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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…to rid the colony of them in the belief that they are hording the “gold” for themselves, and Pocahontas and Smith find their love in danger of becoming exposed and… |
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Bambi II
…the theatrical sequel The Rescuers Down Under and the musical pastiche of the character franchise continuation Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers. His weaving of new themes with the established… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…Slipper And The Rose and the original animated Charlotte’s Web among others), they weren’t at the Studio to protect the songs they had written for The AristoCats and many fell… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…cousins on the big screen when they got the chance. Slowly but surely the quality of the animation got better, too, as the crews became accustomed to recreating the characters,… |
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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 –… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…John Musker and myself to consider the idea of setting the fairy tale The Frog Prince in New Orleans. We pitched him the story that became the basis of the… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…even more on classic Disney and set the directing pair on the road to Aladdin, Hercules and the recent return to the Studio’s hand-drawn animation, The Princess And The Frog…. |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or, depending on availability, on the night of the program when the doors open at 6:30 p.m. The Samuel… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…A great addition to the collections of long-time Disney animation fans, this almost makes up for the lack of those Treasures tins. Here’s what I thought of the film, the… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…Because The Lion King was considered an original story there was always the need to anchor it with something familiar. When we first pitched the revised outline of the movie… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…card. More importantly is that Bambi II marks the return of Bruce Broughton to the Studio after his fantastic work on the theatrical sequel The Rescuers Down Under and the… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…to explain their role in the making of the picture, including a potted storyboard version of the story, the work of the layout boys, pencil test footage, original recordings sessions… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…thin premise. There is an unwritten “rule” than the Lion King films all follow Shakespearian themes, with the 1994 original loosely following the plot and events of Hamlet, and the… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…Harpers and the McGees, as Cook named them out of respect to their real-life doppelgangers. But the director admits, “One reason the story of the Hatfields and the McCoys has… |
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Home On The Range
…promos and Blu-ray previews for the Cinderella Diamond Edition, Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, Tinker Bell’s Secret Of The Wings, the Pocahontas and The Rescuers 2-Movie Collections, The… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Blu-ray previews for the Cinderella Diamond Edition, Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, Tinker Bell’s Secret Of The Wings, the Pocahontas and The Rescuers 2-Movie Collections, The Tigger Movie,… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…and interact with the characters on the page, but there’s a little less of their bumping and fumbling with the typed text in the book they inhabit this time around,… |
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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
…in the video game world. Again, the kudos goes to our Talent Development department for finding the artists and bringing them to the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Once they are… |
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Wart, Robin, Oliver and more Pan come to Disney Blu-ray
…Joining the June 11 release of Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Emperor’s New Groove and Lilo & Stitch, and the August 27 release of The Many Adventures Of Winnie The… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…great after the lean years of the previous decade, with the best yet to come. 1989 brought The Little Mermaid, arguably the film that set the template for the next… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…The Brizzi Brothers developed a pitch that traced the dwarfs’ lives up to the point in which they trap the villain into the Magic Mirror, thus setting the stage for… |
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Jobs, Clark, Keane among new Disney Legends
…the extraordinary visionaries and artists behind the Disney magic, the men and women who push the limits of innovation and creativity to ensure Disney remains truly special”. Those added to… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…which Richard and the late Robert explain their involvement in The Sword In The Stone, their first animated picture, and how they came to write the songs for the movie…. |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…Blu-ray didn’t quite make it out by the end of the year, so for classic animation fans, The Puppetoon Movie is the clear winner for 2013! Read the full The… |
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Frozen: The Poster Collection
…into the arms of its lucrative audience of, primarily, young girls, their older sisters, and their mothers. The latest to come along in the line might initially smack of the… |
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Disney announces Wreck-It Ralph sequel coming March 9, 2018; Gigantic delayed to November 21, 2018
…films from WDAS, along with The Rescuers Down Under, Fantasia 2000, and Winnie the Pooh. Based on an image released with the announcement, it looks like this sequel might be… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…into the list of more lackluster Disney productions of the 1970s. On the other side of the fence, you’ll find a whole generation who saw the film on original release… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez celebrates the art of Disney’s mid-century era
…on how the inspirations and limitations of these legendary artists helped shape the future of animation. AnimatedViews: In your preface, you write that the artists of the 1950s broke the… |
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Frozen II
…her people out of Arendelle. She and the others head north to uncover secrets hidden in the past, the repercussions of which are endangering their present, and may change the… |
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Luca opens on Disney+
Pixar’s Luca is out today on Disney+. It’s a hit with the critics earning a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Their consensus: “Slight but suffused with infectious joy, the beguiling Luca… |
