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‘Sleeping Beauty: Diamond Edition’ on Blu-ray in October with Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes


Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced that Sleeping Beauty: Diamond Edition will be available to own on Blu-ray on October 7, 2014. It will also be available in Digital HD and Disney Movies Anywhere same day.

The 2-Disc Diamond Edition Blu-ray Superset (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) contains digitally restored picture and sound, a digital copy of the film, and a variety of magical new bonus features, including ‘Once Upon A Parade,’ in which ‘Modern Family’ star Sarah Hyland tells us the tale of Walt Disney World’s new ‘Festival Of Fantasy Parade,’ ‘Art of Evil: Generations Of Disney Villains,’ a legacy piece spotlighting Disney’s favorite villain animator and Maleficent creator Marc Davis, and ‘@DisneyAnimation: Artists in Motion,’ in which Walt Disney Animation Visual Development artist Brittney Lee goes through the process of creating a three dimensional sculpture of Maleficent, completely out of paper.

Additional all-new bonus features include never-before-seen deleted scenes ‘The Fair’ (with deleted character, The Vulture) ‘The Curse is Fulfilled’ and ‘Arrival Of Maleficent,’ plus the Beauty-Oke sing-along to ‘Once Upon A Dream’ in addition to classic DVD bonus features.

Sleeping Beauty tells the wondrous tale of a princess cursed by an evil fairy, protected by three loving fairies and, ultimately, saved by ‘true love’s kiss.’ Featuring the voice talents of renowned opera singer Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty and Disney stalwart Eleanor Audley as the evil fairy, Maleficent, the film’s vibrant visuals were created by a team that included Milt Kahl and Ollie Johnston, two of Disney’s legendary Nine Old Men and an Academy Award®-nominated score, 1959, adapted from the incandescent music of Peter Tchaikovsky. Sleeping Beauty is the sixteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon and was the last animated feature produced by Walt Disney to be based upon a fairy tale. It is the tenth film released as part of Disney’s prestigious Blu-ray Diamond Collection.

2 DISC BLU-RAY SUPERSET BONUS FEATURES

- ‘Once Upon A Parade’ (Starring Sarah Hyland) —Behind every attraction, event and parade at the Magic Kingdom is a unique story. Join Sarah Hyland from ABC’s ‘Modern Family’ as she tells us the tale of Walt Disney World’s new Festival Of Fantasy Parade. This magical ‘in world’ short film goes behind the scenes of the new parade and shows how the residents and characters of Fantasyland created this parade to tell their stories.

- Art of Evil: Generations Of Disney Villains – This legacy piece spotlights Disney’s favorite villain animator, Marc Davis and his infamous creations of characters such as Maleficent and Cruella. Throughout the piece, we will talk to modern day animators like Andreas Deja and also the new generation of Animators (Lino DiSalvo Animation Director of Frozen) on how Marc’s designs and characters influenced what they do today.

- @DisneyAnimation: ARTISTS IN MOTION (Extended Edition) – Join Walt Disney Animation Visual Development artist Brittney Lee as she goes through the process of creating a three dimensional sculpture of Maleficent, completely out of paper. In this extended edition, go deeper into Britney’s process

- Never Before Seen Deleted Scenes:
--The Fair (with deleted character, The Vulture) – In this version of the story, the fairies do not take the Princess to live with them in the forest. Convinced that King Stefan’s order to burn all the spinning wheels in the kingdom will not prevent Maleficent’s curse, the good fairies put a magic circle around the castle and cast a spell: ‘No evil thing that walks or flies or creeps or crawls can ever pass these castle walls.’
--The Curse is Fulfilled – The three good fairies have just returned Aurora to the castle and give her a crown. They leave the room to give Aurora some time alone…but Maleficent pays her a visit.
--Arrival Of Maleficent (Alternate Scene) – Maleficent arrives uninvited to the christening of the Princess Aurora.

- BEAUTY-OKE ‘Once Upon A Dream’ – Sing along to this kinetic text video of Aurora’s signature song.


Classic DVD Bonus Features Include:

- The Sound Of Beauty: Restoring A Classic – This featurette covers the creation of the 7.1 mix of the score of Sleeping Beauty that was done for Blu-ray, using the source tapes from the original recording sessions resulting in an audio experience of superior quality with greater detail and fidelity that you have ever heard before.

- Picture Perfect: The Making Of Sleeping Beauty – Discover the behind-the-scenes magic that transformed a beloved fairy tale into a cinematic work of art. Legendary Animators, actors and film historians reveal the secrets behind Disney’s masterpiece.

- Eyvind Earle: A Man And His Art – Early in his career, renowned American Artist Eyvind Earle worked as a background painter at the Walt Disney Studio. Walt Disney liked his work so much that he entrusted him with the assignment to be the Art Director for Sleeping Beauty. This was the first time that one artist was given the responsibility for the entire look on one of Disney’s animated features. This piece follows Earle’s development as an artist and his years at the Studio.

- Audio Commentary by John Lasseter, Andreas Deja and Leonard Maltin




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Can anyone say if the bonus features are more or less carried over from the last release (and if that one had more than this one, like I'm guessing...?). I really wish I had got SB the last time it was released, that steelbook was gorgeous. As far as the regular covers though, this one's so much better than the last one.

Disney's Divinity wrote:Can anyone say if the bonus features are more or less carried over from the last release (and if that one had more than this one, like I'm guessing...?). I really wish I had got SB the last time it was released, that steelbook was gorgeous. As far as the regular covers though, this one's so much better than the last one.

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p ... tcount=498

"Comparing the bonus features from that listing to the platinum edition features, this one's missing the short film, a few featurettes, the remaining deleted scenes, and the theatrical trailers. I should be glad they kept the documentary, but otherwise, I (and likely others) expected there'd be some missing content from the new release."


Though nothing is final yet. One thing's for certain; I'm definitely double dipping on this now!

UPDATE: Yep, just as I thought:

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=13934

"And More..."


So yeah, there's hope.

I normally hate these gold borders, but it works really nicely with the colors of the artwork. I'd double dip for that alone, but the new scenes are worth it too.

Disney's Divinity wrote:Can anyone say if the bonus features are more or less carried over from the last release (and if that one had more than this one, like I'm guessing...?). I really wish I had got SB the last time it was released, that steelbook was gorgeous. As far as the regular covers though, this one's so much better than the last one.

Everything listed under "Classic DVD Bonus Features" carry over from the last release; everything else is new to this release. An extensive review of the Platinum BD's content can be found here. Some of those bonuses were trite or tripe. Some of the meaty stuff has carried over to this release. Some haven't, after having been ported over from the 2005 SE. The biggest distinctions, depending one one's taste: this release doesn't include Grand Canyon, the Peter Tchaikovsky story, the Castle Walkthrough, of the Dragon Encounter (which was a total bit of fluff designed to showcase 7.1 HD surround sound, but is still fun to play in a dark room at high volume).

October?! I thought the release was real soon ?!

Atlantica wrote:October?! I thought the release was real soon ?!

Likely the same timeframe Maleficent will hit home media.

I now know for sure I will double-dip. The new bonus features sound amazing, especially that one about the Disney Villains. hopefully, the European version will be the same in terms of bonus content.

See now... THIS would have been a great opportunity to consolidate all the bonus features from the special and platinum editions....
Seems we are only getting one of the commentaries. Guess there is no need for me to buy this one.

I haven't decided if I'm going to double dip or not, but right now I'm leaning toward no.

And I know the cover is old news, but I think it's horrendous, and the gold border doesn't help. Not that Disney is known for great covers, but I found the Platinum cover to be far better. The sideways title was bad enough as is, and now they have to put it right down the middle?

The DVD cover.

Marce82 wrote:See now... THIS would have been a great opportunity to consolidate all the bonus features from the special and platinum editions....
Seems we are only getting one of the commentaries. Guess there is no need for me to buy this one.

*Every* re-release is another opportunity to consolidate all of the bonus features--but it's never, ever, ever going to happen.

Sotiris wrote:The DVD cover.

I love the artwork with Malificent in fairy form and in Dragon form on this cover.

Yeah given the new features I'm double dipping.

Fflewduur wrote:

Atlantica wrote:October?! I thought the release was real soon ?!

Likely the same timeframe Maleficent will hit home media.

So you guys get it in October and we get it in June? Quite early for cover art then, no? Guessing the UK release will be a vanilla one...

Maleficent looks better in the DVD cover! I really like it!

While I'm perfectly okay with Maleficent being on the spine of the Blu-Ray (she was on the spine of the Masterpiece and Widescreen VHS' in the 90s, a nice throwback), I find it very bizarre that Prince Phillip by himself is shown on the spine of the DVD. Actually, I'm surprised this is getting a lone DVD release at all. Maybe I'm just out of the loop and think a combo pack just seems common at this point. I would be shocked if Aurora wasn't added to the spine of the DVD as well.

Old Fish Tale wrote:Maleficent looks better in the DVD cover! I really like it!

It's the same picture!

Is it kind of weird for me to say that I like the DVD cover a bit better than the Blu-ray one?

I prefer the blu-ray cover because I'm tired of the kiss scene. I love that they decided to do something different this time.

Hey Fflewduur,

Actually, didnt the Mary Poppins blu ray consolidate all the bonus features from both special edition dvds? If not all, it almost did...