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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…marks the 20th anniversary of Hercules. While not a top-tier classic on level with the likes of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid, it had… |
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Ponyo
…partially inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson story of The Little Mermaid, but also took mythical elements from Wagner’s opera Die Walkure. Its seaside setting was based on a Japanese… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…The Little Mermaid redo. Here, they and other members of the crew, including co-writer Opetaia Foa’i, explain their approach to the music and songs, in an insightful piece. Miranda pops… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…Lilo And Stitch (the Little Mermaid teaser), 101 Dalmatians II, Beauty And The Beast’s Enchanted Christmas, The Country Bears, Inspector Gadget 2, and a Teamo Supremo television promo. Case Study:… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…on to happen to so many of the Studio’s more dramatic pictures from this time, once Katzenberg left the Studio in late 1994, the story was infused with a little… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…DVD as that disc’s only bonus, with the usual collection of Sneak Peeks for upcoming titles featuring Monsters University, The Little Mermaid’s Diamond Edition, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mulan: 2-Movie… |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…Little Mermaid Special Edition (curiously this one is shown in the 4:3 ratio, while the DTV titles get 1.66:1 previews), Bambi And The Great Prince Of The Forest (this is… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…1080p high-definition 1.78:1 widescreen, Dolby True-HD 7.1, Rated G, Retail: $49.99 Storyboard: When little clownfish Nemo is fished out of the ocean, his father Marlin sets out on an epic… |
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Chiodo Bros talk Netflix’s Alien Xmas
…wanted to have a little fun with them. Be a little self-aware of the genre we were emulating here. So, there’s a little poke at the genre here and there,… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…a little too obvious, although to be sure none of this is as noticeable as in the later films, where cost-cutting would reach new lows. The struggles between Donner’s wish… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 2: The “Disney Decade”
…little looser. In his animation, he was maybe a little more not assured of himself physically, he could be a little more awkward, his feet were a little bigger, they… |
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Au clair de La Luna with director Enrico Casarosa
…the geometry of the boat. So, it gives a different feel that we were trying to achieve. A little more animated and a little less realistic. The computer really loves… |
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Swimming lessons for Mermaid
Little Mermaid – Broadway explains the visual magic that will be used to help characters swim in the Mermaid musical. “The ‘roller skating concept’ is indeed what they are doing…. |
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Mermaid faces rough waters
It appears the Little Mermaid stage musical, currently playing at the the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, is receiving much mixed feedback from columnists and bloggers. Variety, The New… |
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More on Mermaid's swim to Broadway
Playbill summarizes the cast, plot and schedule for the Broadway adaptation of Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Directed by Francesca Zambello, the musical will hit the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 3,… |
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DCA Expansion
…dark ride based on The Little Mermaid, presumably similar to the virtual ride included on the recent Platinum Edition Little Mermaid DVD. A rumored Ratatouille ride was not announced. The… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…and financial success of The Little Mermaid, the kind of success Disney had not seen in a long time, fueled a new era in animation history. Howard Ashman, who had… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…The Little Mermaid and The Lion King among them. The second film’s DVD doesn’t contain much more, just an energetic Jump 5 Music Video for the first film’s Hawaiian Rollercoaster… |
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Preview The Little Matchgirl
VFX World discusses Disney’s The Little Matchgirl, the fourth and final short to be completed that was originally intended for the now aborted Fantasia 2006 project. The Little Matchgirl, based… |
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Tarzan II
…DTVs, Little Mermaid II, and one of the best, 101 Dalmatians II) talks mainly about working with the voice cast. He’s joined by one of the film’s producers (emphasizing the… |
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Sister Act‘s music supervisor Michael Kosarin takes us to Heaven!
…Enchanted was more pastiche. This is kind of a very fresh sound for Alan, with a different sort of palette from Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. So,… |
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Jack Frost: Deluxe Edition
…comedy and his roles in such Disney fare as The Love Bug and The Little Mermaid. Here he’s Pardon-Me-Pete, the narrator of course, telling the story in his inimitable style,… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…Maltese and Maurice Noble! Music-only tracks are included for Three Little Bops, One Froggy Evening and What’s Opera, Doc? and there are vocal-only tracks for Three Little Bops and What’s… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…little Nemo has yet to be born and escapes the predator unharmed, the only surviving egg. Marlin, his clownfish father, lavishes extra care and attention on Nemo as he grows… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…was a little like hers, coming from a small village to a station that looked a little bit like the one that I had close to my house in Germany,… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…a clear step back toward top form for the Disney Studios after the emphatically boisterous Chicken Little and had picked up good word of mouth, I honestly didn’t think that… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…survive… The sequence does offer Indy one other classic Jones moment (you’ll know which), but otherwise there’s little point and it all feels a little embarrassingly small scale. 0:47:55 =… |
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Beauty fades as Mermaid arrives
The Courier-Journal writes that the successful Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast will close July 29, in preparation for the stage version of The Little Mermaid. Word has yet… |
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Mermaid catches Flounder, pays price
According to the fansite Little Mermaid – Broadway, Cody Hanford has landed the role of Flounder in the stage production of the undersea musical. In other Mermaid news, ticket prices… |
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Cast listed for Broadway Mermaid
The Little Mermaid – Broadway has the “Original Broadway Cast” list for the anticipated musical. Apparently, Alan Menken will soon hear the group once more, after which, he may make… |
