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The classic fairy tale of Snow White gets a modern twist when Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs premieres in homes and castles everywhere on Digital and On Demand September 18 and on Blu-ray and DVD September 22 from Lionsgate. The heartfelt and humorous action-packed animated adventure follows a princess who learns that true beauty lies within, and we've got an exclusive clip below.

Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs features the voice talents of Chloë Grace Moretz (The Addams Family), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games series), Gina Gershon (Riverdale), Patrick Warburton (Family Guy) and Jim Rash (Community). Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs was directed by Sung-ho Hong and features character design and animation direction from Jin Kim, who worked on Disney's animated classics Fantasia 2000, Frozen II, and Tangled.

This outrageous fairy tale spoof starts as Snow White steals a pair of red shoes that transform her into a princess.

Disney Plus has been a hit huge since it launched late last year, but it’s come under fire from some quarters for its overzealous censorship. For instance, the bizarrely poor CGI covering Daryl Hannah’s behind in Splash or an actress’ barest hint of cleavage in an episode of The Wizards of Waverly Place. The latest peculiar example of this includes a bunch of family-friendly films being blocked on the streaming site’s Kids’ Profile.

If you have kids and Disney Plus, you’ll be familiar with the Kids’ Profile option, which allows you to set up a profile for your child within your account that filters out the unsuitable material and leaves all the suitable stuff. However, CinemaBlend has discovered that a number of titles which 99.9% of parents would agree they’d let their young ones watch are removed on the Kids’ Profile.

There may be more, but

Ann Sullivan, a longtime animator who worked on iconic Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas and The Lion King, has died at 91 from complications due to Covid-19, according to multiple reports.

Sullivan passed away Monday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund (Mptf) nursing facility in Woodland Hills, California, making her the third resident at that nursing facility to die from coronavirus complications.

“There are good days and bad days. This was one of the bad days,” Mptf president and CEO Bob Beitcher told Deadline.

“I expect there will be more before we get through the tunnel. We’ve

(Revisiting the Renaissance is a bi-weekly series in which Josh Spiegel looks back at the history and making of the 13 films of the Disney Renaissance, released between 1986 and 1999. In today’s final column, he discusses the 1999 film Fantasia 2000.) Ambition is the great historical throughline of the Walt Disney Animation Studios. The […]

The post ‘Fantasia 2000’ and the Final Gasps of the Disney Renaissance appeared first on /Film.

Disney Animation Studios has hired four directors, two new and two returning, to create some new original content for the company. Returning are Josie Trinidad, who has previously worked on the art and stories for The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph and its sequel, and Zootopia; and Marc Smith, who did animation for Hercules, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, The Emperor’s New Groove, Chicken Little, Tangled, Big Hero 6, and Zootopia.

The new directors are Carlos Lopez Estrada (Blindspotting), and Suzi Yoonessi. Variety reports that Walt Disney Animation’s chief creative officer Jennifer Lee, who wrote the Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen films, is looking to continue to tell original stories while continuing to diversify the types of films they make.

Here’s what Lee had to say about the upcoming projects and new directors on board:

“We aim to have Walt Disney Animation Studios serve as the premiere home

When Walt Disney put his plans for Fantasia into action, his original plan was to make Fantasia a regular event that was constantly changing and evolving. New pieces of music, new styles of animation, and new additions every time the film series evolved. It would be less of a film and more of an event.

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Unfortunately, Walt's vision never came to pass, but we did get a sequel to the original Fantasia in 1999. Fantasia 2000 is arguably a new and improved concert feature for a more contemporary audience. The film features a wider variety of music and even different styles of animation featuring CGI graphics. This was what Walt wanted, and we're here today to see how the different sequences of the film compare. This is Fantasia 2000 ranked.

The era of Disney films known as the Disney Renaissance had the animation studio turning out some of its most successful stories including The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, and Mulan. This period of iconic classics lasted from 1989 to 1999, and as the new millennium dawned, so did a new period of animation.

We’re here to see how every theatrically released film created since the 2000s by Walt Disney Animation Studios stacks up. This means any movie that fits the criteria — from Fantasia 2000 to 2018’s Ralph Break the Internet — is fair game. It also means all those direct-to-video animated sequels won’t be making the list and neither will films created by Pixar.

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We’ll be basing our scores on the star rating from IMDb. This ranking system uses the votes of registered members to create a weighted average score. If

Alec Frazier on the recent controversy about Disney World and childless adults…

Recently, a parent went on social media and claimed that childless millennials and other individuals without children should be banned from Walt Disney World. This claim has stirred up a great deal of controversy, so we have come up with five valid reasons why people without children can appreciate various aspects of the park in question.

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The Gathering of Gay Days 20 in the Magic Kingdom

Walt Disney World bills itself as the happiest place on earth, which makes it perfect as a place to celebrate pride in one’s culture. Many cultural groups hold outings at the various theme parks, water parks, shopping areas, and more. A number of them have made these events annual, with people coming from around the world to take part. In fact, with films set around the world such as Mulan in China,

“Beauty and the Beast” animator Patty Peraza will participate in the event

“Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King,” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” are just a few of the many movies women animators helped bring to the screen. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, best known as the org behind the Oscars, is giving well-deserved attention to some of the women who have played — and continue to play — an instrumental role in the evolution of animation with an upcoming event, “An Invisible History: Women in Animation.”

“From the earliest pioneers of hand-rendered animated films, to the advent of digital technology, women have been at the forefront of the animation medium, yet their extraordinary contributions have largely gone unrecognized,” the Academy writes on the event page. “Join Mindy Johnson, author of the landmark volume ‘Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation,’ along with a stellar panel of trailblazing artists, as they raise the celluloid curtain on the remarkable history of women in animation.”

Set to be held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills August 7, the event will feature panelists Gretchen Albrecht (“Robin Hood”); Jane Baer (“Who Framed Roger Rabbit”); Lorna Cook, the lead character animator on “The Lion King;” Eleanor Dahlen (“Sleeping Beauty”); Jun Falkenstein (“Despicable Me”); Virginia Fleener, animator at Disney Studios during WWII; Carole Holliday (“Prince of Egypt”); Patty Peraza (“Beauty and the Beast”), the first credited female effects animator at Disney Features; and Tina Price (“Fantasia 2000”), the first female Head of Computer Animation at Walt Disney.

While the film industry in general is plagued with sexism, animation in particular is known as being a boys club. “I wanted to progress and was literally told, ‘No, you cannot, because you’re a woman and you’ll get married and you’ll go away,’” animator Joanna Romersa, who began working at Disney in 1954, has revealed. “I saw many of my male colleagues advance a lot quicker than I did, just because they could bullshit with the boys,” she said.

Head over to the Academy’s website to buy tickets for “An Invisible History: Women in Animation.”

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Simon Brew Nov 13, 2019

Fantasia, for all its merits, isn't many people's favorite Disney film. But in the early '90s, it became the biggest selling VHS ever...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

I don’t think I’m going out on much of a limb to suggest that everyone has a favorite Disney animated movie. Mine is Beauty and the Beast, for an abundance of reasons, not least that it caught me off guard and I wasn’t really expecting the utter treat I got. Yours is likely different.

But also, for all its merits, there are few people, I’d suggest, who list Fantasia as their top choice. Sure, I believe lots of people admire it, and there are segments of the film that remain cherished: "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" sequence is an obvious standout. It’s also bold, ambitious and full of beautiful work. Yet

Simon Brew Feb 23, 2017

Fantasia, for all its merits, isn't many people's favourite Disney film. But in the early 90s, it became the biggest selling VHS ever...

I don’t think I’m going out on much of a limb to suggest that we all have a favourite Disney animated movie. Mine is Beauty & The Beast, for an abundance of reasons, not least that it caught me off guard and I wasn’t really expecting the utter treat I got. Yours is likely different.

But also, for all its merits, there are few people, I’d suggest, who list Fantasia as their top choice. Sure, I believe lots of people admire it, and there are segments of the film that remain cherished: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice sequence is an obvious standout. It’s also bold, ambitious and full of beautiful work. Yet how many watch it on a loop? Furthermore, how

Disney has its fair share of detractors, but few of them would point to the animation studio’s craft when criticizing the occasional sameness of its fairy tales and princess stories. Video essayist Jorge Luengo Ruiz has put together a six-minute video highlighting some of the best shots from more than 40 animated Disney offerings, from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” all the way to last year’s “Moana.” Both the video and a list of the featured movies are below. (via Film School Rejects)

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“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937)

“Pinocchio” (1940)

“Fantasia” (1940)

“Dumbo” (1941)

“Bambi” (1942)

“Cinderella” (1950)

“Alice in Wonderland” (1951)

“Peter Pan” (1953)

“Lady and the Tramp” (1955)

“Sleeping Beauty” (1959)

“One Hundred and One Dalmatians” (1961)

“The Sword in the Stone” (1963)

“The Jungle Book” (1967)

“The Aristocats” (1970)

“Robin Hood

Though Walt Disney Animation Studios has existed in some form for almost 90 years, there is no more important period in its history than the Disney Renaissance, which lasted for the final 15 years of the 20th century. This is the era when more than a handful of Disney’s recent financial, if not full-throated creative, triumphs were released, from the more modestly successful The Great Mouse Detective to The Little Mermaid to The Lion King to Fantasia 2000. (The term “Disney Renaissance” was coined by fans, not in-house, so the definition of when the period extends from can, and should, be stretched to include both the 1986 Sherlock Holmes-esque adaptation that convinced Disney executives to keep funding animated projects and the 1999 “sequel” to Fantasia, which is a fitting tribute to the 1940 classic.) The Disney Renaissance, despite encompassing so many different films, is best identified by a series ...

13 years ago to this day, a revolutionary short film dubbed Destino made its American debut at the Rhode Island Film Festival, just a few months after its world premiere at the Annecy Animation Film Festival. For those who don't know about this revolutionary short, thankfully the full film has been making the rounds again, and we have it here for you to watch below. This short film took a whopping 58 years to complete, after starting as an iconic collaboration between artist Savador Dali and Walt Disney.

Nameless TV came across this short film on YouTube, which was posted back in 2011. Back in 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dali created this animated story of Chronos, the personification of time who falls in love with a mortal. Here's what the opening title card on this short film states.

"In 1946, two legendary artists began collaboration on a short film. More than half a century later,

In the ’50s and ’60s, the Ussr frequently used dogs for orbital space flights in order to determine whether human spaceflight was possible. If you ever wanted to see a cute animated version of their exploits, look no further than “Space Dogs: Adventure to the Moon,” the sequel to the global hit “Space Dogs 3D.” The film follows Pushok (Samuel Witwer), a teenage astronaut determined to find his missing astronaut father. Pushok stows away on a Us rocket ship to the moon, but soon finds he is not alone, as he’s reunited with his mom and encounters a macho monkey and a baby alien. Together, the furry heroes learn the true meaning of teamwork as they join the search for Pushok’s dad. Starring Alicia Silverstone and Ashlee Simpson as Belka and Strelka, the first dogs in space, “Space Dogs: Adventure to the Moon” is a fun,

Can studios really expect theater audiences to keep coming back to old franchises decades after their original release? Looking at data over the last couple decades, the answer has become a resounding yes. This is an in-depth look at why that is.

We all know that sequels are rarely better than the original film. And sequels of sequels tend to be even worse. Audiences are aware of this fact, which is why traditionally sequels usually gross less in theaters than the original film. If audiences don’t respond to the sequel as well as the original film, they are less inclined to see it more than once, or tell their friends to go see it.

It becomes a matter of diminishing returns; studios try to eke out as much business from one franchise before it no longer makes financial sense to release another sequel. And with each sequel making less money,

The Simpsons is paying tribute to Disney characters in the past way ever. Veteran animator Eric Goldberg, known for his work on classic Disney flicks such as Aladdin, Pocahontas and Hercules, animated The Simpsons' couch gag for the Sunday, April 24 episode. In the opening sequence, Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie all take on various Disney characters. Homer has a Jungle Book inspired look, Marge is straight out of Snow White, Lisa is Cinderella, Maggie is the classic Mickey Mouse and Bart takes on Fantasia Mickey. There's classic Disney whimsy while sticking with the Simpsons style viewers have come to know and love. Goldberg's other credits include Fantasia 2000, The Emperor's New Groove,...

75 years ago today, Disney took a risk with the opening of its experimental animated film, “Fantasia.” The third feature film made by the House of Mouse, “Fantasia” was released as a limited-run roadshow attraction, starting on November 13, 1940. The New York Times review published the following day declared it to be a film that “really dumps conventional formulas overboard and boldly reveals the scope of films for imaginative excursion.” Images of Mickey Mouse set to music by Paul Dukas, hippos dancing to the tune of Ponchielli, and centaurs and cupids backed by Beethoven have all become iconic in the decades since its release. The film has further secured its pop culture status with “Fantasia” video games, a follow-up feature called “Fantasia 2000,” and with a spot on AFI’s list of the greatest 100 American films. One “Fantasia” segment will soon get the live action treatment: the nightmarish “Night on Bald Mountain

"Fantasia" wasn't a huge hit when it was first released 75 years ago (on November 13, 1940).

Since then, however, over the course of multiple re-releases, the Disney feature has earned a reputation as a masterpiece for its blend of lushly recorded classical music and dazzling Technicolor animation. It eventually became a huge success in both theaters and on home video and spawned several sequels and spinoffs, not to mention parodies by other studios.

Still, as many times as you've enjoyed the ballet-dancing hippos or Mickey Mouse's botched attempt at using magic to shirk drudgery, there's a lot you may not know about "Fantasia." Read on, and watch out for those magic mushrooms.

1. The germ of the film began when Walt Disney bumped into legendary Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Leopold Stokowski (pictured) outside Chasen's restaurant in Hollywood. Disney told Stokowski of his idea to make one of his trademark "Silly Symphony" shorts out

With Poe’s richly sinister writing and Christopher Lee’s talent, this film should be a treat – but it has the visual flair of a malfunctioning Xbox

How enticing the work of Edgar Allan Poe must be to a producer. So rich in allegory, so fruitful for visual ingenuity and so inexpensive out there in the public domain! Animator Raul Garcia’s 70-minute anthology of five Poe stories, Extraordinary Tales, has its moments, and will be a welcome respite for any middle schooler sitting through a boring lecture. But if we were ever asked if we wanted a second viewing, we’d have to quoth the raven: nevermore.

Garcia, whose work in animation departments range from The Smurfs TV show to Fantasia 2000, unites the individual short films with a peculiar framing device. Between each chapter we check in on a conversation between Poe’s soul, represented by a raven