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Cats Don’t Dance

…time animation director, Mark Dindal was given the difficult task of making the next animated feature for Turner Animation a success. This was the studio that had previously made the…

A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa

…Muppet Show at ATV Elstree and The Great Muppet Caper movie at the Film Studios across the street – both studios located in my home town of Elstree and Borehamwood….

Despicable Hollywood

studio that feeds of Pixar’s offcuts, right from when both studios launched competing bug movies A Big’s Life and Antz, the similarities between some of the DWs movies can not…

Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack

Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures (June 9 2006), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (November 10 2009), 2 disc gift set, 116 mins plus supplements, 1080p high-definition 2.39:1 widescreen, Dolby Digital…

Burton, Timm, Katzenberg to receive Winsor McCay Award

…live action features, has had a strong influence on the world of animation. Burton began his career as an animator (Tron, Fox And the Hound) at the Walt Disney Studios…

Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs

20th Century Fox Animation/Blue Sky Studios (July 1 2009), Fox Home Entertainment (October 27 2009), 3 disc set, 94 mins plus supplements, 1080p high definition and 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, DTS-HD…

Merry Madagascar

…the characters alive on screen than by the Studio following the Shrek route again (hey, if it works for one set of characters, it’s sure to work for them all,…

The Prisoner: The Complete Series

…aficionados will have a fun time spotting the EMI Elstree Studios and Grade’s ATV Studios in the background, as well as the much-used Edgwarebury Hotel and other local film landmarks…

Disney heads back into The Black Hole

…remake of the Studio’s 1979 space drama The Black Hole. At the time the company’s first PG-rated movie and its most expensive film to date, featuring the first glimpses of…

Plastic Man: The Complete Collection

…and Transformers ruled. One of the companies producing TV animation during the era was Ruby-Spears Enterprises, a mini-Studio who managed to churn out some decent shows among the stinkers (I’ll…

Disney Legend Richard Todd passes away at 90

One of Walt Disney’s biggest contract stars of his Studio’s early forays into live-action filmmaking, Richard Todd, has died peacefully at his home in Lincolnshire, England, age 90, after losing…

Anchor Bay unleashes the fire for Dante

…this unprecedented project enlisted some of the best animation studios in the business to create unique visions of the underworld, including such noted Asian animation studios as Production IG (Kill…

The Princess and the Frog

…animated theatrical film from any studio in years, it features a new Disney princess, it is the return of the musical to Disney, and it could be seen as the…

1978 Rings deluxe cover art

…be seen here along with a press release from the Studio: Ralph Bakshi’s Animated Classic The Lord of the Rings Returns in a Newly Remastered Deluxe Edition on April 6…

Henry Selick bringing stop-motion back to Disney

…with Disney/Pixar to make stop-motion features for the studio. John Lasseter’s decision to bring Selick back to the studio is seen as another boost for the painstaking hand-crafted technique. The…

Mighty Mouse movie back in development

According to the LA Times, a Mighty Mouse movie is once again in the works at Paramount, though the studio is still looking for a writer and director for the…

Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo

…Bros. Home Entertainment Archive Collection, the move to bring the Studio’s impressive library of titles has proven to be a big hit with collectors, with the Archive Collection allowing WB…

Armageddon

…so big it took two studios to make!” as the publicity shouted: Allen had combined two books (The Tower and The Glass Inferno) owned by competing studios and managed to…

20,000 Leagues to surface…twice?

…a dive when incoming Disney Studio chief Richard Ross torpedoed Dick Cook’s proposal for a McG-directed blockbuster, but now it is reported that David Fincher has come aboard to steer…

Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection

…amenable brother via some pretty convincing split-screen. Director S. Sylvan Simon again keeps things moving and, for what might have been passed over as a B-Picture at other studios, the…

Day & Night

…be found in Chronicle’s lasted collaboration with the CG studio, but it does result in a lovely pictorial souvenir of a wonderful cartoon, which has already been honored by finding…

Batman Beyond hits DVD

…Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video’s film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage…

Fantasia will amaze ya: full details

…on November 30. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is opening the Disney vault to be able to present these two films that broke the boundaries of imagination in the highest…

Toy Story‘s full specs and final artwork

…TO ENJOY! They’re back! Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios present the critically-acclaimed, global box office smash Toy Story 3, an exciting, heart-warming story filled with humor, adventure…

Timmy Time

As we wait with baited breath for the next feature-length project to emerge from the UK’s Aardman Animation studios, which will be their first collaboration with new distribution partners Sony,…

Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition

…Hyperion Disney Studio found in the Snow White set from last year, although this time, because the emphasis is so closely focused on Beauty And The Beast as a center,…

Prep & Landing landing again

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ holiday hit Prep & Landing is about to become a Christmas television franchise with not one but two follow-ups in the works. Full details can be…

The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition

…makes it a much more personal prospect than a big studio picture, and sitting with them to hear about the production is extremely interesting. Some of the predicaments I had…

The Essential Bugs Bunny

…many of Warner Bros’ controlled titles now rest with the Studio’s Archive Collection line of manufactured on demand discs. Already, in only the past couple of months, those followers of…

Animated shorts up for an Oscar

The Wrap has announced the contenders for Best Animated Short film at the 83rd Academy Awards. Pixar’s “Day and Night” is nominated, but the studio has not won an Oscar…