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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…in a re-enactment of the Once Upon A Dream sequence. She’s all dressed up in Aurora’s Briar Rose outfit, and picks one of the kids to be her Prince Charming,… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…here. However, play the disc in a PC drive, and it’s in Spirit’s DVD-ROM world where things really get serious. Under the separate menu option DreamWorks Kids (accessed in the… |
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD review
Video Premiere Awards has a new Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD review, saying that “All told, this is a terrific supplemental package, one the kids will enjoy as much… |
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The Disney empire strikes back
…number one domestic home video distributor with a 21% market share. o Disney Channel in the United States is the number one children’s network in primetime among kids 6-11. o… |
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Disney's Toontown Online subscription cards make online purchasing easier
…consumer purchases of online digital content and enable consumers to easily purchase a subscription to Disney’s Toontown Online, and Disney’s Blast” – both popular online destinations for kids and families…. |
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Space Chimps backed up by out of this world promotional campaign
…ads, video games, an online campaign and a chimp language translator found on the film’s official site that allows kids create messages in chimp-an-eez and send them to cell phones…. |
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Pixar storyboard artist talks Ghibli and more
…to him, “Miyazaki has this uncanny ability to add a childish sense of wonder to his stories. He’s able to make us feel like little kids again. To tell stories… |
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If you didn't already know this about the Finding Nemo DVD
The next time you pop in the Finding Nemo DVD for the kids, or for yourself (wink – wink, you big kid you), don’t be so hasty to hit the… |
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Pete’s Dragon: High-Flying Edition
…music plays over a seaside background of the film, with a picture of the original record in the foreground. Cool. For the kids who want a game on their DVD,… |
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Balto
…movie is supposedly for kids. The fact that there are no song moments to stop the flow of the material (although Phil Collins, pre-Tarzan, does pop up as a voice)… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…who count themselves as rabid New Groove fans. The animation is of the crisp DTV variety that’s streets ahead of the “black marker” approach to old-school Mouse House TV cartooning… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…disc which utilises a lighter than usual version of the theatrical poster art. A note that this is an “animated classic” perhaps implies that this is kids fare, but do… |
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3-D "a revelation" for Sigourney Weaver
…business. I think kids soon will be saying: `I don’t want to see that movie – it’s flat.”‘ Sigourney Weaver, whose friendship with Cameron dates back to Aliens some 20… |
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Valiant
…earlier reviews of this movie, which complain about all manner of things: too confusing for kids (my kid liked it just fine), not “savvy” enough (personally, I am coming to… |
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Chicken Little
…mouse of a different kind and a computer? Well, Chicken Little makes its point well enough, and the new technique on a story usually reserved for good old-fashioned cartooning marks… |
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\\Shrek 2\\ teaser site launched
…res) and in three different formats (Quicktime, Windows Media, and RealOne). There is also a link to the DreamWorks Kids Group website and a form where you can join the… |
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Don't Forget!
…DVD}} just announced the specs for the release of another family hit this summer, Spy Kids 3-D, a film that gamely tries to resurrect two ancient film gimmicks: 3-D and… |
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Kung Fu Panda heading into a strong second weekend
…box office. Kung Fu Panda is expected to only drop 35-40% this weekend with most kids finally out of school. Look for Po to sit on $120 million by Sunday…. |
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DIC enhances international profile
…company, a leader in the kids television animation field, has expanded its licensing and merchandising opportunities by signing up a number of top companies to partner DIC in sales of… |
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Thumbs down for modern children's films?
…pandering too much to the older members of their audiences, and in doing so forgetting to entertain kids. The running time of newer animated films is also seen as a… |
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The Tale of Despereaux
…of kids and I’ve never seen an audience lose interest so fast and so fully. Even I was having to work to keep my focus. The animation is pretty good…. |
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Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!
…Disney has obviously noticed the good sales of all those Marvel animated properties they own already on home video through their acquisition of the Fox Kids network a few years… |
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You’re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…fad— motocross! She wants Snoopy to join in a race being organized for the neighborhood kids. Later, Charlie Brown and Linus are also approached while tossing around a football (naturally,… |
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Dustin Hoffman discusses Kung Fu Panda, The Tale of Despereaux
…to be on a kids’ jag right now. He provides the words of an animated rat in The Tale of Despereaux due out Christmastime. It’s a given that Hoffman provides… |
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Witch Mountain, Super Friends, and Disney history!
…adventure. This time around a lot of elements have changed, but it’s still the same basic plot — two otherworldly kids must team up with a friendly face in order… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…generous half-hour total (with handy gaps for those attempting to draw along), and although I’m not usually a fan of such features and this one is squarely aimed at kids,… |
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Bob the Builder getting a CG makeover
Kids entertainment producer Hit Entertainment will produce the next series of Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends in CGI, says C21 Media. Thomas will be reworked by Canadian production… |
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LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format
…be against releasing kids and family orientated programming in anything other than full-frame 4×3, be it open matte or pan-and-scan. Well that got us to thinking about the good old… |
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Another Muppet Christmas for NBC!
…letters en route to Santa Claus, which triggers a race against time on Christmas Eve to bring a happy Christmas to the kids whose wishes were lost in the mail…. |
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First look at \\The Incredibles\\
…lot of the individual characters. We know Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl pretty well early on, but the kids, the villain, the supporting characters we only understand through rather broad generalizations…… |
