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Little Mermaid to test waters in Denver
…Katz. Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Doug Wright has written the book for the musical. Meanwhile, Mermaid will feature music by Alan Menken, the late Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater…. |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…Composing A Classic is a twenty minute conversation featuring Menken, Hahn and Disney historian/music supremo (and Menken’s agent) Richard Kraft as they discuss the songs and score for the film,… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…a Japanese manga anime, with a baffling storyline that suddenly comes together, only for the big monster to come along and blow everything up. Kells isn’t as incoherent as that:… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…end credits, Fall Out and Living In Harmony without those superimpositions, as well as what appears to be stock and test shots, and several foreign language versions of the Resigned… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…for the film, its journey through re-writes and Studio-sponsored book form, and finally into a screenplay that became one of Walt’s most admired, and adult, animated films. Yes, adult. By… |
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Toy Story 3
…not just a fluffy promo piece. As if Unkrich and Anderson’s feature-length comments weren’t enough, a completely technical observation can be found in the Beyond The Toybox alternate commentary track… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…and Dory as his sweet-natured but forgetful friend. That there is never any allusion to them becoming romantic partners helps this relationship remain valid and believable (for a fish movie!)… |
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Monsters, Inc.‘s Composer Randy Newman: “I score because I care!”
…CG animated features and now working on a hand-drawn one [Disney’s The Princess And The Frog], do you see any difference in your approach of both mediums? RN: The look… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…That is a good question. I will not commit either way to that. [laughs] AV: What projects are next for each of you? CS: Ooh, good question, good question… [pause]… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…the disc. A 3D Progression Reel (2:15) shows off the CG virtual sets and props and the lighting and shadow render passes needed to make up the final composite, and… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…video release for the feature-length pilot). The artists who originally worked for them, on The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn, later found success themselves by teaming up and forming Studio… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…the film, and another for the disc presentation itself. The films are presented in a strange order, with Tropic Island Hum first, for the reasons stated above, and Tuesday stuck… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…a 30 second test with Trey Thomas, the animation director animating Victor and Sparky in the attic. I also shot tests of different interiors and exteriors to establish and find… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…We had test screenings, and then you rewrite again and find out what things work and what things don’t, and that sort of stuff. So it was a long grueling… |
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Enchanted
…they’re there, and one of the biggest laughs comes when Edward knocks on the wrong door in his search for his intended princess to be, emphasizing the real world and… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…quality film. “I think it will be a great Christmas movie for years and years and years to come,” he says. “I mean, it’s classic, but it’s quirky and has… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…more depth by going the same route for Tarzan and, eventually, dropping a song component completely for its first own computer animated picture, Dinosaur and Atlantis. A quasi-combination is at… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…a young computer programmer searching for the data that proves a rival colleague stole his ideas for a string of hit video games, is himself projected inside a computer world,… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…and even dynamics, without the compressed sound of the music and more in keeping with Bambi’s production era. French and Spanish 5.1 dubs and subs are also included on the… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…and playful comedy, but there’s no mistake in why the Studio continues to push this aspect of Bambi in promotional materials, and as to why the upcoming (and fairly needless)… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…cat back in a television satire that has both cat and dog salivating over a commercial for Lurkey’s Turkey, leading them to raid the refrigerator and spar for its contents…. |
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Amazon announces title of The Lord of the Rings series with teaser trailer
…is the forthcoming and highly anticipated episodic adaptation of the many stories by JRR Tolkien. The series will be set during the Second Age of Middle-Earth, thousands of years before… |
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Encanto opens
Disney’s Encanto opens today in theatres. The film is enchanting the critics, earning a 91% at Rotten Tomatoes. Their consensus: “Encanto’s setting and cultural perspective are new for Disney, but… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…Which do you enjoy drawing for more: comics or animation? BB: I don’t really see a difference between the two. Drawing my comic is my greatest passion, but that’s only… |
