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The final trailer for the Disney's live - action adaptation of the 1991 animated classic features new footage as well as Ariana Grande and John Legend's duet
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You can now add Pinocchio to a list (that also includes Mulan, Cinderella, Dumbo, The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland and Beauty and the Beast) of classic animated movies that the studio is — or will soon — turn into live - action features.
Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.
We switch between the classic animated Disney movie and the live action re-make featuring Emma Watson as Belle.
Finding a new audience for Dr. Seuss's books can only be a good thing, and uncovering the original, classic animated features spawned from those books is almost as fun.
One of Disney's absolute, undeniable classic animated features.
At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to make a film to put them on a par with Pixar in terms of being able to make animated family films that will last the test of time as classics in their genre, rather than populist features that work primarily in the here and now.
If Raymond Chandler and Chuck Jones had ever sat down together over a few beers, this is what they might have come up with: a fantastic amalgam of classic private eye mystery and brilliant razzle - dazzle Looney Tunes cartoonery — undoubtedly the greatest animated film noir feature ever made.
Meet «King of the Indie Animators» Bill Plympton (Idiots & Angels) and celebrate the release of his classic hand - drawn animated feature Hair High on DVD.
Just when I thought that the days of great 3D animated features were coming to a point where they just were going to be nothing but regurgitations of things that have come before, I can thank Bird, as well as the technical brilliance of the folks at Pixar, for shattering my preconceptions, by crafting yet another classic to be revisited time and again, now and for future generations.
Also new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled films of the year, the feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).
IBTrav Illustrations released the first in a new collection of limited edition Lost Mysteries two - inch enamel pins this week, featuring «The Spooky Shape of Haddonfield», as Michael Myers is depicted in IBTrav's signature style as one of the classic villains from an animated episode of Scooby - Doo.
Although not as popular as most of Disney's animated features, it still remains a minor family classic, charismatic enough to win most people over with ease.
Based on the classic novella by Antoine de Saint Exupery, the animated feature has a stellar voice cast that includes Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro, James Franco, Ricky Gervais, Paul Giamatti and Albert Brooks.
As Disney has done more often for its sequels than its animated classics, the feature's audio is offered in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS varieties.
Frozen: Featuring one of the year's best soundtracks, Disney's Frozen is a new animated classic that should be remembered as such in the years to come.
Winner of the Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature Film, this gorgeous film based on the classic children's book of the same name is coming to Netflix.
Writer Jason Fuchs and director Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) have created a Peter Pan «origin» story that lacks any touch of whimsy or enchantment from the original books or the numerous film adaptations: the 1953 Disney animated classic, the 1991 Steven Spielberg / Robin Williams / Dustin Hoffman vehicle, the underrated 2003 live action version from director P.J. Hogan, or even last year's Live TV broadcast featuring Allison Williams as Peter.
Next up come two classic animated Disney shorts featuring Pluto and cats.
Also new this week is the Blu - ray debut of two classic animated features from Studio Ghibli.
If Ratatouille still retains a viable contender as a spoiler, it's not because audiences continue to drink whatever Pixar puts in the Kool - Aid that gets, as Laurie Anderson would say, «ah - dults» hailing each of their new movies as the studio's everlasting masterpiece of classic filmmaking (making it simply a matter of time before one of them actually wins an award outside the best animated feature playpen), but rather because its presence in this category might remind voters that one or two of the striking writers aren't just trying to feed their own mouths.
The first part of the presentation will focus on Walt Disney Animation Studios, leading to another reel — showing brief clips from many classic animated features of the past, ranging from «Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs» to «Beauty and the Beast» to «Tangled.»
In classic tradition of Disney animated features, Big Hero 6 opens with a cartoon called Feast.
Even for a non-anamorphic laserdisc transfer port, Disney's 33rd animated classic disappointed, with video that made it hard to believe the feature was less than a decade old.
After stumbling through their own in - house CGI animated features, Disney (with a little guidance from Pixar's creative leader and new Disney animation czar John Lasseter) finally finds the right balance of classic animation magic and contemporary sensibility with this comic musical adventure version of the «Rapunzel» fairy tale.
Jesteadt said that nevertheless, the title will play well to the dedicated art house crowd, noting that fans of Sony Classics» 2007 animated feature Persepolis ($ 4.44 M domestic gross) are a natural audience for the film.
Munro Leaf's children's classic The Story Of Ferdinand, about a pacifist bull who'd rather smell flowers than chase after matadors, gets the big - screen treatment in an animated film that features the voices of John Cena, Kate McKinnon, and, uh, Peyton Manning.
March 17, 2017 — I'm not the biggest fan of live - action remakes of classic animated features à la «The Jungle Book» and «Cinderella.»
Although the director only directed 8 animated features over the course of his time running Studio Ghibli, all of them are bonafide classics of animation.
The second director to arrive on stage was Chris Columbus to talk about his action comedy PIXELS (July) featuring two casts of characters, animated classic video game characters including Pac Man and Donkey Kong and another featuring Sandler, Peter Dinklage, and Josh Gad.
While Disney roles on with their money making live - action remakes of their classic animated features, they are courting talents of all different types for their projects with Skyfall director Sam Mendes in early talks to direct their Pinocchio adaptation.
Mamoru Oshii's 1995 animated feature is a classic for good reason, but it's never been perfect.
Though there's no touching the early wave of classic Disney animated features, when the studio reinvented its animation department in the late 1980's they had a run of successful and impactful films that deserve to be shelved near those great...
Featured presentations include historical and contemporary classics, cult favorites, animated classics, creature features and restored prints and reissues presented on the BIG SCREEN, frequently with filmmaker guests in attendance.
While that Best Picture nominee, the first ever animated feature to be so honored and the only one to do it when there were only five contenders, obviously owed a huge debt to Jean Cocteau's landmark 1946 adaptation of the classic Jeanne - Marie Leprince de Beaumont fairy tale, thanks to lush characterizations, superb animation, brilliant set pieces and a marvelous soundtrack it instantaneously entered the pantheon of all - time great Disney classics.
With March comes «Horton Hears a Who,» the CGI - animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic featuring a slew of famous voices, including Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, and Jim Carrey, who will try to atone here for the Seuss mockery that was «How the Grinch Stole Christmas.»
BURBANK, Calif., September 28, 2005 — Swing into action and adventure with Disney's classic animated masterpiece, TARZAN ®, packed with fun - filled bonus features and soaring, unforgettable music including «Trashin» The Camp» and the Academy - Award ® winning «You'll Be In My Heart» (Best Original Song, 1999).
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Last month, actress Lindsay Lohan made headlines when she sent out a side - by - side Instgram photo that featured both the actress and the animated version of Ariel from the Disney classic The Little Mermaid.
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Since the fall of 2013 she has been a regular co-host on The Disney Film Project podcast, a show dedicated to reviewing every film released by the Walt Disney Company, from the classic animated features to Pixar and LucasFilm.
Based on the all - new Netflix animated series and inspired by the classic toy line, Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters features Stretch, along with his partners -LSB-...]
Disney's latest live - action fairy tale feature moves away from the studio's famous animated filmography to adapt a literary classic, instead.
Kurt gives a sparkling review of the latest Studio Ghibli animated feature; a Japanese spin on the classic British children's novel The Borrowers.
Following on from the news that Ariana Grande and John Legend are recording a duet for the film, Total Film has released four new images from Disney's highly anticipated live - action adaptation of the animated classic Beauty and the Beast featuring Belle (Emma Watson), Beast (Dan Stevens), Gaston (Luke Evans) and Le Fou (Josh Gad); take a -LSB-...]
Disney made their name producing animated features based on classic fairy tales.
At least this film has, like many classic Disney animated features and shorts, a well - known source at its core.
What truly makes the character fascinating however is the voiceover performance from South Park co-creator Trey Parker; he has mentally never left the 80s, boasting his own curated selection of classic songs from the era's one - hit wonders (I'm not sure what it says about me that this animated feature has one of my favorite licensed soundtracks of the year), often grooving along to his evil doings.
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Whether you show this vintage TV version or the feature - length 2012 animated film, or simply read the book aloud, The Lorax is a classic way to share an environmentalist message that's not too heavy - handed.