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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt

…stable of Walt’s original characters as the Studio has slowly morphed its Winnie-The-Pooh franchise toward, it turns out to make perfect sense to treat Mickey and company in this way….

Animaniacs Volume 3 – Winners Announced!

…crazy that the execs locked them away in the water town at the Studio. The witty, slapstick humor with pop culture parodies and cartoon wackiness is on DVD for the…

Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss

…found it over packed with these comic asides, resulting in a movie perilously close in tone to the kind being pushed out by lesser studios in the late 1980s/early 90s….

The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2

Famous Studios/Harvey Comics (1951-1958), Classic Media (June 26 2007), 2 individually released discs, 72 mins each, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $12.95 Volume 1…

Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams

…After the successes of Ariel’s Undersea Adventures, the Aladdin TV show and the various home video and DVD releases of such material, how can we blame the Studio for continuing…

The Reef

Wonderworld Studios/Digiart Productions (July 7 2006), Weinstein Company/Genius Products (October 9 2007), single disc, 77 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 open matte negative ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $19.95…

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition

DisneyToon Studios (February 26 2002), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (December 18 2007), single disc, 73 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail:…

WB Academy Award Animation Collection – Winners!

Out February 12, the Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection presents the jewels from the crown of the Studio’s archive of classic cartoons, including shorts from WB’s own Looney Tunes…

Sleeping Beauty Film Facts

…Facts from the Studio, about the production of the 1959 classic. Animated News & Views is also proud to present a series of interviews with those involved in the creation…

Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E: 3-Disc – Winner!

Disney/Pixar’s latest, instant classic WALL-E comes to DVD and Blu-ray on November 18, but we have a copy for one lucky winner to grab thanks to Walt Disney Studios Home…

The Nutty Professor (2008)

Weinstein Company/Rainmaker Studios/Genius Products (November 25 2008), single disc, 76 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Rated PG, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Some 45 years after Jerry Lewis…

Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?

…between the two: he’ll be wanting to base rides on the Studio’s biggest hits, of course, but those just happen to be Pixar productions! Even so, I remember his arrival…

Not so silly Symphonies; Song Of The South?; More Hanna-Barbera!

…Treasures wave, More Silly Symphonies, a collection of the remaining shorts that the Studio produced under this banner. There are some really neat cartoons in here – some I haven’t…

Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!

…they become available, but rest assured this news comes straight from the studio and it’s the real deal. So there you go, folks!” Although many fans are overjoyed, of course,…

“Cracking news, Gromit!” site updates…

…owned by the Studio. Let’s hope writer-director Nick Park can pull another one out of the hat – I wish them all the best! After yesterday’s epic post on the…

Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!

…itself, so we’re only slightly leaping here!) is the release of The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series, available April 17th for $29.98. Produced by animation studio Filmation, the 2-disc…

Classic feature reviews, Pan deals, and more…

…recent Disney animation with the 2-disc Mulan: Special Edition, the surprisingly hilarious TV-to-theaters transfer Teacher’s Pet and the most recent traditional feature to come from the studio, Home On The…

Hand-drawn back at Disney, and live-action Tintin is coming!

…world. In perhaps more exciting news, Herge Studios in Belgium has announced that DreamWorks will finally bring their boy detective hero Tintin to the live-action screen. The Studio’s Steven Spielberg…

Peter Pan's leading ladies!

…Pan, as well as the kind of man he was and what it was like working at his Studio during perhaps the most productive time, the early 1950s. And congratulations…

Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection

…they have fun with the furniture and fixings too. One result of the Studio’s tight budgets is that all the artists get their due credit…mainly because, in a bid to…

Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?

…Check out this direct link to the Japan Probe website for more, including some hysterical news reports (scroll down, there’s one with English subtitles) where other studio characters pop up…

Animated Bauer Power!

…that turned out! Produced by Flash animation content studio Icebox, the only drawback to all this is the length, with webisodes only running just over a minute in new content….

Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London

…several studio’s big tentpole releases in past and coming years. Disney are clearly aiming for a piece of that pie that has so far eluded them. Aviv states that “Stan…

The Critic: The Complete Series

…the movie. Eventually, he has to face the fact that, when the time comes to see what Valerie is like on screen, she’s a terrible actress. Leaving the studio, he’s…

More Transformers; Frog villain cast; DVD sales and more!

Phew! I’m back from my Film Festival adventure – the movie cans are back at the studio, the foyer props back in storage and the guests back in their boxes…

Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?

New on the site in this new week is a review of Filmation Studios’ Journey Back To Oz, the closest the company ever got to creating anything approaching a truly…

Mickey quits…

…breaking stories. Should be fun! Over at the Mouse House it seems they’re following Britain’s recent smoking ban, announcing themselves as the first studio to axe cigarette – and, I…

Weekend Roundup! Plus The Tick is back!

studio’s multi-decade history, from the first series to the last! • The Simpsons Movie – what was James’ Animated View on the yellow citizens of Springfield’s first trip to the…

Treasures found!

…a little bare bones”, with several milestones still missing. • Your Host, Walt Disney – a trip through Walt’s personal playgrounds: the film studio and theme park that bear his…

Hoo-Ray! Classic, really-for-real Disney in Hi-Def! Plus TMNT!

The big news left over from last week, of course, is the announcement that bona fide Disney Studio classic Sleeping Beauty will be making her high definition videodisc debut next…