Buena Vista Home Entertainment have announced the release of The Aristocats Special Edition on 5th February 2008. Features include: 1.75:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, English DD5.1 Surround, English, French and Spanish languages, Never-Before-Seen Deleted song, Games and Activities: Disney Virtual Kitten ROM, English Read-Along The Aristocats, Disney Song Selection, Bonus Short – “Bath Day†a cartoon short from 1946 featuring Figaro, and Backstage Disney: The Aristocats Scrapbook.
ComingSoon scored a preview clip from the recently released Futurama: Bender’s Big Score DVD. Check it out below:
Just a friendly reminder to let you all know that Futurama: Bender’s Big Score is available on DVD beginning today! It is the long awaited return on Futurama so please go out and buy it. Show the network execs that we want more Futurama. They don’t care about all the emails and petitions you guys sign… they care about numbers! So go out and BUY the movie, don’t pirate it!
Here are direct links to places you can buy it:
DreamWorks Animations’ Shrek the Third is now available on HD DVD and standard DVD. If you plan on getting it, try to get it this week. New releases tend be on sale during their first week.
The DVD version includes hours of bonus material such as “Shrek’s Guide to Parenthood,” where viewers receive parental advice from Donkey, Puss in Boots, Pinocchio and Gingy. Another cool feature included is “Shrek Shmash-Ups,” which allows viewers to choose and mix scenes from all three Shrek films and put them to music.
The HD DVD version includes a number of interactive and web-enabled features. “The Animators’ Corner” is an interactive, picture-in-picture experience featuring storyboards relevant to the scenes on screen. “My Menus” are customizable character-themed menus; “Shrek’s Trivia Track” features pop-up fun facts; and “Donkey’s Digital Coloring Book” is an interactive coloring book that allows viewers to digitally paint their favorite scenes.
It’s a great day for animation lovers who own a Blu-Ray player as Pixar’s Ratatouille, Cars, and Short Films Collection Vol. 1 are now available. All three are also available on DVD for you non-HD folks out there.
John Lasseter, CCO of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios told AWN, “Blu-ray is really exciting because I feel for the first time that you can truly see a Pixar film because there are so many details that get lost on the DVD. Also because of the amazing amount of data available on the Blu-ray, it makes it so you can do special features that you can’t do in any other technology. We have the ‘Cine-Explore,’ which is like having a commentary with visuals. So it’s like watching the movie, hearing the commentary and seeing a documentary at the same time. It’s for real cinephiles, and, for me, as a filmmaker, it’s great because this becomes the ultimate document on the making of the film.”
Warner Home Video is preparing The Smurfs: Season One, Volume One for release on DVD February 26, 2008.
Outfitted in O-sleeve packaging that features embossing and foil accents, the two-disc box set will contain 19 re-mastered and uncut cartoons from the series’ premiere season, along with a special bonus episode, plus a Smurfs music video.
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced that 101 Dalmatians: Platinum Edition comes to DVD March 4, 2008 for a limited time only.
101 Dalmatians: Platinum Edition is restored with enhanced picture and sound and includes all-new, never-before-seen bonus features such as: “Redefining The Line: The Making Of 101 Dalmatians”, “Cruella De Vil: Drawn To Be Bad” where Marc Davis, an animation legend, eveals how this iconic character came to be, Deleted Songs and much more!
The folks over at Collider were lucky enough to sit down with various people from Pixar including Brad Bird and John Lasseter who are out promoting the upcoming DVD/Blu-Ray release of Ratatouille.
Check out the interviews:
Brad Lewis – Producer
Michael Giacchino – Composer
Brian Dennehy (Voice of Djano) and Andrew Jiminez (Animator)
Brad Bird (Director) and John Lasseter (Executive Producer)
Warner Home Video’s Looney Tunes Collection Vol. 5 is now and offers 60 re-mastered, unedited classic cartoons — including some rarely-seen shorts, plus more than five hours of special features including commentaries by filmmakers, writers, animators, historians and alternate audio programs.
Each of the collection’s four discs is dedicated to a Looney Tunes character or special theme:
Disc 1 pays homage to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
Disc 2 is a collection of wacky takes on classic fairy tales
Disc 3 is devoted to the work of Bob Clampett
Disc 4 celebrates some of Looney Tunes’ earliest cartoons
Acme Filmworks has released 18 DVD compilations of short animated films from The Animation Show of Shows which has toured the world, screening the best in animated shorts.
Each of the 18 volumes features three films and sells for $5. The three box sets include six of those volumes and sell for $30. Fans can also purchase all three box sets for $90. The DVDs are available exclusively at filmporium.com
Definitely check them out and support this great effort!
Via AWN
Universal Studios Home Ent. Canada and Nelvana Enterprises have announced a seven-year deal that will see Universal manufacture, market and sell five properties on DVD for Nelvana Enterprises in Canada
The properties include: Jane and the Dragon, Grossology, DI-GATA Defenders, Ruby Gloom and a feature-length Franklin movie.
Via AWN
Surf’s Up, from Sony Pictures Animation, is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and PSP. Surf’s Up about surfing penguins is directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck. Surf’s Up stars the voices of Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder, James Woods and Mario Cantone.
Bonus features include:
THE CHUBBCHUBBS — The original Oscar-winning animated short
“Not A Drop of Real Water” — Three-part doc that takes viewers behind-the-scenes of the movie
Music Video — Lauryn Hill “Lose Myself”
Arnold’s Zurfinary — Arnold gives a kids-eye view of surf terminology
CREATE YOUR OWN SURFBOARD game
LAVA SURF game
WHALE HOPPING game
Filmmaker commentary
Check out the trailer for the upcoming Futurama movie, Bender’s Big Score, coming to DVD on November 27th!
Universal Studios Home Entertainment have announced the 13th entry in the Land Before Time franchise, The Wisdom of Friends, scheduled for DVD release on November 27. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Sandra Oh will provide voices for two new characters, Loofah and Doofah.
In The Land Before Time: The Wisdom of Friends, Littlefoot and his friends must guide two goofy yellow-bellied dinos, Loofah and Doofah back to their herd. Along the way, Littlefoot realizes that their comically strange survival techniques demonstrate a different kind of wisdom.
Via AWN
Warner Home Video has entered a multi-year, exclusive worldwide home video distribution deal for PEANUTS, the syndicated comic strip by Charles Schulz. The distribution deal includes the Peanuts library and original made-for-videos for home video and new media distribution.
Under the terms of the agreement, WHV will exclusively distribute multiple Peanuts DVD titles, which include more than 50 classic television specials and television series episodes. The first of these releases includes a deluxe edition of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, scheduled for release on Jan. 15, 2008, followed by a deluxe edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown scheduled for release Feb. 26, 2008.
The agreement also includes production of new made-for-DVD titles as well as new short-form content for digital distribution via wireless, EST and video-on-demand platforms.
Via AWN
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