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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…to do Zazu after having done animation of Iago in Aladdin, but nevertheless took full advantage of animating Pumbaa since the film served as an opportunity for the younger talent… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…moment, It’s Our House Now, a toe-tapper in the Aladdin-jazz style, featuring Jonathan Freeman as Jafar on lead vocals, accompanied by the various wrongdoers in the House. In a funny… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…little, but there’s nothing here that approaches the sheer fan wallowing that a Snow White, Bambi or Aladdin have provided in recent releases. The disc – predictably – kicks off… |
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Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg
…recently met up again with Goldberg, the famed lead animator of the Genie in Aladdin and co-director on Pocahontas and Looney Tunes: Back In Action. He and his work can… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…pitched a fourth Aladdin feature, co-wrote sequels to Cinderella and The Little Mermaid, and helped develop a new direct-to-video franchise based on L. Frank Baum’s Oz novels. Unfortunately, he didn’t… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…Val Bettin, who would go on to voice the Sultan in the later television and video spin-offs from 1992’s Aladdin, and Flaversham himself by Disney favorite Alan Young, who had… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…a musical comedy environment, and now supervised by legendary animator Eric Goldberg (Aladdin‘s Genie). That’s where composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater [both right] enter. Five songs were planned,… |
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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
…the Beast, and Aladdin. His diligence and a meticulous eye for character performance were rewarded when he became the Supervising Animator for both The Lion King and The Emperor’s New… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…Douglas Seale’s Sultan from Aladdin since both sport the same intonation. Most impressive is Watership Down’s Hazel, John Hurt, as the Horned King himself, bringing much gravitas to his role… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…also followed your mentor on Aladdin. TB: Right. On Aladdin, I did Iago, again with Will Finn. I got a lot of better scenes on Iago, where I got whole… |
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Picks Of The Year 2004
…excellent Mulan, Aladdin and Mary Poppins 2-disc special editions), there were the “underachievers” – Looney Tunes: Back In Action, The Triplets Of Belleville, Brother Bear and Home On The Range,… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…Aladdin’s Liz Callaway doubling almost transparently for Meg Ryan. Taking a look back on the film, it still seems to be split between wanting to be a fairytale, while trying… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…Broadway history in creating The Little Shop Of Horrors, and film history in creating The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin. But our story starts before that time…. |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…voice the Sultan in the later television and video spin-offs from 1992’s Aladdin, and Flaversham himself by Disney favorite Alan Young, who had done a sterling job as Scrooge in… |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
…guys and gals at DisneyToon really worked up the quality level on their films over the years, going from what I call the “black marker pen” style of the Aladdin… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…to Little Mermaid and Aladdin, and because it was more of an eclectic series of environments, and we were in New York. Also, we didn’t have a single composer because… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…in Aladdin) rather than Art Babbit’s classic creation. The story – the shortest here – also has little to recommend it, and the lack of being on character model is… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…loves and fulfil his destiny… The Sweatbox Review: If Beauty And The Beast was the next generation of Disney artists’ take on the Snow White-styled fairy-tale, and Aladdin their knockabout… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…(Lion King, Pocahontas, Roger Rabbit, Aladdin, Dinosaur, Fantasia/2000), DreamWorks (Prince Of Egypt, Antz, Spirit, Shrek) and Warners (Osmosis Jones, Looney Tunes: Back In Action, Son Of The Mask) and is… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…Beauty, both visually and musically, but given the irreverent tone, this is possibly an in-joke (the ending also bears a similarity with 1992’s Aladdin, when Merlin returns from the future… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…these “sequels”, such as the Disney Channel quickies like those that completed the “Aladdin Trilogy” (with all those helpful fade-outs ready for commercial placing!) and misguided follow ups to Cinderella… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…The Prince and the Pauper, The Rescuers Down Under and Aladdin in a senior story capacity. Born in New York and raised mainly in Scottsdale, Arizona, Allers became hooked on… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…employees. It continued providing animation for Burbank features Beauty & The Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994). Meanwhile, Cook landed the director’s gig on the next Roger… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…It was a unique situation and I enjoyed that very much. AV:Your next character was Jasmine for Aladdin. Can you tell me about this very special assignment that is creating… |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…staggering output of hits—The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and more—over a 10-year period. Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider bring their insider knowledge… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…the obviously made for the Disney Channel quickies such as the “Aladdin Trilogy” sequels, or the lame attempt at continuing the Little Mermaid story (with all those helpful fade-outs ready… |
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The Lion King 1½
…video and DVD (the previous release, The Return Of Jafar was composed of the first five episodes of the Aladdin spin-off TV show, though Simba’s Pride was designed as a… |
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The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection
…nomination, the commercial success of Aladdin and the record-breaking phenomenon of The Lion King – saw declining returns on the next few features (films that, in retrospect, were probably too… |
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Wart, Robin, Oliver and more Pan come to Disney Blu-ray
…Wonderland, Wait Until Spring) as Jenny, Bette Midler (Fantasia/2000, Beaches) as Georgette Directors: George Scribner (Heavy Metal, The Black Cauldron) & Dan Hansen (Aladdin, The Emperor’s New Groove) Writer: Jim… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…as Aladdin, Ariel’s Undersea Adventures, Timon And Pumbaa, Hercules, 101 Dalmatians, Buzz Lightyear, The Legend Of Tarzan, etc… the list seemed to go on and on. There were no gems,… |