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Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
…remains unimpressed, and continues to treat his employees harshly when they approach him; he even informs them that he now plans to open at 5am on Christmas morning! After the… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
Walt Disney Productions (November 13, 1991), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (October 8, 2002), 2 disc set, 90 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G,… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…White. This 40-minute retrospective is similar to the 50-minute version from the 1993 LaserDisc box set, replacing Corey Burton’s narration with “tour guide” Angela Lansbury. Animation historian John Canemaker draws… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…seen, the extra scenes cover Glen Keane On Working With Ollie (2:15), Frank Thomas On Fred Moore’s Advice (1:02), Walt Gives A Compliment (52 seconds), Frank Goes For Help (1:05),… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…Most amusing was the “pick a theme like movies about the sea” – do they realize just how long it would actually take to watch Finding Nemo and 20,000 Leagues… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…helps Pan re-attach his shadow and in return Peter offers a trip to his home world of Never-Land, second star to the right and straight on ’till morning, where children… |
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Mickey quits…
…the meantime, it’s Comic-Con time again, when an expected 100,000-plus comic book and movie fans will hit San Diego for their annual fix of upcoming project news, sneak peeks, exclsuive… |
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Ratatouille's storyboard artist speaks!
Just a quick update this morning while I work away at getting that Woody Woodpecker Collection review up for you. It’s quite a set and you’ll see why exploring it… |
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New twists on Oliver, Poppins, Peanuts and Bugs' Looney Movie!
…Ol’ Rand’s also been into “the office” this morning, and added his review for the latest of Warners’ remastered Peanuts titles, You’re A Good Sport, Charlie Brown, which also includes… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
Warner Brothers Vitaphone/Warner Home Video (1930-32 / 2010), 2 discs, 192 mins, 1.33:1, Dolby Mono, Not Rated, $24.95 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: Though the… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Home Video (1928-48 / 2010), 4 discs, 490 mins, 1.33:1, Dolby Mono, Not Rated, $34.95 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: There comes a time… |
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DC Nation Block – Week 1
…March 3, 2012 30 minutes Rated TV-PG Directed by Sam Liu and Rick Morales DC Nation-Young Justice Cartoon Network March 3, 2012 30 minutes Rated TV-PG Directed by Jay Olivia… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…not being a musician, I was always impressed by how Buddy would get 25, 30 or 50 musicians who had never played together before, and they would all come out… |
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Animated study of cartoon violence
The Big Cartoon Database reports that a New Zealand government-funded study into violence on television has revealed the most violent cartoons on television- and the results may surprise one. Shows… |
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Coming events
…Hornby. On Saturday ASIFA-Hollywood will be screening old Paramount cartoons (Casper, Herman & Katnip, Baby Huey et al) at the Warner Bros. Screening Room in the American Film Institute building… |
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Coming Events: Tunes For Toons
This Saturday, April 29, at 3:00pm, ASIFA-Hollywood presents its Tunes For Toons program. “Author, teacher and animation historian Daniel Goldmark discusses the story behind the musicians who made our favorite… |
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Animated News & Views does Comic-Con 2008!
…• STATE OF THE ANIMATION INDUSTRY • JERRY BECK’S WORST CARTOONS SATURDAY • SPOTLIGHT ON FORRY ACKERMAN • FAIRLY ODD PARENTS • FUTURAMA • SPOTLIGHT ON RAPLH BAKSHI • THE… |
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Goofy's new animators spill the beans; plus dancing penguins and other new reviews
…for The Goof in over 40 years? Well, we’ve got’cha covered with an exclusive interview with animators Andreas Deja and Mark Henn, who speak to our very own Christian Ziebarth… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…Presto. Pixar Short Films premieres on ABC Family on Wednesday, December 2 from 7:00-9:00pm ET/PT (and again from 9:00pm-11:00pm ET/PT). Two encore presentations will air on the network on Friday,… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 4
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1945–1956), Warner Home Video (February 2, 2010), single disc, 98 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 and 2.37:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $14.98 Storyboard: Animation’s most… |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Warner Bros. (1952), Warner Archive (April 1, 2011), single disc, 70 mins, 1.33:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Not Rated, Retail: $19.95 The Movie: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were comedic… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…and no phones policy during some of the programs. In the programs in Hall D23, which seated nearly 8,000 attendees, staffers had us seal all of our cameras and phones… |
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Watch a new sneak peek of Season 2 of DuckTales
…air their cartoons. The DuckTales Season 2 premiere is set to launch Saturday, October 20th. Guest stars for Season 2 include Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World director Edgar Wright, Modern… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…Forget the new “web-toons” discs and the Premiere set – go for gold and get the full experience. Great cartoons, nice new prints, wonderful extras – what more could a… |
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Battle Of The Synthespians!
…the release of Peter Jackson’s The Return Of The King, which features the animated Gollum, Rand’s new My Toon Cents feature, {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/features/60 Cartoon Or Pixoon: When Animation Doesn’t Mean… |
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The Harry Potter Puppet Pals – Now With Shiny New Website!!
A strange, yet hilarious Flash series of Harry Potter-inspired cartoons called the Harry Potter Puppet Pals has recently moved to its own domain, consolidating all Puppet Pals goodness into one… |
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Disney releases full specs for upcoming Treasures tins: fans in for a real treat!
…appear in the May 18 wave of Walt Disney Treasures collectors packages. Four titles, variying between 105,000 and 250,000 limited issues, will be released, inlcuding Mickey Mouse In Living Color… |
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Disney in court again?
…based cartoons, also saying that Disney didn’t leave enough bucks in the bank to make more Marvel based cartoons. So they are looking for upwards of $16m in damages to… |
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If it walks like a duck: Donald Duck to get star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
…Fame. The star will be unveiled on Monday, August 9, at 10:30 a.m. at 6840 Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Disney Store/El Capitan Theatre. Johnny Grant, Honorary Mayor of… |
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Tom & Jerry DVD set censored?!
It’s recently come to light on several animation forums that the recently-released Tom and Jerry: The Spotlight Collection DVD set has at least 3 censored cartoons contained on it –… |
