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Trailers have their day

…nominees is online at their website. Some of the animated nominees include: The Muppets, Madagascar 3, The Secret World of Arrietty, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Brave, Puss in Boots….

The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition

Muppets, the amusing Disney Intermission makes a return to Blu-ray and to the Hundred Acre Wood for the first time. Automatically in effect unless deselected from the optional menu, the…

Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition

…1981 feature The Fox And The Hound (before returning to family fare in the much more recent Night At The Museum and a spot-and-miss cameo in last year’s The Muppets),…

Ricky Gervais To Be Muppet Co-Star

…the next human Muppet star. In last years The Muppets, Gervais had a cameo in a cut scene from the movie. Now he can reclaim his Muppet glory as the…

Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2

…don’t quite qualify to rank among the best of the Pixar shorts. Premiering with the Pixar-endorsed return to screens for The Muppets, this short was unfortunately not included on that…

Disney announces release dates for several tentpole films; removes The Little Mermaid 3-D from schedule

…the news that The Muppets 2 will hit the big screen on March 21, 2014. Maleficent, meanwhile, has its original spring release date moved to July 2, 2014. Brad Bird’s…

Beck to score Frozen

Christophe Beck has been hired to score Disney’s upcoming film Frozen, according to Film Music Reporter. Beck previously scored The Hangover, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Muppets, and Paperman…

Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

…The Muppets), but then this isn’t your regular Disney animated film. Pop-culture nods and an almost unheard-of (for a Disney picture) amount of product placement is the norm here, in…

New Toy Story Toon revealed: Mythic Rock

…film like The Lone Ranger or Thor: The Dark World, then only two features appear to be candidates for Mythic Rock: this summer’s Planes and next March’s The Muppets…Again! With…

Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)

…that each and every interpretation, from the disco-tinged The Wiz, The Muppets Wizard Of Oz and several television mini-series to the Broadway sensation Wicked all regularly reference (or do their…

Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow

…2 years worth of false starts and dead ends. Aria has met and almost tangoed with Disney, Muppets, Rhythm and Hues, Don Hahn, and many, many others. Each version had…

Animation Addicts Podcast #56: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Santa Hates Misfits

…Two requests for Cats Don’t Dance!, Andreas Deja’s blog, Saving Mr. Banks predictions, Incredibles error, Melissa K.always has our back! The Muppets, New interview podcast, Clay Katis is directing Angry…

Lava – Pixar’s newest short revealed?

…in June 2015, or The Good Dinosaur the following November. In the meantime, audiences can check out the latest Pixar short, Monsters University: Party Central, when it accompanies Muppets Most…

The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!

Muppets Most Wanted (otherwise light on extras but with a unique longer cut of the movie) and a trio of Studio Ghibli issues (Princess Mononoke, Kiki’s Delivery Service, The Wind…

Alice Through The Looking Glass

…Tim Burton doesn’t return to direct this time (choosing to helm the upcoming Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children instead), James Bobin (The Muppets) is able to fill his shoes…

Elstree 1976

…in the sticks of Borehamwood, England, but that’s where we came, with my Dad winding up as one of Muppets man Jim Henson’s “associates”, as his company was called then….

Toy Story 4

…proposition for Disney–to the point where there was even a joke about it in Muppets Most Wanted–and here we are, nine years since the release of the last film, with…

Dora recovers $17 million treasure; Toy Story 4 now biggest in franchise

…matters was director James Bobin–who had previously helmed 2011’s The Muppets as well as 2016’s Alice Through the Looking Glass–and an appealing marketing campaign which targeted both current kids and…

Twenty Questions with the AV Staff

…anymore, it’s down to his working at Elstree Studios during the Muppets, Star Wars and Indy Jones era as to why I do what I do. JAMES: I was born…