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The Princess and the Frog
…may not rank up there with the very best of the studio from 1989-1994 (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King), but it is as good… |
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Box office victory for Avatar
…the weekend, the James Cameron picture might’ve made even more. As things turned out, it fell about $6 million short of claiming the record for best December opening, which is… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…back to celebrate the festive season with The Man With The Yellow Hat. The Sweatbox Review: Although Disney’s well-promoted release of The Princess And The Frog has done well to… |
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Harryhausen returns to Clash again
…of hero Perseus and his winged horse Pegasus in anticipation of the upcoming theatrical big budget remake of Clash of the Titans on March 26, 2010. The DVD will also… |
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Reaction to Tangled title change
…everybody.” But Disney Legend Floyd Norman echoed the feelings of many fans saying “The idea of changing the title of a classic like Rapunzel to Tangled is beyond stupid… I’m… |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…with the package labelled as being part of The Rankin/Bass Collection, it may entice fans of the producers’ work to be curious, and hopefully some more of their more celebrated… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…John Musker and myself to consider the idea of setting the fairy tale The Frog Prince in New Orleans. We pitched him the story that became the basis of the… |
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Annies online!
…the year’s best animated productions and outstanding individual achievements in the field of animation. The webcast also featured a special tribute to the late Roy Disney and the presentation of… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…mega-budgeted version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, heralding the movies’ fascination with the works of Verne and a whole series of adaptations and knock-offs. Although Nemo, of course, had… |
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Tales from Earthsea Finally Coming to North America
…K. LeGuin’s Earthsea series. The release in North America was delayed due to a no-compete clause in the contracts for the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Legend of Earthsea, which premiered in… |
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New Avatar series greenlit by Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon has officially greenlit a new series based off of their popular cartoon show Avatar: The Last Airbender. The new storyline will take place 70 years after the events of… |
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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…Lord Of The Rings, and Trailers for the Jonah Hex Motion Comics, and The Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole, which actually looks pretty stunning, even presented in… |
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Looney Tunes are back on the big screen
…Legend of the Guardians and the other appearing in front of this holiday season’s Yogi Bear. “We are thrilled to be presenting these characters for the first time in 3D,… |
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Super Hero Squad Show: Volume One
…and most of their schemes are over-the-top. In most of the episodes, a new hero takes the spotlight, although they initially tend to mess up in defending their city or… |
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LA/NY set for Superman/Batman’s Apocalypse
…those of the Man of Steel. The Kryptonian is soon revealed to be Kara, cousin of Superman, who takes her under his wing to educate her about the ways of… |
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Christmas goes Pink!
…to conform to the official educational curriculum matrices of various countries. In the brand licensing arena, Rubicon is engaged in the licensing and merchandising of its proprietary intellectual properties (IP)… |
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The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series
…The Sweatbox Review: When the subject of cult animated series from the early 1990s comes up, one of the most mentioned series is the exotically fantasy adventure series The Pirates… |
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse – Apokalips (clip)
…encounter a mysterious Kryptonian with powers as great as those of the Man of Steel. The Kryptonian is soon revealed to be Kara, cousin of Superman, who takes her under… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…about the Disney Films, stories of the Disney Theme Parks and finally stories about out of the ordinary Disney History from the Mickey Mouse radio show of the Thirties to… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…in animation terms, The Black Cauldron showed what the new generation of Disney artists wanted to attempt, and the then-limits of their ambitions. It pushed the boundaries of animation, with… |
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Second Yogi Bear trailer now online
…trailer for Yogi Bear–currently playing on the big screen with Legend of the Guardians–has made its way online over at IGN. The Warner Bros. comedy comes to theaters this Christmas…. |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
…already stalking the grounds, and scaring away the children. When they finally arrive, they find the camp deserted and are notified that the camp is closing for the remainder of… |
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Danger Man / Secret Agent: The Complete Collection
…one year, McGoohan then turning down the part of James Bond for being more of the same. However, the show had caught the eye of Walt Disney, who offered McGoohan… |
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15 films going up for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars
…of Kitty Galore Despicable Me The Dreams of Jinsha How to Train Your Dragon Idiots and Angels The Illusionist Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Megamind My Dog… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…Of Winnie The Pooh and the record setting The Rescuers to the darker realism of The Fox And The Hound and the supernatural fantasy The Black Cauldron, a watershed moment… |
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Forty-one songs compete for Oscar
…Sky from Legend of the Guardians • Darling I Do from Shrek Forever After • I See the Light from Tangled • We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 The… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…work, since they’re usually featured in montage sequences that have the gang interacting with the monster of the week, though they’re the biggest thing to date the shows today, like… |
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What do Johnny Depp and Kathryn Beaumont have in common?
…points for animators. Kathryn Beaumont, Disney Legend and voice of Wendy (Peter Pan) and Alice (Alice in Wonderland) provides an interview for the article, describing her experience filming the sequences…. |
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More on the career of Bill Justice
Paula Sigman-Lowery and Jeff Kurtti offer another detailed and respectful rembrance of the recently departed Disney legend for The Walt Disney Family Museum website, in their article With Thanks And… |
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All*Star Superman
…so much there to love. If either the comic or the movie has a weakness, it’s the revelation of another player near the end of the story, an accomplice of… |
