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Warner Archive: The Big Circus

…Home Entertainment announced a somewhat groundbreaking new product line, the WB Archive Collection. The Studio has built up an impressive, if actually unwieldy, library of catalog titles, from the Warner…

Warner Archive: Captain Sindbad

…Home Entertainment announced a somewhat groundbreaking new product line, the WB Archive Collection. The Studio has built up an impressive, if actually unwieldy, library of catalog titles, from the Warner…

Warner Archive: A Distant Trumpet

…Home Entertainment announced a somewhat groundbreaking new product line, the WB Archive Collection. The Studio has built up an impressive, if actually unwieldy, library of catalog titles, from the Warner…

Warner Archive: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze

…Home Entertainment announced a somewhat groundbreaking new product line, the WB Archive Collection. The Studio has built up an impressive, if actually unwieldy, library of catalog titles, from the Warner…

Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!

…Shirley Temple, Cyd Charisse, and Gwen Verdon. Marge was a ballet teacher at her father’s studio by the time she was 12. A short time later, she was approached with…

The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 4: Americana

…the Enchanted project with James Baxter. The studio loaned myself and Andreas and a couple of other animators out to James’ studio to work on that for about two or…

The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 5: Down In New Orleans

…the Studio’s current contemporary classic! From “Disney dreams” of working at Disney Animation and landing his first assignments working on such classics as The Fox And The Hound, Mickey’s Christmas…

Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies

…1960s the failing Warner Bros. Animation unit just about kept afloat by producing new interstitials between the animated shorts of the Studio’s golden age, for compilations named after their famed…

Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory

…comics whose films I was only ever to find late night or early morning as TV filler: Robert Benchley (he of Disney’s The Reluctant Dragon studio tour feature) and everyman…

Disney documentary DVD exclusive offer!

Studio Tours – Randy’s tours, Roger Rabbit studio, Oliver studio and the tour of the Animation Research Library • A Reunion – Rob Minkoff and Kirk Wise • Walt –…

Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2

…degradations of classic Disney animated shorts that these packages might initially suggest, both volumes of the Studio’s new Have A Laugh! series provide a shocking bombshell for any discerning Disney…

The Art Of Kung Fu Panda 2

…one proves to fall short at the box-office. The first Kung Fu Panda was actually a phenomenal smash from the DreamWorks Studio, and proof that the company was more than…

Mars Needs Moms

…at the 1980s Disney Studios. Berkeley Breathed is another writer not best served by animation, despite some attempts to bring his long-running Bloom Country series to the screen. A television…

Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!

…living in Europe. In 1973, Allers moved to Boston where he began working with Lisberger Studios, animating and designing for children’s educational programs and commercials. Relocating with the studio to…

The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!

…various productions at the studio. In the summer of 1996, Quane was hired as a traditional animator for Walt Disney Animation Canada’s new studio in Toronto. There he worked on…

Cars 2

…receiving the love from fans that have greeted other continuingly popular movies from the Studio. Cars runs out of gas half-way through its longer than usual running time, mostly down…

The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One

Leon Schlesinger Studios / Warner Bros. Animation (1936-2003), Warner Home Video (November 15 2011), 3 disc set, 357 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 1.37:1 original Academy frame ratio, Dolby Digital…

The Muppets

…always wonderful Amy Adams), Walter can’t wait to visit the famed Muppet Studios (actually the El Capitan mixed with the real Jim Henson Studios compound, which was originally Charlie Chaplin’s…

DreamWorks’ China Studio to Make Kung Fu Panda 3

DreamWorks Animation has announced that it will make Kung Fu Panda 3 a co-production with Oriental DreamWorks–the Shanghai divison. The movie is set for a 2016 and will see huge…

ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell

From LAIKA, the studio behind Coraline, comes another marvel of stop-motion animation and creative storytelling. For ParaNorman, LAIKA’s team of artists and animators built and brought to life a miniature…

Heidi’s Song

…league already were the animated television shows of Hanna-Barbera Studios, a brand that took quite some time to becoming as recognized as their huge stable of characters and properties, but…

ParaNorman

…Jasper, who got himself into many a jam, while the holiday specials from the Rankin/Bass studio have become synonymous with establishing a link between stop-motion and often melancholic stories. They…

Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios (November 2 2001), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (February 19 2013), Blu-ray 3D and two Blu-ray Discs plus DVD and Digital Copy, 92 minutes plus supplements,…

Director Bergeron, actress Paradis talk A Monster in Paris

…figures in the industry and a boss like Jeffrey Katzenberg at a studio like Dreamworks taught me every day for eight years how to do my job properly and, more…

Ratatoing studio sets sights on Disney’s Planes

In the latter ’00s, Vídeo Brinquedo raised the ire of animation fans, critics and unsuspecting parents by releasing cheaply-made imitations of Pixar’s and DreamWorks’ blockbusters. The most famous of these…

Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey

…January 2011, Reel FX began physical production on Free Birds, titled Turkeys at the time, under its feature film development banner, Bedrock Studios. (Bedrock Studios would later change its name…

Animated Views: A Retrospective

…did what any cartoon-loving tech-geek would do and started capturing everything he could about every major animated film from the 1930s on and then cataloging it by studio and filmmaker….

DreamWorks shares sink as studio falls short of earnings expectations
Director Kevin Munroe revisits Imagi’s TMNT franchise

…ball forward,” he continues. “When the studio started growing, it began emulating the bigger studios that had enormous overhead. Too many, well-intentioned voices. You can’t sustain an indie studio under…

DreamWorks, Legend Of Korra‘s Studio Mir strike TV coproduction deal