Yes, Apple has the specials, along with their originally produced ones.
I believe, for two years now, they've allowed Great Pumpkin to be viewed for free
within three days of Halloween (Oct 28-31).
Does anyone remember The Legend of Calamity Jane? Well, apparently it's having a Kickstarter
to finally release a DVD collection of all 13 episodes, plus a brand-new comic if it's funded. I only found out about it a week before the deadline, so woops.
Sausage Party is getting a television series for Prime Video, according to Animation Magazine
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“Film used to be the superior art form to television, and we humbly reached the pinnacle of what can be achieved with film in our remarkable opus, Sausage Party,” said Point Grey’s Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. “But now that film is completely dead and TV is the forever-king of entertainment, we’ve decided to continue the epic adventures of our culinary crew in the soon-to-be-legendary televised masterpiece Sausage Party: Foodtopia. It’s got all the heart, double the puns, and triple the food-on-food sex. In other words, it’s exactly what the world needs right now.”
The show will reunite original Sausage Party voice stars Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Michael Cera, David Krumholtz and Edward Norton, joined by tasty new talents Will Forte, Sam Richardson, Natasha Rothwell and Yassir Lester.
Details of the plot have yet to be unwrapped.
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As of today, the goal for the Legend of Calamity Jane Kickstarter has met its goal with less than a week left until the campaign's end. It'll be interesting to see how much the money raised will ultimately exceed the $15,000 goal. As for me, I'm glad to see that the DVD box set for the series and comic will exist.
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I doubt it'll reach the $25,000 stretch goal, but I'm happy it's getting funded at all.
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Oh thank god. I was kinda on the edge because of how really close it was getting. Like, this had been up since earlier in the month and I only knew about it the other day, so it's hard not to feel like a dummy for not knowing until the end.
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Well. Can't say I saw this coming. I guess The Boys and its animated anthology must have been so good to Amazon that it gave Seth Rogen and Point Grey enough clout to pitch a new Sausage Party project. Good for them! (I think?) And hey, no sign of James Franco's name! Rogen wasn't kidding when he said he wouldn't work with Franco anymore! Cool!
Maybe it's a little of both? I read it as Rogen saying something, then pausing, and then metaphorically slapping us with a hot take.
Besides, have movie theaters completely healed from COVID yet?
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Oct 26th 2022 at 9:27:38 AM
Illumination is producing
an upcoming 10-minute 2D theatrical short, narrated by Scarlett Johansson, directed by Momo Wang
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Edited by XMenMutant22 on Dec 5th 2022 at 7:02:38 AM
It's getting a theatrical release... does that mean it'll be shown in front of Mario?
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonI think we're downplaying just how important it is that Illumination films are relatively cheap. Illumination films, at the time the deal was being put into place, had the right level of cost-consciousness ($70 million projects compared to the $100 million projects being put out by Disney and Dreamworks, and the latter was barely making any money back) and box-office success. Hell, being able to keep costs low while still making a good-looking feature film was probably the big concern right next to creative control, hence why Sony Animation was a realistic possibility in the early 2010s if the email leaks didn't happen. Remember, you aren't necessarily stuck with an in-house creative team: the directors of the Super Mario Bros. Movie primarily work out of Warner Bros. Animation, and the writer has worked at both WBA and Illumination.
Illumination being very successful while also being very budget-conscious, and also just plain being a Universal-owned studio (Miyamoto said that working with the theme park division is how talks with Chris Meledandri started to begin with) are probably the big reasons why Nintendo went with them.
The other day, I bought a bunch of Dinosaur Train episodes on YouTube Movies & Shows... only to realise it was the British dub, which is incredibly cursed. The voice actors have so little energy that they sound like they're reading the news. Netflix only has season 1 in the UK, but it's the American dub.
So... I've been considering tracking down some American DVDs, but I have no idea how to check if a DVD player is region-locked or not.
Edited by NitroIndigo on Jan 18th 2023 at 7:19:31 PM
It's Oscar season, and we've got the nominations:
- Animated Feature Film
- Animated Short Film
- The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse
- The Flying Sailor
- Ice Merchants
- My Year of Dicks
- An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Overall, fairly good selection in my opinion! I wouldn't be mad at any of the winners in Best Feature, and still shocked The Sea Beast managed to be an eligible pick.

Is Apple airing it? Don't they have the rights to the Peanuts specials?