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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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Gay Purr-ee
…classic TV staple Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, and the feature films Mr. Magoo’s 1001 Arabian Nights (directed by another ex-Disney crew member Jack Kinney in 1959) and, of course, Gay… |
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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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Jamie Foxx wants to return to life in final Soul trailer
…float onto Disney+ on Christmas Day. What is it that makes you…YOU? This Christmas only on Disney+, Pixar Animation Studios’ all-new feature film Soul introduces Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…interact with traditional animation, which those who caught it cheered in delight over. Mary Poppins Returns arrives Christmas day 2018. Bailey wrapped up his portion of the live action presentation… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…film for it only to work with a gimmick? Zemeckis seems hell bent on perfecting this strand of mo-cap: next up is A Christmas Carol, with Jim Carrey playing everyone… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Frozen Adventure was a suitably warm and fuzzy Christmas special that should give fans of Elsa and Anna plenty of delight for years to come. On the non-Mouse House side… |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…Contact ten years ago. There were good tricks and performances in Cast Away and What Lies Beneath, but The Polar Express is such an emotionally cold Christmas fable that it’s… |
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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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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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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…together more often in upcoming episodes, in particular the Christmas episode that spoofed How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Going into audience questions, they showed a clip of some of their… |
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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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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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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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Pixar news from Disney Investor Day 2020
…film #PixarSoul is premiering only on @DisneyPlus this Christmas! — Disney (@Disney) December 11, 2020 Accompanying Soul is @Pixar’s latest SparkShort, “Burrow.” Burrow follows a young rabbit trying to build… |
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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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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…I have seen The Small One, of course. Ben: Awwwww, Small One! Every Christmas we run a double bill of Small One and Muppet Christmas Carol, and I blubber and… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…And The Beast and Aladdin had made animation cool again, and The Nightmare Before Christmas showed the Studio was also interested in pushing boundaries. Pixar already had an association –… |
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Arthur Rankin Jr. of Rankin/Bass Productions passes away
…watched Christmas special of all time. This was followed by similar successes, including 1969’s Frosty the Snowman and 1970’s Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, which featured the voice talents… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…The Nightmare Before Christmas. You could buy it for the cost of a small house! The Halloweentown model promotes the upcoming Blu-ray release of The Nightmare Before Christmas James: With… |
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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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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…informs. They’re not all great: The Fright Before Christmas is simply an extract from the albeit well-animated Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales television special that features the Tasmanian Devil, and… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…line-up, but the direct-to-video sequels weren’t. First there was Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, then came Belle’s Magical World. The Enchanted Christmas entertained the younger crowds and explored… |
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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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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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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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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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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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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…motion-captured films produced by Spielberg’s one-time protégé Robert Zemeckis. But whereas Zemeckis’ films (Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol among them) simply transposed his mo-cap suited actors’ movements to… |
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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… |
