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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…of Zemeckis, Wells was offered the chance to direct Mars, as the second feature from the new ImageMovers. In November 2009, ImageMovers’ first Disney picture, A Christmas Carol, opened to… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…is a lot of mileage to be had from these characters! Another Oscar nomination was due their way with The Night Before Christmas, a classic that still gets a lot… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…the format’s advantage due to the inherent nature of the fully rounded elements, and although a conversion for The Nightmare Before Christmas gave us a not entirely inappropriate ViewMaster feel… |
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DVD news
…Party, Pluto’s Christmas Tree, The Simple Things – Disc Two: Mickey’s Christmas Carol, The Prince and the Pauper, Runaway Brain **\\Walt Disney Treasures – On the Front Lines\\** Disc One:… |
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\\Mary Poppins\\ cast
…(as Wendy), \\The Sound of Music\\, \\Sleeping Beauty\\, \\La Bohéme\\, \\A Christmas Carol\\ (as the Ghost of Christmas Past), \\Whistle Down the Wind\\ (as Swallow), and \\Mamma Mia!\\ (as Sophie)…. |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…Special Edition, Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (which, apart from the thick black outline TV-quality animation, looks fairly fun), Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas (which, with its scary looking CGI effects and… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…own menu. Those packed in include the now standard Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves-scored “Disney” promo, Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning, Nightmare Before Christmas, Tinker Bell, 101 Dalmatians II, Jungle Book… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…box. For it’s almost-tenth anniversary re-issue last Christmas, The Lion King was given a Beauty And The Beast Imax style makeover, meaning that certain sections were reanimated to give more… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…Disney’s Movie Rewards and theme Parks, Disneynature’s “real-life Lion King” African Cats, Beauty And The Beast’s Enchanted Christmas, TreasureBuddies, a color-corrected Cinderella: Diamond Edition, The Lion King on stage, as… |
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Tom & Jerry Tales: Volume 1
…at a zoo. Ho Ho Hunters was a pleasant surprise with its refreshing poetic narration (a la The Night Before Christmas). The episode Doggone Hill Hog definitely had the most… |
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Disney’s Tangled and Tron still strong
The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Disney’s holiday hopes, the animated Tangled and fanboy favorite Tron: Legacy continue to do well. Tangled is “keeping up with newer Christmas family offerings”… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…Little Mermaid trailer to play since Disney films only came out a year later at Christmas time in France. — Olivier In the late 1990s he also got hooked on… |
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A look back at a wonderful Nightmare!
It was ten years ago this weekend that audiences were first treated to Tim Burton’s amazing stop-motion animated film {{link http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/nightmare/intro.html The Nightmare Before Christmas}}, a magical tale that tells… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…Set in 1910, Lady And The Tramp finds us in small town America as Christmas draws close. Jim Dear (voiced by television regular Lee Millar) presents his wife with a… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…A Christmas, though how much the animators listened to him is unclear as the title itself certainly did feature much character expression). However, here he is his usual, knowledgeable self,… |
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Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…in time for Christmas of 1969. By this time, the first six television specials had aired, celebrating Christmas, baseball, Halloween, love, dog ownership, and summertime. The movie chose to examine… |
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Home On The Range
…editions for Aladdin and Mulan, and the tripe Twice Upon A Christmas (tagline: here’s what NOT to fill Christmas stockings with!), as well as the theatrical Pooh’s Heffalump Movie. Via… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…see how the sales figures hold up after the Christmas rush – and who knows? This time next year we may be more accepting of the format as the genuine… |
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The Grinch is returning to the big screen
…one more familier to most audiences. The site is saying that plans for an animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie are being made, with Pete Candeland (an animator on… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…with a Blu-ray spot, Bambi: Diamond Edition, Tangled and Phineas And Ferb: A Very Perry Christmas playing on start-up and, from the menu option, previews for the Movie Reward program,… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…and Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983). The introduction of new management and notorious disaster of The Black Cauldron in 1984 and ’85 set the Studio on a new course to try… |
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Ho-ho-ho with our Best Of The Year!
December 23, 2009 — In our last update before the holidays, Animated Views wishes a very Merry Christmas to you all, plus we review the highs and lows of the… |
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Animated Views 2.0 is here!
…best in the duo’s career. • Winnie The Pooh: Seasons Of Giving – Rodney’s back again to spread Christmas cheer with this repackaging of Pooh classics. • Michael Jackson’s This… |
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D23 Expo 2024 Exclusive
…Dell Four Color comics. I picked up numerous treasures, including the first appearance of Uncle Scrooge (Christmas On Bear Mountain, from Four Color 178), valued at thousands of dollars in… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…department. Character animation had finished and the effect department was following up. My first animation assignment at the Walt Disney Studios however though, ironically, was Mickey on Mickey’s Christmas Carol…. |
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More new holiday animation on TV
…Landing to ABC this December 1st. “The half-hour holiday special reveals the never-before-told tale of an elite unit of Elves known as Prep & Landing. Every Christmas Eve, this high-tech… |
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Jim's festive farewell feature…
The always enjoyable {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/main/index.htm Jim Hill Media}} shuts down today until the 29th, with a final three posts. {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/guest/wsampson.12242003.1.htm Walt Disney Christmas Stories}} has Wade Sampson recounting “a… |
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Don't Forget! Belleville screens tonight!
…running come next year’s handout of the Best Animated Feature Academy Award (the smart money is on this, or Nemo, to take home the gold), and is the perfect Christmas… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…television classics, a mixture of holdovers from the 1960s, the return of old friends, new creations and more feature-length specials – usually Christmas outings – and it would close to… |
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Finding Santa
…Entertainment. The movie’s premise is, “In the tradition of Christmas movies of holidays past, In Search of Santa tells the tale of two feuding penguin princesses who embark on a… |
