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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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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…Park supplements including peeks behind the scenes of the latter three films and all ten of the Cracking Contraptions shorts. The films themselves reveal new details unnoticeable on the standard… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 5: Down In New Orleans
…time making drawing and showing them to the directors and they would say they like this one or they didn’t like that one, and drawing up the things they didn’t… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…continuing the Pixar family theme, and John Lasseter’s Car (1:27) recounts the “humble death-box” car the director of Toy Story drove at the time of the film’s making. Studio Stories:… |
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The Paintings of Peregoy at Suspended Animation
…The Lion King and The Little Mermaid). Suspended Animation Gallery presents a revolving series of works and artists, posting photos of the available pieces to its website. Original pieces can… |
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Tales from Earthsea Finally Coming to North America
…Cheech Marin (Oliver & Company, The Lion King) and Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill). The release will be handled by Disney through its revived Touchstone Pictures banner…. |
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Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue
…Beast, The Lion King, Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, The Search For Santa Paws, Toy Story 3, the new DisneyNature releases, and Tinker Bell And The Mysterious Winter Woods. The Blu-ray… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…magazines or – for animals – and there’s this power of the gorilla. So I had the gorilla up there, or the lions, you know, and I would draw them…. |
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Disney documentary DVD exclusive offer!
…chapter of Disney’s animation legacy – a decade of unparalleled creativity that included The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King, told by the people who… |
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Prep & Landing landing again
…making the first ‘Prep & Landing’ special, and the response from the audience and our colleagues in the industry was so terrific, that we wanted to bring these great characters… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…the original Goofy shorts, from Michael Giacchino’s use of the second theatrical Goofy theme, to the artists depiction of the vintage character design. The intention was to make a “lost”… |
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Don Hahn discusses Fantasia 2000 and Waking Sleeping Beauty
…his most intriguing and exciting productions: Fantasia 2000, the magical, animated musical event debuting in highly anticipated Blu-ray, and the documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty that tells the true story of… |
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Africa enters the 3D animated market
…Bear), Phil LaMarr (Family Guy, Futurama), Jim Cummings (The Princess and the Frog, The Lion King, Winnie the Pooh), and Jennifer Lewis (The Princess and the Frog, Cars). Zambezia tells… |
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A Christmas Carol
…there were any clues, but while it’s interesting to see Carrey, Hoskins and company in their mo-cap outfits running through their performances, there’s a distinct separation from the process. The… |
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Tangled opens
…Tomatoes (and an even better 95% from the top critics). It’s being compared favorably to The Lion King and Aladdin, and a few have even called it the best from… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…the swapping of the Nine Old Men to the new generation; Popeye, Robert Altman’s 1980 live-action take on the spinach-guzzling sailor (Robin Williams); and Treasure Planet, last year’s box office… |
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Tangled comes to Blu-Ray & DVD today
…more. A hit with critics and audiences, Tangled was a blockbuster for the studio, grossing $198 million in the US, making it Disney’s biggest animated movie since The Lion King…. |
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The Incredibles
…of the point, and this helps the animation tremendously – the fact that these are animated characters only strives to help the reality of their lives and situations sink in… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. How has the industry changed over the past 20 years? Kelly Asbury: I began in the animation business in 1983 and have been… |
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Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles: The Complete Series
…single segment of the first-named show, book-ended by two segments for the latter. The Impossibles also gained the lion’s share of moments in the opening and closing credits. That’s a… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…Sweatbox Review: With the sheer surprise of the release of Disney’s first two volumes in their Have A Laugh providing the shocking bombshell that the Studio seemed to be serious… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…of Mars trash, although they’re not reason alone for the format, which only plays up how lacking the character interaction is: for all the tumbling through the Martian trash the… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…lacking from Walt’s then-recent feature animation output. The Reluctant Dragon, the 1942 live action tour around the Disney Studio lot, which included several featurettes woven throughout the film as well… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…years. The veteran Disney filmmaker had previously worked on such classics as Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book and The Rescuers. He… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…but then also came the “mid-quels”, films that took place between scenes in the original movies. Well, fine, if they wanted to screw with the likes of Tarzan then that… |
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Finding Nemo 3-D Trailer and Beauty and the Beast 3-D
Disney is pulling fan favorites from the vault to cash in on 3-D craze before it dies. The Lion King and Cars 2 were treated with the third dimension treatment… |
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Happy Feet Two
…to hopefully explain some of the nuts thinking behind some of the more ambiguous choices, the closest we get to a look at the production is a peek behind the… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…and the reasons behind the choices the production went for. The one and a half minute 70/30 Rule highlights the unique decision by the directors to bring a 70 percent… |
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Q&A with Disney director George Scribner
…great advice and several never-before-heard behind-the-scenes stories, including anecdotes on the original director of The Lion King, Oliver And Company and the theme park rides he has been a part… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…The animation renaissance of the mid-1990s is naturally still a part of most of our memories, inarguably the high-point of the Eisner/Wells/Katzenberg regime where The Lion King became the biggest… |
