Month: March 2005 – page 4

Disney presages X-Files?

Chuck Oberleitner has posted a new article at his o-meon site discussing the visionary nature of the material contained in the Tomorrowland: Disney In Space And Beyond DVD from Wave 3 of the Walt Disney Treasures series.

Review: Pocahontas Special Edition Region 2 DVD

‘Tk2’ reviews the Pocahontas Special Edition Region 2 DVD at Ultimate Disney’s forum. Scroll down the page there to see screen captures from the DVD’s menus and feature. The Pocahontas Special Edition Region 2 DVD arrives in stores on March 7, 2005.

It's a Dance Off! Napoleon vs. Fender

File this one under “bizarre and unexpected.” Papadapolis writes in and points out a site where Napoleon from Napoleon Dynamite and Fender from the upcoming Robots have an online dance competition. It looks like it’s even an official Fox site.

Robot-ic pics

Latino Review has three new, exclusive pics from Robots, which opens in theaters this Friday.

Tim Sullivan writing Shrek 4

Variety reports that Tim Sullivan has been hired to pen Shrek 4, after the writer accepted an invitation to pitch his idea at DreamWorks. The news comes on the heels of the announcement that David H. Steinberg will write the Shrek 2-spinoff Puss in Boots. Meanwhile, Shrek 3, written by Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price […]

Pics from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Some new pics containing spoilers from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest have appeared online at Photo Buckett.

Robots receives early mixed reviews

Ain’t It Cool News has two of the first reviews for Robots, with neither of them posing the flick in a positive light. First off, ‘Father Geek’ writes of his experience seeing Robots with his 4 1/2 year-old grandson: “Colorful and very fast paced, the funniest thing was the Ice Age short [teaser trailer] beforehand, […]

New Robots clip; ten questions with Robots director Chris Wedge

IGN FilmForce has an exclusive clip from Robots, in addition to asking ten questions to Robots and Ice Age director Chris Wedge. Robots marches into theaters on Friday.

Robots preview on TV tonight

Kristin writes in to point out that the FOX Network is hosting a preview tonight at 8PM entitled Assembling ROBOTS: The Magic, The Music and the Comedy. Robots hits theaters next week, March 11, and is 20th Century Fox’s first CGI movie since Ice Age in 2002.

Trailer: Herbie: Fully Loaded

The trailer for Herbie: Fully Loaded is available exclusively at Yahoo! Movies. Expect to see the trailer in theaters with The Pacifier this weekend, while Herbie: Fully Loaded races into theaters June 24, 2005.

DVD review: The Incredibles

Coming Soon reviews the Incredibles DVD, giving the disc’s bonus features a score of 9/10. As for the film itself, the site provides another score of 9/10, stating its “bottom line” as, “Thanks to awesome animation, a funny plot, and lots of comic book inspiration, The Incredibles is a fun action/adventure for the whole family.” […]

Incredibles DVD deleted scene grab bag

Six screen shots of deleted scenes that can be found on disc 2 of the March 15 DVD release of Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles can be found here:

Song of the South goes PC?

On the online auction block now at eBay is a Disney book from 1973 entitled Brer Rabbit and His Friends. Only difference between this and the original story is that the infamous tar baby has been replaced by a glue-coated stuffed bunny rabbit in an attempt to be politically correct.

Genndy Tartakovsky tribute at the Egyptian

Coming later this month at Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre is a three-part program centered on animator extraordinaire Genndy Tartakovsky. Genndy will be playing some of his Samurai Jack material, his brand-new Clone Wars cartoons, and works of others who have influenced him (original link via Cartoon Brew).

Bambi's king of the home video forest

Yahoo! Finance reports that first day sales for yesterday’s release of Disney’s Bambi reached one million units, knocking out all of the other competition. Not bad for a sixty-three year old movie. Apparently the public does like traditional animation.

Krypto the Superdog preview

An exclusive sneak preview of Krypto the Superdog is now up at Cartoon Network. The new series is set to premiere April 4.

Clone Wars ads starting up

Apparently ads for Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3 are starting to air on Cartoon Network. Read a description at TheForce.net and a related story.

The Grownup Geeks' Guide to Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Here’s something else for Syndrome to geek out about: Chuck Oberleitner has just begun a new column at his o-meon site dedicated to “helping to improve the Disneyland Resort experience of a lesser served group of visitors, grownups traveling without children,” especially during this 18-month period in which Disneyland is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

Tarzan midquel site now up

The official site for Disney’s Tarzan II has just gone live. There’s not much there right now except for an order link and a trailer, which is unusual since trailers usually come later.

Corey Burton on Tinkerbell: The Movie, future animated roles

Moviehole speaks to voice actor Corey Burton, who provides a bit more detail on the plot to Disney’s Peter Pan prequel, Tinkerbell: The Movie. “I think it’s some kind of a ‘prequel’, with Tinkerbell having a rivalry with one of her fellow fairies”, says Burton, who voiced Captain James Hook in Return to Neverland. In […]

Bambi: Platinum Edition

Walt Disney’s original Circle Of Life is an epic masterpiece that has shaped generations. This new Platinum Edition shows the film has lost nothing of its charm or ability to strike emotionally.

DVD Toons on Bambi's Platinum and Mulan's sequel

With nothing but good words for Disney’s {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/384 Bambi: Platinum Edition}} – out in stores today – DVD Toons says that the film really does “deserve the accolade of ‘masterpiece’. One of Walt Disney’s defining moments, Bambi is the film that has delighted – and frightened – generations. The closest Walt ever got to […]