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Walt Disney Home Entertainment recently publicized release details for the upcoming Diamond Edition remastered release of its 28th animated feature film The Little Mermaid. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, The Little Mermaid premiered in theaters in 1989 and won Academy Awards for Best Original Score (Alan Menken) and Best Original Song (“Under the…
The Walt Disney Company won big in the animated sector of the 55th Academy Awards, with Disney/Pixar’s Brave taking the Best Animated Feature Academy Award and Disney’s short “Paperman” winning the Best Animated Short Oscar. Co-directors Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman accepted the award for Brave, marking the first Oscar win for each and the…
Walt Disney Animation Studios has uploaded director John Kahrs’ animated short Paperman onto Youtube. The short is noted for utilizing a new technology called “Meander” that Disney created in-house, which renders the characters and backgrounds digitally and layers hand-drawn art over those shapes to create 2D animation with a unique appearance of depth. Paperman was…
If The Princess and the Frog and Tangled were earnest attempts by Walt Disney Animation Studios to invoke the past virtue of the “Disney Renaissance” of the late 80s and the 90s, Wreck-It Ralph represents its own take on the current trend of reimagining some element of pop culture for a family comedy. Few will…
Chad from LewToons has started a new feature on his Twitter in which he’ll be rounding up some of his favorite recent articles from our site and Facebook page. New episodes will come out approximately twice a month. In Episode #1 of Toon News, Chad discusses the Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi, PETA vs. Pokemon, Studio Ghibli’s…
Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will mark its 75th anniversary with a special screening at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Animation Magazine reports. The classic feature–the first produced by Disney–will screen on Saturday, April 14, at 1:00pm as part of Turner Classic Movies’ TCM Festival. Related Content from ZergNet: ZergNet
Any old movie runs the risk of looking dated to modern audiences. Intractable problems in classic films can often be solved in seconds by modern technology, cutting-edge film techniques can look awful or clichéd, and changing societal mores can make the innocuous into the questionable or the outright offensive. There’s a fine line that separates…
The Lion King 1 1/2 Simba, Nala, Timon and Pumbaa are Back For a Limited Time, Includes a New Timon and Pumbaa Bonus Feature Available March 6, 2012 on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital (click to enlarge) Synopsis: The king of animated films reigns in this final chapter of The Lion King trilogy, now breathtakingly beautiful…
The songs are also some of the best Disney’s done, with “Hakuna Matata” and “Be Prepared” memorable for different reasons; the former for its instantly hummable melody, laid back feel, and gorgeous lush jungle visuals to go with it, and the latter for its menacing nature and not-so-subtle allusions to Nazi Germany with Scar’s goose-stepping…
