So far, one of the ways that Netflix has differed from traditional TV is its model of distribution. Netflix typically releases a whole season at once, rather than parceling episodes out over the course of several weeks or months. But as the streaming service moves into children's programming, they're looking to shake up their approach.…
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Award season is ready to get into full swing, and one of the early stages of the runup to the Academy Awards is the submission of Best Animated Feature options. This year there are nineteen submitted features, including big studio fare (Cloudy 2, The Croods, Despicable Me 2, Monsters University), one from Studio Ghibli (The…
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Summer 2013 is on track to become the best ever at the domestic box office, but you wouldn't know it from the number of flops that have limped through theaters over the past few months. Indeed, by some measures, this season includes five of the fifty biggest flops of the past two decades. Moreover, of…
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Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the greatness of Orange is the New Black, the terribleness of Grown Ups 2, and the pleasant surprise that is Dreamworks Animation's Turbo. Also, Adam says goodbye. Special guest Laremy Legel, author of Film Critic, joins us for this episode. Be sure to read up on Orson Scott Card, Laremy's 10 reason's why Pacific Rim was…
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DreamWorks Animation has already gotten us to believe that pandas can be kung fu masters, dragons can be man's best friend, and cats can be swashbuckling outlaws. In that light, I guess an snail competing in the Indy 500 isn't that much of a stretch. Turbo stars Ryan Reynolds (or his voice, anyway) as an…
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Trailers! Who has time to watch them all? There are something like forty wide releases due out this summer alone. If you assume each trailer runs about two minutes, that's about an hour and half of your life you'll never get back. That's time you could've spent actually watching one of these movies. If you…
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What does it take for a snail to become fast enough to compete in the Indy 500? According to this new trailer for DreamWorks Animation's Turbo, a terrible car accident and a nitrous oxide wash ought to do the trick. Ryan Reynolds voices the lead, an ordinary garden snail with not-so-ordinary dreams. While the first…
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Two upcoming family films are getting a nice theme park presence. First up, Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful opens March 8. Rumors of a full land based on the film continue to spread, a Land of Oz garden based on the film just opened at Epcot Center in Orlando, FL as part of the…
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From pops of glitter to unusual color combos, we've got all the inspo you need to make this wintery nail design your own.
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One of the next animated outings from DreamWorks is Turbo, which features Ryan Reynolds as the voice of a snail who is determined to win the Indy 500. Yeah, seems like that might be difficult. This first teaser for the film turns out to be pretty cute, as we see the lil' snail doing a…
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Most movie studios release information about their upcoming slates a year or two at a time. But today DreamWorks Animation released a four-year slate, driven in part by the new distribution deal the company has with Fox, as well as the long lead time needed to make animated films, and also perhaps by the not-so-hot…
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Thanks to the ongoing licensing expo in Vegas, we're getting early looks at a couple of films on our radar. The same event gave us the first tiny and not at all revealing glimpse of Fast & Furious 6 promo art earlier this week, and today we're getting an eyeful of two animated projects that…
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Dreamworks Animation announced Turbo a while ago; the animated film features Ryan Reynolds as the voice of a garden snail.
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Lionsgate has just signed a new two-year first-look deal with Tyler Perry, and no wonder: the guy is a machine who turns out films that cost little and make a mint. The director's latest for Lionsgate will be Good Deeds, which he'll write, direct, produce and star in, as Glen Deeds, "an affluent and successful…
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Disney and Pixar have always been the undisputed champions of animation but a new contender has been rising in the ranks over the last several years: DreamWorks. The studio that brought us the Shrek films, Antz, Chicken Run, Madagascar, Bee Movie and many others has been fighting the good fight for the better part of…
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