In 1997, Pixar animator and writer Andrew Stanton came up with the idea of an animated feature about an overprotective clownfish searching the vast ocean for his son. Despite some initial worry, this film...
In 1989, Disney expanded the animation division by opening other studios worldwide. One of them was a studio in Florida at Disney-MGM Studios. But after a few years of doing assistant work for the...
“Think of the happiest things. It’s the same as having wings”. With this year being the 70th anniversary of Walt Disney’s classic, Peter Pan, it’s hard to believe the trouble it lived through to...
It began in 1988, a year before the release of The Little Mermaid. During that film’s production, lyricist Howard Ashman pitched the idea of an animated adaptation of the folk tale, Aladdin. And everything after...
In the fall of 2007, Walt Disney Pictures released a particular movie called Enchanted. But the story doesn’t stop there. Beginnings in 1997, screenwriter Billy Kelly came up with the idea and pitched it...
It all began at the start of the 1960s. While Walt Disney was busy with many things happening at the company, he had time to approve of a few animated films. One was story...
In 1923, author Felix Salten would publish his book, Bambi. Little did he know that 19 years after its publishing, it would be adapted into an excellent animated film about life, struggle, death, and rebirth. ...
In the summer of 2007, Pixar’s eighth film would be released to critical acclaim. Though audiences wouldn’t notice, the film that asked “what if a rat wanted to be a cook” had a lot...
In 1962, two children’s books by Margery Sharp called The Rescuers and Miss Bianca caught Walt Disney’s attention. For the next few years, Walt tried to adapt them into an animated film. Unfortunately, it was initially...
The year is 2002. While the animated films released after Tarzan proved to be small successes, Disney was in need of an actual successful film. Little did they know that a simple project being made...
