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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…movie set. I had just never seen animation move like that before. I thought it was even better animated than the cartoons it was ‘parodying.’ At that point, I think,… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…a live-action movie called Raising Helen, and I actually went to the theater to see a different movie but when I thought Lorenzo was about to start I went to… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…version of the song called We Can’t Leave Her Alone and a few of the lines were recited by Eva Gabor as Duchess at some time in the movie, but… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…opposite of what you would associate with Roger Rabbit. AV: The song offers several levels of reading. GS: We were trying to create a song-within-a-movie-within-a-song-within-a-movie, with a layer of self-conscious… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…prepare us for drawing and moving horses around. Horses are one of the most challenging animals to animate. I learned a lot on that movie, especially because it involved lots… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…up at the title’s stone, from which the sword must be drawn. It comes very late into the movie, by which time the audience may well wonder why the film… |
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The Rescuers
…late in the game on VHS and LaserDisc. When the movie was finally issued on those formats, it was from a later re-issue print and all seemed okay. However, a… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…what it wants to be: there’s nothing of the laugh out loud slapstick that usually permeates these types of movies, though Sinbad himself is as flippant as they come (one… |
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The Lion King 1½
…their home, learns about Hakuna Matata, and waits for Nala to turn up, looking for help… The Sweatbox Review: The direct-to-video movie (specifically the Disney video sequel) comes of age… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…become at times. His Mushu almost walks off with the movie, taking the dual roles of a semi-narrator and guide to Mulan. He keeps tabs on the story, becoming involved… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…that every quote from every review wound up by using the film’s title to describe the movie. Well, that’s not going to happen here, folks, no siree! Not that I… |
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Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series
…close to the mark, and some nice animation. Finally, The Siegfried & Roy Movie Fantasy Experience Movie is the purposely long-titled episode that primarily features the magical pair. Without anything… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…an open mind, such was the draw of that central idea. The film opens with a first for a DTV movie I think, the new Disney Pictures logo, which looks… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…the GB name from the company for their much more successful 1984 movie, with Filmation clearly in the running to produce an eventual animated spin-off. When the movie became such… |
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Super Bowl success…but no movie trailers?; new Potter
…have their audiences built in, and awareness is already super-high for these sure-to-be powerful box-office performers. Which leaves this year’s crop of movies vying for commercial break attention to a… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…movie completely fresh might want to skip today’s post… The new Spidey does what a lot of “threes” do in that it doesn’t particularly disappoint, but can’t quite match what… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…a good name for an Oz movie! A Sing-Along option plays four sequences from the movie (Faraway Land, If You’re Gonna Be A Witch Be A Witch, That Feeling For… |
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Paramount Pictures (May 26 1976), Legend Films/Paramount (July 1 2008), single disc, 92 mins, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital Mono, Rated PG, Retail: $14.95 The Movie: Won Ton Ton: The… |
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Fantasia 2000
…was near sacrilege. Financially, the movie did not do as expected since many people felt the movie, with its classical music, was for intellectuals. Plans to have Fantasia in perpetual… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…So, I introduced Ariel in the movie and did Ariel’s last kiss with the Prince at the end. I was kind spread out from beginning to end on the movie!… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…more! Ink And Paint: Colorized in 1992 and previously made available from those masters as a Disney Movie Rewards and Movie Club exclusive, it’s very pleasing to report that both… |
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Hoodwinked Too! toys now at Burger King, despite movie’s delay
Burger King is now selling six new toys based off of the movie Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil with their kids meals. The sequel to the surprise 2006 hit was… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…indeed strange fun! The next, Old Manor House, clearly comes from a later black and white home movie print (as opposed to its “Colour by Technicolor” note in the title… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 5: Down In New Orleans
…spent a weekend. We ran away for a weekend to a hotel resort. Our whole time was going over all of the characters of the movie and everybody got to… |
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Tim Burton to do animated Addams Family movie
Tim Burton is set to direct an animated movie based on artist Charles Adam’s cartoon drawings of the spooky Addams Family. Reportedly unrelated to the 60s TV series and 90s… |
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Neil Patrick Harris: Gargamel won’t be animated in Smurfs movie
Responding to apparent confusion caused by the reports made yesterday that Hank Azaria would be only voicing the character of Gargamel in the upcoming Smurfs movie, Neil Patrick Harris, the… |
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Live action Maleficent movie happening?
Disney is reportedly working on making a live action movie based on one of their most popular animated villains. Maleficent, being penned by Alice in Wonderland screenwriter Linda Woolverton, will… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…Disney films be renamed in the same way, such as “Seven Little Men Help A Girl”) couldn’t do any harm to this great little gem of a movie (later released… |
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Next Pirates movie being made on a tighter budget
…carraige chase in which Jack is chased through London is being cut down to keep things from going over-budget. The fourth movie in a series that has made more than… |
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8 minutes of next Tinker Bell movie now online
ComingSoon.net has just posted eight full minutes of Disney’s upcoming movie Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue. The plot involves its lead pixie meeting a little girl named Lizzy,… |
