Mel Brooks' `Spaceballs' gets animated
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Mel Brooks, whose comedy hits include "The Producers" and "Blazing Saddles," is bringing his sci-fi spoof "Spaceballs" to television in cartoon form.
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More than fifty years ago, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun worked with Walt Disney on a series of animated TV specials with the goal of exciting the American public about space exploration.
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Artist creates a hat with LEDs on it that play sequenced animations: scenes from Space Invaders and Pac-Man, as well as bouncing hearts and the alphabet.
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A video with Will Ferrell has become a sensation on a Web site that has the backing of a major venture capital firm.
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Sir Ian McKellen is to voice the  character of Zebedee in a film of the TV classic The Magic Roundabout.
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Hand-drawn animation, out of  fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a  fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced  they would bring back the art form to the big screen.
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Pay-as-you-go computer power could soon be helping computer animators finish their films.
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The "Star Wars" universe, already substantially rendered by computer generated imagery, is giving in all the way to animation.
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Yankee Irving, a computer-animated film being directed by Christopher Reeve, will be released in 2006.
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Pixar's new animated action-comedy, about a superhero family stuck in middle-class suburban exile, comes tantalizingly close to greatness.
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LOS ANGELES  - An animated series is redrawing the lines of television mega-deals.
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Mel Brooks will shoot the film version of his hit Broadway musical "The Producers" at a new movie studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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BRUSSELS  - DreamWorks will film the adventures of the iconic Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin, the project's developers said Thursday.
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Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company has committed to produce at least one movie on the famed Belgian cartoon character Tintin, the head of the Tintin studio announced Thursday.
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DreamWorks Animation has an IPO with more green than its signature ogre, Shrek.
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"Baywatch" may soon be joining the ranks of "Dragnet," "Starsky &amp; Hutch," "Scooby-Doo" and "Bewitched" on the list of old TV shows made into movies.
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Classic cartoons like the Road Runner and Bugs Bunny are extinct. No really, take a look at the bones of these once-great specimens of anvil and rocket comedy. By Daniel Dumas from Wired magazine.