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Simba roars mighty as The Lion King makes the record books

Simba’s roar was quite loud indeed as The Lion King made an estimated $185 million, Box Office Mojo is reporting. That was enough to secure it the best opening weekend…

The Lion Sleeps Tonight song royalties stay awake

…South Africa claiming they were owed royalties for the popular song The Lion Sleeps Tonight that the company used in their Lion King feature and stage musical. Disney, at the…

Lion King animator Aaron Blaise draws tribute to Cecil the lion
Disney wows with surprise Lion King teaser trailer

…day it remains the biggest home video release ever. The Lion King opens everywhere this July. From Disney Live Action, director Jon Favreau’s all-new The Lion King journeys to the…

Animation Addicts Podcast #60: The Lion King – It’s SFX!

Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The people have spoken! The top requested film in 2013 was The Lion King! Go along with Mason, Morgan, and Chelsea as they talk about…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…pretty strange thing when it came out. I think it did something like $140 million domestic, and $255 million worldwide. AN: In 1995 even. EG: Yeah, in 1995, and frankly…

The Lion King 1½ set to become best selling DTV movie of all time

Business Wire indicates that since its release on Tuesday, The Lion King 1½ has sold more than 3 million VHS and DVD copies, thus placing it on the path to…

The Lion King Movie Collection Artwork

…the recent Special Edition releases of Disney’s animated classic The Lion King, The Lion King 1½, and The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride, and will be available on December 7….

Gnomeo & Juliet

…be safe to assume that, following the phenomenal screen, stage and spin-off success of the Studio and composer’s collaboration on The Lion King, the two would want to try and…

Lion King and sequels to disappear

…http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/329 The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride}} and the fun “alternate take” on the original, last year’s best-selling {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/265 Lion King 1½}}. Disney will stop shipping individual copies, as…

New Lion King 1½ Review

…Dolby Digital options, and the picture looks great. And if you thought The Lion King’s ending was great, you ain’t seen nothin’ until you’ve seen The Lion King 1½’s send-off.”…

The Lion King is still in the top five after nine weeks of release

…million stateside. By tomorrow night, it will have surpassed The Dark Knight to become the 11th biggest movie ever at the domestic box office (though slipping past the $608 million

Lion King, Spider-Verse, Poppins, Avengers, Toy Story, and John Williams pick up 2020 Grammy nominations

The nominations for the 62nd Grammy Awards were revealed today. Winners will be announced on January 26th. Nods of note include: Best Pop Vocal Album: • The Lion King: The…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…something like $140 million domestic, and $255 million worldwide. AV: In 1995 even. EG: Yeah, in 1995, and frankly it was only a little bit behind Toy Story of the…

2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!

…hopefully not in danger of being cancelled before it concludes. Disney Junior, meanwhile, is still on a roll when it comes to pleasing the smaller set: The Lion Guard wowed…

Mickey And The Roadster Racers

…that programming lineup back in the day. The tradition of making more “grown-up” preschool programming continued over the years with shows like The Lion Guard, Miles from Tomorrowland, Elena of…

Disney Sued Over Lion King Song

…royalties for the popular song The Lion Sleeps Tonight that the company used in their Lion King feature. Copyrights for the song, originally called Mbube, which is the Zulu word…

Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!

…that as the co-producer of the new Disney and Walden Media movies that are being produced. After the success of the first in the franchise, The Lion, the Witch and…

Lion King 1½ Soundtrack Listing

Business Wire has the song list from The Lion King 1½: Songs from Timon & Pumbaa’s Hilarious Adventure, the soundtrack to The Lion King 1½. The Lion King 1½: Songs…

Watch the Oscars TV spot for The Lion King

…a pretty gorgeous new poster for the movie as well. The Lion King roars into theaters this July. Director Jon Favreau’s all-new The Lion King journeys to the African savanna…

Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan

…sequences with the bird, and that was a lot of fun. AV: Then, you got supervising animator of Pumbaa on Lion King! TB: This was around the time when the…

Thinking of Adopting a Lion?

A new still from Disney’s upcoming The Lion King 1½ has recently been made available and features the ever-lovable duo of Timon and Pumbaa sleeping on the job but otherwise…

Disney denies owing royalties for \\Lion King\\ song

{{link http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1151120.htm AFP}} reports that Disney has issued a statement concerning the South African family {{link http://www.animatedviews.com/wp-content/uploads/archives/00001846.html demanding royalties}} from the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight, used in the film…

Lion King returns home to Africa

According to Yahoo! Finance, The Lion King, Disney’s story of nephew/uncle conflict on the African Savannah, recently previewed its stage version of the lion tale in Johannesburg, South Africa in…

The Lion King among greatest Shakespeare movies

…different films based on the works of Shakespeare, places The Lion King at number eight with a rating of 92%. “Richly drawn and beautifully animated, The Lion King stands among…

The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning

…for Beauty And The Beast (in the form of an Enchanted Christmas mid-quel) and The Lion King (Simba’s Pride, which showed great promise), the unit that would eventually become known…

Opinions on The Lion King 3-D

How should we view The Lion King 3-D? Is it a marketing plot by the Mouse to make a quick buck off a successful film? Was it re-released to introduce…

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe on DVD

With all the hype starting to build for Disney/Walden’s Rings-tyled take on CS Lewis’ first Chronicle of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/310 DVD Toons}} takes…

Lion King II: Special Edition DVD cover art now available

Premilinary cover art, taken from the back of the insert found in the The Lion King 1½ DVD, is now available for the “Special Edition” DVD release of The Lion

New Lion King 1½ DVD Review, and "Sneak Peek" Captures

Ultimate Disney has a new, positive Lion King 1½ DVD review, and captures from the disc’s previews of The Lion King II:Simba’s Pride, Aladdin, and The Three Musketeers, starring Mickey…