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The Princess and the Frog DVD and Blu-ray in March
…her Debut In A Rollicking Musical Adventure From The Creators Of Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. Critically-Acclaimed Animated Feature The Princess And The Frog Premieres March 16, 2010 on Blu-ray… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…recycling of material from Sleeping 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… |
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Home On The Range
…music, Home On The Range supposedly marks the long awaited return to Disney features by Alan Menken, the multi-Academy Award winner for such traditional scores as Aladdin, Little Mermaid and… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…on its making along the way. And who could ask for more than that? Case Study: Coming out just a couple of weeks after the packed Aladdin set, Mulan was… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…princess template that would carry through the next wave of fairytale type movies (Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin), and even the likes of Pocahontas and Mulan were set in far… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…for their needs, and creating a true fairytale classic that could stand with the best of them. The film after Beauty, Aladdin, would become their knockabout comedy counterpart to Dumbo,… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…talented artists were able to craft the “Fab Four” masterpieces – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. As each successive film gained more and… |
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Disc art for several titles now online
Ultimate Disney has the disc art for Aladdin: The Return of Jafar (Jan. 18), Aladdin and the King of Thieves (Jan. 18), Growing Up with Winnie the Pooh (Feb. 8),… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…spin-offs such as series based on The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, which brought in a “black marker” era of small screen animation where outlines were routinely thick and the artistry… |
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School of Visual Arts presents “Which Way Did They Go?” exhibit
…The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Aladdin (1993). Chris Prynoski (BFA 1994 Animation) directs Megas XLR, the Cartoon Network’s series he created about a young… |
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Disney new release Tuesday: Kronk and Valiant
…Stitch Has a Glitch Mulan II and Kronk’s New Groove (tied) Lady and the Tramp II Little Mermaid II Tarzan II Aladdin and the King of Thieves Hunchback II Cinderella… |
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Exodus Film Group takes on Hero of Color City and Amarillo Armadillo
…in 2007. Veteran animation executive Max Howard (Lion King, Aladdin, Space Jam) will executive produce both films with animation created by Exodus’ award-winning partner ElectroAge. The Hero of Color City… |
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Exodus and Melwood co-producing CGI/live action Pavlov’s Dog
…Exodus’ CG-animated feature, Igor. Howard has been involved in such animated hits as Disney’s Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Warner Bros.’… |
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Weekend events
Just a couple reminders for those in the LA/Orange County area. Tonight, April 22, ASIFA-Hollywood will be holding its Aladdin reunion at the Glendale Library at 7pm. “Join animator Tom… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…Jasper And The Haunted House. I’m doing Aladdin. Ether Symphony is being upgraded from a successive negative. Paramount’s done it. My basic feeling is that I don’t want too much… |
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Godzilla stomps softer than expected
…and King Kong facing off against each other has much more box office potential. The movie is currently slated for release next March. Meanwhile, Disney’s Aladdin continued to perform magically,… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…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, all… |
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Ariel’s Song: loving memories of a Mermaid‘s lyricist, Howard Ashman
…and a better life. AV: The deleted song Proud of Your Boy, from Aladdin, was often thought as being very personal, too. WL: Probably, there is a connection. In a… |
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Spider-Man swings high over holiday weekend
…third highest grossing film of the year so far as well. Still in the top five is Aladdin, which is behaving like The Greatest Showman in terms of staying power…. |
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Simba roars mighty as The Lion King makes the record books
…culture significance, and like with Aladdin earlier this summer, parents who saw the animated film in theaters as children are now able to bring their own kids to the new… |
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Simpson and Lachey's Whole New World video now online; Aiken's Proud at #5 on the chart
AOL Music debuts the new music video for Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson’s version of A Whole New World, featured on the Aladdin Platinum Edition DVD that will hit stores… |
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The Animated Games of E3
…Digimon Rumble Arena 2 – BANDAI – GC/XBOX Choose among 40 different Digimon in this fighter, along with three friends for multiplayer mayhem. Disney’s Aladdin – CAPCOM – GBA A… |
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Multiple lamps…
The UK is to see a lot of that lad with the lamp, Disney’s Aladdin, on DVD later this year. As well as the Special Edition of the original 1992… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…Mermaid in 1989 changed all this. It felt like the Disney Studio was back at the top of its game; and Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…its unbeaten virtuosity; later Peter Pan for its heart and entertainment value, One Hundred And One Dalmatians (not 101!) for its jump to modernism, and Aladdin from the Renaissance era…. |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…and Rhythm In The Ranks. Incidentally, of the twelve additional cartoons that appeared in only standard definition on The Puppetoon Movie Blu-ray (as well as the previous DVD), only Aladdin… |
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2016 CTN Animation Expo Exclusive
…indeed: Roger Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Jafar in Aladdin, Scar in The Lion King, the title character in Hercules, Lilo in Lilo… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…Aladdin, and Rice and Elton John for The Lion King and was set to continue beyond the scope of this film. But there’s so much other good stuff that maybe… |
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Beauty & the Beast: 25th Anniversary Edition coming to Blu-ray this year
…“Aladdin”), Stephen Schwartz (“The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Pocahontas”), Kristen Anderson-Lopez (“Frozen,” Disney’s upcoming “Gigantic”), Robert Lopez (“Frozen,” Disney’s upcoming “Gigantic”) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (Disney’s upcoming “Moana”) as they sing… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…fairy tale The Princess and the Frog from acclaimed veteran Disney directors John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules,) and the Disney DVD and Blu-ray release of… |