"Hercules (1997 film) Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. The 35th Disney animated feature film, the film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The film is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology. Development of ""Hercules"" began in 1992 following a pitch adaptation of the Heracles mythological stories by animator Joe Haidar. Meanwhile, Ron Clements and John Musker re-developed their idea for ""Treasure Planet"" following the critical and"
"(for Fighting)."" Elton John was named a Disney Legend for his contributions to Disney's films and theatrical works on 9 October 2006, by the Walt Disney Company. In 2006, he told ""Rolling Stone"" that he plans for his next record to be in the R&B and hip hop genre. John said ""I want to work with Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Snoop [Dogg], Kanye [West], Eminem and just see what happens."" In March 2007, he performed at Madison Square Garden for a record-breaking 60th time for his 60th birthday; the concert was broadcast live and a DVD recording was released as ""Elton"
"the British animated television series of the same name. ""Up The Revolution"" was John's track, alongside contributions from George Harrison, the Bee Gees and Eric Clapton. The album was issued briefly, and only in the U.K. Along with Tim Rice, Elton John wrote the songs for the 1994 Disney animated film ""The Lion King"". At the 67th Academy Awards, three of the five nominees for the Academy Award for Best Song were from ""The Lion King"" soundtrack. John won the award with ""Can You Feel the Love Tonight"". Both that and ""Circle of Life"" became hit songs for John. ""Can"
"2010, Rhapsody called it one of the all-time great Disney & Pixar Soundtracks. ! colspan=""3"" | Original album release ! colspan=""3"" | Original cast recording ! colspan=""3"" | Sing-Along shortform ! colspan=""3"" | Hans Zimmer Re-release ! scope=""row"" | Worldwide (IFPI) The Lion King (soundtrack) The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the original motion picture soundtrack for the 1994 Disney animated film, ""The Lion King"". It contains songs from the film written by Elton John and Tim Rice, and a score composed by Hans Zimmer. Elton John has a dual role of performer for several tracks. Additional performers"
"follow the traditional musical approach by having the characters sing. Co-producer Bonne Radford explained, ""We were trying to break free of that pattern that had been kind of adhered to in animation and really put a song where we thought it would be great...and get us through some story points."" On February 20, 1999, before the release of ""Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida"", it was announced that ten songs had been composed for ""El Dorado"", and that the release date had been pushed to March 2000. ""The Road to El Dorado"" is an album released by singer Elton John"
"Elton John & band: ""Gnomeo & Juliet""'s worldwide premiere was at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on January 23, 2011. The film was released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Touchstone Pictures banner on February 11, 2011. The film was Touchstone's first animated film since 1993's ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" and also Touchstone's first and, so far, only film to receive a G rating from the MPAA, despite some mild language. The film was distributed in the United Kingdom and Canada by Entertainment One Films. Elton John and director Asbury presented 10 minutes of the film at the"
"the form of a revue, and not a condensed version of either the film or Broadway show. The show features Elton John and Tim Rice's award-winning music from the movie. The show is presented inside an enclosed theater in Disney's Animal Kingdom. Guests sit in four sections, each designated with an animal name: Warthog, Elephant, Giraffe, and Lion. These animals are represented by large puppets on four parade-style floats, which were originally built for Disneyland's The Lion King Celebration parade. Guests are asked to make a noise according to their animal at certain times during the show and children are"
"based. According to Leonard Maltin, the film's story originated in the genuine musical dilemma of American society; some people in the 1930s viewed jazz as the end of civilization, similar to how some parents today tend to be perplexed by their children's music interests. Incidentally, the saxophone prince's father is a caricature of ""King of Jazz"", Paul Whiteman. The film was edited into ""Disneyland: Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom"" in 1959 with reorchestrated music and Professor Owl's narration, and was featured in ""Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: The Disney Dream Factory"" (1985), ""The Best of Disney: 50"
"Looney Tunes Looney Tunes is an American animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series ""Merrie Melodies"". It was known for introducing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote and many other cartoon characters. ""Looney Tunes"" name was inspired by Walt Disney's musical series ""Silly Symphonies"". They initially showcased musical compositions whose rights were held by Warner's music publishing interests"
"Acuna brought a Latin beat on drums, and Bennie himself on Sax. The music was recorded at Capitol Records in Hollywood, in Sinatra's old stage. Redux Riding Hood Redux Riding Hood is a 15-minute animated short film directed by Steve Moore and produced by Disney in 1997 that received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film. The film was produced with cel animation and 2-D collage elements, a look developed by production designer John Kleber. From a set of four short/featurettes planned by Disney and MovieToons (to be titled """"Totally Twisted Fairy Tales""""), which was also to include ""Jack"
"had music by Elton John and Tim Rice, and ""Pocahontas"" (1995), all of which were awarded best song Oscars. In the United States, children's music continues to be a force in the commercial music industry. At one point in early 2006, the top three albums on the Billboard charts were all children's music: Disney's ""High School Musical"" soundtrack, the ""Kidz Bop"" series, and the ""Curious George"" film soundtrack. Most albums targeted nationally to children are soundtracks for motion pictures or symbiotic marketing projects involving mass-marketed acts such as, The Wiggles or VeggieTales. The 21st century has also seen an increase"
"risk for the complete opposite reasons of live-action"". Andrew Stanton Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and voice actor based at Pixar, which he joined in 1990. His film work includes co-writing Pixar's ""A Bug's Life"" (1998) (as co-director), ""Finding Nemo"" (2003) and its sequel ""Finding Dory"" (2016), ""WALL-E"" (2008), and the live-action film, Disney's ""John Carter"" (2012). He also co-wrote all four ""Toy Story"" films and ""Monsters, Inc."" (2001) ""Finding Nemo"" and ""WALL-E"" earned him two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. He was also nominated for three Academy Awards for Best"
"Andrew Stanton Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and voice actor based at Pixar, which he joined in 1990. His film work includes co-writing Pixar's ""A Bug's Life"" (1998) (as co-director), ""Finding Nemo"" (2003) and its sequel ""Finding Dory"" (2016), ""WALL-E"" (2008), and the live-action film, Disney's ""John Carter"" (2012). He also co-wrote all four ""Toy Story"" films and ""Monsters, Inc."" (2001) ""Finding Nemo"" and ""WALL-E"" earned him two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. He was also nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, for ""Finding Nemo"", ""WALL-E"", and ""Toy"
"up on videotape and DVD. ""Sparky's Magic Echo"" is a four-minute cartoon written by Alan Livingston, produced by New World Productions roughly in the 1960s, and syndicated by United Artists. The plot involves a boy looking for the echo of his singing. Footage from the Christopher Columbus episode was used in Last Week Tonight's ""How is This Still A Thing"" segment on Columbus Day which aired on October 12, 2014. Mel-O-Toons Mel-O-Toons sometimes erroneously called ""Mello Toons"", was a series of animated cartoons produced beginning in 1960 by New World Productions (Not to be confused with the production company founded"
"Brown & Snoopy Show"" (Mendelson/Melendez) - (Winner declared by the Young Artist Awards website) ★ ""A Reason to Live"" (NBC) ★ ""Growing Pains"" (ABC) ★ ""The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show"" (Medelson-Melendez-Schulz) ★ (Conflicting reports) ""The Heavenly Kid"" (Orion Pictures) - (Winner declared by the Young Artist Awards website)<br> ★ (Conflicting reports) ""Pee-wee's Big Adventure"" (Warner Brothers) - (Winner declared by the ""Daily News of Los Angeles"") ★ ""Back to the Future"" (Universal) ★ ""Cocoon"" (20th Century Fox) ★ (Denmark) - """" (Metronome Productions) ★ (Japan) - ""MacArthur's Children"" (Orion Classics) ★ "" (Otto er et Nasehorn)"" (Denmark) - Directed"
"only three were ultimately used in the film. Tim Rice ultimately joined the project and completed the score and songs with Alan Menken. Rice later went on to collaborate with Elton John and Hans Zimmer for ""The Lion King"" after ABBA had turned down the offer to write songs for the film. Between the two in-house productions, Disney diversified in animation methods and produced ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" (1993) with former Disney animator Tim Burton. Thanks to the success of the early films of the Renaissance era, Disney management was able to allocate sufficient money to bring Feature Animation back"
"is highly intoxicated. In May 2017, an official music video for ""Rocket Man"" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as a winner of ""Elton John: The Cut"", a competition organized in partnership with AKQA, Pulse Films, and YouTube in honour of the fiftieth anniversary of his songwriting relationship with Bernie Taupin. The competition called upon independent filmmakers to submit treatments for music videos for one of three Elton John songs from the 1970s, with each song falling within a specific concept category. ""Rocket Man"" was designated for the animation category, and was co-directed by Iranian refugee Majid Adin and Irish"
"John Kricfalusi Michael John Kricfalusi (; born September 9, 1955), better known as John K., is a Canadian animator, voice actor, creator of the Nickelodeon cartoon series ""The Ren & Stimpy Show"" and founder of the animation company Spümcø. After being fired from ""The Ren & Stimpy Show"" by Nickelodeon in 1992, Kricfalusi went on to direct and produce animated television commercials and music videos for entertainers such as the singer Björk and comedy rock duo Tenacious D. In the late 1990s he created the first cartoons made exclusively for the Internet: ""The Goddamn George Liquor Program"" and ""Weekend Pussy"
"The Lion King The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd Disney animated feature film, and the fifth animated film produced during a period known as the Disney Renaissance. ""The Lion King"" was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, produced by Don Hahn, and has a screenplay credited to Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton. Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, with a score by Hans Zimmer. The film features an ensemble voice"
"Disney's My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto's Musical Tale Disney's My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto's Musical Tale is a musical based on Disney's 2000 made-for-television movie ""Geppetto"", which was in turn based on a book by David Stern, and features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Much like the movie, ""My Son Pinocchio"" is a re-telling of the children's book ""The Adventures of Pinocchio"", but the story is told from Geppetto's perspective. As in the TV film, when Pinocchio runs away to become a star in Stromboli's puppet show, Geppetto must negotiate through a maze of adventures and comic encounters to find him."
"I Met the Walrus I Met the Walrus is an animated film directed by Josh Raskin (known for his musical project Kids & Explosions) and produced by Jerry Levitan. It stars Levitan and John Lennon. The film's pen illustration is by James Braithwaite and computer illustration is by Alex Kurina. The film is based on an interview of John Lennon by Jerry Levitan in 1969. Levitan, then 14 years old, tracked Lennon to his hotel room at Toronto's King Edward Hotel after hearing a rumour that Lennon had been sighted at the Toronto Airport. Jerry made his way into John"
"Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The project took Forbes a full year to complete, and provided a behind-the-scenes look at the writing and recording of ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"", including interviews with John, Taupin and band members, including Nigel Olsson and Dee Murray, as well as John's mother, Sheila, DJM label head Dick James and son Stephen, and footage of John's Hollywood Bowl concert in 1973. (Some of the footage was licensed for the Eagle Vision Classic Albums series ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"" documentary.) During the filming, Forbes formed a close friendship with John and Taupin, which led him to"
"and included the songs ""Steamboat Bill"", a composition popularized by baritone Arthur Collins during the 1910s, and ""Turkey in the Straw,"" a composition popularized within minstrelsy during the 19th century. The title of the film is a parody of the Buster Keaton film ""Steamboat Bill, Jr."" (1928), itself a reference to the song by Collins. Walt Disney performed all of the voices in the film, although there is little intelligible dialogue. While the film has received some criticism, it has also received wide critical acclaim, not only for introducing one of the world's most popular cartoon characters, but for its"
"Named Scooby-Doo"", ""The Cape"", ""The Lazarus Man"", ""Piggsburg Pigs!"", ""The Further Adventures of SuperTed"", ""Doctor Who"", ""Cagney and Lacey"", ""Tiny Toon Adventures"", ""The Young Riders"", ""The New Yogi Bear Show"", """", ""Fame"", ""Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future"", ""Dragon's Lair"", ""Freshman Dorm"", ""Pop Quiz"" and ""Dink, the Little Dinosaur"", for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score indie films and Disneyland attractions. In 1991, Debney composed the music for ""Phantom Manor"" in Disneyland Paris and SpectroMagic at Magic Kingdom. In 1993, he scored his first studio feature, the"
"as on National Public Radio. Actor John Lithgow, upon hearing Hopkins in his NPR interview, inquired with Michael Krumper of Razor and Tie Records who sent Lithgow a copy of ""Underneath A Brooklyn Moon"". Shortly after, Lithgow asked Hopkins to produce his album of Tin Pan Alley children's songs, titled ""The Sunny Side of the Street"". That album was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Children's Album. A 2017 sophomore release, “Meet Me At Minton’s”, serves as a display of the diligently thought-through and perfectly arranged collaborations between a wide-ranging spectrum of jazz talents, both renowned and"
"such as ""Jabberjaw"" (as Cleveland ""Clamhead"" Rogers), ""Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle"", ""The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!"" (as Captain Marvel Jr.), ""Meatballs & Spaghetti"" (as bassist Clyde), ""Pac-Man"" (as Inky), ""Mighty Orbots"" (as Robert Simmons), ""Pole Position"", ""The Jetsons"", ""The Smurfs"", ""The Adventures of the American Rabbit"" (as the titular character), ""Superman"", ""Snorks"" (as Junior Wetworth and His mirrored Double Ditto), ""Gravedale High"" (as Reggie Moonshroud), ""Space Cats"", ""A Pup Named Scooby-Doo"" (as Englebert Newton), ""Darkwing Duck"" (as Dr. Fossil), ""Tom & Jerry Kids"" and its spin-off ""Droopy, Master Detective"", """" (as the Penguin's henchman Sheldrake), ""Aaahh!!! Real"
"Jerry Levitan Gerald Asher Levitan (born 1954) is a Canadian best known as ""the kid who interviewed John Lennon"". He produced and starred in the animated short ""I Met the Walrus"" about his meeting with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1969. Though only 14 years old, Levitan beat the world media and conducted an exclusive 30 minute interview with them about peace, The Beatles, and their music. The film won a Daytime Emmy in 2009 in the category of New Approaches, Daytime Entertainment. It was also nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for best animated"
"conducted a daily radio advice program at the time called ""The Goodwill Hour""; its stock phrase was ""I have a problem, Mr. Anthony""). Baby Bottleneck Baby Bottleneck is a Warner Bros. ""Looney Tunes"" (reissued as a Blue Ribbon) theatrical cartoon short released in 1946 and directed by Bob Clampett and written by Warren Foster. It stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. There is a baby boom of the post-war United States; an overworked stork (a clear Jimmy Durante reference) gets drunk in the Stork Club, complaining that he does all the work and the fathers get all the credit. There"
"Totti's farewell, after the winning match of AS Roma against Genoa C.F.C. for 3-2. Circle of Life ""Circle of Life"" is a song from Disney's 1994 animated film ""The Lion King"". Composed by Elton John, with lyrics by Tim Rice, the song was performed by Carmen Twillie (the deep female lead vocals) and Lebo M. (opening Zulu vocals) as the film's opening song. In an interview, Rice said he was amazed at the speed with which John composed: ""I gave him the lyrics at the beginning of the session at about two in the afternoon. By half-past three, he'd finished"
"then turns Pinocchio into a real boy with her magic and shoos Stromboli away with her magic. Pinocchio and Geppetto live happily ever after and the words on the sign of Geppetto's shop now read, ""Geppetto & Son"". The soundtrack for ""Geppetto"" is available from Walt Disney Records, and it features songs from the film composed by Stephen Schwartz, as well as the single, ""Since I Gave My Heart Away"" performed by Sonya Isaacs (as heard in the end credits of the movie). Jerry Mitchell was the film's choreographer. Walt Disney Home Video released the film on VHS May 30,"
"released direct-to-video: ""Ernest Goes to School"" (1994), ""Slam Dunk Ernest"" (1995), ""Ernest Goes to Africa"" (1997) and ""Ernest in the Army"" (1998). The Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot theme park featured Ernest. Epcot's Cranium Command attraction used the Ernest character in its pre-show as an example of a ""lovable, but not the brightest person on the planet"" type of person. And in addition to his ""Ernest Goes to..."" series, he starred as Ernest in several smaller movies for John R. Cherry III, such as ""Knowhutimean? Hey Vern, It's My Family Album""; ""Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam"";"
"Disney Company, a recording of the songs as heard in the stage musical. Most of the tracks were composed by African composer Lebo M. and focused primarily on the African influences of the film's original music, with most songs being sung either partially or entirely in various African languages. Rafiki's chants in ""Rafiki Mourns"" were written by Tsidii Le Loka, who originated the role on Broadway. The original Broadway show included: The Lion King (musical) The Lion King is a musical based on the 1994 Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated feature film of the same name with music by Elton"
"attraction would be built at the France Pavilion in Epcot's World Showcase by 2021. Ratatouille (film) Ratatouille ( , ) is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the eighth film produced by Pixar and was co-written and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005. The title refers to a French dish, ""ratatouille"", which is served at the end of the film and is also a play on words about the species of the main character. The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt as"