Fifty-three years ago ... and twenty-eight years before I was born ... my favorite Disney animated feature debuted in theaters ...
Lady and the Tramp premiered in Chicago on June 16, 1955 ... The film is Walt Disney Animation's fifteenth feature animated masterpiece ...
Lady and the Tramp became the first Disney film made in CinemaScope ...
~Papi Chulo~
This is the most smurftastic news I've heard all day ...
Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation have gotten the rights to produce a big screen adaptation of the animated classic The Smurfs ...
Papa Smurf, Smurfette and the rest of the bunch will be featured in a live action/CGI-hybrid movie ... The filmmakers hope that this initial installment will span a movie franchise ...
~Papi Chulo~
After negotiating new contracts ... the principle voice cast of The Simpsons is getting a pay raise ... The principle cast members will receive $400,000 per episode upon signing their new four-year deal ...
The new pay will be effective with the series' 20th season ...
Because negotiations took some time to complete ... the upcoming season will contain just 20 episodes ... instead of the usual 22 ...
~Papi Chulo~
Disney releases Sleeping Beauty on Blu-ray disc in October ... This will be the first Disney animated classic to appear on the high-definition format ... particularly with high-tech viewing options not possible on DVD ...
Sleeping Beauty will use technology known as BD Live (which connect to the Internet) ... once viewers pop in the disc ... they will get a customized version of the famed castle that serves as a background for the main menu ... the sky will reflect weather conditions in the viewer's hometown ...
Viewers will be able to chat with friends on the movie screen as they watch ... they will be able to insert customized video messages in the movie and send them to family/friends via a "movie mail" feature ...
Viewers will also be able to play trivia games with viewers across the country ... and they will receive a constant supply of new trailers ... and trade in "reward" points (earned from some of the disc's features) for ringtones and wallpapers ...
Bob Chapek (President of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment): "[Sleeping Beauty] will revolutionize the way people will interact with and view movies in the home. We pulled out all the stops in launching this technology."
~Papi Chulo~
A poster for the all-animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars film has been released ...
The movie will be released on August 15 ...
~Papi Chulo~
Last week Grand Theft Auto IV crashed into stores ... and sales exceeded $500 million ...
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said the game sold more than 6 million copies in its first week out ... In fact it sold 3.6 million PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 units on April 29 alone ... its first day on the shelves ...
Grand Theft Auto IV had the biggest opening week of any entertainment product ... It killed Halo 3's $300 million first-week sales ... as well as Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End's $404 million worldwide in its first six days ...
~Papi Chulo~
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has inked a $100 million contract with 20th Century FOX TV ...
The new contract has him creating new episodes of Family Guy through at least 2012 ...
The deal also includes American Dad, The Cleveland Show and a live-action comedy ...
Seth MacFarlane: "I get a lot of pleasure out of making shows. It's a bonus to be getting paid well for it, and it's a double bonus to be getting paid exorbitantly for it."
~Papi Chulo~
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios announced their animated theatrical release schedule through 2012 ...
During the three-hour presentation ... Disney-Pixar head John Lasseter announced that Tinker Bell would be getting her own direct-to-DVD franchise ... Miley Cyrus will lend her voice to this fall's Bolt ... and Toy Story and Cars will get sequels and a 3-D outing ...
Lasseter discussed Disney's return to the 2-D animated musical with The Princess and the Frog ... as well as Disney's first computer animated musical Rapunzel ...
Here is Disney-Pixar's complete release schedule ...
Continue reading "Disney-Pixar Announce Four-Year Release Schedule" »
FOX announced Friday that the Hills will be back ... King of the Hill has been renewed for a 13th season ... The network ordered 13 episodes ...
King of the Hill premiered in 1997 and is the second-longest running animated series in primetime ...
It isn't known if the rest of FOX's Sunday animated comedy block will return as well ... If The Simpsons returns it will be celebrating its 20th season on air ...
Matt Groening (The Simpsons Creator): "I honestly don't see any end in sight. I think it's possible that the show will become too financially cumbersome. but right now, the show is creatively, I think, as good or better than it's ever been. The animation is incredibly detailed and imaginative, and the stories do things that we haven't done before. So creatively there's no reason to quit."
I am sure FOX will renew The Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad ... The network is more than likely waiting until May Upfronts before announcing its full 2008-2009 schedule ...
~Papi Chulo~
The Boondocks: The Complete Second Season - Uncut and Uncensored arrives in stores on a three-disc set on June 10 ...
The set includes exclusive bonus features and two exclusive episodes that were "too hot to air in the US" ...
Here is the press release ...
Another season of the must-own provocative Peabody Award-winning comedy, Sony Pictures Television's The Boondocks: The Complete Second Season - Uncut and Uncensored debuts on DVD June 10 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Based on Aaron McGruder's award-winning and politically charged comic strip, the three-disc DVD includes all 13 uncut and uncensored episodes from the broadcast season as well as two exclusive bonus episodes never-before-aired in the U.S.: "The Hunger Strike" with guest stars Cee-Lo, Donald Faison, Tavis Smiley, Debra Wilson and "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show" with guest stars Donald Faison and Debra Wilson. Extensive bonus features include commentary from Aaron McGruder on his favorite episodes, and an individual character profile featurette. The set will be available for $49.95 SRP.
Continue reading ""The Boondocks" - Season 2 Arrives on DVD in June!" »
Disney announced Thursday that it would be teaming up with several Japanese companies ... mainly Toei Animation Co., Madhouse Co. and Jinni's Animation Studios ... to produce animation for Japanese television ...
Madhouse Co. and Disney will produce a brand-new 30-minute program titled Stitch! ... a spinoff series based off of the Lilo & Stitch series ... to be aired in Japan ...
Hawaii will be traded for a southern Japanese island ... and Stitch's sidekick will be a Japanese girl named Hanako instead of Lilo ...
With Jinni ... Disney will make a cartoon titled Fireball which will air in April ... With Toei Animation ... Disney will produced Robodz which will air sometime in June ...
There isn't an official airdate for Stitch! ...
~Papi Chulo~
Below is the final one sheet poster for Disney-Pixar's summer release ... WALL•E ...
WALL•E opens in theaters on June 27 ...
~Papi Chulo~
FOX has plans to develop a spinoff series based off of Family Guy's popular character Cleveland Brown ... Cleveland is Peter Griffin's bathtub-loving ... accident-prone neighbor ...
The new animated series ... tentatively titled Cleveland ... will be created by Family Guy/American Dad creator Seth MacFarlane ...
Details surrounding the series hasn't been made available ... But I am sure it is safe to assume that the series will revolve around Cleveland's family ... It isn't certain if Cleveland will still appear on Family Guy ...
It is unknown when Cleveland will land on FOX ...
~Papi Chulo~
~Papi Chulo~
Here is a brand-new extended trailer for Disney-Pixar's latest ... WALL•E ...
The film is set to be released in theaters on June 27, 2008 ...
~Papi Chulo~
The Walt Disney Company posted online their 2007 Annual Report yesterday ... The report is usually fancied by those that enjoy keeping track of financials ... and hardcore Disney fans ...
Something that will certainly whet the appetite of animation fans ... is the inclusion of a small image from Disney's upcoming feature ... a return to traditional (read: 2D) animation titled The Princess and the Frog ...
Here is the small glimpse of the eagerly anticipated feature ... which stars Disney's first Black princess ...
The image is from a scene with the film's title character Tiana looking out off of a balcony ... It was used as the backdrop for the final page of Robert Iger's Letter to Shareholders ...
The movie is scheduled for a 2009 release ...
~Papi Chulo~