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Michael Giacchino: not so short on ideas for Pixar Shorts!
…interrupt the other, it would be a definite interruption. In the end, we came down to the conclusion that the tall, thin guy would be more elegant, a little bit… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…the song and kept it in that very intimate space. AV: In that arrangement, the drum kit balances between the brushes and the sticks, which makes the sound balance between… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…liked California, he liked the weather. There was a lot of writing going on there and there were quite a few famous composers in L.A. at the time also. If… |
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Dalmatians 101: Marc’s wife Alice Davis talks about her Legendary husband
…came out, there was an article where this person interviewed 30 women in the movie industry and asked what villain did frighten them the most or they enjoyed seeing the… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Two: Disney executive Doug Short, Giselle’s champion!
…very involved in the physical production of the movie. Both are incredibly talented in unique ways. In fact, Enchanted was one of the most complicated development projects I think I’ve… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…happens to them? They go to the orchestrator, the person in charge of completing the composer’s work by making sure it’s fully playable by the orchestra. That said, there are… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…Narissa’s dress: the color, the scales, her crown, turned into the horns on the beast, again, everything serving as a metaphor for something else in the film. The transformation from… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…from the score. In fact, all of the songs in the film, including the ones in the end credits, are stylistically dissimilar, even one from the other. There was no… |
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Mary Poppins’ Richard M. Sherman: A Practically Perfect Songwriter!
…the dialog. AV: And what kind of an involvement was Walt’s? RMS: Walt was the most hands-on producer in the world. He was involved in every inch of that picture…. |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…well in the context it is placed in, whereas the other songs, in the Never-Land sequences, are sung by the “cast” in the traditional way. They Might Be Giants fans… |
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DisneyMania
…new stars” to perform various Disney hits, in their own contemporary style. The concept is similar to the video/CD experiment of the early 1990s, Simply Mad About The Mouse, which… |
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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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Something for the weekend…?
Well, the Disney Paris feature is coming on a treat…I hope you’ll find it fun and informative when it hits, hopefully early next week, but definitely in the next seven… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…to wading through Your Host, Walt Disney, perhaps the most controversial title in the new wave due to a healthy amount of content being previously available within the Treasures series,… |
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Justice League Unlimited: Season 2 – Winners!
Get set to join the Justice League for their second season of adventures in our exciting superhero giveaway where we teamed with Warner Home Video to give away copies of… |
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Dinosaurs: Seasons 3 and 4 – Winner Announced!
…Fourth Seasons They’re huge. They’re pre-hysterical. The Sinclairs are back in their final two seasons of Earth-shaking fun as they face the challenges of everyday life in sixty million and… |
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home – Winners Announced!
…occasional independent flare, is a neutral in the ongoing war. Their neighbor, Ralph, insists on preparing them for the oncoming takeover by the Communists… Tech Specs: 24 episodes on four… |
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Best Of Casper Volumes 1 & 2 – Winners Announced!
…in stores. About The Best Of Casper Volume 1 It’s the 1950s and Casper reigns supreme in these theatrical Technicolor shorts! Never has there been a friendlier ghost than Casper,… |
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Meet The Robinsons and take them home – Winner!
…of imagination and surprises. Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the fantastical world… |
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WB Academy Award Animation Collection – Winners!
Out February 12, the Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection presents the jewels from the crown of the Studio’s archive of classic cartoons, including shorts from WB’s own Looney Tunes… |
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New Hardy, Scanner Reviews; Snakes On A Plane; Post Updates
…the Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys limited tin set (the further titles will get their respective once-overs very soon), as well as Richard Linklater’s… |
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“Cracking news, Gromit!” site updates…
After the recent news that DreamWorks and their claymation partners Aardman are ending their production arrangement, the future of Aardman has been a little uncertain as to where they might… |
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Cinderella III review and director interview
…make for engrossing viewing. Sure, the animation isn’t as top notch as the 1950 classic, but Cinders III‘s intentions are in the right place and if you can make it… |
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Oscar-winner interview, Abrams' Trek, Laurel & Hardy's animated themes, and more Dinosaurs!
…Henson among others. Also in DVD announcements, Fox have settled on an April 24 date to release the excellent Night At The Museum in single and double-disc flavors. The two-disc… |
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Open Season review; Potter makes it to seven!
As promised, and just scraping in by the end of the week, is my take on the DVD of Sony’s first animated feature offering, Open Season: Special Edition, here being… |
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Jackson up for Tintin; plus Venture and Ghostbusters reviews
…The Lovely Bones, which is how he got tapped by The Beard to get involved in the Tintin movies. Apparently, both Spielberg and Jackson would each direct installments of the… |
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Shrek's directors talk, Dinosaurs, Droopy – and Shrek! – reviewed…
…and saw the latest installment of the not-so jolly ogre’s adventures this weekend. If you enjoyed what you saw, then head on over to our State Of The Art block,… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…to the screen, and the result is Señor Droopy (1949), with the pooch up against The Wolf in the bullring for the hand of the lovely Latin star Lina Romay…. |
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Arthur, Invisibles, and Tex Avery too!
…just before the weekend, and the two-disc salute to Tex Avery’s leading series star, Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection, which I promised and posted last week and then forgot to… |
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Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London
…instrumental in bringing Lee to Disney and will remain heavily involved in the projects, which points to direct-to-DVD features more than anything else even though POW will supposedly “develop and… |
