With FINDING NEMO overtaking THE LION KING as the box office leader in animation, Buena Vista Home Entertainment has announced that the Disney/Pixar blockbuster will debut on DVD on Nov. 4, 2003. The two-disc Collector's Edition ($29.99) will feature a new original short film, EXPLORING THE REEF WITH JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU, the classic Pixar short, KNICKKNACK, and the following extras: Filmmakers' visual commentary (including deleted scenes and recording sessions).
MAKING NEMO: A SPECIAL DOCUMENTARY (a documentary filmmaker worked alongside Pixar exec producer John Lasseter, writer/director Andrew Stanton and the Pixar team to reveal the making of FINDING NEMO. Learn about the challenges they faced designing and animating characters without arms and legs, how they created a believable underwater experience and struggled to build a world as vast as the ocean itself).
Review: The Art of NEMO.
Virtual Aquariums (turn your TV into your own aquarium of animated environments from the movie).
Pixar Animation Studios (made especially for "future animators," and hosted by the voice of Nemo, Alexander Gould, this behind-the-scenes tour journeys from story department to screening room and everywhere in-between).
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
