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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…For those with that content already there was little reason to upgrade, but Warners also surprised by bringing a little Hanna-Barbera goodness our way: their first theatrical animated film, the… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…They’re doing The Frog Princess as a film. John Musker and Ron Clements, who did The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, are working on that now. BG: Ahhh, interesting! AV: Yeah,… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…(Little Mermaid II), Marvel (Spectacular Spider-Man, Wolverine) and more for DC, where he has been playing Luthor, amongst other roles, longer than any other actor. Bringing his dark and intimidating… |
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Enchanted
…menu, as usual. The titles being promoted this time around include The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning, The Jungle Book 2, Minute Men, Hannah Montana: One In A Million, Tinker Bell,… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…soft parable storytelling recalls Disney fare such as Susie, The Little Blue Coupe and The Little House rather than the outlandish fare Avery was otherwise known for. It’s still a… |
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Menken, Mear talk Mermaid musical
After its first preview on Broadway recently, composer Alan Menken talked to with Rotten Tomatoes about the difficulties of bringing Disney’s classic film The Little Mermaid to the theatre. “I… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1–3
…full-length show For Whom The Spell Holds and the double-billed Little Bears Lost/Guess Who’s Gumming To Dinner, two time fillers that provide a little good natured fun. Disc Three begins… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…Oliver & Company began the new golden age of the Disney studios with The Little Mermaid. MH: Yes. I was co-supervisor of Ariel. I was one of the earlier animators… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…while Sneak Peeks across both discs include The Little Mermaid, Monsters University, Wreck-It Ralph, DisneyJunior’s Jake And The Never-Land Pirates and Sophia The First, Return To Never-Land, Monsters Inc. Blu-ray,… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…idea of helping out the Navy and his friend George from below the waves. With the assistance of Crusty the Crab (a definite ancestor to The Little Mermaid’s Sebastian, right… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…trivia fact is that Ben Wright, who brings Pongo’s owner Roger to life, would later return to the Studio to portray Grimsby in The Little Mermaid! The story is tight… |
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The Reef
…noted nods – intended or not – to The Incredible Mr Limpet and The Little Mermaid. However, most bizarrely, and against better judgement, I just didn’t find The Reef to… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…by the current staff, such as The Little Mermaid, Toy Story or The Lion King. This was just Hollywood mechanics and a by-product of the contemporary moviemaking system. But mess… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…and her friends were excited. Her name was Ashley Kashar and she had joint problems at a very early age. She was inspired by her love for The Little Mermaid… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…back to basics approach and spontaneity of an underdog production. Although they all went through varying degrees of tortuous development, this is exactly how The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…feature animation when Disney came calling to see if they would be interested in a collaboration. The Disney of the early 1990s was on a roll: The Little Mermaid, Beauty… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…the late ’80s, with all the films you can think of, whether it’s The Little Mermaid, The Simpsons, Mighty Mouse or Ren & Stimpy, we’ve slowly crawled back. Even the… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…fact is that Ben Wright, who brings Pongo’s owner Roger to life, would later return to the Studio to portray Grimsby in The Little Mermaid! The story is tight too,… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…The Lone Ranger, plus ABC’s Once Upon A Time: The Complete Second Season, The Little Mermaid’s Diamond Edition 3D debut, Iron Man Three and the Disney Infinity online game concept…. |
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2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…on Blu-ray October 17. Hasbro: My Little Pony For roughly the last five years, the My Little Pony panel at Comic Con seemed to be getting bigger and bigger in… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…theme a little more subtly… Originally put into production alongside Snow White (it was always an alternative to Walt, should the animating of human figures in that film prove too… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…mean little to most people these days, but they were a major player during the golden age of animation, if even for just a few years. Based in the then… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…such as Amazon. Hasbro My Little Pony If you’ve read my previous Comic Con reports, you know that I like going to the My Little Pony panel every year whenever… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…was a group of little films that they made. AV: All overlapping? TR: Yeah, they made these little films and you were just put on to them, which was good…. |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!
…after that was Little Mermaid, so Oliver & Company became sort of the stepping stone to Disney’s great success through all of those pictures. And when Mermaid came along, they… |
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Disney and Pixar announce four 3-D re-releases
…won an Academy Award® for Best Song and has grossed $526.9 million worldwide. Released in 1989, The Little Mermaid, stars Ariel, a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid, off on the adventure… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…as good as what we used to do” after seeing the film. But, for me, it was The Little Mermaid that ultimately proves to be the new generation’s Snow White,… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…Company, Little Mermaid, Aladdin) of the late 80s and early 90s. In fact, going back to that corporate synergy approach, it sometimes seems Brother Bear has been stitched together simply… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…we could ever do justice to in a single article, with notable ones including Superman: The Movie director Richard Donner, Cloris Leachman, The Little Mermaid voice actor Samuel E. Wright,… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…nearby town to surprise the other animals and play neat little tricks on the humans there. It’s a little like the “flying whales” sequence in Fantasia/2000, but played much more… |