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ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3.12 - March 1999
Home Video
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Witness the genius of Ollie Johnston (l) and Frank Thomas (r) over and over, in the comfort of your own home. © Walt Disney Enterprises. All Rights Reserved. |
Coming Soon To A VCR Near You. Disney's 36th animated feature, Mulan, was released on video on February 2 at $26.99. It received a simultaneous release in Disney's Spanish-language collection, Disney En Espanol. As a special bonus, the video featured an exclusive five-minute behind-the-scenes look at Walt Disney Pictures' upcoming animated film, Tarzan. DreamWorks releasedAntz on home video on February 9 only four months after its theatrical release at $26.98. On February 23, Walt Disney Home Video released the all-new video Sing a Song with Pooh Bear which is Winnie the Pooh's first-ever sing along musical. The $14.99 video will be accompanied by 13 other Winnie the Pooh video favorites re-released throughout the spring at $12.99 each as part of Disney's 1999 Easter collection. On March 23, Disney's Mighty Joe Young arrives on video and DVD priced at $24.99 and $26.99 respectively. Paramount's The Rugrats Movie comes to VHS ($26.95) and DVD on March 30. Nickelodeon is also launching VHS episodes of their newest animated series, CatDog, on the same date through Paramount Home Video. Disney's most anticipated video release is surely A Bug's Life, which slithers onto video on April 20. Priced at $26.99 on VHS and $34.99 on DVD, the film comes in four different collector boxes, and includes Pixar's Oscar-winning short Geri's Game, plus both sets of theatrical outtakes. The release also marks the first time a film has been digitally transferred directly from the original computer image source, rather than the standard film-to-tape transfer process. This means that both the VHS and DVD versions will have full-frame formatting with no image cropping. Anime fans can look forward to two April 6 releases from Central Park Media: The Slayers Next: The Sudden Pinch ($19.99, dubbed and subtitled) and Patlabor: The Mobile Police - The TV Series, Volume 5 ($29.99, subtitled). Also on April 6, Central Park Media's Anime 18 line releases the erotic thriller Twin Angels: Volume 4 ($29.99, dubbed) and Twin Angels Collector's Boxed Set ($99.99, dubbed), which contains all four dubbed volumes of the series. . . . The animation documentary Frank and Ollie, chronicling the lives of two of Disney's Nine Old Men, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, arrives on video March 9. In the film, the two life-long friends, who have been next-door neighbors for decades, share their recollections on the golden age of the Disney Studio and their work on the classic Disney animated features. The 89-minute film is rated PG and priced at $19.99 (S.R.P.). . . . Manga Video will release General Chaos: Uncensored Animation on video ($19.95) and DVD ($29.95) on March 30. The 70-minute video, for adults 18 and over, features forty outrageous animated shorts including twelve by animator Bill Plympton and five bonus shorts not included in the theatrical release. The five extra films are from wild Canadian animator Mike Grimshaw. . . . Fist of the North Star will be available through Manga Video in both English-dubbed ($19.95) and subtitled ($24.95) versions. Twelve monthly volumes with three episodes each (75 minutes) are planned starting with the release of Volume 1 on March 30. The series follows Kenshiro, master of the `Hokuto Shinken' fighting technique; a martial art so brutal that only a single being can be entrusted with its full power.
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