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ALADDIN DVD
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:17 am
by Blue_Blooded_Boy
Hey guys, Im just wondering if disney has plans of releasing Aladdin in DVD? So far I have all I need to complete my Disney DVD collection, but noticed that there has not been any news about aladdin dvd?
Im really hoping that there are plans for Aladdin in DVDs..since it's my favorite disney film ever
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:22 am
by bean:therio
Only a moment ago I read something about an anouncement that was made today about the Aladdin dvd that will be released next october. Here's an article from Yahoo News on that anouncement:
Disney Uncorks 'Aladdin' DVD
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Walt Disney Co. is restoring the 1992 animated feature "Aladdin" for its Oct. 5 DVD debut, studio executives said.
"The marketing campaign is going to be even bigger than we had for 'Finding Nemo,"' said Robert Chapek, president of Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment arm.
"Aladdin" marks the third title to be released in Disney's DVD Platinum Series, following the reissues of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "The Lion King."
"Snow White" has sold about 7 million combined DVD and VHS units to consumers since its fall 2001 rerelease, and "The Lion King" has topped 11 million since its reissue last year.
"The October release time frame has provided us with the longest legs on such titles," Chapek said. "It gives us big initial sales, and then these classic titles tend to get a second sales boost during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday shopping season."
Featuring a remixed 5.1 surround sound home theater track, the "Aladdin" double-disc DVD also will include a deleted song called "Proud of Your Boy" by Academy Award-winning songwriters Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. The film features the voices of Robin Williams (news), Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman and Gilbert Gottfried (news).
"The song was edited out of the first version," Chapek said, "but we're planning to bring it back along with the original pencil test drawings of a scene featuring Aladdin's mother."
He added that Disney already has lined up at least nine major cross-marketing partners, including McDonald's, Kellogg's, Mattel, Fisher-Price and Kleenex.
Re: ALADDIN DVD
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:25 am
by Billy Moon
Blue_Blooded_Boy wrote:Hey guys, Im just wondering if disney has plans of releasing Aladdin in DVD? So far I have all I need to complete my Disney DVD collection, but noticed that there has not been any news about aladdin dvd?
Are you saying you'd call a Disney DVD collection without Bambi and Cinderella
complete???
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:26 am
by Blue_Blooded_Boy
Wow that's great news!!
thanks bean:therio
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:29 am
by karlsen
hehe, I bet he has those Ebay exlusives.
Re: ALADDIN DVD
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:29 am
by Blue_Blooded_Boy
]Are you saying you'd call a Disney DVD collection without Bambi and Cinderella
complete???
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That's weird I have a Cinderella DVD
I don't have Bambi though
But I said "So far" I have all i need to complete my Disney DVD col. hehehehe
But really, Im so excited for Aladdin DVD
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:57 am
by 2099net
Press Release wrote:"Aladdin" marks the third title to be released in Disney's DVD Platinum Series, following the reissues of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "The Lion King."
Why do Disney constantly refuse to acknowledge Beauty and the Beast was a Platinum title? I seem to remember them doing this on the Lion King Press Release (or something similar) last year.
Still, it proves the Platinum line means nothing to Disney themselves.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:08 am
by Luke
Aladdin? On DVD? That's just crazy!
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:08 am
by Cinderelly
LOL at Luke.
I hope that they release a collectors set like they did with the lion king!
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:22 am
by PatrickvD
I hope they dont mess up the colors..
message to Disney : it was
supposed to be dark in the cave of wonders ok... dont make it all light like the Beasts castle.. messes up the entrie feeling of the film
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 7:51 am
by swray1024
I have noticed that they don't say Beauty & Beast was platinum. What's up with that. I think a collector set would be great. I would definitely buy that for Aladdin. October is only a few months away!
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:29 am
by dizfan
It's the the writers mistake not to include Beauty and the Beast, not Disney I would think.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:34 am
by 2099net
Knowing how most journalists work, they would have been given this information by Disney in the press release. And like I said, the exact same "mistake" happened last year at one of the Lion King events (it was listed as the second Platinum Edition after Snow White).
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:19 am
by Prince Adam
And also in the Fall 2003 issue of Disney Magazine...
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And I agree about the colours-the West Wing is supposed to be dark and murky, with lots of shadows. With the new colours, you can see everything.
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:41 am
by 2099net
Here's more on Aladdin DVD from
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum ... did=183109 and DavisDVD
Buena Vista Home Entertainment uncorks the genie bottle on October 5th with the first-ever DVD release of Aladdin.
The two-disc Platinum Series set will boast a newly restored anamorphic video transfer and a Dolby Digital 5.1 enhanced home theater sound mix. According to Disney, more than 20% of the original artwork has been enhanced for the new digital transfer, with some characters redrawn to add more facial detail and backgrounds and starfields touched up for color and detail.
Bonus materials are set to include two audio commentary tracks, a making-of documentary, a pop-up trivia subtitle track, design and still galleries, deleted sequences (including the musical number "Proud of Your Boy" by Oscar-winning songwriters Howard Ashman and Alan Menken with newly completed animation), storyboards, pencil tests, a virtual carpet ride, a 3D tour of Genie's lamp, sing-along songs, set-top games, musical postcards, "A Whole New World" music video by Disney Channel stars, trailers, DVD-ROM material and more.
Retail will be $29.99.
More Detail. More colour. Will they ever learn?
How about more explosions and car chases? That should make it more appealing to todays audiences.
Oh and most people speculated these would be on in some form or another; a virtual carpet ride, a 3D tour of Genie's lamp, sing-along songs, set-top games, musical postcards, "A Whole New World" music video by Disney Channel stars.
Two commentaries sounds good though
and this time we appear to be getting trailers!
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 9:47 am
by Chernabog
Yes, why can they not leave the features as they are - just renovate them if sound is muddled or picture is grainy - not adding new things all the time.
If it´s correct that will propably be the proof that we will not have the original feature film on DVD at all - as with Beauty and the Beast & The Lion King.
With other words ****!
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:44 am
by SNERWW22785
The menu insert to The Lion King does note how it is the THIRD Platinum title, "following in the majestic footsteps of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Beauty and the Beast'."
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:05 am
by PheR
the "virtual carpet ride" feature is quite obvious to include...I hope they make it at least a little entertaining.
Let's hope they don't make different navigation ways for the second disc, like choosing the planets or something, like the continents on the lion king (I still don't understand why did they do this).
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:49 am
by Matty-Mouse
Two audio commentaries is great as well as the news of the making of (Have Disney been reading this board?) and hooray for the inclusion of trailers!
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:56 am
by Jack
bean:therio wrote:the "Aladdin" double-disc DVD also will include a deleted song called "Proud of Your Boy" by Academy Award-winning songwriters Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
Crap, I was hoping for "Abu is a Great Pet".