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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Black And White, Volume Two

…in which Peg Leg Pete (here without the peg leg) competes with Mickey to try and get the girl, Minnie (wearing her strange skirt and bra combo from her early…

D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets

…DisneyToon Studios’ Planes, Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph, Disney•Pixar’s Brave, Disney•Pixar’s Monsters University, an untitled Pixar film from Director Bob Peterson, an untitled Pixar film from Director Pete Docter, John Carter, Tim…

Official Synopsis for Mickey's Three Musketeers

…use them in a dastardly plot to rid the kingdom of Princess Minnie – the only mouse standing between Pete and the throne! Pete makes the trio official Musketeers and…

MacCurdy, Snyder join Technicolor for Berkeley Breathed project

Technicolor Animation, previously Paprikaas Animation based in India, has welcomed veteran producers Jean MacCurdy and Fonda Snyder on board to develop their new property, Pete & Pickles, based on the…

The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!

Pete Docter and his latest film. Animation or otherwise, 2015 was of course all about the deceptively simple genius of Inside Out [right], easily my film of the year until…

Animated coverage of the 78th Annual Academy Awards

…Shearer (Peeping Tom), Fayard Nicholas (Stormy Weather), Joel Hirschhorn (Pete’s Dragon), Sandra Dee (Gidget), John Fiedler (Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day), Anthony Franciosa (A Hatful of Rain), Stu…

The Rescuers

…the three Pooh featurettes that had originally been intended as a feature; Pete’s Dragon, another live-action/animation musical combination that, as with the Studio’s Bedknobs And Broomsticks, had a less than…

The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…

…with Ward Kimball on Man and the Moon and other shorts, before moving on to special effects with Mary Poppins, Pete’s Dragon and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and a new generation…

Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!

…up liking Pete’s Dragon: High Flying Edition on DVD. I love, love, love this movie, it being one of my formative Disney experiences, and I’ll defend it to the hilt!…

Beauty and the Beast

…Stromberg’s Maleficent was another box-office hit, Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella was a faithful delight, and Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book was a visual majesty. Even David Lowery’s reimagining of Pete’s Dragon

RIP, Shelley Winters

…in the Disney classic Pete’s Dragon (1977), as Lena Gogan. For more information on the life of Shelley Winters, recommended sites include the Associated Press via Yahoo! News and the…

The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition

…The Small One featurette and animation for Pete’s Dragon, left to establish his own studio with a group of likewise disgruntled Disney animators. This event, coming half-way through The Fox…

Suicide Squad crosses $300 million mark

Suicide Squad continued its strong run at the box office today, crossing the $300 million mark, Box Office Mojo is reporting. Pete’s Dragon, meanwhile, had another “okay” weekend, and has…

The BFG

…couple of box-office duds, but while Pete’s Dragon, only a moderate earner, and especially Alice Through The Looking Glass were undeserving disappointments, The BFG in retrospect seems to have received…

Miyazaki’s first is revisted by a new contributor!

…had on the market. Where their then-contemporary releases included The Rescuers, Pete’s Dragon and The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, Miyazaki’s Cagliostro was a straight action adventure epic –…

Suicide Squad wins second weekend at box office

…Meanwhile, Disney’s critically acclaimed Pete’s Dragon remake made an “okay” $21 million, which was probably less than what the studio was hoping for after heavily marketing it during the Olympics….

Timon and Pumbaa Are Dead: The Animated News Lion King 1½ Review

…With The Wind, Pete’s Dragon, Julius Cæsar, The Fiddler on the Roof, The Little Rascals, Lady and the Tramp, The Sixth Sense, The Lone Ranger, Casablanca and Apocalypse Now. When…

Disney alumni pass away

…to animation fans as villain Jim Dale’s sidekick in 1977’s Pete’s Dragon and as the voice of Robespierre in Chuck Jones’ 1962 feature Gay Purr-ee, while {{link http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=barnard+hughes&btnG=Search+News Barnard Hughes}}…

2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…everyone agreeing that they had watched an excellent film. Dungeons & Dragons: An Animated Anniversary The popularity of Dungeons & Dragons was growing by the early 1980s. To take advantage,…

The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!

…too… Topping this infamous list are a pair of Mouse House inadequacies: Pete’s Dragon and The Great Mouse Detective. While we’re big fans of both movies – and both movies…

Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)

…and presented with the film in some international markets, The Peter Tchaikovsky Story, an episode of Walt’s weekly TV show, is a dramatic recreation of the composer’s life. This was…

The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!

Pete’s Dragon, The Fox and the Hound and The Black Cauldron. Ron Clements made his writing-directing debut with John Musker on the 1986 Disney animated feature The Great Mouse Detective….

2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…images of upcoming books. Among them was what looked to be the cover to the next How to Train Your Dragon graphic novel called Dragonvine. The sequel to this year’s…

2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive

…even McClure, asked her questions. She got to explain how awed she was getting to be in a movie alongside the likes of Peter O’Toole, Faye Dunaway, and Peter Cook…

Disney announces ten animated films through 2012

…Pixar Animation Studios Director: Pete Docter Co-Director: Bob Peterson Producer: Jonas Rivera Writer: Bob PetersonVoice Talent: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Jordan Nagai From the Academy Award-nominated team of…

2D Pixar films still a possibility

…asked Pete if Pixar would ever do a traditionally animated film. Pete replied with, “If the story ever called for it we are certainly open to it. The notion that…

Toy Story: full 10th Anniversary DVD details

…Pixar creative executives, including the film’s Academy Award-winning director John Lasseter, as well as writers Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft; a fantastic behind-the-scenes ‘making of’; hilarious deleted scenes;…

Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!

…and [Michael] Eisner had just taken over and they were looking for ideas for animated features. I was partnered with a story person named Pete Young and his wife had…

Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille

…unusual to send a resumé by email. The company was just beginning pre-production on Toy Story and needed directors to replace John Lasseter, Pete Docter and Andrew Stanton in the…

Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

…award at the Oscars that year, it is really director Pete Docter’s competing film that has stood the test of time more solidly, unhampered – until this summer (or by…