'Polar Express' Brings Risky New Animation to Film
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Even at a hefty cost of around &#36;165 million to make "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis thinks an innovative new animation technique he used may have saved the Warner Bros. studio and the film's producers about &#36;835 million.
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What would Christmas time be without a bigâass Santa fantasy flick form a bigâass studio with a bigâass star. Warner Bros went all out for &quot;The Polar Express&quot; by snagging Tom Hanks and director Robert
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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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Children may be charmed by the talking animals in 'Racing Stripes.' Adults may find the film exasperating.
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A wide-eyed boy in a cozy blue robe and proper yellow pajamas has his hope and faith tested in the book The Polar Express. But Chris Van Allsburg, who wrote the childrenâs classic, insists he did not base it on himself.
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Hollywood&#39;s famous Grauman&#39;s Chinese Theatre was transformed into a winter wonderland on Sunday for the premiere of &quot;The Polar Express.
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Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of the children's classic The Polar Express, is a low-tech kind of guy. He prefers the feeling of pastels and paper to the keyboard, doesn't type or use a cell phone, and lets his wife, Lisa, handle the family's e-mail.
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Even at a hefty cost of around $165  million to make "The Polar Express," director Robert Zemeckis  thinks an innovative new animation technique he used may have  saved the Warner Bros. studio and the film's producers about  $835 million.
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LOS ANGELES  - Warner Bros. Pictures'  costly new entrant "The Polar Express" goes up against reigning  champ "The Incredibles" at the weekend box office, but is  unlikely to dislodge the hit superhero cartoon.
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Toy-inspired movies like Transformers and Bratz are lucrative for Hollywood, but experts warn they could also be harmful for kids' development
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With The Polar Express chugging into movie theaters and a fictional North Pole, we're finding out that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction. Photo Gallery
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When the film based on Chris Van Allsburg&#39;s delicate and haunting children&#39;s book &quot;The Polar Express&quot; plays in its own backyard, it has the purity of virgin, new-fallen snow.
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There are a lot of remarkable things about &quot;The Polar Express.&quot; Most strikingly, it&#39;s a visually stunning film, creating a world that is full of childlike wonder with a tinge of off-kilter creepiness.
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(CBS) &quot;The Polar Express&quot; has delighted children for 20 years, since Chris van Allsburg penned the tale about a train ride to the North Pole.
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After a slow start out of the station, "The Polar Express" just keeps chugging along. Taking in nearly &#36;10 million over the weekend, the holiday tale lifted its domestic total to &#36;110 million with plenty of steam left for Christmas and New Year's.
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Animation in America once meant Mickey Mouse, Snow White and Winnie the Pooh. These days, it's just as likely to mean Japanese fighting cyborgs, doe-eyed schoolgirls and sinister monsters &#151; thanks in large part to people like John Ledford.
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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.