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Robert J. Walsh
Robert Joseph Walsh (December 4, 1947 – October 17, 2018) was an American film and television composer. He was a musical conductor and director at Warner Bros. Animation beginning in 1979, working with Friz Freleng on several ''Looney Tunes'' projects in the early 1980s. He moved on to work with Marvel Productions, where he worked on such programs as '' GI Joe: A Real American Hero'', '' Transformers'', '' Jem'' and '' My Little Pony 'n Friends''. His work on the Jim Henson Company and Marvel Productions cartoon series '' Muppet Babies'' - garnered him a 1986 Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition. His career in TV and film saw him working with a varying array of creators like Freleng, Jim Henson, Stan Lee, Lee Gunther, Bert I. Gordon and Glen A. Larson, as well as fellow conductor Johnny Douglas. Walsh was the founder and creator of The Hollywood Film Music Library record label, which he sold to FirstCom Music of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Founded in 1923 by four brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games and is one of the "Big Five" major American film studios, as well as a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division the Warner Bros. Pictures Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, the Warner Animation Group, Castle Rock Entertainment, and DC Studios. Among its other assets, stands the television production company Warner Bros. Television Studios. Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Ben Hardaway, Chuck Jones, Bob Givens and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch– American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its operational headquarters are located in Santa Monica, California. The biggest music company in the world, it is one of the " Big Three" record labels, along with Sony Music and Warner Music Group. Tencent acquired ten percent of Universal Music Group in March 2020 for €3 billion and acquired an additional ten percent stake in January 2021. Pershing Square Holdings later acquired ten percent of UMG prior to its IPO on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. The company went public on September 21, 2021, at a valuation of €46 billion. In 2019, ''Fast Company'' named Universal Music Group the most innovative music company and listed UMG among the Top 50 most innovative companies in the world and "amid the music industry's digital tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defenders Of The Earth
''Defenders of the Earth'' is an American animated television series produced in 1986, featuring characters from three comic strips distributed by King Features Syndicate—Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Mandrake's assistant Lothar—opposing Ming the Merciless in the year 2015. Supporting characters include their children Rick Gordon (son of Flash), L.J. (son of Lothar), Kshin (adopted son of Mandrake), and Jedda Walker (daughter of the Phantom). The show lasted for 65 episodes; there was also a short-lived comic book series published by Star Comics (an imprint of Marvel Comics). The closing credits credit Rob Walsh and Tony Pastor for the main title music, and Stan Lee for the lyrics. The series was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel as part of Sci Fi's animation block, ''Cartoon Quest''. Flash Gordon has also been seen in two other animated series: ''The New Adventures of Flash Gordon'' (1979–82), and ''Flash Gordon'' (1996–97). Premise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inhumanoids
''Inhumanoids'' is the title of an animated series and the name of a Hasbro toy property that were both released in 1986. In the tradition of other Hasbro properties such as ''Transformers'', and ''G.I. Joe'', the show was produced by Sunbow Entertainment and Marvel Productions and animated in Japan by Toei Animation. ''Inhumanoids'' tells the story of the scientist-superhero group, Earth Corps, as they battle a trio of subterranean monsters called the Inhumanoids with the aid of elemental beings, the Mutores. ''Inhumanoids: The Movie'' The ''Inhumanoids'' series did not begin as a conventional 22-minute cartoon, but rather as a slate of six-to-seven-minute shorts that aired as part of the collective '' Super Sunday'' half-hour block alongside other Marvel/Sunbow series, ''Jem and the Holograms'', ''Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines'' and ''Robotix''. Although ''Bigfoot'' had only nine episodes, the other shows ran to 15 episodes, telling a complete story across their numerous insta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Panther And Sons
''Pink Panther and Sons'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Mirisch-Geoffrey-DePatie-Freleng. The series was originally broadcast on NBC from 1984 to 1985 and moved to ABC in 1986. Friz Freleng (a close friend of Joseph Barbera and William Hanna since all three worked on MGM cartoons in the 1930s) served as creative producer for the series as his and David H. DePatie's production company, DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, existed as an in-name-only enterprise by this time, as its operations were absorbed by Marvel Productions in 1981. The show is based on the Pink Panther, a character created in 1963. Plot The series centers on The Pink Panther's two sons: pre-teen Pinky, his brother, toddler Panky and their friends in the Rainbow Panthers crew (the pretty Chatta, fighting Rocko, gibberish-talking Murfel, overalls-wearing Annie, and mixed-up-talking Punkin). Each episode shows the Rainbow Panthers coming together in friendship as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
''Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island'' (also known as ''Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island'') is a 1983 ''Looney Tunes'' traditionally animated compilation film directed by Friz Freleng and Phil Monroe with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. This was the first ''Looney Tunes'' compilation film to center on Daffy Duck, as the previous ones had centered on Bugs Bunny. A note in the end credits dedicates the film to animator and story man, John Dunn, "who inspired it." Dunn died of heart failure in San Fernando, California on January 17, 1983; six months before the film's release. Plot The premise of the framing animation was a general parody of the popular 1970s/1980s television series ''Fantasy Island'', with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales playing caricatures of that series' principal characters, Mr. Roarke and Tattoo (respectively). The pair, stranded on a desert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1001 Rabbit Tales
''Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales'' is a 1982 animated anthology comedy film directed by Friz Freleng with a compilation of Warner Bros. cartoon shorts (many of which have been abridged) and animated bridging sequences with Bugs Bunny as the story host. Plot Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have to sell books for Rambling House. They go their separate ways and experience many wacky things. For instance, while flying through a winter storm, Daffy runs into a house owned by Porky Pig and briefly stays there while taking place of a stuffed duck which he merely destroyed. Meanwhile, Bugs burrows his way to a jungle where he pretends to be a baby ape to an ape couple. One half of the couple wants to do Bugs in, but manages to divert him after he accidentally drops a boulder on his wife's head. After a little while, Bugs and Daffy reunite and burrow their way to a cave at a dry desert. Inside are treasures consisting of gold, jewels and stuff. The greedy duck tries to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Song
''Blood Song'' (also known as ''Dream Slayer'') is a 1982 American independent slasher film directed Alan J. Levi, produced by Frank Avianca and Lenny Montana, and starring Frankie Avalon and Donna Wilkes. It follows a crippled young woman in a coastal Oregon town who is stalked by a hatchet-wielding psychopath from whom she once received a blood transfusion. Based on a short story by Joseph Shink, ''Blood Song'' was adapted by Shink along with producers Avianca and Montana. The film was shot in the fall of 1980 in Coos Bay and Coquille, Oregon. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the United Kingdom under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the "video nasty" panic. Plot In 1955 in Portland, Oregon, a businessman finds his wife in bed with another man, and commits a double murder-suicide. His young son, Paul, witnesses the three deaths, and is traumatized. Twenty-five years later, in 1980, Paul is incarcerated at a psych ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
''The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie'' (credited onscreen as ''Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie'') is a 1981 American animated comedy package film with a compilation of classic '' Looney Tunes''/'' Merrie Melodies'' Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences produced by Friz Freleng, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The new footage was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and the first ''Looney Tunes''/''Merrie Melodies'' film with a compilation of classic shorts produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Synopsis The film starts with a showing of the 1958 award-winning cartoon ''Knighty Knight Bugs'' before going into its opening credits. This is followed up by Bugs narrating how ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' immediately replaced baggy-pants comedy before he introduces us to "a warm-hearted humble little introvert called Yosemite Sam". Act 1: ''Satan's Waitin In a shot-for-shot remake of '' Devil's Feud Cake'', Yosemite Sam courts Grann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necromancy (film)
''Necromancy'' (stylized as ''NEC'RO•MAN'CY'') is a 1972 American supernatural horror film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Michael Ontkean, and Lee Purcell. The plot follows an enigmatic cult leader in a small California town who attempts to harness the powers of a local woman to resurrect his dead son. The film was re-released in 1983 under the title ''The Witching'' in an alternate cut. Plot After Los Angeles housewife Lori Brandon suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job working in the advertising division of a toy company in the northern California community of Lilith. En route, they witness a violent car accident in which an oncoming vehicle swerves off an embankment, killing the female driver. When their car later runs out of gasoline, Frank walks toward town, and Lori waits at the car. She wanders into a field and finds a gravestone beneath a tree; there, she has a bizarre vision of a young boy's funeral. Upon arriving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulli Lommel
Ulli Lommel (21 December 1944 – 2 December 2017) was a German actor and director, noted for his many collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his association with the New German Cinema movement. Lommel spent time at The Factory and was a creative associate of Andy Warhol, with whom he made several films and works of art. He moved to the United States in 1977, where he wrote, directed and starred in over 50 films. Early life Born in Zielenzig in 1944, a few weeks before the arrival of the Red Army, Lommel's family fled the city, wrapping the infant Ulli in a roll of carpet. His father, Ludwig, was a popular radio personality. His mother was the actress Karla van Cleef. While living in Bad Nauheim as a teenager, Lommel performed with Elvis Presley. Career Lommel started his cinematic career as an actor in the early 1960s. One of his first film roles was in Russ Meyer's ''Fanny Hill'', in which he starred alongside Italian actress Letícia Román. In 1969, he appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studiopolis
Studiopolis, Inc. is an American post-production studio located in Studio City, Los Angeles. It specializes in voiceover recording and dubbing for cartoon, anime, and video game projects. They were formerly known as Screenmusic Studios and then Studio E Productions until 2005. The studio is owned by Jamie Simone. It has another studio located in Burbank, California. Filmography Animation This shows a list of animated programs that this studio recorded for. * ''Æon Flux'' (Los Angeles) * '' The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'' (Los Angeles) * '' Avengers Assemble'' (Burbank) * ''Ben 10'' (2016 Reboot) (Burbank) * ''Biker Mice from Mars'' * ''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' * ''Carmen Sandiego'' (Los Angeles) * ''Celebrity Deathmatch'' (2006) (Los Angeles) * ''Clash-A-Rama'' * ''Clifford's Puppy Days'' (Los Angeles) * ''Curious George'' * ''Danger Rangers'' (Los Angeles) * ''Doc McStuffins'' (Burbank) * ''Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz'' (Los Angeles) * ''The Emperor's New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
