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A Trip Down Memory Lane: Looking Back at the Top 20 Films for the 90s Child

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Born in 1991, I am a true 90s child. CiTV’s Old Skool Weekend on 5th and 6th January was ever so exciting, as I’m sure many of you agree, and it inspired me to compile a list of my top 20 favourite 90s childhood films. 90s kids (and indeed anyone else who has lived through [...]




The HeyUGuys UK DVD/Blu-Ray Release Round-Up – 21st May

The Descendants

After last week’s brilliant new releases in the home entertainment market, headed up by Steve McQueen’s Shame and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (I bought them both on Blu-ray, the latter in HMV’s exclusive steelbook special edition), this week sees another great slew of titles for us to add to our collections. [...]




The Lion King Rises: A Perfect Mash-Up Trailer Of The Dark Knight Rises And Disney’s Classic

The-Dark-Knight-Rises-Poster

Just a few weeks ago, the first full-length trailer for Christopher and Jonathan Nolan’s epic conclusion to their Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, took the Internet by storm. If you weren’t convinced of its upcoming awesomeness already, then I have faith that you were blown away by the trailer. With the trailer in the [...]




Lion King Blu-ray Behind the Scenes – James Earl Jones Featurette

The Lion King DIamond Edition Packshots

The Lion King: The Diamond Edition comes out today on 3D Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray and Disney DVD is a must for any fan of the movie. This version is packed to the rafters with new special features, all of which are listed below. You can order your copy of the movie here.  If you missed our [...]




Interview with Robert Neuman on The Lion King 3D

lion king 3d

After an astonishingly successful 3D rerelease at the cinema, The Lion King finally comes to Blu-Ray in the UK today. Not only can you now watch the film at home in gloriously high definition, but you can also do so in 3D. A few weeks ago we published our interviews with Don Hahn, the producer [...]




Finding Nemo Gets A Blu-Ray Trailer And More Classic Disney/Pixar Will Return In 3D!

Finding Nemo

On the off chance you haven’t been to a cinema recently or seen any of the advertising for it elsewhere, you may not have heard the fantastic news that the 1994 classic Disney film, The Lion King, has just been re-released in cinemas in 3D. I was too young to see it as a child [...]




Don Hahn Speaks About The Lion King 3D – Part Two

The Lion King Montage

Yesterday we published the first part of our interview with Don Hahn, during which we discussed the process of converting the film to 3D, and the possibilities this might have for Disney’s back catalogue in the future. In this part Hahn talks about the effect of the film on audiences, the possibility of synchronous 3D [...]




Don Hahn Speaks About The Lion King 3D – Part One

lion king don hahn

We recently had the chance to speak to Don Hahn, producer of Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and a host of other great films, about his most successful movie, The Lion King, ahead of its re-release in 3D this week. It was something of a mammoth conversation [...]




Robert Downey Jr. to Embark on an Adventure in Time With Peabody and Sherman

In his first venture into childrens animation (he working within that world on 2006’s A Scanner Darkly), Robert Downey Jr. is lending his vocal talents to Peabody and Sherman for DreamWorks Animation. The Iron Man star will provide the voice of Mr. Peabody, a genius, talking dog who appeared in the late 1950’s/early 1960’s US [...]




Brenda Chapman Leaves Pixar Feature – Brave

Brenda Chapman

There have been rumblings in the blogosphere for almost a week now, but it looks like Pixar’s first female director, Brenda Chapman, has indeed left the studio and is no longer directing Brave. Cartoon Brew has revealed that she officially left the project last week, although reports have suggested that it’s been inevitable for a [...]




HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 26: My week with Animation

Wings of Honneamise

This week I watched five Animated films of differing styles and topics that were My Neighbour Totoro, The Incredibles, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Lion King and Grave of the Fireflies. Now we are around the half way mark at week 26 I’m starting to consider the films which are not on the list and wonder [...]




Animation Excitement: Lion King 3D and Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2?!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1

Empire Online have a few tasty nuggets of information concerning a number of upcoming Disney projects, thanks to their interview with Don Hahn, the man behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Beauty & The Beast and The Lion King. The producer managed to offer a couple of choice tidbits, despite obviously wrestling with his own binding [...]




Alice In Wonderland’s Linda Woolverton to Pen Malficient?

Maleficent

It was reported at the start of the year that rumours were emerging that Disney and Tim Burton were proposing a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story, focusing on the evil queen Maleficent, and that the new project would get off the ground if Alice in Wonderland proved to be a hit. We all know [...]