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17 items from 2012
David Gest and Patsy Palmer to have magic birthday party
9 May 2012 5:03 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
David Gest and Patsy Palmer are celebrating their birthdays together with a magic-themed party on Friday night (11.05.12). The producer and the 'EastEnders' actress - who are close friends - will celebrate turning 59 and 40 respectively at a 'Music & Magic Ball' which will feature a special show by magician Dynamo and a DJ set by birthday girl Patsy, who has just took a break from her role as Bianca in the BBC One soap. There will also be performances from 12 of the biggest-selling soul musicians of all-time, including 'You Got The Love' singer Candi Staton, legendary Motown act Martha Reeves & The Vandellas and Peabo Bryson - who sang on Disney tracks 'A Whole New World (Aladdin's »
Thn’s Top 10 Disney Movies: Part 2
5 May 2012 3:07 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
To celebrate the release of the legendary Beauty And The Beast in 3D, Thn is taking a look back at the very best Disney films of all time. To appease the purists, we have omitted any joint productions with Pixar (we need to give the others a fighting chance, after all). There is a multitude of cinematic greats in The House of Mouse, and we have found the diamonds in the rough. Numbers 10 – 6 can be found here, below you will find the top five.
So why don’t you just ruminate, whilst we illuminate the possibilities.
5. Beauty And The Beast (1991)
Here it is. The movie whose return to the cinema we are celebrating at Thn. It will no doubt dazzle in 3D but even with a mere two dimensions, it is a magically romantic spectacle. We all know the story, let’s get down to what makes it so glorious. »
- John Sharp
Disney Goes Back to Hand-Drawn Animation; First Poster for Studio’s ‘Paperman’ Arrives
26 April 2012 1:05 PM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Disney has kept flirting with the return to hand-drawn animation for some time now. They’ll occasionally go all the way with their attempt to go back, making The Princess and the Frog, though other shots — next year’s Frozen, for instance — get their plans scrambled and come out in the industry standard CG form.
Another experiment is just around the corner, however, with BleedingCool having noted that, at one point, The Disney Animation Research Library’s Facebook page posted a hint pertaining to legendary animation duo John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin). What might that be? Well, it turns out they’re “currently working to develop the next hand-drawn feature at Disney Animation.” We, the general public, just can’t know what it is.
The site claims Musker and Clements were once working on an adaptation of Terry Pratchett‘s massive Discworld series of books, but »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
This Week in Soundtracks – April 10, 2012, includes ‘Damsels in Distress’
14 April 2012 5:02 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
A review of soundtracks and scores released the week of April 10, 2012.
Think Like a Man: Music From & Inspired By the Film – Various Artists
Think Like a Man is a comedy based on the book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey. The film follows four couples as the women use advice from Steve Harvey’s relationship book against the men while the men discover this and try to use that knowledge against the women.
This is a relationship film that contains an almost completely African-American cast. It’s no surprise this has an R&B-heavy soundtrack. Think Like a Man – Music From & Inspired by the Film brings together a collection of mostly new songs from popular artists like Jennifer Hudson, Ne-Yo, Keri Hilson, John Legend and more. Highlights of the soundtrack include the title track by Jennifer Hudson and Ne-Yo and the two older tracks »
- Christopher Laplante
The Lost, Forgotten & Undersung Projects Of Joss Whedon
11 April 2012 8:04 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Joss Whedon is about to have a very good week. The writer/director/producer has, until recently, been best known for his work on television: he turned his poorly-received screenwriting debut "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" into one of the most beloved cult series of all times (which itself got a long-running spin-off, "Angel"), and followed it up with the short-lived but passionately followed sci-fi Western "Firefly," a show that lasted a single season, but managed to get its own cinematic sequel, "Serenity," which marked Whedon's big-screen directorial debut.
Until now, "Serenity" has been the director's best-known entry into the movies, but that's all about to change. He wrote and produced the inspired, raucous horror flick "The Cabin In The Woods," which hits theaters on Friday, and tonight sees the world premiere of "The Avengers," the Marvel superhero team-up movie that is one of the most keenly anticipated films of the year, »
- Drew Taylor
Legendary Animator Glen Keane Leaves Disney
25 March 2012 11:30 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
In what many saw as a shock, veteran Disney animator Glen Keane, one of the so-called celebrity animators from Disney’s “Second Renaissance” in the early 1990s, designing and animating immortal characters like Ariel from “The Little Mermaid,” the Beast from “Beauty and the Beast,” and Aladdin from “Aladdin,” left the studio on Friday. Keane had been with the studio for almost thirty-seven years (he briefly departed from the studio to do freelance work but was still contracted almost exclusively for Disney). In his letter of resignation (posted at Cartoon Brew), Keane said, “I am convinced that animation really is the ultimate art form of our time with endless new territories to explore. I can’t resist its siren call to step out and discover them.”
Keane is the son of Bil Keane, creator of “The Family Circus” cartoon strip. Keane joined Disney in 1974 after leaving Cal Arts, and was mentored by Ollie Johnston, »
- Drew Taylor
Daily Briefing. Kuroswawa @ This Must Be the Place
25 March 2012 3:17 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
This Must Be the Place, one of the finest tumblrs out there for cinephiles (and let me hasten to add that there are more than a few!), has just wrapped an intense week-long special focus on Akira Kurosawa. Take a look at these paintings set next to their realizations on screen. In fact, just start by clicking on the Akira Kurosawa tag and take a leisurely weekend stroll through stills, animated gifs, quotations, posters and more.
Reading. At Movie Morlocks, David Kalat argues that another Kurosawa, Kiyoshi, is responsible to a considerable degree for a revival of interest in Japanese cinema in the West in the late 90s; the turning point, he argues, is Cure (1997).
René Clément's Gervaise (1956), an adaptation of Émile Zola's 1877 novel L'Assommoir, "is a masterpiece," argues Mark Le Fanu in Sight & Sound, "as good an example as one can get of the 'tradition of quality' »
Animator Behind Ariel and Aladdin Leaving Disney
24 March 2012 11:35 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Yesterday was Glen Keane's last day at Disney Feature Animation, where he'd worked on and off since 1974, creating a pantheon of cartoon princes and princesses, heroes and heroines, for an entire generation to grow up with. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Keane (in the photo, the man on the right) was responsible for, among other greats, Ariel in The Little Mermaid, the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin in, well, Aladdin, and most recently Rapunzel in Tangled. "I am convinced that animation really is the ultimate form of our time with endless new territories to explore,” he wrote in a letter to his colleagues, adding, “I can’t resist its siren call to step out and discover them." While his next move remains unknown, maybe he should consider a jump next door to Pixar, now that the John Carter debacle has threatened Andrew Stanton's tenure there as Animator Supreme. »
- Andre Tartar
Veteran Animator Glen Keane Is Leaving Walt Disney Animation
23 March 2012 7:07 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Animator Glen Keane, a 38-year veteran of the Walt Disney Animation Studios who worked on such classics as The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, announced Friday that he is leaving the company. In a letter sent to his co-workers, he said that while the studio has been his “artistic home,” he had decided after “long and thoughtful consideration” that there are “endless new territories to explore” and so he is moving on. Keane played a key role in the Disney animation renaissance of the ‘90s, and his departure came as a shock to many
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- Gregg Kilday , Borys Kit
Michael Monahan Talks Horror Hosts and More
7 March 2012 10:22 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Horror fans today are spoiled. With the vast array of films available on DVD and Blu-ray via storefronts like Best Buy and Fye, online outlets like Amazon and Deep Discount, and rental/streaming services such as Netflix, there are few films that are unattainable. Virtually anything one might hear of is available some way, somewhere. But it wasn't always so...
Back at a time before disc (or VHS for that matter), the only way - and I mean the Only way - to see classic and not so classic genre pictures was on broadcast television. As a kid, I remember getting the local TV Guide and a yellow highlighter and systematically going through the listings, marking each and every show time of movies I'd heard about either from friends or ones that were obliquely mentioned in Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland . I would meticulously go over each entry »
- Carnell
White Collar Season 3 Episode 14 Review: Save The Blues For The Symphony
8 February 2012 7:05 PM, PST | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
Episode 314: Pulling Strings
After Elizabeth (Tiffani Thiessen) was kidnapped at the mid-season break and catching a criminal in last week’s episode, Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) deserved a vacation weekend–but it was no picnic in the Central Park. That left Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer) in the capable hands of Diana Barrigan (Marsha Thomason) and his ex-girlfriend, Sara Ellis (Hilarie Burton) who specifically asked for Neal’s help as she was running her own investigation of Bryan McKenzie, her boss at Sterling Bosch.
We learned a little bit of Sara’s past as her fling with Neal was a rebound relationship off of break-up where she broke off an engagement with McKenzie when he was arrested in Beijing. When they searched McKenzie’s place there were an awful lot of pictures of Sara and Bryan. Neal wasn’t the only one withholding information in that relationship.
With Sara and Diana running point, »
- Ernie Estrella
Al Pacino Get Animated, Replaces Javier Bardem As Villain Of 'Despicable Me 2'
6 February 2012 8:22 AM, PST | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
At this point, it's easier to name the actors who haven't lent their voices to a big CGI animated film than it is to name the ones who have. Ever since Robin Williams played the genie in "Aladdin" back in 1992, stars have been a key part of bringing audiences into big-screen cartoons, while Pixar have given rare lead roles to character actors like Craig T Nelson and Patton Oswalt in their admirable policy of going with the right person for the voice first, and a name second. As such, there's only a few holdouts, A-list or otherwise, to hit the recording booth, and their ranks just got a little smaller, as a man who's been a star for forty years is about to make his animation debut. Deadline report that Al Pacino has signed on to play the bad guy in "Despicable Me 2," Universal and Illumination Entertainment's sequel to their 2010 smash hit, »
Once Upon A Time, Ep. 1.11, “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree” – I dream of Giancarlo
30 January 2012 8:07 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Once Upon A Time, Season 1, Episode 11: “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree”
Written by Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss
Directed by Bryan Spicer
Airs Sundays at 8pm (Et) on ABC
Giancarlo Esposito of Breaking Bad fame takes a creative leap from hardened drug lord to Genie of Agrabah (the fictional land in Disney’s Aladdin). Unlike Robin Williams hyperactive comic, Esposito chooses to play Genie as a forlorn prisoner to his lamp who wants nothing more than true love. When Snow White’s father, King Leopold finds the lamp, he uses one of his three wishes to free Genie from his lamp. As the episode unfolds, Genie becomes a trusted counselor in King Leopold’s court. Though grateful, he soon becomes captivated with the king’s wife, who we know as the Evil Queen. His desires soon get him into trouble and explain how he eventually becomes the Queen’s magic mirror. »
- Ryan Clagg
Disney's 50 Finest: In Order of Awesome
13 January 2012 9:00 AM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
Just days before the release of "Tangled," Disney shocked the world by announcing the film would be their last fairy tale princess story. But while there was much wailing, another, more positive milestone has been somewhat overlooked: "Tangled" marked the studio's 50th animated feature.
We know what you're thinking: Surely Disney has made more than 50 movies, right? And it's true, they have. But if there's one thing Disney knows even more than animation, it's how to protect their brand, which is why they've designated some of their features to be official classics and others -- like "The Jungle Book 2" or "Pete's Dragon" -- to be, you know, just something they do on the side for giggles and grins.
To celebrate the release of "Beauty and the Beast 3D," we review and rank all 50 official Disney animated features. Let the subjectivity begin.
50. 'Brother Bear' (2003)
Hey guys, remember "Brother Bear, »
- Scott Harris
New Set Images from Tarsem Singh’s Snow White Film Mirror Mirror
12 January 2012 2:43 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
It’s officially 2012, which means we’re that much closer to the first of two Snow White films set for release this year. First out of the gate will be director Tarsem Singh’s Mirror Mirror (followed by Snow White and the Huntsman this summer). A gallery of new official set photos from the film has been released, giving us a look into Singh’s artistic process of bringing Snow White to life. The trailer for Mirror Mirror (described as a “comedic adventure) wasn’t exactly promising, but the visuals on display in these photos are pretty stunning. Disney regular Alan Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast) is working on the score for the film, so it’s safe to say that we’re in for a pretty fluffy version of the Snow White fairy tale. Hit the jump to check out the photos. The film stars Lily Collins, Julia Roberts, »
- Adam Chitwood
Extended Thoughts on Beauty and the Beast
5 January 2012 8:06 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
There is an inexorable, inexplicable quality about some great movies, as there is about great art in general. Sometimes, yes, we can pinpoint exactly what makes a movie work so well, why it becomes one of our favorites, why it wins awards, why critics love it, or why it makes millions of dollars at the box office. The script is insightful, the direction is incredible, the visuals are eye-popping, the performances are immense powerhouses of talent. These are easy ways to calculate what makes a movie work, but sometimes, we see a movie and we just like it. Sometimes, you can’t put your finger on one element about a movie that burrows itself under your skin, but you love it all the same.
Now, don’t get me wrong: Beauty and the Beast has a lot of clearly standout aspects to it, but I don’t know that I »
- Josh Spiegel
Extended Thoughts on Atlantis: ‘The Lost Empire’
5 January 2012 6:12 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
I imagine something that matters most to many of the people fortunate enough to work for the Walt Disney Company, especially those in Walt Disney Feature Animation, is the legacy they get to not only leave behind, but create. Sure, most of those people will never get the same kind of recognition that Disney himself or, these days, John Lasseter gets from the adoring public, but the legacy they leave behind can be just as powerful or important. There are a few really good modern examples of this; two directing duos were involved with some incredibly influential films, even though theirs are not household names. John Musker and Ron Clements directed Aladdin and The Little Mermaid, the movie that pretty much singlehandedly saved Walt Disney Pictures from mediocrity, embarrassment or, even worse, obscurity.
But Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale are the duo I want to focus on for just a bit. »
- Josh Spiegel
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