Cartoons animate Hollywood&#39;s end-of-year line-up
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LOS ANGELES - Hollywood is locked in a war of the &#39;toons, as two revolutionary animated films, &quot;The Polar Express&quot; and &quot;The Incredibles&quot;, battle to rival the success of the giant green ogre &quot;Shrek&quot;.
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With bearhugs, wisecracks and  peals of laughter, the dream team of &quot;Mexican Wave&quot; film stars  is back together working on its first joint celluloid  production in six years.
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Squabbling and spiraling costs are breaking apart a network of comedy stars that has dominated Hollywood comedies for years.
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National Lampoon will  return to producing live entertainment by bringing back a  re-imagined version of the Lemmings sketch comedy troupe, which  launched the careers of John Belushi, Christopher Guest and  Chevy Chase.
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Last month, Ben Dey, an  assistant working in the mailroom at Creative Artists Agency,  leaped several rungs on the Hollywood ladder by successfully  pitching an idea for a comedy to producer Brian Grazer. The  sale came about because the Imagine Entertainment executive  visits CAA once a year for a lunchtime meeting in which he  entertains assistants&#39; pitches.
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Just when it appeared that Michael D. Eisner, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, could begin enjoying the company&#39;s turnaround and his final years in
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LOS ANGELES  - Cartoonists have thoroughly explored the animal kingdom, giving anthropomorphic vigor to mice, dogs, cats, birds, donkeys, fish, pigs, bugs, dinosaurs, roadrunners, coyotes and even one big green ogre. Now it's the bees' turn in DreamWorks Animation's "Bee Movie."
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Pixar Animation Studios boldly moves into new cartoon territory with &quot;The Incredibles,&quot; a red-hot and very funny action adventure that involves an entire family of superheroes.
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The short has enjoyed a year of mainstream attention in movie theaters.
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DreamWorks Animation and Disney's Pixar will be keeping their crowns.
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It wasn&#39;t as if top comedic stars were competing against each other, but in sheer box-office terms, Jim Carrey laughed all the way to the bank while Adam Sandler just couldn&#39;t translate his name into box-office success.
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It&#39;s bit disconcerting to see a digitally animated version of Tom Hanks in the new holiday film &quot;The Polar Express.&quot;.
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The Incredibles is one of the year&#39;s most clever and visually arresting computer-animated films, enlivened by a well-developed and credible cast of characters who just happen to be superheroes.
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From cartoon Avatars in the online  world &quot;Second Life&quot; to the characters in video games, U.S.  adults are embracing animation, say filmmakers, who see the  form growing up and away from Hollywood&#39;s family-friendly  cartoon staples.
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Hollywood may not have a Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Shrek or Capt. Jack Sparrow on its upcoming lineup. Yet the fall and holiday schedule does offer filmgoers a chance to catch up with some familiar characters, stories and movie-making teams.
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What a difference a year makes. If last year's Super Bowl ads were fueled by gross humor, this year's are running on nostalgia and cute cartoon characters. In a bid not to repeat the excesses of 2004, advertisers are employing a far safer stable of pitchmen, pitchwomen, and animated friends like the Jolly Green Giant and Miss Piggy.
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Larry the Cable Guy is  set to get animated for Comedy Central.