Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 50: Remembering Disney’s “Quack Pack” Sep 04, 2019

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by discussing several of the television animation-related panels at this year’s D23 Expo. Jim then looks back at what happened with the “Disney Afternoon” during the waning years of this syndicated animation programming block.

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 49: Disney & Pixar news from this year’s D23 Expo Aug 27, 2019

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about why “Angry Birds 2” failed to take flight. Then Drew shares what he learned this past weekend about Pixar’s “Onward” & “Soul” as well as Walt Disney Animation Studios’ November 2020 release, “Raya and the Last Dragon”

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 48: What’s Disney’s plan for Blue Sky Studios? Aug 22, 2019

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about how “Angry Birds 2” garnered better reviews & sold more tickets over its opening weekend than the original “Angry Birds” movie did back in 2016. Drew & Jim then go on to discuss how both Disney & Comcast are struggling to carve out distinctive identities for all of the animation studios these two media giants currently control.

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 47: “Bambi” ‘s troubled trip to the big screen Aug 14, 2019

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill talk about some of the Disney theme park-related projects that animation master Eric Goldberg created new footage for. They also look back at how Walt Disney Animation Studios struggled in the late 1930s / early 1940s to create a full-length animated feature to follow the hugely successful “Snow White”

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 46: Remembering Russi Taylor Aug 06, 2019

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by paying tribute to the late Disney Legend who voiced Minnie Mouse for more than three decades. Drew then shares what he learned at the press junket for Skydance Media’s soon-to-be-released FX tour-de-force, “Gemini Man”

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 45: Hans Zimmer fixes “Lion King” mistakes Jul 25, 2019

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Drew Taylor starts off this week’s episode by sharing what he learned at the junket for DreamWorks Animation’s “Abominable” (which arrives in theaters on September 27th). He then shares a sit-down that he did with Academy Award-winner Hans Zimmer, who then talks about what it was like to work on both the 1994 animated version of Disney’s “The Lion King” as well as that studio’s photo-real remake of that film

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 44:Getting ready for Comic-Con Jul 16, 2019

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Drew Taylor starts off this week’s episode by talking about what it was like to attend the world premiere of Jon Favreau’s “The Lion King” at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Drew & Jim then discuss the very best strategies to employ if you’re traveling down to San Diego later this week to experience Comic-Con International

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 43: Why Disney’s “Toaster” got unplugged Jul 09, 2019

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about some of the casting decisions that Walt Disney Studios has been making on its live-action reimagining of “The Little Mermaid.” They then look back at those two traditional animation / CG hybrid projects that Disney Studios almost produced in the early 1980s, “Where the Wild Things Are” & “The Brave Little Toaster”

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 42: A “Flash” from Disney & Fox Jul 02, 2019

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by discussing whether this summer’s pattern of sequels under-performing at the box office impacted “Toy Story 4.” They also discuss the animated feature Taika Watiti may tackle soon after turning his back on “Bubbles”

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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Episode 41: How would Stephen Hillenburg have felt about “Kamp Koral” ? Jun 18, 2019

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about “It’s A Wonderful Sponge” and the new CG series that Nick is spinning off of this May 2020 release. Drew & Jim discuss how underwhelming ticket sales for “The Secret Life of Pets 2” may impact Universal’s plans to turn this Illumination Entertainment series into a theme park franchise

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