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Rich Moore's 'Wreck-It Ralph' is an homage to blocky video games
When animation director Rich Moore was growing up in Oxnard, he spent so much time in video arcades that his parents worried that their young son was wasting his time. “They would always tell me that I should be concentrating on the real world,&...
Tags: Andrew Stanton, Movies, Pixar Animation, Matt Groening, John C. Reilly
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'Wreck-It Ralph,' 'Flight' Open Strong Despite Storm
"Wreck-It Ralph" smashed his way to the top of the box office and 'Flight' had a solid take-off as the aftermath ofsuper storm Sandy turned out to have no apparent impact on the box office this weekend. "Wreck-It," a family animated comedy about a...
Tags: Argo (movie), Movies, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis
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Film review: Return of the live-action Zemeckis
From the ads and trailers, you might think that “Flight” is some sort of legal thriller, with Denzel Washington's character being unfairly accused or even framed; and you'd be about 10% right. In fact, “Flight” is primarily a moral...
Tags: Don Cheadle, Movies, Bruce Greenwood, Denzel Washington, Robert Zemeckis
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DreamWorks Animation posts 24% jump in profit in third quarter
DreamWorks Animation reported a 24% jump in profits in the third quarter due to the box-office success of "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted." The Glendale-based animation studio posted net income of $24.4 million, or $0.29 a share, on revenues of $186....
Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (movie), Madagascar
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Gaming grows up: A video game revolution
The video game is 40. Its exact birthday is arguable. Cultural historians likely would date its origins further back, roughly a decade or two; prototypes of arcade games flourished in university computer labs in the 1950s. But “Pong,” the...
Tags: Music Industry, The Wall Street Journal, Customs and Tradition, The Brady Bunch (tv program), DePaul University
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Video game world built for 'Wreck-It Ralph'
Tribune NewspapersBURBANK, Calif. — It was when he cast Bowser, the fire-breathing turtle from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. games, that Rich Moore first grasped the magnitude of the job he was undertaking. “That was the huge one,” he said at Walt...Tags: Max Payne (movie), Movies, Pixar Animation, Nintendo Company Ltd., Video Games
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‘Wreck-It Ralph’: Disney animators zip around in video game realms
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comIt was when he cast Bowser, the fire-breathing turtle from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. games, that Rich Moore first grasped ...... -
DreamWorks Animation Chairman Roger Enrico resigns from board
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the Glendale studio behind the "Shrek" and “Madagascar” movies, announced that Chairman Roger Enrico resigned from the board. Current board member Mellody Hobson will succeed Enrico, according to a statement...
Tags: Shrek (fictional character), DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Richard Verrier, PepsiCo Inc., Los Angeles Times
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Luis Prieto captures slice of drug scene in ‘Pusher’ remake
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comIn director Luis Prieto’s experience, when you set out to shoot a druggy crime drama in London’s legendarily cocaine-fueled nightclub ...... -
'ParaNorman'
The young title character in this stop-motion animation fantasy (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) shares a trait with Haley Joel Osment's alter ego in "The Sixth Sense," summed up by the sentence, "I see dead people." While that can mean comforting reunions,...
Tags: Blu-ray Discs, Casey Affleck, DVDs, Movies, ParaNorman (movie)
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2012 Halloween Light Show - Gangnam Style
Channel 2 NewsYoutube user “EdwardsLandingLights” said “over 8,500 lights and roughly 250 channels of computer animation” were used to make a Halloween version of the popular international pop song “Gangnam Style.” Do you have a...Tags: YouTube, Holidays, Halloween
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‘Akira’s’ Katsuhiro Otomo takes fiery turn in ‘Combustible’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comKatsuhiro Otomo, the director of the watershed Japanese animated feature “Akira,” will make a rare personal appearance at REDCAT in ......
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