Not Just Voiceover

Sir Sean Connery, who turned 80 today (25.08.10) has retired from onscreen acting but hopes to continue doing voiceover work. Sir Sean Connery will never act again. The former ‘James Bond’ star who turned 80 today (25.08.10), said that his onscreen days are behind him, but he will continue to do voiceover work. He told [...]

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link The artists who voice Dug the Dog, Minnie Mouse, Natasha Fatale, Rocky the Squirrel and Winnie the Pooh will sound off at “Voices of Character,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 16th installment of the Marc Davis Celebration of Animation, on Thursday, August 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn [...]

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Kudos to io9.com for some fun recent postings. The latest featuring some great trailers for sci-fi films that feature some elaborate VO, properly titled: What The Hell Are You Talking About, Crazy Announcer

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Check out the interview with Casting Director Andrea Romano about the upcoming animated original film, Green Lantern : First Flight. excerpt: When you’re a casting director, you never really know how it’s going to work out until you’re in the room doing the gig. This was one of those instances where I thought, “I know [...]

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How cool, and well deserved. The Directors Guild of America renamed the Best Voice Over category as the Don LaFontaine Award for Best Voice Over. This year’s winner was Corey Burton for his work “Tropic Thunder – Hollywood Legend” a spoof of the making of documentary “Heart of Darkness” Congrats Corey and to The Don…we [...]

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Sad news of the death of  Wayne Allwine, voice of Mickey Mouse at the young age of 62. Allwine got the role in 1976. He was only the third person — Walt Disney was the first — to voice the character. ‘It’s really not about me; it’s about Mickey, and Mickey is Walt’s,’ he once [...]

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