New Disney titles for 2012 (Rescuers Aristocats Pocahontas etc.) !

[zafisher94]

Originally Posted by RayCRP

How about the chances that Disney will pull a "Beast" with Aladdin, and one year after its initial Blu-ray release, they'll release a 3D version? Flying through the cave and "A Whole New World" would be amazing in -- wait for it -- a whole new dimension.

I don't recall Disney has announced their 3D conversions for 2014 yet, so... One can hope...

you never know, considering they're re-releasing TLM in 3D, and already did BatB and TLK in 3D, it would seem odd to leave Aladdin out (as it was part of the major 4 films that made the Disney Renaissance)

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by RayCRP

How about the chances that Disney will pull a "Beast" with Aladdin, and one year after its initial Blu-ray release, they'll release a 3D version? Flying through the cave and "A Whole New World" would be amazing in -- wait for it -- a whole new dimension.

It'd be unlikely, since they've already got the 2D version pegged, but then, that didn't stop Beast either.
It's in digital CAPS form, and it's the last of the "Big four", so it's not out of the realm of possibility.

[zoodermin]

Cinderella II & III are coming to Blu-ray on Nov. 20:

http://www.amazon.com/Cinderella-II-...ella+2+blu+ray

According to Blu-ray.com, it will be a 3-disc combo pack with the two movies on one BD and a DVD of each movie.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...08#post6079208

[arcadeforest]

Nice collection of Disney titles. No Robin Hood but I expect it next year as it would be its 40th anniversery.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by zafisher94

you never know, considering they're re-releasing TLM in 3D, and already did BatB and TLK in 3D, it would seem odd to leave Aladdin out (as it was part of the major 4 films that made the Disney Renaissance)

I'd love to see Roger Rabbit in 3-D, but I don't think The Little Mermaid has the draftsmanship to hold up.

[TruBlu06]

I just bought a copy of Snow White Blu from eBay the other day. I hadn't seen in several years, you forget how good the Disney classics are. Has there been any news of a 75th Anniversary release of Snow White this year? It should be up for it since it was made in 1937.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I'd love to see Roger Rabbit in 3-D

(Yeah, every other scene in the movie was thrown on a screeching collision course into the audience's face, why not go all the way? )

[Destron]

I want Up and Finding Nemo

[yumny]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I'd love to see Roger Rabbit in 3-D, but I don't think The Little Mermaid has the draftsmanship to hold up.

I'm looking forward to TLM in 3D, really really wondering what it will look like..

Originally Posted by Destron

I want Up and Finding Nemo

Not to be rude, but Up has been out in 3D / on Blu in general for a LONG, LONG while. As for Finding Nemo, luckily for you it's coming this December, in 3D.

[anthonyb]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

I'd love to see Roger Rabbit in 3-D, but I don't think The Little Mermaid has the draftsmanship to hold up.

My thoughts exactly.

[yumny]

Originally Posted by xmjonny

Its 3D will be interesting to say the least. I didn't think Lion King could do 3D, but it did and it was pretty cool. Hey, it just means we're closer to The Little Mermaid in Blu-ray.

+1, I wasn't thinking too much of the TLK 3D conversion, just wanted to see it in cinemas really badly. But it was surprisingly good, with a few deep backgrounds and an even more terrifying wildebeest stampede, and some lion snouts that were obnoxiously in yo face.

Really looking forward to what TLM will be like.. deep shots underwater, Ursula's tentacles in yo face, birds and fish in yo face - jolly fun. I keep thinking though that there are other movies out there way more fit for a 3D conversion - specifically, Hunchback, Treasure Planet and especially Tarzan would greatly befit 3D; all three had enormous distance shots, flying scenes, huge objects..

I don't think HonD or TP will ever get any level of recognition in Disney for at least the next 20 years but Tarzan in 3D is a serious possibility, actually.

[zoodermin]

Originally Posted by TruBlu06

I just bought a copy of Snow White Blu from eBay the other day. I hadn't seen in several years, you forget how good the Disney classics are. Has there been any news of a 75th Anniversary release of Snow White this year? It should be up for it since it was made in 1937.

Snow White was released on Blu-ray in 2009 and went to moratorium last year. Since is a Diamond edition, the moratorium remains for 7 years before a new release comes, so expect a new Snow White release (in whatever format it will be) around 2016.

[zoodermin]

Originally Posted by xmjonny

Its 3D will be interesting to say the least. I didn't think Lion King could do 3D, but it did and it was pretty cool. Hey, it just means we're closer to The Little Mermaid in Blu-ray.

I really don't care about 3D at all but I'm happy that this new theatrical release will bring The Little Mermaid to Blu-ray soon.

[Ernest Rister]

If any of Disney's hand-drawn, cel-painted features cried out for 3-D treatment, it would be Fantasia.

The Little Mermaid is pretty rough around the edges, given the budget and the period. It has tremendous heart, but I wouldn't even place it on a top 20 list of Disney films that could benefit from a 3-D experiment. The film really doesn't try to exploit the z-axis for staging ideas, and the layouts are fairly perfunctory. Compare the staging and shot selection to something like the "You Can Fly!" sequence in Peter Pan -- depth matters in that instance, but there's nothing in The Little Mermaid that even comes close. I really don't get it. It's like turning the 70's feature Robin Hood into a 3-D experience...what's the point?

[Velmeran]

Originally Posted by yumny

Not to be rude, but Up has been out in 3D / on Blu in general for a LONG, LONG while. As for Finding Nemo, luckily for you it's coming this December, in 3D.

Up has only been released in 2D (at least in North America).
Up in 3D will be released in December, on the same date as Finding Nemo.

[zoodermin]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

If any of Disney's hand-drawn, cel-painted features cried out for 3-D treatment, it would be Fantasia.

The Little Mermaid is pretty rough around the edges, given the budget and the period. It has tremendous heart, but I wouldn't even place it on a top 20 list of Disney films that could benefit from a 3-D experiment. The film really doesn't try to exploit the z-axis for staging ideas, and the layouts are fairly perfunctory. Compare the staging and shot selection to something like the "You Can Fly!" sequence in Peter Pan -- depth matters in that instance, but there's nothing in The Little Mermaid that even comes close. I really don't get it. It's like turning the 70's feature Robin Hood into a 3-D experience...what's the point?

Disney is not converting its films by seeing which one is more suitable for a 3D conversion but rather which movie is popular with moviegoers. In this case, The Little Mermaid may not be a suitable 3D movie but its a hugely popular film (more than Peter Pan and Fantasia) so people will go and see it regardless of its 3D conversion. It will be more profitable than Peter Pan and Fantasia.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

Disney is not converting its films by seeing which one is more suitable for a 3D conversion but rather which movie is popular with moviegoers. In this case, The Little Mermaid may not be a suitable 3D movie but its a hugely popular film (more than Peter Pan and Fantasia) so people will go and see it regardless of its 3D conversion. It will be more profitable than Peter Pan and Fantasia.

Fantasia is one of the highest grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation. It once held the crown as the best selling home video title of all time (until it was unseated by Aladdin, Snow White, and The Lion King). It's hardly a shrinking violet, and has done very well in theatrical reissues.

I don't want to get into a Mermaid/Peter Pan/Fantasia pissing contest, as I think we all know why Disney is attempting a 3-D conversion for Mermaid...I'm just saying from an artistic standpoint, it makes very little sense.

Anyhoo...if you want to see the grosses for the G-rated Disney films adjusted for inflation, you might find this illuminating vis-a-vis this whole "popularity" business...

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

[Edword]

Originally Posted by zoodermin

I really don't care about 3D at all but I'm happy that this new theatrical release will bring The Little Mermaid to Blu-ray soon.

That's how I feel. I'm not that big into 3D, but I don't mind them releasing these in 3D since it just means a more than likely blu-ray release.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Fantasia is one of the highest grossing films of all time, adjusted for inflation. It once held the crown as the best selling home video title of all time (until it was unseated by Aladdin, Snow White, and The Lion King).

And it's BECAUSE of that that we'll never know:
This was around the time that late-80's/early-90's Disney had discovered a book-cooking loophole to finally getting their guarded titles onto VHS--Apparently, if the sell-through tape came out within a certain time period after the re-released movie, their creative accounting allowed video sales/rentals to be included in "Theatrical grosses" for the year, and then compounded onto total grosses to date.
When 101 Dalmatians suddenly rocketed to "Highest grossing Disney animated ever" before Lion King, people thought it a bit novel...When they announced the post-VHS Fantasia had "outgrossed" Terminator 2, analysts got a tad suspicious.
They don't do it anymore, but they did THEN.

(And you were there, you know why we were buying the Fantasia video--We had nightmares about what Eisner claimed he was going to permanently do to the re-releases, and when the ads said "The original for the LAST TIME ever", we knew they weren't kidding around. )

[disneyfreak]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

If any of Disney's hand-drawn, cel-painted features cried out for 3-D treatment, it would be Fantasia.

The Little Mermaid is pretty rough around the edges, given the budget and the period. It has tremendous heart, but I wouldn't even place it on a top 20 list of Disney films that could benefit from a 3-D experiment. The film really doesn't try to exploit the z-axis for staging ideas, and the layouts are fairly perfunctory. Compare the staging and shot selection to something like the "You Can Fly!" sequence in Peter Pan -- depth matters in that instance, but there's nothing in The Little Mermaid that even comes close. I really don't get it. It's like turning the 70's feature Robin Hood into a 3-D experience...what's the point?

Disney currently has said that they will only do 3-D movies where the director is still around so it is still their invision. So for the time being, we're only getting newer movies.