Once upon a time, animated movies did not rely on big name celebrities and movie stars to fill out its voice acting ranks. Who but the most diehard Disney fans—or Broadway aficionados—knows for instance that Jodie Benson is the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid? That Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd were voiced by the same guy? That Walt Disney paid Adriana Caselotti little better than scale for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and didn’t even credit her for her work?!
Those days are long gone, as the latest The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer just reminded us. The movie is a virtual who’s who of movie star talent circa the early 2020s: Jack Black as Bowser, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi… and Chris Pratt as Mario. With the exception of Black, none of the hired actors are doing much...
Those days are long gone, as the latest The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer just reminded us. The movie is a virtual who’s who of movie star talent circa the early 2020s: Jack Black as Bowser, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi… and Chris Pratt as Mario. With the exception of Black, none of the hired actors are doing much...
- 11/30/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
In Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara, longtime Rolling Stone contributor Emily Zemler takes a deep dive into how various beloved princesses became the cultural icons they are today, from Snow White’s lasting reign to newer, inspiring royalty like Moana.
The book weaves interviews with historians and those who helped shape the characters, including directors and voice talent, alongside concept art and memorabilia, and breaks down important themes integral to how the princesses serve as inspirations.
Music, of course, is a key element to the storytelling and what makes the characters resonate for decades,...
The book weaves interviews with historians and those who helped shape the characters, including directors and voice talent, alongside concept art and memorabilia, and breaks down important themes integral to how the princesses serve as inspirations.
Music, of course, is a key element to the storytelling and what makes the characters resonate for decades,...
- 9/20/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
It’s the Gold Standard of Christmas movies and likely the oldest feature still broadcast on network TV during the holidays: Frank Capra’s sentimental favorite is his most human movie, the kind of show that convinced people that raising a family is a great idea. Although we’re now a full three generations removed from the world events that surround the story of George Bailey, his problems haven’t dated. Paramount’s anniversary disc gives us a new encoding from a 4K scan, a repressing of the older colorized version, a good making-of piece by Craig Barron and Ben Burtt, a reel of home movies from the film’s wrap picnic in the summer of ’46. . . and a set of ‘Bailey Family Recipe Cards.’
It’s a Wonderful Life 75th Anniversary
Blu-ray
Paramount
1946 / B&w + Colorized / 1:37 Academy / 130 min. / Street Date November 16, 2021 / Available from /
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore,...
It’s a Wonderful Life 75th Anniversary
Blu-ray
Paramount
1946 / B&w + Colorized / 1:37 Academy / 130 min. / Street Date November 16, 2021 / Available from /
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Disney's masterpiece comes to Digital HD on January 19 and Blu-ray February 2.
Walt Disney's original masterpiece Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs makes its first appearance on Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere on January 19, and will release on Blu-ray February 2 as part of the new Walt Disney Signature Collection, which will showcase the studio's animated masterpieces, as well as films inspired by the Disney legacy.
Featuring the voices of Adriana Caselotti (Snow White), Stuart Buchanan (The Huntsman), Roy Atwell (Doc), and Lucille La Verne (The Wicked Queen/Witch), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs changed cinematic animation after its release in 1938, and the acclaimed film has entertained audiences to this day. Check out the new trailer for the Signature Collection Blu-ray release:
Snow White will include a number of new bonus features for its Signature Collection release. They include:
*In Walt’s Words: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – For the first time ever,...
Walt Disney's original masterpiece Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs makes its first appearance on Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere on January 19, and will release on Blu-ray February 2 as part of the new Walt Disney Signature Collection, which will showcase the studio's animated masterpieces, as well as films inspired by the Disney legacy.
Featuring the voices of Adriana Caselotti (Snow White), Stuart Buchanan (The Huntsman), Roy Atwell (Doc), and Lucille La Verne (The Wicked Queen/Witch), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs changed cinematic animation after its release in 1938, and the acclaimed film has entertained audiences to this day. Check out the new trailer for the Signature Collection Blu-ray release:
Snow White will include a number of new bonus features for its Signature Collection release. They include:
*In Walt’s Words: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – For the first time ever,...
- 1/18/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Victor Medina)
- Cinelinx
Snow White was a risk that could have finished Disney. Ryan looks at how the world's first animated feature changed the landscape of cinema
In 2013, Walt Disney Animation Studios released Frozen, its 53rd animated feature. With takings of well over $1bn and counting, it ranks as the most successful animated film of all time, eclipsing the previous title holder - Pixar's Toy Story 3 - by around $200m.
For a generation who've grown up with such films as The Lion King and Tangled, Disney probably seems like an immovable cultural force: as recognisable and unchanging as Mount Rushmore or the American flag. But Disney has survived a series of peaks and troughs since its founding in the 1920s, from its decline in the 1970s and early 80s, its revival in the 90s, and its second burst of creative energy in the 2000s.
From its inception, Disney Animation Studios has moved with the times,...
In 2013, Walt Disney Animation Studios released Frozen, its 53rd animated feature. With takings of well over $1bn and counting, it ranks as the most successful animated film of all time, eclipsing the previous title holder - Pixar's Toy Story 3 - by around $200m.
For a generation who've grown up with such films as The Lion King and Tangled, Disney probably seems like an immovable cultural force: as recognisable and unchanging as Mount Rushmore or the American flag. But Disney has survived a series of peaks and troughs since its founding in the 1920s, from its decline in the 1970s and early 80s, its revival in the 90s, and its second burst of creative energy in the 2000s.
From its inception, Disney Animation Studios has moved with the times,...
- 11/24/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Sergei Eisenstein reportedly called "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" the greatest movie ever made. That's especially high praise coming from the director who virtually invented avant-garde cinema, but it's hard to argue with Walt Disney's landmark achievement. The first feature-length animated movie, "Snow White" began its record-breaking run in theaters 75 years ago this week (on Feb. 4, 1938), and it was hailed immediately, both for its instant impact in transforming the medium and for what proved to be an enduring work of screen storytelling and vivid artistry. Before "Snow White," animation was widely dismissed as crudely drawn short films with singing and talking animals, strictly for kids. But Disney proved animation could work at feature length and yield results as artistically satisfying as live-action film. Today, "Snow White" stands as the template for virtually every animated feature made since, as well as the cornerstone of all the Disney family-entertainment empire has built over the past 75 years.
- 2/7/2013
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Child radio star and the voice of Disney's heroine Cinderella
For the American singer Ilene Woods, it was a job of no particular consequence: to record, as a favour to friends, a few demo tapes of songs they were writing for a Walt Disney cartoon film. But the session would lead to her voice being forever associated with one of Disney's enduring heroines, Cinderella.
In 1948, Mack David and Jerry Livingstone asked Woods to record the songs they were writing for a planned animated feature based on the fairytale Cinderella. Woods recorded the Fairy Godmother's magic song, Bibbidi-bobbiddi-boo and Cinderella's songs, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes and So This Is Love.
Disney had been auditioning actors to voice his new screen heroine and had rejected between 300 and 400 applicants. When he heard Woods's tapes, he declared Cinderella to have been found and offered her the role. Woods, who...
For the American singer Ilene Woods, it was a job of no particular consequence: to record, as a favour to friends, a few demo tapes of songs they were writing for a Walt Disney cartoon film. But the session would lead to her voice being forever associated with one of Disney's enduring heroines, Cinderella.
In 1948, Mack David and Jerry Livingstone asked Woods to record the songs they were writing for a planned animated feature based on the fairytale Cinderella. Woods recorded the Fairy Godmother's magic song, Bibbidi-bobbiddi-boo and Cinderella's songs, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes and So This Is Love.
Disney had been auditioning actors to voice his new screen heroine and had rejected between 300 and 400 applicants. When he heard Woods's tapes, he declared Cinderella to have been found and offered her the role. Woods, who...
- 7/19/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like Trick ‘r Treat (pictured above with Anna Paquin), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Chinatown, Bones Season 4 and the complete Stargate: Atlantis series.
Check them out.
Movies
Anvil: The Story of Anvil ~ Robb Reiner (DVD)
Assassination of a High School President ~ Kathryn Morris, Michael Rapaport, Bruce Willis (DVD and Blu-ray)
Chinatown ~ Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston (DVD)
Contact ~ Jodie Foster (Blu-ray)
Dance Flick ~ Damon Wayans (DVD and Blu-ray)
The Gate ~ Christa Denton, Stephen Dorff (DVD and Blu-ray)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ~ Helena Bonham Carter (Blu-ray...
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like Trick ‘r Treat (pictured above with Anna Paquin), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Chinatown, Bones Season 4 and the complete Stargate: Atlantis series.
Check them out.
Movies
Anvil: The Story of Anvil ~ Robb Reiner (DVD)
Assassination of a High School President ~ Kathryn Morris, Michael Rapaport, Bruce Willis (DVD and Blu-ray)
Chinatown ~ Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston (DVD)
Contact ~ Jodie Foster (Blu-ray)
Dance Flick ~ Damon Wayans (DVD and Blu-ray)
The Gate ~ Christa Denton, Stephen Dorff (DVD and Blu-ray)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ~ Helena Bonham Carter (Blu-ray...
- 10/6/2009
- by Joe Gillis
- The Flickcast
Blu-Ray Review
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – DVD & Blu-Ray: Diamond Edition
Directed by: David Hand
Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Roy Atwell, Lucille La Verne
Running Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Rating: G
Due Out: October 6, 2009
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Plot: The classic Grimm fairytale about a princess who finds haven from her evil stepmother in the warm hospitality of seven dwarfs, each with their own personality.
Who’S It For? The film is for anyone who has ever been a child. The re-release of this particular movie is for those who want a slightly snazzier version of it, or didn’t get a VHS copy when it was last released in 2001.
Movie:
Heigh-ho comes marching the classic animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, freeing itself from the infamous Disney vault for a limited time. Partly re-released to remind us why hand-drawn animation is...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – DVD & Blu-Ray: Diamond Edition
Directed by: David Hand
Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Roy Atwell, Lucille La Verne
Running Time: 1 hr 25 mins
Rating: G
Due Out: October 6, 2009
Click Here to Buy Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs & Save $15
Plot: The classic Grimm fairytale about a princess who finds haven from her evil stepmother in the warm hospitality of seven dwarfs, each with their own personality.
Who’S It For? The film is for anyone who has ever been a child. The re-release of this particular movie is for those who want a slightly snazzier version of it, or didn’t get a VHS copy when it was last released in 2001.
Movie:
Heigh-ho comes marching the classic animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, freeing itself from the infamous Disney vault for a limited time. Partly re-released to remind us why hand-drawn animation is...
- 10/6/2009
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Truth be told, I was never a big fan of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A lot of that has to be ascribed to my dislike of Adriana Caselotti’s voice as the title character. The songs remain wonderful and the animation a delight. I do have to give Walt Disney a lot of credit for ignoring the nay-sayers who felt people would never sit through a feature-length animated film. Of course back then, people were still figuring out what audiences would or would not do. Back then, no doubt, some still regretted adding sound.
The basic children’s fairy tale was simplified for the 1937 film, starting with the excising of Snow’s mother in favor of just presenting the wicked stepmother. When the Queen tries to do away with Snow White, it took her three attempts which Walt cut down to just the poisoned apple. On the other hand,...
The basic children’s fairy tale was simplified for the 1937 film, starting with the excising of Snow’s mother in favor of just presenting the wicked stepmother. When the Queen tries to do away with Snow White, it took her three attempts which Walt cut down to just the poisoned apple. On the other hand,...
- 10/5/2009
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
The one that started it all for Walt Disney is given Diamond treatment on Blu-ray and it has never looked better. The conceited and wicked Queen (Lucille La Verne) can.t stand for anyone to be more beautiful than she. She consults her magic mirror (Moroni Olsen) daily to ask .who.s the fairest of them all.. Usually the Queen is decreed the fairest, but his time is different as her stepdaughter Snow White (Adriana Caselotti) has grown into the fairest in the land. The evil Queen can.t stand for it so she tasks her royal huntsman (Stuart Buchanan) to take Snow White into the woods, kill her, and bring back her heart as proof of her demise. The...
- 10/5/2009
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
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