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Disney's FastPlay DVD feature is a success with families
The following is a press release from Buena Vista Home Entertainment regarding their unique FastPlay feature found on many of their family-oriented DVD releases, emphasizing their plans to expand its… |
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TV to DVD news: Gargoyles, Thundercats, Fraggle Rock
…own on DVD. Hopefully, this maneuver will increase sales of the DVD sets. Otherwise, Gargoyles – Season 2, Part 2 may never see the light of day. In other DVD… |
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Ratatouille cooks up DVD and Blu-Ray disc editions
…Gift Includes an Exclusive All-New Animated Short, Deleted Scenes and More! From the award-winning team that thrilled audiences with Cars and The Incredibles comes the best-reviewed film of the year!… |
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DreamWorks sticking with HD DVD?
…with HD DVD. This despite the fact that Toshiba, the primary hardware backer of the format, has all but killed it off. The Digital Bits has what may be the… |
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Step in time! Poppins is back, plus new discs and more!
…HD bonuses. Seems that they’ve learned from holding back material from a DVD double pack on the Blu, since the new Penguins cartoons included on the standard DVD two-pack also… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…enjoy the discussion here. It’s a light-hearted chat, but in-depth all the same, and the group point out their inspirations, in-jokes and technical cheats that carried them through production. It’s… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…call 1-800-723-4763 in the US or 1-888-877-2843 in Canada. Thankfully, Disney is honoring international customers too…just send an email explaining the problem and giving your shipping information to: ReportProblem@dvd-videosupport.com and… |
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Heaps of new DVD announcements; plus the new Splits!
…Crystal Skull will try to impress again on October 14, in two disc DVD and BD sets, both priced at $39.99. Extras include eight featurettes, the six-part Making Of The… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…not even a new rap section that seems to be the “hip” thing to include these days. The inevitable influence of Kill Bill is again found in the two and… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…first film. With that story established, and the animals seemingly back in the Zoo, the credits montage begins, expediting their journey from the original and getting them back to the… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…in its original theatrical ratio of 1.85:1, it’s clear from the matting that Rings was animated in the Academy format and cropped in theaters. For the most part the framing… |
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The Smurfs DVD and Blu-ray in December
…Combo, extras on the 1-disc DVD will include a “Find the Smurfs” Game, a “Smurfs: Comic Book to the Big Screen” featurette, and a “Going Gargamel” feature. The 3D Blu-ray/DVD… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…them, a fact that was noticed by the critics of the time of the film’s initial release. The little touches in the backgrounds are fun too, such as the normal-sized… |
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Super Hero Squad Show: Volume One
…main plot of the show centers around a super weapon called the Infinity Sword that was destroyed into different parts called Infinity Fractals. The complete sword would make Doctor Doom… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
…The Simpsons – they do a set-up in the first two minutes, and then they’ll spend the rest of the episode in Africa or something. [laughs] Specifically, Robin Hood Daffy… |
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Animated Comic-Con coverage!
…George Miller. No representatives for the movie were in attendance. Animaniacs and Pinky & the Brain, both finally arriving in their first DVD volumes last Tuesday, were also promoted at… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…the film was boarded and developed in the US (produced by ITC in the UK), the actual animation was handled, as with the earlier The Hobbit, in Japan. It manages… |
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Hoodwinked succeeds on DVD sales chart
In a close race, Hoodwinked beat The Family Stone to claim the top spot on the DVD sales chart for the week ending May 7. In comparison, The Family Stone… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
The good, the bad and the ugly of the past year are all exposed in the return of our annual survey, featuring our top picks in DVD, Blu-ray and theatrical… |
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Black Cauldron DVD details
…as they travel into the depths of the earth and meet the Fairfolk. • The Witches’ Challenge Game—In order to defeat the dark powers of the Horned King, players must… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #81: Ratatouille – Da Brad Bird
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers continue with their Mice & Rats podcast series by reviewing one of Pixar’s most critically acclaimed films: Ratatouille. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV4662843731.mp3 Highlights • Main Discussion:… |
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Trolls World Tour opens
…New York Times says, “While the genre-bridging premise affords the film more variety and verve than its sugary predecessor, the movie… still gives you the sensation of being barricaded in… |
