John Coates, the producer of the classic animation film The Snowman, has died of cancer.
The Snowman and the Snowdog will be screened on Channel 4 this Christmas.
Under the scheme WMC will offer tickets to family shows, musicals and performances of contemporary dance, including The Snowman, Mamma Mia!
He teamed up with The Snowman writer Raymond Briggs and persuaded Channel 4 to make it one of its first films.
The Norwegian author also optioned the film rights to "The Snowman, " the seventh book of the Harry Hole series, in late 2011.
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Composer Howard Blake, who worked extensively with Coates on films such as The Snowman, Granpa and The Bear, met Coates in New York in 1981.
At 12:32 in the morning on Sunday, April 27 1986, anyone east of the Mississippi river in the United States who was watching HBO was in the middle of the 1985 film The Falcon and The Snowman when the signal suddenly dropped out.
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"I think the first snowman is my favourite as he's the one I shouldn't have had, " said Mrs Howes.
The original snowman biscuit jar, standing about 12in (30cm) tall, was bought as a replacement gift.
By May 2001, he was high up in the Himalayas in hot pursuit of the Yeti--otherwise known as the Abominable Snowman.
No sexual content. (We all know the difference between a snowman and a snow-woman, but, luckily, they never make an appearance.) Rated PG. 95 minutes.
The incident happened on the first stage of the Highland Car Club Snowman Rally in Glenurquhart Forest, at Balnain, five miles west of Loch Ness.
Outside Branford College, one of the residential colleges at the university, a large snowman was crowned with a hat made from beer-bottle labels.
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After users choose from the zillions of costumes and body types, they pick from 400 different powers, including laser blasts, gravity control, mind control or the ability to summon a snowman that delivers quick-freezing breath.
The main attraction is supposed to be the human heart, not a big, blabbering snowman who slides down hills and has his crystals rearranged by tree branches and plows.
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