Entries Tagged as 'DVD'
Toy Story and Toy Story 2, classic Pixar animation features come to Blu-ray **** 4 star
By Gabrielle Pantera
Toy Story, the film changed animation, now on Blu-ray
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 4/3/2010 – “For me, it’s the story that holds the audience, not the technology and not the look of the film,” says Toy Story producer Lasseter. “In making a sequel to Toy Story, we were able to concentrate on the story since the main characters and the world already existed, We didn’t want to retell the same story with the same people like so many sequels do. We wanted to build upon the foundation and create a new adventure that would be equal to the first.”
As a consequence of a costly his divorce with his wife/editor on Star Wars, George Lucas sold ILM’s computer animation studio to Steve Jobs. He’d been kicked out of (more…)
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Miley Cyrus leaving TV to be film star in The Last Song with boyfriend Liam Hemsworth, as Hanna Montana Season 3 Finale releases on DVD *** 3 Stars
By Gabrielle Pantera
Miley with talking horse Blue Jeans
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 3/27/2010 – “I met Liam and he opened the door,” says 17-year-old Miley Cyrus. “I’ve been in L.A. three years and haven’t seen that. I turned to the director and said, ‘He’s got the job; he’s hot and he opened the door’. We’ve been together ten months now and I’m really happy.”
Miley Cyrus became a huge hit on the Disney series Hannah Montana. About to complete shooting season 4, she says it’s bittersweet to leave the show. “This is our last season,” says Cyrus. “We’ve got seven more episodes. We’ve done it in a way that it will go on for at least another year. All over the world Hannah Montana will still be on the air.”
Cyrus has grown up in the limelight of being a hit singer and Disney star, a clash of cultures that collides as children grow up from being asexual Disney role models into sexually provocative stars with boyfriends. “When I had my first record I was twelve years old,” says Cyrus. “Nobody at that point really (more…)
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Disney’s John Lasseter releases Miyazaki Japanese animation hit in English on Blu-ray and DVD *** 3 Stars
By Gabrielle Pantera
Ponyo, hit Japanese animated feature in English from Disney
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 3/27/2010 – “I’ve been a big advocate at the Disney company of getting the Miyazaki films out there for the DVD releases as well as the theatrical releases,” says Pixar chief creative officer John Lasseter. “I believe that once you watch a Miyazaki film you get hooked. You want to see it again. I tried very hard not to change Miyazaki’s vision. His movies are so deep and so unique.”
“I get inspiration from my everyday life,” says Ponyo director Hayao Miyazaki. “I don’t make films to be message films.” Lasseter says that sometimes we may not quite understand, Miyazaki’s films, but that’s how he intended it. Lasseter, who directed the actors for the English soundtrack for Ponyo, says that the actors were cast to feel natural to American ears without changing the intent of the original Japanese-language film.
The film’s voice cast includes Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, Cloris Leachman, Betty White, Lily Tomlin and introduces Noah Lindsey Cyrus as Ponyo and Frankie Jonas as Sosuke.
Ponyo is the animated story of Sosuke, a five year old boy who finds a (more…)
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