In my brushing up on the format war and where we are now with it, the word in the industry is that it's far from over. This Christmas is apparently where it's at. The sales right now, even though BRD is outselling HD-DVD by two to one, are still minute compared to what a standard DVD sells, and the ...

Nope...just still in development.

I wrote about all these on my front page Views piece. :) The UK has a nice triple box set for the Tintin animated features: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Herges-Adventures-Tin-Tintin/dp/B000EBEIPI/ref=sr_1_4/203-3527189-5275945?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1173543055&sr=1-4 Nice transfers, though only English tracks...

Wait... "<I>The Diz</I>"...?

Vi is getting confused.

He's talking about THIS SUMMER's movies ONLY. And if he DIDN'T lump Shrek 3 in there you'd be saying "hey he listed ALL the summer movies apart from Shrek 3...what a cheap shot!"

So, come on girl, get real...

Smurfs was heavily merchandised as a comic and characters way before the TV show.

And they were big enough to star in a feature long before Hanna-Barbera got their hands on them.

...or leaves it open for IV-VI!

Wait...I'm confused...that's <I>Lindsay's</I> report...?

So...how about those Big Star Voice Actors?

I was actually very impressed by the work in <I>Flushed Away</I>.

From today's Animated Views, going live later today: "Personally, I can't wait. My Dad was a huge fan of these stories and the strips and was actually quite worried back in the 80s at what Hollywood might do to his boyhood hero. With filmmaking much more international now, and a general attempt to "...

Wuzzles, Gummi Bears, Duck Tales.

:shock: That's what I can expect? School-aged members cracking jokes at the whole thing ?! ( --- And I supposedly have "the wrong attitude"?! :roll: Someone please get back to me whose profile doesn't say "student" and who is genuinely connected with the industry! Um...<I>who's</I> being rude now...?

I met the CEO of 4Kids at a conference once and he described his audience as "consumers". That's all you need to know right there.

It's coming! Gotta get Flushed Away up first!

No, they ADR'd the lines to the dialogue for the most part. The hassle was in the fairly last-minute change of sound recording, editing and the mix.