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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!

…packing a two hour movie onto a single layered DVD-5) the transfer is surprisingly robust for something that’s been kept in the studio vaults for so long. Images are obviously…

Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)

…and C regions, a rarity for Disney’s discs, so it’s clear that the Studio see this as a catalog reissue and little more. Those with the old edition: this is…

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!

…the Walt Disney Studios were to make Walt’s folly come true, a huge project he would fully master. As David Tietyen wrote: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Walt’s…

The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu

…of his popular Tetsuan Atom (known in the English speaking world as Astro Boy) and Jungle Emperor (Kimba) manga, to great international success. Unfortunately, the animation studio made a few…

We’re off to see the Wizard!

…comes with the 6-hour miniseries When The Lion Roars, hosted by Patrick Stewart, a retrospective on the MGM Studio. While it’s true that certain aspects have been called disappointing (the…

Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!

…number one spot as the biggest direct-to-DVD release of 2008. Produced by DisneyToon Studios, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure is the highly anticipated second film in the continuing Disney…

Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!

…given the press aimed at outgoing Disney exec Dick Cook, the Studio’s G-Force is also performing well on the international circuit, pushing $130m to date. On home video, the big…

Michael Jackson’s This Is It

…their studio quality rocks the theater with an amazing clarity from the radio-mic’d Jackson and a solid groundshaking bass that puts you in the audience of a concert that never…

Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection

…on the Fox and Warner discs are missing, as well as biographies and a text studio history, some storyboards and other stills, which is too bad. However, we won’t really…

A London Rendezvous! Plus printable posters Up for grabs!

…Blu-ray and DVD, the Studio has kindly sent over high resolution images of some of the terrific retro poster art made for the film – and they’re available for download…

Walt’s Museum, a drab Muppet Christmas, plus more Up!

…poster giveaways, sent over by the Studio in anticipation of next week’s release of Disney•Pixar’s latest on Blu-ray and DVD. We offered the first set of four high resolution images…

Halo video game becomes animated disc debut

…adventures. The episodes are animated by some of the world’s most respected studios and directors in anime today. The studios range from Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell, Batman: Gotham…

Ishinomori Work to Become Hollywood Film in 2012

…and an unnamed major Hollywood studio was announced by the Nikkei news service earlier today. The film to be produced under this deal will be screened in both the U.S….

New release dates for Rapunzel and Alvin

Boxofficemojo.com has updated their release schedule with new release dates for two upcoming movies. Disney’s Rapunzel, the studio’s first computer-animated fairy tale, is set to come out on November 24,…

Shakeup at Walt Disney Studios continues

…earlier this year (and the less reported leaving of Miramax Films President Daniel Battsek last month) it appears a major shakeup is going down at Walt Disney Studios. LA Times…

Pixar leads this week’s CG pack; plus a Fantastic Fox!

…Tuesday seeing both Up and Monsters, Inc. 4-disc combo Blu-ray and DVD editions, plus a new repackaging of Cars in stores, you couldn’t argue that the Studio is going to…

Troubled MGM heading for the auction block?

…a famous name, is said to be on the way to a sale, as reported by Variety. This marks the second time in just a few years that the mini-studio

Up For Grabs: Free Retro Printable Pixar Posters!

In anticipation of the release of Disney/Pixar’s Up on Blu-ray and DVD, the Studio has made available eight high resolution images of some of the terrific retro poster art created…

New Princess and the Frog images

A number of new images and cast photos from Disney’s anticipated The Princess and the Frog can now be found at Comingsoon.net. The studio’s return to hand-drawn animation opens in…

Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!

…us in our interview, it is mostly Ronnie del Carmen’s work. Ronnie del Carmen joined Pixar Animation Studios in the summer of 2000 during the production of Finding Nemo as…

The Art Of The Princess And The Frog Book – Winners Announced!

Thanks to Chronicle Books and the Walt Disney Studios, we have three copies of Jeff Kurtti’s new book The Art Of The Princess And The Frog to give away in…

Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season

…(7:55) looks at the life and career of Guy Williams. While such a feature is essential, it is sadly short. It’s just a studio-sanctioned bio with little meat to it….

Huge weekend ahead for The Princess and the Frog?

…that Disney is charging for tickets. The film marks the first time that the studio has released an animated movie in limited release before its wide run since 2003’s Brother…

The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti

…more broad. As a child, film and animation were actually much more accessible to me and much easier to research, so my earliest Disney studies were Walt and Studio biographical,…

THQ and DreamWorks announce deal

THQ Inc. and DreamWorks Animation have just announced a multi-year business deal that will give THQ exclusive rights to develop video games based off of the studio’s animated films and…

Rotten Tomatoes ranks Disney classics

In celebration of the release of The Princess and the Frog, the popular website RottenTomatoes.com now has a Disney Animation Countdown. The list ranks the studio’s 48 “official” animated features…

Zorro, Zorro, Zorro…and memories of Richard Todd

…thought I shouldn’t be since this was Disney at the top of his game and though it is television material, it puts other feature film work from competing studios to…

Disney’s Snow Queen back in production?

…fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson, The Snow Queen is speculated to have a 2013 release date, which would follow Winnie the Pooh in 2011 and continue the studio’s reported…

Prep & Landing

…my childhood as Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. Today, studios continue in their attempt to create the world’s next Christmas classic,…

Princess And The Frog soundtrack streamed

…to listen to as a stream from Walt Disney Records in WMA format. The Studio has also announced details on the promotion for the film’s soundtrack, which can be read…