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Disney Legend Floyd Norman writes (and talks) about his Animated Life

…magic himself. From February 1956 to August 2000, he worked through three managements, and alongside a host of talented writers, artists, entertainers and craftsmen to help create the Disney legacy….

New Charles Schulz book collects prose writings

…While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who was able to explain his craft in clear and…

The Grinch steals $66 million

…Grinch a healthy “A-” CinemaScore. This isn’t the first time the tale of How the Grinch Stole Christmas was brought to the big screen, of course, with the 2000 Ron…

Ponyo

…rousing than anything I have seen since maybe Fantasia 2000. Once Sosuke and Ponyo are reunited, he and his mother seem to take the events in stride, even accepting the…

The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition

United Artists/Fantasy Films (1978), Warner Home Video (April 6 2010), single disc Blu-ray plus DVD, 113 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.85:1 widescreen, Dolby True-HD 5.1, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99…

My Life With Charlie Brown

My Life With Charlie Brown By Charles M. Schulz Edited and Introduction by M. Thomas Inge University Press Of Mississippi April 1, 2010 Hardcover, 144 pages $25.00 One tragedy of…

Longtime Pixar/DreamWorks animator Adam Burke passes away

…films Burke contributed to… Monsters University (2013) The Road to El Dorado (2000) Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) Quest for Camelot (1998) Up (2009) The Iron Giant (1999)…

Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1

Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears Productions (1980-1988), Warner Home Video (May 4, 2010), two discs, 265 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original aspect ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: Eleven Saturday Morning…

X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 5

Marvel Entertainment (September 7, 1996 – September 20, 1997), Buena Vista Home Entertainment (May 4, 2010), two discs, 308 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated,…

2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…to be. And even if one wasn’t able to be among the over 170,000 that got into the convention center itself there was still plenty that could be found and…

Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao

…Chinese American film composer, with dual citizenship in the United States and Croatia. Over the last 20 years, he has composed music for over 50 films and television programs including…

The Breadwinner

…Out of these interviews she was inspired to write The Breadwinner, released in 2000. It has since won many awards and has had a few well-received sequels. The grim tale…

Dragon Ball Super: Broly explodes at box office with surprising third place finish

…reports that the film made $10 million over the three day weekend, giving it an astonishingly high per-venue average of $22,800. To provide a little comparison to just how big…

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

Melendez/Mendelson Productions (1985), Warner Home Video (January 26, 2010), 1 disc, 49 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Clark…

Spider-Man, Bao win animation Oscars, First Man wins VFX award

…Tin Toy (1988), Geri’s Game (1997), For the Birds (2000), and Piper (2016). Director Domee Shi said, “We are just so happy that Bao was just so embraced by the…

Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!

…us in our interview, it is mostly Ronnie del Carmen’s work. Ronnie del Carmen joined Pixar Animation Studios in the summer of 2000 during the production of Finding Nemo as…

An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations

…& Dragons feature film was finally released in 2000. Directed by Courtney Solomon, the film told of a ragtag group of assorted folk coming together to retrieve a scepter that…

Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!

…Of The Caribbeans in some of the freewheeling nature, as well as Speed Racer and the demented likes of Death Race 2000 and its current remake, but they’re missing a…

Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two

…carries .pdf files for Antarctic Press’s 2000 Gigantor comic book, issues 7-12 , completing the run that was re-presented starting in the first volume of this DVD series. While it…

Disney historian Christian Renaut presents volume two of his Best Of Disney’s Animated Features

…project, The Disney Heroines, published in 2000, with a foreword by Glen Keane. He was also one of the main authors of the booklets for the Walt Disney – Figurines…

Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award

…and his internet animation series, The World of Stainboy (2000). Burton is currently remaking Frankenweenie as a full length animated feature. Bruce Timm forever changed the world of TV adventure…

Justice League: The Complete Series

…The final episode they look at is Alive! (10:30). Here, they wanted to do more of a good guy versus bad guy stories and get to some more locations in…

Additions old and new; reviews and a new Media section!

…next year’s release of Fantasia 2000 on Blu-ray, what better time could there be to revisit the original DVD release with its surprisingly in-depth and generous supplements – the BD…

Superman: The Complete Animated Series

Warner Bros. Television Animation (September 6 1996 – February 12 2000), Warner Home Video (November 24 2009), 7 disc set, 1182 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby…

Missing Link goes missing at the box office

…states, making it the second-highest grossing stop-motion animated film ever, behind only 2000’s Chicken Run. In Coraline’s case, though, Laika had the benefit of producing a movie similar to The…

Frozen II

…60 years there was only one: The Rescuers Down Under in 1990. (An odd choice that’d I’d love to learn the reasoning behind!) Even with sequels becoming de rigueur for…

Santa gets his origin story in the trailer for Klaus

…unique animation style, which looks similar to the “hand-drawn meets computer-generated” appearance of the “Steadfast Tin Soldier” sequence in Fantasia 2000. The film will launch in select theaters November 8th…

The Princess and the Frog

…as anything from the next five years (Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan). And considering how low things seemed in the early 2000’s, that is not a…

The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”

…that we were 2000 miles apart animating these characters. It all has to do with communication. AV:Did Glen and you become friends after this experience or were you friends before…

Looking at the Critical Role animated Kickstarter campaign with Sam Riegel

On April 18 at midnight Pacific standard time, the Critical Role Kickstarter campaign to fund an animated program came to an end. With an initial goal of raising $750,000 in…