Courtesy of blog.moviephone.com “Waking Sleeping Beauty” is a documentary that gives you a look into what happened behind the scenes of animated Disney movies, as they made their comeback from the ...

Larry Mantle discusses the new documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty. The film chronicles both the prolific and turbulent period of Disney animation history, from 1984-1994, and the studio's resurgence ...

Oh, what simpler times they were when Disney was trotting out movies like "The Little Mermaid" and "The Lion King" every year.Those bright, colorful animations, arriving annually like clockwork, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Hard as it is to believe today, it was not so long ago that animation in ...

The beast behind “Beauty and the Beast” is a familiar one: Jealousy. While audiences marveled at the storytelling, artistry and music in the Disney cartoon, executives were jockeying for position. At ...

One of the sleeper documentary hits of SXSW, this film has been getting tons of critical acclaim. While documentaries rarely get wide theatrical release, I think once you see the trailer that Disney ...

Surprisingly sharp look at a difficult period for Disney’s animation studio—the eighties and nineties—takes what could have been a vanity project and elevates it to an engaging story about ...

Walt Disney movies are the stuff of legends. Literally. Our most popular fables and myths are not Aesop’s, nor from the Brothers Grimm, but the story of a plucky meerkat and warthog who help a lion ...