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Toy Story 3
…the Toy Story universe. The rest of the film continues to run along re-running themes from the first two films: Woody is disassociated from the rest of the group, Jesse… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…because it’s a 100-year-old technology. It’s low tech and high quality. And as an independent filmmaker, if you run the numbers, you’ll be surprised how cheap film is by comparison… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…film grossed $50 million, he would be happy and it wouldn’t be their faults), and management had barely signed off on the film before moving on to what they truly… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…film originally – if, sometimes, at all – the film was a risky venture back in the 1990s, even for the bold and brash – and super successful – Disney… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, the film followed two young lovers who must run away from a pompous, evil King determined to marry the Shepherdess. The film’s production proved… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…and playing fast with facts and figures, it’s important to remember that one is watching a Disney animated film here: an idealised version – as with many films – of… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…experience. A grouping of these films has often been requested by enthusiasts, though the Pixar Short Films Collection isn’t the first time we’ve seen such an assortment. The original deluxe… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…of the factory that supplies every one of Wile E Coyote’s Road Runner contraptions) is found murdered. The bunny goes on the run, turning to down-on-his-luck gumshoe Eddie Valiant, known… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…decade, starting in 1944, allowing the film to eventually reach $400 million worldwide – more than $850 million when adjusted for ticket price inflation, placing the film among the top… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…the film and how challenging it was to work on a follow-up to one of the most beloved films in Disney history. Marshall noted that, while the film is a… |
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Finding Dory
…reaction to rush out a follow-up to that smash first film and still, for me at least, a pinnacle of the computer animated medium, and an astonishing run of truly… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…the film’s 30th birthday before bringing the content to the States, oddly then not actually marking the milestone on the sleeve’s packaging. The best edition of the film could actually… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…I think it has to be Pinocchio, still perhaps the most revered animated film to be produced in the pre-digital age. That film built on Walt’s success with Snow White,… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…“Who in the halibut trips underwater?” Shark Tale was the last film released before DreamWorks Animation became an independent production company just a couple weeks later. The film centered on… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…correct. Wild Life was a film that was in development…I started on the film in January of 2000. The film was actually shut down in the summer of 2000, and… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…at times like a young Bruce Campbell (who, like the director’s touchstone that he is, turns up late in the film as a Winkie Guardsman in some really rubbery latex),… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…I started making the film. The Fantasy Film Worlds Of George Pal is my most important film. I mean, it’s the film I’m the most proud of. Because it represents… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…and Russell revealing a few details about their characters. They finished off by playing the montage sizzle reel, tracing the main Star Wars films in order of release leading up… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…the development of the film. That feature has been carried over here, now presented as a Inside Walt’s Story Meetings: Enhanced Edition, running the entire length of Bambi. Originally introduced… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…Mowgli finds himself back in the jungle, the film basically reworks the original film’s story arc, shoehorning in the new “plot” elements. Two screenwriters are credited, as well as a… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…notion that the medium had been all to happy to accept and become stuck in a rut with. That film had outperformed Disney’s offerings in several markets, the slightly more… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…the film for almost three further years, and on its eventual debut in 1940, the film suffered from what might be called that popularly coined term, “difficult second album syndrome”…. |
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Cars 2
…initial blockbuster run of unqualified hits, have to take a slight dent in their previously meticulous fender, then Cars was it, the film making a lot of money but not… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…Studio’s last traditional animation (for a while at least), but the powers that be from Disney-on-high commanded that the film be shorn of six-months production time and rush-released to coincide… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…film critic Mark Kermode (host of several respected DVD-featured documentaries on such films as Alien, The Wicker Man, The French Connection and Blade Runner) recall a conversation between himself and… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…Lee, which runs for a generous 11 minutes. With background score from the film and newly manipulated artwork that will be familiar to those with the published version of Burton’s… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…on high commanded that the film be shorn of six-months production time and rush-released to coincide with the DVD and home video release of The Lion King last fall, in… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…boss of the same factory that supplies every one of Wile E Coyote’s Road Runner contraptions) is found murdered. The bunny goes on the run, turning to down-on-his-luck gumshoe Eddie… |
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Shrek 2
…film garnered surprising amounts of critical praise. Opening weekend saw the film retain high box office figures, eventually beating even the indestructible Spider-Man into second place for the summer. Everything… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…new love of film would steer my life in that direction. But, after a minor stint in a live action film as a 3rd AD, I became a bit disillusioned… |
