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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…these days. First of all you have to kill on the opening weekend or your movie’s dead. It’s like opening a show on Broadway now, except it costs $150, $200…

Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood

…rights to Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories, in exchange for a $1,000 advance and 66% of Slesinger’s income. By November 1931, Pooh merchandise was collecting close to $50 million each…

The Essential Bugs Bunny

Warner Bros. Pictures (1940-2004), Warner Home Video (October 12 2010), 2 discs, 155 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: Though the…

The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition

…Island. There’s also a bit of Disney in there, that evokes the celestial ancestors of Mulan and, especially the Brizzi Brothers’ Firebird Suite from Fantasia 2000 with its playful sprite…

Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl

…(1980), Oliver & Company (1988), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Emperor’s New Groove (2000). For his directorial debut, Allers co-directed The Lion…

Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection

…hit of the three. Interestingly, by design or not, these titles represent three consecutive years of Disney pictures, the first two being released in 2000 and 2001, respectively, with Lilo…

Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators

Hyun-Min Lee, an animator from Seoul, South Korea, came to the United States in 2000, earning a degree in painting from Wesleyan University and a Masters degree in animation from…

Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan

…part of the sequel to Fantasia 2000. TB: After I did Emperor’s New Groove, they didn’t have another feature to go one, but they had some shorts that they were…

The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection

…been telling this story for over 2000 years, and they’ll still be telling it in another 2000! Is This Thing Loaded? The Prince Of Egypt was one of the first…

The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection

Walt Disney Pictures (July 24 1985), Walt Disney Home Video (October 3 2000), single disc, 80 mins, 2.35:1 letterboxed widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $19.99 Storyboard: Set…

The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection

Walt Disney Pictures (October 5 1949), Walt Disney Home Video (October 3 2000), single disc, 68 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Rated G, Retail:…

Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two

…over the next 30 years or so, and then usually only in compilation features, such as Once Upon A Mouse. The most successful of these was Mickey Mouse Disco (1980),…

Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin

Entertainment Distributors/Filmation Studios/Atlantic Releasing/JVC (November 22 1985), MGM DVD (June 21 2005), single disc, 100 mins, 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital Stereo Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: Set on…

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five

…The Crocadero, Scrap Happy Daffy and Wholly Smoke). 15×4 = 60 Tuneful encounters! The Sweatbox Review: As sure as clockwork, Warner Brothers have delivered another wonderful collection of 60 classic…

Horton Hears a Who!

…104 minute feature, like the 2000 live action Grinch, you have to start padding. Which means that only one fourth of your film is actual Seuss. The other three-fourths is…

Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One

…to WWII were eliminated and Gigantor was said to take place in the year 2000. The other characters also received name changes, eschewing any Japanese monikers for rather silly “American”…

The UK's 100 Greatest Cartoons!

…= Bugs Bunny (1938) 09 = The Incredibles (2004) 08 = Spirited Away (2001) 07 = The Lion King (2004) 06 = Shrek / Shrek 2 (2000-04) 05 = Family…

Caprino animation DVD contest winners announced

…screen system and move into computer graphics with the Pinchcliffe video game. The disc also includes a further retrospective interview with Caprino himself (2000, 10 min) and a look at…

School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit

…& Animation Department who have created some of the most memorable images in animation history. With nearly 100 years of collective experience in the art and business of animation, exhibiting…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…opening a show on Broadway now, except it costs $150, $200 million dollars. It’s because the studios financially gain the most from the opening weekend, and then they gain less…

A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!

…March 31, 2000 “Tulio, I just want you to know… I’m sorry about that girl in Barcelona.” The Road to El Dorado was the second hand-drawn animated feature from DreamWorks…

Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features

…written by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. The congratulations he received from Roy Disney and Michael Eisner opened even more doors for another project, The Disney Heroines, published in 2000,…

VIEW Conference 2017: an interview with director Maria Elena Gutierrez

…character. The overall winner will receive a first prize of 2000 Euros. The Social Contest category carries a first prize of 500 Euros for the best short, video clip, or…

UPN and The WB to cease operations, CBS and Warner Brothers to create new network

…from 7:00 a.m.-Noon, considered primetime for kids. Kids’ WB! has been the broadcast network ratings champion since Fall 2000, capturing 16 consecutive sweep victories as the Number One Saturday morning…

Pinchcliffe races home: Caprino Studios Collection on DVD!

…game. The disc also includes a further retrospective interview with Caprino himself (2000, 10 min) and a look at what appears to be some kind of life-size theme park/walkthrough exhibition…

AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.

…bringing to this film other than a slight hint of 20,000 Leagues-era Peter Lorre to it? Rand: Well, basically, that’s the Don Bluth character that inserts itself into the film….

The Grinch becomes the biggest Christmas movie ever, beating The Grinch

…Benedict Cumberbatch Grinch has a total of $261 million, eclipsing the $260 million the 2000 Grinch made. It’s also not far from topping the $270 million that the studio’s own…

The Princess And The Frog

…optional menu, additional spots for Old Dogs, James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition, Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue, Fantasia/Fantasia 2000: Diamond Edition and other generic promos can…

Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions

…from Making Toy Story (20:17) and The Legacy Of Toy Story (11:41), to Designing Toy Story (6:12) and almost 20 minutes of Deleted Scenes. Featuring eight sequences in various states…

The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)

…animated movies since The Rescuers Down Under (of course, that depends on whether or not you count Fantasia 2000 and 2011’s barely talked about Winnie The Pooh as “sequels,” which…