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Aarrgghh! No more Disney Treasures!?
…at all) after 6 waves, and 22 volumes. It’s unknown whether the decision is sales-related, but given the worryingly low print run of just 65,000 for the latest collection, one… |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.1
…Storyboard: G.I. Joe is the code name for America’s daring, highly-trained, Special Mission force. Its purpose: To defend human freedom against Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the… |
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You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…for one was lamenting the lack of new-to-video releases. You’re Not Elected was actually released by Paramount as part of its Great Pumpkin DVD, but Warner has repurposed the special… |
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DuckTales: Volume 3
…they wanted to do in the first four dozen episodes (although we still have the Tra-La-La episode to look forward to in the next volume, even if we shall also… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
With The Lion King a hit again on 3D screens and a sure-to-be massive Blu-ray release just a few days away, Jeremie joins a roundtable discussion with the movie’s directors,… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…1969, and later was introduced to the media in 1972, at a demonstration held at Universal City, California. At the time, the LaserDisc was seen to be the front-running technology… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…names as Ollie Johnston, Ward Kimball and Walt himself, on their respective home-based tracks, including Kimball’s legendary full-sized Grizzly Flats set-up! Greatly fascinating is Walt’s impressive railroad, which we see… |
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Rumor mill: Pinkava replaces Peterson as Ratatouille co-director?
…news. Surprisingly, the site has removed Peterson from the credits, with Pinkava now filling that co-director status. Of course, the user-submitted nature of IMDB calls for this report to be… |
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Astro Boy (2003): The Complete Series
…Boy celebrated his 40th Anniversary in television by starring in a new, state-of-the-art animated series. The Sweatbox Review: The original Astro Boy manga named 2003 as the year that Astro… |
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Crest Animation Studios Ltd. runs Marathon
…Specifically, 52 half-hour episodes will be computer animated in the next two years, set for ages 6 – 11 years old. Details have yet to arrive on the show’s subject…. |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…four.’ So, that was really amazing. Kind of the new camera work we’ve got. There will be a behind-the-scenes look at that, how it’s done. Also, a behind-the-scenes extra on… |
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The Transformers: The Complete First Season (25th Anniversary Edition)
…hoping to get some more behind-the-scenes look in future volumes. The third disc also features a rare PSA with Bumblebee called Running Away From Home (0:31) about children who consider… |
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Rumor mill: Little Mermaid III cancelled?
When the deletion of the film’s entry at The Internet Movie Database was noticed, a search was conducted to find the latest lowdown on The Little Mermaid III. As it… |
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Rumor mill: American Dog cast?
Once again, Wikipedia is home to casting news, with the truth of such tidbits still unknown. This time, the word revolves around Walt Disney Feature Animation’s American Dog. The site… |
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Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos
Ruby-Spears (September 15-19, 1986), Warner Archive (April 1, 2011), 1 disc, 110 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated , Retail: $14.95 Storyboard: Chuck Norris and his Karate Kommandos… |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…Denis Leary lends his voice talents to the shifty-eyed Diego. Rounding off the voice talents include Jack Black, Cedric the Entertainer, and Goran Visnjic. There is also a voiceless saber-tooth… |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Sweepstakes
…a magical wardrobe while playing a game of ‘hide-and-seek’ in the rural country home of an elderly professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa rundown
…the penguin image, rolling over “More Info,” and then clicking on “Story.” The followup to the hit 2005 CG-animated film Madagascar escapes to theaters, including IMAX, on November 7, 2008…. |
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The Best Of Bravestarr
…a formidable gun, he also meets Thirty-Thirty, a horse-robot-man with an attitude. Thirty-Thirty ends up being Bravestarr’s close friend and ally, joining him to fight off Tex Hex’s next attack… |
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Monsters, Inc.‘s Composer Randy Newman: “I score because I care!”
…notice when the characters are engaged in an animated kind of behavior: falling down, running, etc. In a normal movie with Billy Crystal running down a hallway from a bad… |
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua
…thrift on the narrower spine. The BD-Live logo still looks like “BD-isney-Live” to me and the love-affair with the new format is still in big effect with the back page… |
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Up: Voice Of Russell (bonus feature clip)
Up 4-Disc Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Copy Combo Pack is available to order now from Amazon.com [AMZ]B001KVZ6G6[/AMZ]… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…operational battle station), a wizened ghostly keeper-of-the-sword’s-power figure, an army of robots who seem to have strayed from The Black Hole (remember Captain S.T.A.R.R.?) and some nifty spaceship battles, and… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…masterpiece of styling, performance and character movement. Mike’s little green man approach perfectly compliments Crystal’s manic twenty-words-a-second delivery, and the whole Randall design (a very Tim Burton-Nightmare Before Christmas look… |
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Penguins rundown
…Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and directed by none other than Beauty and the Beast’s Gary Trousdale: THE MADAGASCAR PENGUINS IN A CHRISTMAS CAPER It’s Christmastime in the city,… |
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101 Dalmatians run loose at the El Capitan
From now until January 30, Disney’s El Capitan Theatre is screening One Hundred and One Dalmatians leading up to its Platinum Edition DVD release on March 4. The new Goofy… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…scissors and cutting the film as if it was a live-action picture – losing a rumored 12 minutes-plus of completed, and expensive, finalized ink-and-painted animation! Even with his cuts and… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; the macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link; the gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B.; and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement time is cut short however, when… |
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The Easter Bunny Is Comin’ To Town: Deluxe Edition
…must have been an attractive proposition for them to break away from the constant ho-ho-ho-ing that was their stock-in trade, though Easter just isn’t that big a deal, at least… |
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Fantastic Mr Fox
Despite the aggravated proclamations of its animators and heavily dropped rumors that director Wes Anderson was hardly to be seen on the “set” of his latest film, a stop-motion animated… |
