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27 Aug

Scooby-Doo Co-Creator Joe Ruby Dies at 87

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Joe Ruby, best known for co-creating the cartoon Scooby-Doo, died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday Aug. 26, according to Variety. He was 87. Ruby along with his partner Ken Spears, also made Dynomutt and Jabberjaw, and the 1988 animated Superman series, as well as making cartoons out of Pac-Man, Rubik The Amazing Cube, Donkey Kong. They masterminded Space Ace, Dink the Little Dinosaur, It’s Punky Brewster, and TV movies Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit and The Cabbage Patch Kids First Christmas. Joseph Clemens Ruby was born on March 30, 1933. He grew up in Los Angeles and graduated…
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16 May

Scoob! The Secret Origin of the New Scooby-Doo Movie

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This interview contains very mild character spoilers for Scoob!  Like many of us, Scoob! animation coordinator Bill Haller’s first memories of Scooby-Doo center around the long-lost Saturday morning lineup.  “I grew up with Scooby-Doo as part of Saturday morning cartoons. Me and my sister sitting in front of the TV and arguing over what lineup we were going to do. I don’t even know if they have lineups like that anymore?” Heller laughs.  Those warm recollections shaped the director’s childhood, which made taking on Scoob!, the new Scooby-Doo movie from Warner Bros., an incredibly special experience. “Scooby-Doo and Hanna-Barbera were…
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15 May

Scoob! Review: New Scooby-Doo Movie is Goofy and Charming

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“Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you?” It’s not only the refrain from the classic cartoon theme song of what is arguably Hanna-Barbera’s crown jewel, but it’s also a question many movie fans have been asking for years. Though the franchise has had plenty of hilarious and inventive modern reinterpretations along with loads of home video movie releases, it has been 16 years since the dog detective headlined a big budget Hollywood movie. So that’s why the announcement of a new animated feature, Scoob!, was so exciting. Like pretty much every movie this year, the COVID-19 crisis derailed this film’s hopes for a…
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14 May

Scoob!: Where to Watch the New Scooby-Doo Movie

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Zoinks! There’s a new Scooby-Doo movie that you can watch at home. Yep, following in the footsteps of Trolls World Tour, Warner Bros. will release the Scooby Gang’s latest adventure for home viewing with families trapped in quarantine. As of Friday March, 15, Scoob! becomes available for download on video-on-demand platforms. The film, which comes out of Warner Bros. Animation (the studio behind The Lego Movie and its many sequels), appears to be a soft-reboot of Scooby-Doo lore with flashbacks to the origins of its heroes. Meeting as children on an apparently chilly Halloween night, Scoob (Frank Welker) and Shaggy…
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22 Apr

New Scooby-Doo Animated Movie Headed Straight to Streaming

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Warner Bros. had already delayed the release of their big screen Scooby-Doo reboot, Scoob! indefinitely a few weeks back thanks to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But now it turns out that they’re skipping a theatrical release entirely and instead going directly to streaming. “While we’re all eager to be able to once again show our films in theaters, we’re navigating new, unprecedented times which call for creative thinking and adaptability in how we distribute our content,” Warner Bros. chairman-CEO Ann Sarnoff said in a statement (via The Hollywood Reporter). “We know fans are eager to see Scoob! and we’re delighted…
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