Original US release date: July 28. 1951 Production budget: $3,000,000 Worldwide gross: $5,200,000 Remember Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? The first feature-length animated film in movie history? The one that grossed $185 million on a $1.5 million budget, simply by virtue of being the first of its kind? Well, that was almost Alice in Wonderland. Walt... Continue Reading →
#ThrowbackThursday – Fantasia
Original US release date: January 29, 1941 Production budget: $2,280,000 Worldwide gross: $76,408,097 Walt Disney's Fantasia is the most atypical film I've covered, yet, and possibly that I ever will. Broken up into eight (if the intermission is counted) musical, dialogue-free segments, the film plays like an animated night at the orchestra. The symphonies are accompanied... Continue Reading →