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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…although these three clips (all shown in full-frame) are not “making of featurettes” that zip by quickly, they do offer a very interesting insight into the process of making the… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…fun too! In the Bonus Features section you’ll find The Sword In The Stone Scrapbook, a collection of concept, production and still art from the making of the movie. The… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…in the number of jokey – and some unexpected – references to the Mouse’s past. The script is great, mixing good, bright Disney storytelling with the offbeat sensibilities of the… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…after the majesty of The Lion King and the poignancy of The Little Matchgirl. Undeniably its not as successful as Allers’ Lion King co-director Rob Minkoff’s Stuart Little pictures nor… |
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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…sequences, sexuality and nudity), Retail: $34.98 Storyboard: Frank Miller’s retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae gets the Sin City treatment, placing live-action characters into the world of 480 BC via… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…Storyboard: The second season of The Transformers continues the success of the show’s inaugural season with new episodes featuring the continuing battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. The season’s… |
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Merry Madagascar
…aching to break free of the confines of Madagascar, and then, when the sleigh offers them an obvious ride home, all but Alex seem really enthusiastic to leave. But once… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…goes, I would categorize it as a hybrid of the art of drawing and the art of acting, performing. It’s the art of bringing inanimate, non-existing characters or objects to… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…comes to the fore. Some of these tricks are old trademarks (the use of a book to highlight the main title, the typically direct and symmetrical framing, and the illustrated… |
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Animating hotel rooms for Disney World
…Walt Disney World by the end of 2012. The one-of-a-kind resort will feature family suites designed around four themes: The Lion King, Cars, Finding Nemo and The Little Mermaid, including… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…of the more derided and one of the more underrated of George Pal’s titles are to be found within the cases of these two new offerings from the Warner Archive… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…can put up with my terrible acronym for Fantastic, Unintentionally-hilarious Nonsense! With the success of the Americanization of Godzilla in the 1950s, Japan fairly quickly became the home of the… |
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Firebreather
…The movie is based off the comic series of the same name released by Image comics. Duncan Rosenblatt lives in a world inhabited by humans and creatures called Kaiju. The… |
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Tales From Earthsea
…plot that encompasses magic and mystery. It also utilizes the notion of the use of magic leading to a loss in the balance of nature. The theme of maintaining nature’s… |
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First Footage of the new ThunderCats
…a young Lion-O and his fellow ThunderCats must fight the evil forces of Mum-Ra after his father, King Claudius, fails. Larry Kenney, the voice of the 1980s Lion-O, provides the… |
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Disney and Pixar announce four 3-D re-releases
Following the extreme success of the re-release of The Lion King in 3-D, Disney and Pixar have just announced plans to re-release four of their biggest animated hits in that… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…but also lots of crude, badly drawn cartoons. The sound era brought the magic of Disney, and the brilliance of the Fleischers. And somewhere in there … there was Paul… |
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Disney teases upcoming Blu-ray slate
…release dates for Blu-ray releases of sequels The Lion King 1½ and The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride release dates as March 6th, 2012 and Lady and the Tramp II:… |
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Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire
…has SONGS! Yes, this is what the producers thought they could use to bring something new to the table. Of course, music has always been a part of the Scooby… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
…this year are: Brave, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, ParaNorman, Rise of the Guardians, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, The Rabbi’s Cat, and Wreck-It Ralph. Brave, Rise of the Guardians, and Wreck-It… |
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Cook to voice Planes’ Dusty
…Hall (King of the Hill, The Simpsons), the film is about a plane who dreams of competing as an air racer despite his unfortunate fear of heights. “Dane Cook brings… |
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The Little Mermaid Diamond Edition
…mermaid, who is off on the adventure of a lifetime with her best friend, the adorable Flounder (voiced by Jason Marin), and the reggae-singing Caribbean crab Sebastian (voiced by Samuel… |
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Howl’s Moving Castle
…the upcoming Blu-ray release of The Little Mermaid, the theatrical release of Monsters University, and the direct-to-video Iron Man/Hulk: Heroes United. Further Sneak Peeks from the menu offer ads for… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…re-shot for the animation to be added in. The centerpiece of the Vista set was the documentary retrospective Behind The Ears: The True Story Of Roger Rabbit (36:37), included again… |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…nomination, the commercial success of Aladdin and the record-breaking phenomenon of The Lion King – saw declining returns on the next few features (films that, in retrospect, were probably too… |
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Annie Award nominees for 2013 films revealed
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 41st Annual Annie Awards, which recognize the year’s best in animation. Frozen and Monsters University lead the field with 10 nominations each. The… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…And The Magic Lamp, The Magic Atlas, Jasper And The Haunted House, The Philips Broadcast Of 1938, and The Ship Of The Ether. There are several little masterpieces in there,… |
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Prolific composer Hans Zimmer to play concert this October in the UK
…The Cimarron (Composer) 2000 The Road To El Dorado (Composer) 1998 Antz (Executive Score Producer) The Prince Of Egypt (Composer) 1996 Muppet Treasure Island (Composer) 1994 The Lion King (Composer)… |
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Strange Magic
…quite good, though I wasn’t fond of the look of the characters. The music is stuff you already know and probably like, but most of the versions here aren’t ones… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…the 1930s, the Silly Symphonies laid forgotten for years. Some of them had a second showing in the ’60s on an occasional episode of Walt’s TV show, The Wonderful World… |
