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UK box office numbers
…to a good start at number one with $10.1 million in the bank, and Looney Tunes: Back In Action stayed the course after two weeks, actually climbing a spot, from… |
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Chat session with professional animator Chris Headrick
…Chris says he is “looking forward to discussing and revisiting in greater detail such issues as the recent Looney Tunes feature film, the Pixar-Disney split, and the current state of… |
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Ray Harryhausen on The DVD Collection
The BBC’s disc review show, The DVD Collection, looks at the work of stop-motion animation director Ray Harryhausen today, plus the UK Looney Tunes releases and Belleville Rendezvous, on their… |
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Regal Entertainment Group's Free Family Film Festival
…Neutron Muppets From Space Rugrats Go Wild Looney Tunes: Back In Action Jonah: A Veggie Tale Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown Road To El Dorado Chicken… |
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TV Shows On DVD on looneys, wackies, cats and cavemen; Top Cat needs help!
TV Shows On DVD have some updates to several highly anticipated animation sets due for release later this year. Follow these links for news on the {{link http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=1829 Looney Tunes… |
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Composer Jerry Goldsmith has died
…as The Secret of NIMH, Mulan, Small Soldiers and Looney Tunes: Back In Action. Despite recovering from cancer, he continued to work through 2002-03 and still had projects ready to… |
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UPDATE: Jerry Goldsmith service
…Zone, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke and Dr. Kildare. Goldsmith also composed the fanfare for the Academy Awards television broadcast. His most recent score was for the 2003 movie Looney Tunes: Back… |
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Warner to debut T-Works animation experience in 2008
…Famous faces from the libraries of Warner Bros. Animation, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera and DC Comics are set to appear in the project. For further details on this exciting news, one… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3 1941-1943
…party, then gets some time at home but comes up again a feathery pest in Wood-Peckin’. Finally, Popeye makes some home cartoons for the nephews in Cartoons Ain’t Human. This… |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…on You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown. Also on the site, don’t forget that our Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 6 contest is still open until midnight this Friday, and that… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
…show built on the resurgence of classic animation following the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, harking back to the great Looney Tunes of old, and arguably provided the most… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…style was predominant in all Hollywood cartoons at this time. Most fun is that fact that the scene (which shows the Triplets in their vaudeville act heyday) is presented –… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…once the angles are very imaginative and the timing throughout does not play as just some Warner Brothers Looney Tunes-in-disguise moments, but that of classic Disney itself. Interestingly, apart from… |
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Home On The Range
…Range too, which does sport a simpler, more angular look that’s more associated by most to the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons (the backgrounds are very reminiscent of Chuck Jones’… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Dante’s Looney Tunes movie, Back In Action. Co-directing here with Mike Gabriel (The Rescuers Down Under, Lorenzo), there is little of the lively energy in the animation that usually personifies… |
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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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Once Upon A Time…; Peter Pan specs…what's up with that?
…still have a couple more days to squeeze in your entry for our Looney Launch giveaway! Right…back to the booty on the Dead Man’s Chest extras… Back soon! – Ben…. |
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Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?
…able to enjoy the content we want – the Looney Tunes from HD-DVD’s Warners, the eventual Disney movie releases on Blu-Ray – without the confusion and inconvenience of two players…. |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4, the Hanna-Barbera titles and Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies releases. Perhaps my pick of the bunch, though, might be the bulky but… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…looked, to my little eyes, like it mixed the characters from the Rankin/Bass stop-motion feature Mad Monster Party with the classic stable of Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes gang. I distinctly… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…such Shockwave animated content. However, the style suits this material miles better than Warner Brothers’ unfortunate attempts to update their Looney Tunes characters to the web, and sends Jay Sherman… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Review: In the grand scheme of things, Chuck Jones will always be remembered chiefly as the instigator behind many of the best Looney Tunes cartoon shorts, and the best animated-cats-in-France-musical… |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…year before Mickey tooted his way across the screen in Steamboat Willie in 1928), but the three-disc set will come packed with a collection of period cartoons, early sound era… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…wacky selection of “rare, lost and strange cartoons” featuring a wealth of vintage material, much of it never before seen outside the film collectors’ market and often transferred from the… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…most of these cartoons for the first time, and it was quite something, like a whole new rush of untapped Golden Age animation come flooding through to be discovered. It’s… |
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Ratatouille
…with the classic Looney Tunes, the film feels made with its crew in mind first and the needs of the young second, but never forgotten. I could keep gushing about… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…and the hi-def 2-Disc Blu-Ray format at very reasonable savings. I’ll be back later this week with a full look at WB’s Looney Tunes 5, so stay tooned! – Ben…. |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…Knight Bugs, one of my favorite Bunny cartoons and one of the many first timers to DVD contained within the collection. Just a reminder that The Best of Warner Bros…. |
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And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!
…reveals, there are many reasons to pick up the set, not least some new to disc Looney Tunes, new commentaries on previously released cartoons, plus the Bugs classics A Wild… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…care. Even when Horton expresses the notion that the speck of dust he claims to be hearing the voices from, he’s dismissed as a looney, a potentially dangerous creature that… |
