Wallace & Gromit and Bugs Bunny return!
By dkilmer
Created 08/15/1999 - 00:00
Warner Bros. Home Video is re-releasing the feature length THE LOONEY,
LOONEY, LOONEY BUGS BUNNY MOVIE, a collection of Looney Tunes by Friz
Freleng. It includes the following Bugs Bunny shorts: KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS,
SAHARA HARE, ROMAN LEGION HARE, HIGH DIVING HARE, HARE TRIMMED, SHOW BIZ
BUGS, WILD AND WOOLY HARE, and THE UNMENTIONABLES, as well as CATTY
CORNERED (Tweety & Sylvester), GOLDEN YEGGS (Daffy Duck), and THE THREE
LITTLE BOPS. (Note: Some films may not be complete.) Also from Warner Bros.
is BUGS BUNNY: BIG TOP BUNNY which includes BIG TOP BUNNY, TORTOISE BEATS
HARE, WATER, WATER, EVERY HARE, RABBIT RAMPAGE, ABOMINABLE SNOW RABBIT,
RABBIT'S KIN, FOXY BY PROXY, BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID, MY BUNNY LIES OVER
THE SEA, and BATON BUNNY. (ABOMINABLE SNOW RABBIT, BIG TOP BUNNY, and
RABBIT'S KIN have previously only been available in the US on laserdisc;
and FOXY BY PROXY and RABBIT RAMPAGE have previously only been available on
laserdisc in Japan.) Both Bugs Bunny videos are due to be released in the
US on October 26.
Here is an update for the previously announced WALLACE & GROMIT: THE FIRST
THREE ADVENTURES DVD. Besides the shorts A GRAND DAY OUT, THE WRONG
TROUSERS and A CLOSE SHAVE, the DVD will include director Nick Park's
earliest animated works, THE RAT AND THE BEANSTALK and WALTER GOES FISHING.
It will also include screen-tests of Nick Park's film school work including
DOG TEST and A GRAND DAY OUT. Plus, it will include an excerpt from THE
WRONG TROUSERS "making of" featurette, which was shown in the US after the
PBS telecast of THE WRONG TROUSERS several years ago, and a Wallace &
Gromit Christmas interstitial created for BBC Television. The previous
release date of September 7 has been changed to September 28.