Toon Radio: February 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Kool Kids Klub Podkast Episode 44 - Bubblegum Crisis OVA Review Week 1

This week we talk about the most beloved cyberpunk OVA out there, which happens to be ZeonicFreak's favorite anime of all time. Join special guest One Pixel Jump, Anime Graruru and Amanda.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

James Seymour Brett to Score Disney’s Planes

James Seymour Brett has been tapped to score upcoming DisneyToon Studios’ Planes.

Featuring the voices of Jon Cryer, Stacy Keach, and Brad Garrett and, Planes centers on a small-town crop-duster (Cryer) with a fear of heights who longs to enter an epic around-the-world air race. Pixar’s/Walt Disney Animation Studios’ chief creative officer John Lasseter (Toy Story, A Bug’s Life) is producing the film, while Klay Hal will direct.. Planes is set for a release in spring 2013.

You can check out the film’s teaser trailer here.

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Music Update for February 25 2012

The following theme songs here added to Toon Radio. Enjoy!

Cybersix
Dragon Tales
Beast Machines: Transformers
Angela Anaconda
Yu-gi-oh! (1998)
Yu-gi-oh! (2000)
Outlaw Star
Trigun
Oh My Goddess!
Initial D
Record of Lodoss War
Saber Marionette J to X
Seireal Experiments Lain

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Music Update For February 22 2012

A short music update for today. Music from teh following four anime now grace the ToonRadio.net playlist.

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
Cardcaptor Sakura
Brain Powerd
Devilman Lady

Monday, February 20, 2012

Kool Kids Klub PodKast Episode 43 - Battle Royal High School

This week we talk about the unknown crazy OVA known as Battle Royal High School. Also we have some pre-show "drama" at the end as a bonus. All this and more with the crew you know and love in this weeks installment.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

The Lorax Soundtrack Announced

Interscope Records will be releasing the soundtrack album for the upcoming animated feature Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. The album, which includes orignal songs written by composer John Powell and the film’s director/screenwriter Cinco Paul and performed by Ester Dean, voice cast member Ed Helms, Fletcher Sheridan, Jenny Slate and Randy Crenshaw, will be released on February 28, 2012 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
A separate score album featuring Powell’s score will be released on Varese Sarabande Records.
Featuring the voice talent of Danny DeVito, Ed Helms, Taylor Swift, Zac Efron, Rob Riggle and Betty White, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax will be released on March, 9 by Universal Pictures. For more information about the film, visit the official movie website.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

A Case for NOT Eliminating the Best Animated Feature Oscar

Over at Cartoon Brew, Armid Amidi posted his case to eliminate the Best Animation Feature Oscar Category, as a response to Mark Harris' Grantland post on the subject.. While both give very good reasons why the category is "statistically speaking, silly and unnecessary," I say that the category should be expanded. Not just in number of nominees, but in the number of animation related categories. The Oscars could have a mini-Annie ceremony inside the main film awards ceremony. In fact, every genre of film making should be represented like this. As noted in the comments of the Cartoon Brew post, the Grammies already do this for music, and I don't see how film is any different. I want to see categories such as Best Interactive Animation, Best Animated Musical, Best Animated Comedy, Best Animated Drama, Best Animated Special Effects, Best Voice Acting, and the Best Animation Feature Score! There is no reason to not have these outside of politics, and we all know where politics gets us.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Kool Kids Klub Podkast Episode 42 - Crusher Joe "Ultimate Weapon" OVA Review

In this weeks episode, we review the second Crusher Joe OVA. We also hit up our mailbag and talk about things like movies, video games and much more. Special Guest Stephen from the Jade Phoenix Stuidos.

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Tangled wins a Grammy

In spite being a 2010 film, due to an unconventional award year Tangled picked up a Grammy Award for Best Song Written For Visual Media for I See The Light, last night. The song was written by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater. It’s Menken’s 11th and Slater’s first Grammy.

Alexandre Desplat to Score Dreamworks’ Rise of the Guardians

Alexandre Desplat has been tapped to score Dreamworks Animation upcoming feature Rise of the Guardians. The movie,based on the book series The Guardians of Childhood by William Joyce (Meet the Robinsons) who is also co-directing the film with Peter Ramsey, follows a team of heroic childhood legends: including Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher) and Jack Frost (Chris Pine); as they try to prevent Pitch the Boogeyman (Jude Law) from sending the world into eternal darkness. The script has been written by Joyce and David Lindsay-Abaire (Robots, Rabbit Hole). Christina Steinberg (Bee Movie) and Nancy Bernstein will producw while Guillermo del Toro and Michael Siegel (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) serve as executive producers. Rise of the Guardians marks Desplat’s first major animated feature project and also his first movie for Dreamworks. The movie is set to be release on November 21, 2012.

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Danny Elfman to Score Blue Sky Studios’ ‘Leafmen’

Kraft-Engel Management, a leading film and stage music talent agency, has just launched its official website revealing many major upcoming scoring assignments, including Danny Elfman‘s involvement in Blue Sky Studios’ upcoming animated feature film Leafmen. The movie, directed by Chris Wedge, is based on the book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce about a troop of bugs that try to save a garden from an evil spider queen. The project is produced by James V. Hart (screenwriter of Hook, Contact and August Rush) and William Joyce (Robots). Elfman has previously worked on the Disney animated film Meet the Robinson, which was also based on a book by Joyce. Leafmen marks his first collaboration with Blue Sky Studios and Chris Wedge whose previous two major features have been scored by David Newman (Ice Age) and John Powell (Robots). The movie is set for a release on May 17, 2013 by 20th Century Fox.

Elfman is also scheduled to score Tim Burtons’s Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie, Men in Black III and Sam Raimi’s Oz: The Great and Powerful.

Upcoming Animation Scores 2012

The following animated television series and film scores are scheduled to be released in 2012. I'll update this post as more informatino gets released. If you know of any others, feel free to add the info to the comments.

March 6

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax by John Powell
Transformers Prime Season One by Brian Tyler

May

Leafmen by Danny Elfman

October

Frankenweenie by Danny Elfman

November

Rise of the Guardians by Alexandre Desplat

TBA 2012/2013:

Brave by Patrick Doyle
Dorothy Of Oz by Deborah Lurie
Hotel Transylvania by Mark Mothersbaugh
How To Train Your Dragon 2 by John Powell
Ice Age: Continental Drift by John Powell
Justice League: Doom by Christopher Drake
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted by Hans Zimmer
Monsters University by Randy Newman
O Apostolo by Philip Glass
ParaNorman by Jon Brion
Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie by Joe Hisaishi
Sheepish by Mark Mancina
Sir Billi by Patrick Doyle
The Pirates! Band of Misfits by Theodore Shapiro
Wreck-It Ralph by Thomas Newman

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Kool Kids Klub Podkast Episode 41 - Crusher Joe "Ice Prison" OVA

In this weeks installment of the Kool Kids Klub, we talk about the Crusher Joe OVA "Ice Prison". We have special guest Jeff from the Anime Graruru podcast.

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