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Okay Class, Pay Attention Because There'll Be A Test Afterwards
…Brother Bear. It’s long been my belief that movies can teach valuable life lessons and do not have to be merely shallow entertainment and it’s good to know there are… |
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This week's box-office earners…
…after 6 weeks 9. The Cat In The Hat, with $4.2m topping up a $90.8m total after 4 weeks The recently DVD-announced Brother Bear is still around, at no. 17… |
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BFCA nominations announced; \\Finding Nemo\\ to compete for the top award
…Oscar nominations”. \\Finding Nemo\\ picked up nominations for Best Picture and Best Animated Film. \\Brother Bear\\ and \\The Triplets of Belleville\\ also received nods in the Best Animated Film category…. |
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Ultimate Disney's ultimate DVDs!
…number one, and the upcoming Brother Bear as the most requested pre-roder. Also today is a look at early specs for Disney’s catalogue release slate for some re-issues and live-action… |
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Bruno Bozzetto's new feature: Mammuk
…the TV show Quark. But Bozzetto’s main passion is still producing his own shorts: he won many awards in his career, most notably the Golden Bear at the 1990 Berlin… |
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Belleville Region 2 DVD!
…compile for their release (plus, bear in mind that UK region 2 PAL discs speed up the 24-frame film to 25-frame video process and do not run at the original… |
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And the nominations are…
…for prizes in the ceremony, to be held February 7th at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, are this year’s animated big hitters Finding Nemo, Brother Bear, Looney Tunes: Back In… |
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Disney To Spend "A Day With Wilbur Robinson"
…Dorothy McKim, A Day with Wilbur Robinson is set to be directed by Steve Anderson (head of story on The Emperor’s New Groove and Brother Bear). Disney’s Burbank-based animation studio… |
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Academy Award nominations announced
…ever sound editing nomination for an animated film (no animated film has won either category). Best Animated Feature: \\Brother Bear\\, \\Finding Nemo\\, \\The Triplets of Belleville\\ Best Animated Short: \\Boundin’\\,… |
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Jobs disses Disney
…ability yourselves”… Jobs criticized Disney’s last two animated efforts, this year’s \\Brother Bear\\ and last year’s \\Treasure Planet\\, as ‘flops’. “No amount of marketing will turn a dud into a… |
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"We're All Family Under The Skin:" Report from the Annie Awards
…of the other team as well as works from outside these two big studios. Personally, I saw Brother Bear, Finding Nemo, and The Triplets of Belleville and enjoyed all three…. |
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Jason Raize, voice of Denahi, dead at 28
…who was the first to portray Simba in The Lion King on Broadway and also supplied the voice of Denahi from Disney’s Brother Bear. Thanks to Kristin for the alert…. |
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Sony greenlights first animated film
\\{{link http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117900376?categoryid=13&cs=1 Variety}}\\ reports that Sony Pictures Animation has greenlit \\Open Season\\ as its first film. “\\Open Season\\ tells the story of a 900-pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog and… |
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\\Variety\\ handicaps Oscar race
…a nom in nonanimation… shows it has a lot of support” \\Brother Bear\\: “the least likely to win the award”, “this is possibly the last 2-D animated film Disney will… |
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THE 76th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS – Nemo wins, Rings is King and Krumpet amazes!
…The Far Side Of The World Seabiscuit Animated Feature Film: Brother Bear Finding Nemo The Triplets Of Belleville Costume Design: Girl With A Pearl Earring The Last Samurai The Lord… |
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Former Florida Disney animators form Funnypages Productions
…The Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, and Brother Bear. Bancroft was also a character designer and director for Big Idea Productions makers of the family-friendly Veggietales video series…. |
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Triplets Of Belleville on DVD: worth holding out for later release?
…the extras from the French 2-disc SE included in both languages too. As usual with such releases, there may be multi-lingual packaging to bear, but it sounds as if it… |
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Bob Iger, Disney's president and COO, to speak to investors
{{link http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20040302005957&newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view Business Wire}} reports that Bob Iger, The Walt Disney Company’s president and COO, will appear at the Bear Stearns 17th Annual Media, Entertainment and Information Conference at 12:45… |
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Hey hey hey! It's Faaaaaat Albert
…link to the animated world the same article informs us that Jeremy Suarez, who provided the voice for Koda in Brother Bear, will be providing the voice for Fat Albert’s… |
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A little bit of Chicken Little
…Chicken Little, Disney’s first completely computer-generated movie produced sans Pixar, as seen on disc 1 of the upcoming Brother Bear 2-disc set, due out in Region 1 on March 30…. |
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2004 Key Art Awards finalists
…nomations. Animated highlights from the list include Finding Nemo receiving 11 nominations (the most for any movie this year), Pirates of the Caribbean receiving 5 nominations, and Brother Bear and… |
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Chicken Little teaser now online!
Can’t wait until Tuesday to catch the Chicken Little teaser on the new Brother Bear DVD? Well head over to this French {{link http://www.disneyvideo.fr.st Disney fan site}} which has a… |
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Chicken Little teaser now in QuickTime
…Chicken Little teaser}} debuted last month on the Brother Bear DVD and is now up at the site in full QuickTime quality. Despite rumblings that the film is being re-worked… |
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It's official: Mickey owns Kermit
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=109703 Toon Zone}} reports that Disney CEO Michael Eisner has officially announced that The Jim Henson Company’s Muppets and Bear In The Big Blue House properties are now part… |
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Want to be IN the Gargoyles DVD?
…interested in the event, check out the con’s website here. However, TV Shows on DVD does warn, “Bear in mind that there are no guarantees: plans for DVD supplements change… |
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Frank Thomas has passed away…
…and spaghetti dinner in Lady and the Tramp, Thumper teaching Bambi how to ice-skate, Baloo the bear telling the man-cub Mowgli that he can’t stay in the jungle in The… |
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Lion King director to co-direct Open Season
…Season, which features the voices of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, is a buddy comedy about a happily domesticated 900-pound grizzly bear named Boog (Lawrence), who has his comfortable world… |
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Mulan DVD worth the double dip
…Akira}} and a new limited edition disc that compiles all of {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/271 The Complete Adventures Of Cubby Bear}}, a long lost cartoon character created by the Van Beuren Studio…. |
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Animated characters from different networks join forces
…from \\Arthur\\, \\Barney\\, \\Bear in the Big Blue House\\, \\Between the Lions\\, \\Blue’s Clues\\, \\Bob the Builder\\, \\The Book of Pooh\\, \\Clifford the Big Red Dog\\, \\Dora the Explorer\\, \\Jimmy… |
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Report from the Incredibles screening with Brad Bird
…Fox and the Hound and said that some of the people in charge of it purposely kept out some of the best material, but that the bear fight sequence turned… |

