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“Life is like a hurricane…”: DuckTales; plus Sonic and Snow White at 70!
…and fairest one of all, she’s still looking good on her 70th birthday! Obviously we’re coming into Christmas over the next weekend, so we’re doing our best to get some… |
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The Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries: The Complete First Season
…Bros. film). Tweety is mistaken for a famous bird in San Francisco. It Happened One Night Before Christmas – In another of the show’s more watchable episodes, we discover that… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…Treasures, which look like they’ll be pleasing us come Christmas. Warners, who have practically led the classic revival this year with tons of nostalgic television programming, mined their Hanna-Barbera and… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…– and these elements were not used in the finished collection. Further, a new master of The Night Before Christmas was supposed to feature a moment cut from prints soon… |
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Guess who!? Woody woodpecks his way on DVD!
…the three Looney Tunes TV specials: Carnival Of The Animals, Looney Christmas Tales and Bustin’ Out All Over, a springtime program from 1980. These are not prime Looney Tunes but… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…R’Coon Dawg (1951), Pluto’s Party and Pluto’s Christmas Tree (1952), or the final Mickey and Pluto short, The Simple Things (1953)? As you’ll note below, even the extras here feature… |
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You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…fine selection of themed DVDs appearing, particularly those featuring good ol’ Charlie Brown. And thus we are treated to new editions of specials about Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas… and Election Day?… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…its best reception, in a 1976 ABC Christmas airing that featured Bill Cosby as the Wizard Of Oz (otherwise not featured in the film) in live-action interstitials. When it became… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…Disc Two with Sherman, Woman And Child (featuring a great, stop-motion animated riff on The Nightmare Before Christmas), Sherman Of Arabia and A Song For Margo, while the second season… |
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True-Life Adventures true again!
…some recently located fragments of additional footage from The Night Before Christmas (1933) which had been cut from early showings and remained unseen since. Naturally, we’ll keep you updated as… |
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Peter Pan's color catastrophe; and cropped Disney features
…inform that the colors were indeed different to what had previously been issued on DVD and as seen on original artwork. Don’t even get me started on that missing Christmas… |
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Oscar-winner interview, Abrams' Trek, Laurel & Hardy's animated themes, and more Dinosaurs!
…adding that “Our goal is to make a picture for everyone – lifelong fans and the uninitiated”. Paramount has set a Christmas Day 2008 release date for the movie, with… |
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Peanuts 1970’s Collection: Vol. 2
…who grew up in that era, however, will still have fond memories of at least some of these shows, even if they’re not quite as iconic as the Christmas or… |
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New Tron Legacy poster
A new poster for Tron Legacy has just been revealed online. The anticipated Disney sequel comes to theaters and IMAX this Christmas…. |
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U.S. weekend box office actuals: November 10-12, 2006
…total; 7th week) 23) The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D with $464,719, averaging $2,868 over 162 theaters ($8,097,449 total; 4th week) 47) The Ant Bully with $44,829, averaging $553 over… |
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Dream Balloon and Atchity Ent. visit Snowyville
…Snowyville. Based on Michael Attardi’s award-winning animated short, Once Upon a Christmas Village, the movie is scheduled to enter production no later than September 2007 for a November-December 2008 release…. |
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Rango named Best Animated Film at Critics Choice Awards
…The film beat Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, Arthur Christmas and The Adventures of Tintin for the trophy. Meanwhile, Life’s a Happy Song from The Muppets won in… |
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Producer Guild Nominations announced
…Puss in Boots, Cars 2 and Rango. Curiously absent from the nominations was Aardman Animation’s Arthur Christmas, which had a “freshness” rating of more than 90% over at the movie… |
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First Hobbit trailer now online
…Hobbit has also been revealed. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey comes to theaters everywhere next Christmas, while The Hobbit: There and Back Again comes to theaters the year after that…. |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…Animals, Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales) have turned up in previous box sets and as individual discs, and since these started appearing the two I’ve continually mentioned I’d like to… |
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Golden Globe Nominations Announced
…Puss in Boots, Cars 2 and Arthur Christmas. Additionally, the song “Hello Hello” from Gnomeo & Juliet has been nominated in the Best Original Song category. The Golden Globes will… |
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Nominations for the Critics Choice Awards announced
The awards season has started, with the nominations for the Critics Choice Awards announced today. Five films saw nominations in the Best Animated Feature category, including Tintin, Rango, Arthur Christmas,… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…(or The Roly-Poly Pudding), he’s at risk of being served up as Kitten Dumpling, while it’s a return to safer, fairytale fare in the final Christmas-themed special, The Tailor Of… |
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BCI Announces Second Volume Of Happy Tree Friends
…network in North America. Happy Tree Friends has been in the Top 10 free podcast downloads on iTunes since its debut Christmas week 2005 and boasts an established worldwide merchandise… |
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Van Eaton Galleries
…studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and Hanna-Barbera. Some of their recent additions include cels from The Little Mermaid, The Great Mouse Detective, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, and Alice in Wonderland…. |
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Handmade, Ilion voyage to Planet One
…fulfilled when a human astronaut lands in their midst.” Production for the movie is scheduled to begin in May, aiming for a theatrical release at Christmas 2008 or Easter 2009…. |
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Enchanted
…While not a huge Christmas blockbuster that the classic animated features of old all but guaranteed, Enchanted nevertheless made an impressive dent in the holiday box-office takings, putting any eventual… |
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More Giselle! More Enchanted! More Beowulf!
…Carrey, A Christmas Carol, and hoping that the technology moves on far enough to warrant that choice again. Because at the moment it feels stuck in a rut. Even with… |
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Tim Burton's Vincent enters the third dimension
Tim Burton’s stop-motion short Vincent (1982) will be shown in front of The Nightmare Before Christmas theatrical re-release this October, with both features presented in 3-D. Narrated by Vincent Price,… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…for Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck on a feline and mouse. Part of my brain also kept thinking about How the Grinch Stole Christmas, possibly because they were made not… |
