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Winnie The Pooh and new announcements too!
…year before, this one mixes then-new animation with footage from the New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh television series, but the result “does make up for some of its standard… |
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
…Jim’s son Brian Henson’s excellent Muppet Christmas Carol almost a decade later. There was still enough mileage in these puppet films to warrant another outing, but with Henson actively involved… |
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Release date for Princesss bumped up
According to Variety, Disney has moved up the release date of the traditionally animated feature The Princess And The Frog. Previously slated for a Christmas Day opening, the film will… |
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Goofy, Charlie Brown, and Captain America!
…going to lose him in there one of these days!) for the new deluxe edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas, which also comes bundled as part of the Peanuts Holiday… |
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Bolt: Joe Moshier – one bold, Bolt designer!
…at Disney as a rough inbetweener, I literally had a Kathy Zielinski Frollo scene in my hands before I even had a desk! It was crazy! I guess I was… |
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A bumper weekend post: reviews, announcements and clips…oh my!
…the obvious inclusion of their Christmas Caper goes missing, and the lack of anything else even half-decent makes this a bit of a pricey way to catch something you can… |
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Shrek the Musical opens Sunday 12/14/08 at Broadway Theatre
…in London. Other Broadway: Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into The Woods, Beauty & The Beast, Triumph of Love, and A Christmas Carol. Also, New York City Opera production of Cinderella…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…of tough guy roles, including the hard road drama Hell Drivers (1957), before landing John Drake, the original Secret Agent who beat James Bond to (television) screens by two years…. |
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Wallace & Gromit in A matter of Loaf and Death
…UK this Christmas, reports WallaceandGromit.com. The new film reunites Park with writer Bob Baker who co-wrote the Academy award winning Wallace and Gromit shorts The Wrong Trousers and A Close… |
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M-I-C-K-E-Y…Happy Birthday, Mr Mouse!
…time, Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) and The Prince And The Pauper (1990) featured memorable Disney casts in these classic tales. In the 1980s and 90s, Mickey worked professionally onscreen with… |
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Walt Disney Studios Showcase Event Report
Over at o-meon Chuck Oberleitner gives an in-depth report of the recent Walt Disney Studios Showcase Event with information on Bolt, Car Toons, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, A Christmas… |
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Horton Hears a Who edges out Bee Movie at worldwide box office
…of the U.S., didn’t fare so well with foreign markets generating less than 25% of the total grosses for How The Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat In The Hat…. |
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Airman ready for Zemeckis-assisted flight
…book Airman to the screen, using the same performance-capture technology as before. The plot concerns one Conor Broekhart, a “young man born in a hot air balloon to a family… |
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Angelina Jolie "upset" by Disney films
…into princesses right now and it upsets me.” Clearly the actress has not seen the first look image from Disney’s Christmas 2009 2D feature film The Princess and the Frog!… |
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Richard M. Sherman on Bedknobs And Broomsticks: a Solid Songwriter!
…Gradi, and the Sherman brothers. Put on a hiatus because of the finally greenlit launch of Poppins, its pre-production started again in 1968, just before the Shermans left the Studio,… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…later appeared in holiday specials for Halloween, Christmas, and Easter. Fat Albert was to be the greatest example of Scheimer’s “pro-social” philosophy in Filmation’s series. From here on, most of… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series
…1974, ten years before the show aired. The controversial game that would define gaming for years to come is still popular around the world today. Now in version 3.5, the… |
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Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
Ben’s away for a couple of days, and promises to see straighter when he returns from laser surgery. However, if you wish to see how he saw things before his… |
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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…Pat O’Sullivan, an Australian who got a weak start in his native country before moving to London for a similarly unsuccessful stint, before landing in New York on a mule… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…(or The Roly-Poly Pudding), he’s at risk of being served up as Kitten Dumpling, while it’s a return to safer, fairytale fare in the final Christmas-themed special, The Tailor Of… |
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BCI Announces Second Volume Of Happy Tree Friends
…network in North America. Happy Tree Friends has been in the Top 10 free podcast downloads on iTunes since its debut Christmas week 2005 and boasts an established worldwide merchandise… |
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You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…runs a popular campaign before threatening to sabotage himself with an unpopular speech. The Sweatbox Review: Ah, the holidays. As that special time of years comes close, we see a… |
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Van Eaton Galleries
…studios such as Disney, Warner Bros., and Hanna-Barbera. Some of their recent additions include cels from The Little Mermaid, The Great Mouse Detective, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, and Alice in Wonderland…. |
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The Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries: The Complete First Season
…Bros. film). Tweety is mistaken for a famous bird in San Francisco. It Happened One Night Before Christmas – In another of the show’s more watchable episodes, we discover that… |
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Handmade, Ilion voyage to Planet One
…fulfilled when a human astronaut lands in their midst.” Production for the movie is scheduled to begin in May, aiming for a theatrical release at Christmas 2008 or Easter 2009…. |
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Enchanted
…artists themselves, Andreas Deja and Mark Henn, among others. Although we have a ways to go before classical animation, in the shape of The Princess And The Frog, is back… |
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More Giselle! More Enchanted! More Beowulf!
…News & Views – it’s a fascinating insight into the production, and even better is all the never before seen artwork on show. Click on the images and they’ll pop… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…classic ones, starting with A Charlie Brown Christmas, and remember these specials with the sweet fondness that only nostalgia can offer. Even seeing them again years later, one tends to… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three
…mess up his camping trip in Trailer Horn before taking the next one off (Hook, Line And Sinker has a mountain lion and cub instead) before returning for Out On… |
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Jerry's new book, and Warner's Blu announcement
…though, on Christmas Eve. Insight Editions, publisher of an astounding array of fine books (including a couple of very cool Star Wars limited editions) was kind enough to provide us… |
