• Theory: 30 Of Disney's Animated Features Take Place In The Same World

    Even casual Disney fans have likely noticed that the studio's various animated features often contain subtle nods at each other. Rapunzel from Tangled has Disney fairy tale books in her collection, Nani from Lilo & Stitch has a Mulan poster, et cetera. But what if these aren't mere sight gags from playful animators. What if,…

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  • Disney's Seven Dwarves Getting '7D' Animated TV Spinoff

    With both Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012's rearview mirror, you'd think we could leave this particular fairy tale behind us for a little while. Instead, it turns out that even as Disney was hitting pause on its live-action feature The Order of the Seven, Disney TV was planning its own revisionist Snow White…

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  • VOTD: 'Sucker Punch' Trailer Recut With Disney Princesses

    Sucker Punch hits next week, and I still have no idea what to expect from the film. But despite the fact that I'm not a particularly big fan of Disney's princess characters, seeing them inserted into the trailer for Sucker Punch somehow makes a certain sense. Watch the edit after the jump. Given that this…

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  • First Look: Olivia Wilde As The Evil Queen In 'Snow White', Penelope Cruz And Jeff Bridges In 'Beauty And The Beast'

    Over the last few years, Disney decided to create live-action reenactments of classic Walt Disney Animated classics using some of Hollywood's biggest stars. The first batch included Rachel Weisz as Snow White, Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyonce as Alice in Wonderland. The second batch included Jessica Biel as Pocahontas, Whoopi Goldberg as the Genie, Jennifer…

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  • Walt Disney's 50 Animated Motion Pictures

    Walt Disney Animation Studios has released a short two-minute video celebrating the release of their latest film, by counting down the 49 animated features produced over the past seven decades -- from 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to 2010's Tangled. The video is set to the song "Dreams" by Brandi Carlile. Watch the…

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  • Cool Stuff: Walt Disney's 1935 Animation Manifesto

    On December 23, 1935, Walt Disney wrote an eight page letter to a gentleman named Don Graham at the Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal Arts) asking him to help train new, and improve old, Disney animators. Walt felt that many of the men he employed weren't working up to their potential and that by focusing…

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  • VOTD: Pogo Remixes Snow White

    Australian video remix artist Pogo has been making a lot of noise with his popular video remixes of Disney/Pixar films. In the past, we've featured his video remixes for Up - s Upular, and the Toy Story series  - Toyz Noize and Buzzwings. Composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the films, each…

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  • Time Out's Top 50 Animated Movies Of All Time Curated By Terry Gilliam

    Time Out London has published a list of the 50 greatest animated feature films of all time curated by Terry Gilliam . I'm not sure if this means that Gilliam hand picked the titles on the list, or if the filmmaker was simply commenting on the list created by the TimeOut editors. Either way, you…

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  • Snow White To Hit Blu-Ray Seven Weeks Before DVD Release

    Disney has been a strong supporter of the Blu-Ray format. Dare I say the only studio that puts out discs packed with exclusive Blu-ray features. Pixar's visual commentary tracks were enough to convince me into buying a Blu-ray player. And now Disney has announced another industry Blu-ray first. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will…

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