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The Little Mermaid Features A New Alan Menken Song Titled 'For The First Time'

The Little Mermaid Features A New Alan Menken Song Titled 'For The First Time'
According to Empire, Rob Marshall's "The Little Mermaid" -- a live-action/CGI remake of John Musker and Ron Clements' 1989 animated film of the same name -- will feature a brand new song called "For the First Time," to be sung by the titular mermaid Ariel (Halle Bailey) as she makes her first sojourn onto dry land after being transformed into a human. It was co-penned by Disney legend and award-winning songwriter Alan Menken, the Egot maestro who co-wrote the songs for the animated "Little Mermaid" movie with Howard Ashman, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Broadway superstar and songwriter behind the Disney-released animated films "Moana" and "Encanto."

Menken's return is a big deal. In 1990, he won two Academy Awards for "The Little Mermaid," taking home trophies for the film's score and for the song "Under the Sea" (for which Ashman was also awarded the Oscar). Menken and Ashman's ballad "Kiss the
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‘Beauty and the Beast’ Live-Action Special Finds Its Lumière, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, More

‘Beauty and the Beast’ Live-Action Special Finds Its Lumière, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, More
Martin Short and Shania Twain are set to play the world’s most famous candelabra and teapot. The two stars have joined ABC’s upcoming December 15 “Beauty and the Beast” 30th-anniversary special, along with David Alan Grier, Rizwan Manji, Jon Jon Briones, and Leo Abelo Perry.

Short, the Emmy and Tony winner who currently stars in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” will portray the flirtatious French candelabra Lumière, voiced in the original 1991 Disney film by Jerry Orbach. Five-time Grammy-winning country singer Twain will play the teapot Mrs. Potts, whose original voice actor, Angela Lansbury, died last week. Perry, who made his film debut this year in the Disney+ remake of “Cheaper by the Dozen,” will play Potts’ son Chip. Grier, who won a Tony last year for his performance in “A Soldier’s Play,” will portray the majordomo clock Cogsworth, while Jon Jon Briones will play village inventor Maurice,
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Lord and Miller Urge Oscars to Take Animation Seriously: ‘Invite a Respected Filmmaker to Present’

Lord and Miller Urge Oscars to Take Animation Seriously: ‘Invite a Respected Filmmaker to Present’
Oscar-winning animators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller slammed the Academy for diminishing the animation categories during the 94th Academy Awards.

The directing duo behind “The Lego Movie” and co-producers of “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse” penned an opinion piece for Variety calling out the Oscars’ handling of the animated categories, especially when “Encanto” won Best Animated Feature. Presenters Lily James, Halle Bailey, and Naomi Scott (who’ve all played Disney princesses) took to the stage, saying, “So many kids watch these movies over and over… and over and over and over and over… I think some parents out there know exactly what we’re talking about.”

That glib presentation of one of the night’s biggest honors didn’t sit well with two leaders of the animation community.

“Framing the five Academy Award nominees for Best Animated Feature as a corporate product for kids that parents must begrudgingly endure could be dismissed as simply careless,
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Animation Vet Kirk Wise To Direct ‘Sunny’, First Animated Film For Enderby Entertainment

Animation Vet Kirk Wise To Direct ‘Sunny’, First Animated Film For Enderby Entertainment
Exclusive: Kirk Wise, known for his work on some iconic animated Disney films like Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, has signed on to direct Sunny, the first animated feature from Enderby Entertainment.

Enderby CEO Rick Dugdale will produce the pic with Darrell Brown of Creative Anarchy. Todd Ireland will pen the screenplay based on a story by Dugdale and Brown. It’s about a boy named Sunny who must learn to control his emotions because his emotions control the sun.

Dan Petrie, Jr., Cam Cannon, and Zac Reeder will serve as executive producers.

“It’s exciting to enter the animation space with one of the biggest names in animation and a story that is fresh, engaging and family friendly,” said Dugdale. “We are aiming to create a story that has a positive impact on our culture and society. These are
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Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire directors address rumours of a live-action remake

Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire directors address rumours of a live-action remake
With The Walt Disney Company continuing to release live-action remakes of their classic animated films, rumours have been circling that Atlantis: The Lost Empire could be receiving the same treatment. However, in an interview with Collider, co-directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale addressed this rumour and confirmed it is merely internet talk with nothing official happening […]

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire Directors Have Sad News About Those Live-Action Remake Rumors

Atlantis: The Lost Empire Directors Have Sad News About Those Live-Action Remake Rumors
Disney have found huge success in remaking their animated classics into live action, with the likes of The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast raking in billions at the box office. Fans are perpetually wondering which animated movie will be next in line, with recent rumors continuing to swirl that it will be 2001's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Well, unfortunately for those wishing to see The Lost Empire realized in real-life, co-directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale are now putting these rumors to bed.

"I've heard, so far, the only rumor of Atlantis being tackled as a live-action movie has been strictly on the internet," Kirk Wise said of the ongoing speculation. "I haven't gotten any independent corroboration of that."

"I've actually heard the opposite, that at the last big convention where Disney rolls out their five-year plan [D23 Expo], that Atlantis was not on the docket," Gary Trousdale added.

Even
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Collider Connected: Legendary Directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale on Crafting Disney Classics

Collider Connected: Legendary Directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale on Crafting Disney Classics
Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale are genuine animation legends. Their first film as directors, Beauty and the Beast, was a runaway smash and the first animated feature to be nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award (it was up against JFK and ultimate winner The Silence of the Lambs). After Beauty and the Beast, they directed The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a true spiritual successor to Beauty and the Beast (there’s even a cameo from Belle in the opening number!) and the adventurous Atlantis: The Lost Empire, one of the last truly great traditionally animated movies at Disney. So …
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Original Beauty and the Beast Directors Are Surprised They Got Remake Credit, But Made Zero Money

Original Beauty and the Beast Directors Are Surprised They Got Remake Credit, But Made Zero Money
Original Beauty and the Beast directors did not make a "red cent" from the 2017 live-action adaptation. Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale directed the 1991 animated classic and were given executive producer credit on the live-action movie, which earned over $1 billion at the global box office. Some scenes from the movie are lifted directly from the 1991 version that Wise and Trousdale oversaw, but they were not compensated financially by Disney.

"I didn't get a red cent from the new Beauty and the Beast," Kirk Wise said. Gary Trousdale confirms, "No, there was no financial to it. And the fact that we got credit was a surprise to me." Wise then says, "Me too! Thanks!" Wise and Trousdale had no idea they would be receiving executive producer credits on the 2017 take on the story. Trousdale had this to say about how he learned about the credits.

"I got invited to the premiere at the El Capitan,
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Original Beauty and the Beast directors say Disney didn’t give them any compensation for 2017 remake

Original Beauty and the Beast directors say Disney didn’t give them any compensation for 2017 remake
Despite being a nearly shot-for-shot remake of the original animated film, Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, directors and executive producers on the 1991 animated Beauty and the Beast, have revealed they were given no compensation for the 2017 remake. In a recent interview with Collider, Wise and Trousdale offered their thoughts on the recent surge of […]

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Mandy Patinkin's Hunchback of Notre Dame Audition for Disney Sounds Like a Nightmare

Mandy Patinkin's Hunchback of Notre Dame Audition for Disney Sounds Like a Nightmare
For a generation of filmgoers, Mandy Patinkin will always remain Inigo Montoya, the fiery swordmaster in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride. The actor has since gone on to a distinguished career in film, theater, and music. Patinkin was also in the running to voice the lead role of Quasimodo in Disney's 1996 classic The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But as the directors of the movie Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise recently explained to Collider during an interview, the actor's desire to put his own spin on the film's music did not go over well during auditions.

"He brought his own accompanist. We had a guy there. He was on the piano and everybody who came in and sang, he supplied the music. His accompanist had rearranged the song. This is Alan and [lyricist] Stephen Schwartz in the room!""So they played it. And Kirk and I were like huh. You
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How ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire’ Almost Changed Disney Forever

How ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire’ Almost Changed Disney Forever
It was shortly after the promotional campaign for Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame had concluded. Directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale and writer Tab Murphy had been summoned by producer Don Hahn to a crummy Mexican restaurant in downtown Burbank that is, mercifully, no longer there. “Don made it clear to me and Gary that if we wanted to work on another project and work with the same team, we had to come up with a project right away,” Wise remembered. Trousdale echoed the sentiment: “It was Don Hahn who pulled us together and said, ‘You’ve done …
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Everything We Know About the Scrapped ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire’ Sequel

Everything We Know About the Scrapped ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire’ Sequel
Last week, we brought you exclusive details about a planned sequel to Disney’s underrated animated adventure Atlantis: The Lost Empire from director Kirk Wise. And, yes, we should pause to note that there was a direct-to-video follow-up to Atlantis entitled Atlantis: Milo’s Return, but that it wasn’t designed as a sequel but was rather the first three episodes of a canceled television project that were awkwardly stitched together and were created without the involvement of the movie’s team. Wise revealed that the sequel, which was very much in development, would have climaxed with …
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Scrapped Atlantis 2: The Lost Empire Plans Revealed by Disney Director Kirk Wise

Scrapped Atlantis 2: The Lost Empire Plans Revealed by Disney Director Kirk Wise
Since it's fairly muted release back in 2001, Disney's underwater adventure Atlantis: The Lost Empire has become a cherished animation favorite for many. Well, the movie's director, Kirk Wise, has revealed his ideas for a once planned sequel.

"Believe it or not we did. [Story supervisor] John Sanford, Gary and I actually concocted an idea for a sequel to Atlantis. It had no relation to the Atlantis TV series that was being developed at Disney Television Animation. This was a feature-length, full-on, full-blown sequel to Atlantis."

Clearly the creative team behind Atlantis: The Lost Empire had big plans for a follow-up and were planning to fill it with all sorts of twists and turns. "We were going to have a new villain in the story. The villain was going to be wearing big, scary, wool, bulky, World War I-style clothing with a frightening gasmask to obscure its face; a little Darth Vader-esque," Kirk Wise continued.
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Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire director reveals plans for a proposed sequel

Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire director reveals plans for a proposed sequel
The director of Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Kirk Wise, has revealed plans he had for a mapped-out sequel that never came to fruition. In a recent interview with Collider, Wise explained the loose plot he and his creative partner Gary Trousdale had for a proper, theatrical sequel to Atlantis: The Lost Empire which included a shocking […]

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Exclusive: ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire’ Co-Director Kirk Wise Reveals Details of Proposed Sequel

Exclusive: ‘Atlantis: The Lost Empire’ Co-Director Kirk Wise Reveals Details of Proposed Sequel
Earlier today we spoke to Kirk Wise, legendary director (along with his creative partner Gary Trousdale) of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Hunchback of Notre Dame about the legacy of his sorely underrated Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Had Atlantis been the kind of sizable smash that Disney was hoping it would have been, it would have veered Disney into an alternate timeline of sorts. We’ll have more from that interview, and about how Atlantis’ success could have potentially changed the company forever, very soon. But for right now we just wanted to share something that Wise …
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Is Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire Getting a Live-Action Remake?

Is Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire Getting a Live-Action Remake?
Another Disney movie is getting the live-action treatment, or so it would seem. An Atlantis: The Lost Empire remake is now said to be in the early stages of development. There have been rumors surrounding such a project in the past, including ones that involved Guillermo del Toro last year, which were quickly debunked by the Oscar-winning filmmaker personally. But now it appears this may truly be happening.

According to a new report, Atlantis: The Lost Empire is in the works at Disney. Details are scarce currently. It isn't clear who may be eyed to direct, nor is there any word on how might be eyed to star. But this is an ensemble piece, so things could get interesting in that regard as the project rolls on.

It also hasn't been revealed if this is being developed for the Disney+ streaming service, or if this will be viewed as a theatrical release.
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Tom Holland Wanted for Disney's Atlantis Live-Action Remake?

Tom Holland Wanted for Disney's Atlantis Live-Action Remake?
With his role as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in not only director Jon Watts' Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home but The Russo Brothers' Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, Tom Holland is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading men.

And today we have word that the Captain America: Civil War and In the Heart of the Sea actor is being eyed for the lead role in Disney's planned upcoming live-action remake of their semi-hit animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Evidently, Disney intends to "stick fairly close to the animated film," and it seems that Holland is being eyed to play the role of geeky Smithsonian cartographer Milo Thatch, initially voiced by Michael J. Fox in the 2001 animated version.

While it might seem like a live-action remake of Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a strange plan for Disney, it could actually be one of their best ideas yet.
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Disney's Hunchback Live-Action Musical Is Happening with Josh Gad

Disney has lined up another live-action adaptation of an animated classic as they are working on a new version of Hunchback of Notre Dame. Disney released an animated take on the classic Victor Hugo novel in 1996, which was a reasonably big hit at the time. Lately, the studio has been revisiting their animated library and re-adapting those stories for the modern generation. This time around, they've tapped Josh Gad to produce the movie and possibly to star.

According to a new report, playwright David Henry Hwang has been tapped to write the new adaptation, simply titled Hunchback, for Disney. Hwang's credits include Chinglish, Yellow Face, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad and M. Butterfly. Though Hwang isn't known for his Hollywood exploits, he is a Tony Award winner and has a very impressive resume. As for Josh Gad, his name has been reportedly floated for the lead role of Quasimodo,
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‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ Live-Action Reboot in the Works at Disney

Disney is in early development on a live-action “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” movie, based on Disney’s animated film and Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “Notre-Dame de Paris.”

Playwright David Henry Hwang is attached to write the script, with Mandeville Films and Josh Gad set to produce. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz will pen the music.

“Hunchback” — the story of the bell-ringer at the Notre Dame Cathedral and his friendship with the gypsy Esmeralda — has been adapted multiple times into features, most notably the 1939 Charles Laughton and 1996 Disney animated versions. The animated movie, directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, grossed $325 million worldwide.

“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” follows Disney’s highly successful strategy of rebooting its animated titles into live-action films, including “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Jungle Book,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and the upcoming “Aladdin,” “The Lion King,” and “Dumbo.”

Hwang won a Tony Award for “M. Butterfly,
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Disney looking at live action remake

Brendon Connelly Jul 27, 2017

Disney is potentially looking to The Hunchback Of Notre Dame for its next live action take on an animated movie.

Even while Beauty And The Beast is warming up the shelves in Sainsbury and Aladdin is filling up the UK's sound stages (while Mulan pre-production continues in parallel with the complex VFX work needed for The Lion King), Disney continues to pillage its attic full of toys even further. Another 'brand deposit' movie seems to be on the way, once again taking an older, already-loved property and finding new ways to sell it to us, even as our nostalgia for the original is being simultaneously rekindled.

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This time it's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, previously realised as Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale's undervalued,
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