My favorite Cartoons

CRUZ CONTROL IN PLACE FOR BRUCKHEIMER’S “G-FORCE”

Tom Robinson — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:29:52 +0000

Oscar-nominated Spanish actress Penelope Cruz will have her animation debut as the voice of smart guinea pig Juarez in producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s G-Force, The Hollywood Reporter said Monday.

Combinining live action and computer animation (the animals are animated), the feature film will be released by Walt Disney Productions in May 2009.

Already signed to the voice cast are Nicolas Cage (Speckles), Steve Buscemi (Bucky) and Tracy Morgan (Blater). The live-action human actors include Bill Nighy and Will Arnett.

G-Force also marks the directorial debut of visual effects man Hoyt Yeatman, who won an Oscar for his work on The Abyss.
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TOY STORY 3D

Tom Robinson — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:28:47 +0000

“Toy Story,” the first feature-length computer-animated film, and its 1999 sequel Toy Story 2 will be debuting in new digital 3D versions — both ahead of the release of Toy Story 3, Disney-Pixar has announced.

The revamped Toy Story, originally released in 1995, is scheduled to open on October 2, 2009; Toy Story 2 will be seen in 3D on February 12, 2010. Toy Story 3, which is being produced as a 3D motion picture, is scheduled to open on June 18, 2010.

Original director John Lasseter, who won a special achievement Oscar for the first Toy Story, will supervise the conversion. He vowed that audiences would be “blown away,” the Hollywood Reporter said.
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“TUTLI-PUTLI” NOMINATED FOR GENIE

Tom Robinson — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:27:45 +0000

Nominated a week ago for an Academy Award, the National Film Board of Canada cartoon Madame Tutli-Putli is one of three candidates announced Monday for the Genie Award for best animated short.

The winner of two awards at Cannes, the wordless Madame Tutli-Putli is the first film from Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski.

Also nominated for a Genie in the category are two other NFB releases: Diane Obamsawin’s Here And There and George Schwizgebel’s wordless Jeu — a co-production with Switzerland’s Studio GDS and Télévision Suisse Romande.
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MOUSE’S TAIL SENT TO JAIL

Tom Robinson — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:22:32 +0000

Forget Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan: Mickey Mouse — or someone borrowing the celebrity Disney character’s name — has been arrested for DUI in Sacramento, California.

Arrest records indicate that within an hour last Thursday, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department arrested one “Mickey Mouse” twice on charges of driving under the influence and once for driving on a revoked license.

Department spokesman Sgt. Tim Curran expressed surprise to hear that Mickey had been placed in custody.
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SPRINGFIELD MUSEUM TO HOST “THE SIMPSONS”

Tom Robinson — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:37:41 +0000

The old Vermont mill town that boasts of being home to the Simpsons will also be home to a museum devoted to the dysfunctional cartoon family.

The Springfield Chamber of Commerce will share space with the new museum on Main Street, according to a report Friday by Burlington, Vermont TV station WCAX. The facility will feature memorabilia from the world premiere of The Simpsons Movie, which took place next door.
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PRODUCERS GUILD NOMINATES THREE ANIMATED FILMS

Tom Robinson — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:30:54 +0000

“Bee Movie,” “Ratatouille” and “The Simpsons Movie” are the Producers Guild of America’s nominees for best animated film of 2007.

The PGA announced its nominees Monday in Los Angeles. Awards will be presented February 2.

For best film, the nominees are foreign-language film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, teen-pregnancy comedy Juno, legal drama Michael Clayton, crime tale No Country for Old Men and historical epic There Will Be Blood.

Documentaries nominated by the PGA are Iraq War story Body of War, deafness narrative Hear and Now, music chronicle Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Michael Moore’s health-care tale Sicko and Second World War film White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Other nominees:

Long-form television
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Bronx Is Burning, High School Musical 2, Jane Eyre, The Starter Wife

Episodic TV comedy
Entourage, Extras, The Office, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty

Episodic TV drama
Dexter, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, House, Lost, The Sopranos

Non-fiction television
Deadliest Catch, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, Planet Earth, 60 Minutes

TV live entertainment-competition
The Amazing Race, American Idol, The Colbert Report, Project Runway, Real Time With Bill Maher

Boy Glues Self To Bed To Skip School

Tom Robinson — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:23:45 +0000

Authorities said Monday that a 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed because he was still not ready to go back to school after the Christmas vacation.

“I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn’t make me go to school. I didn’t want to go, the holidays were so much fun,” the boy Diego told AFP.
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Anti-Abortion cartoon auction

Tom Robinson — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:52:25 +0000

This cartoon has been recently posted (at the left) on enough a few blogs recently, and now, there was a sale by auction on which set up, on the E-Bay. The person offering a predatory price - now 1 725$ USD, and for it, still approximately two and half of abandoned days.

It’s a 9.5”x3” original cartoon by Stephanie McMillan on a piece of printer paper, drawn with Micron and Faber-Castell Pitt pens, and has a little liquid paper used on it too. So even if the artist was quite famous, it would still be a very good price for a small black and white cartoon.
But it is revived not an ordinary film. Here, why I think, that the price will prolong to enlarge by next days ocean vessels on Ebay.

1. It’s funny and cute
2. It surveys the ratio that is a lot of senses of women, very passionate on
3. This, vulgarly sharp on the Internet shown on many, popular websites as BoingBoing and Salon.com.
4. All silver of sale by auction will go to pair of the selected charitable foundations.

I think, that people - jointly naturally generous and operating educations. Thus, if you give it the ratio to be generous, them use the grandee. If you connect a brisk film and potential advertising which purchase could generate, the sky - a limit.

South Park’s Chef mauled by bear

Tom Robinson — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:38:51 +0000

After the recent South Park and scientology controversy, with playing Thom Cruise and Isaac Hayes, deserting a boat, I have been given by a problem as creators will substitute the Chef, or its voice.
Apparently in a new episode, the Chef kept telling the South Park kids that he wanted to make sweet love to them, after joining the “Super Adventure Club”. Children try to save the Chef of malicious club, but it is ended by that was burnt down and has superimposed loss by a bear and a puma.
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Turner Europe Editing Out Smoking Scenes In Classic Cartoons

Tom Robinson — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:52:35 +0000

After the woman has routed the complaint to an adjuster of carrying agents Ofcam approximately two films revived by Tom and Jerry with scenes inclusive smoking, Turner Broadcasting decided to search through its entire catalog of classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons to edit out scenes with smoking characters - unless the smoking character is a villain.

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