a commissioning editor with…
ANIMATED EXETER – PITCH PERFECT #2
Pitch Perfect is all about hitting the right note (gosh, I should do this for a living). Find out how by watching this film and listening to the podcast and then going out and trying it on friends, neighbours and people in queues. If anyone gives you money to develop your idea, then you’re doing…
ANIMATED EXETER – PITCH PERFECT #1
Pitching – it’s like Scooby Doo meets the Wombles with Wallace and Gromit-type humour. Well, maybe not. Find out how to pitch your ideas with these industry experts during the Animate and Educate Conference at Animated Exeter 2008. [flash http://newsandmediarepublic.org/images/stories/videos/pitch1.flv] Pitch Perfect Learn how to professionalise yourself and your ideas and how to pitch them…
RUFF AND READY
We’re a bit fed up with the subject now but we thought we’d better acknowledge the end of the Alice in Wonderland auditions in Plymouth. The big news today was that three dogs were also cast in the Tim Burton flick, who will apparently be paid for their time. Along with the mutts, some 1,200…
LIVING NEXT DOOR TO ALICE…
The big news today is that Disney is to shoot a multi-million pound new version of Alice in Wonderland in Plymouth. Yes, that Disney. And yes, that Plymouth. But that’s not all. Apparently, Tim Burton will be helming the flick with (surprise!) Johnny Depp heavily rumoured to star as the Mad Hatter. Another impression of…
Best Simpsons movie references: 9-12
This week, to celebrate the release of The Simpsons Movie on Friday, we’re bringing you the 20 best movie references from The Simpsons (that’s four a day, durr brain!). Here’s numbers nine to 12. Click here to watch the trailer. 9. MARY POPPINS In the 1997 episode Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-D’oh!-cious, the Simpsons hire a British nanny named Shary Bobbins, who floats down…
Let’s hear it for the Boy
We realise we may have freaked out some D+Cineastes with our glowing review of Rise Of The Silver Surfer (heck, they’re looking to kick Harry Knowles off his own website for saying he enjoyed the movie). So as a conciliatory gesture we have an interview and clip from Hellboy Animated: Blood And Iron – released yesterday through Starz Home Entertainment and, according to DVD Review,…
Would like to Meet (video)
Here’s a nice story for a dull Sunday. Remember we told you a coupla months ago about Vue Cinemas’ fundraising initiative to benefit schools across the UK? Here’s how it works. Vue puts on a free screening at one of its local cinemas (like the one in Exeter or Plymouth). Teachers and pupils decide how many…
