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Box-Office Bunny
''Box-Office Bunny'' is a 1991 ''Looney Tunes'' short film directed by Darrell Van Citters and starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. It was shown in theaters alongside '' The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter'', as well as on the subsequent home media releases for the film. It is Warner Bros.'s first Bugs Bunny theatrical release since 1964's ''False Hare''.Sandler (1998), pp. 21–22 It was issued to commemorate Bugs' 50th anniversary and is included as a special feature on the DVD for ''The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie''. The short marks the debut of Jeff Bergman as the voice of Bugs, Daffy, and Elmer, following the death of Mel Blanc on July 10, 1989. Background In the late 1980s, Warner Bros. Animation started producing new theatrical animated shorts, featuring the ''Looney Tunes'' characters. ''The Duxorcist'' (1987) and ''The Night of the Living Duck'' (1988) were well-received individually. Both were then incorporated in the compilation film ''Daf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darrell Van Citters
Darrell Van Citters (born October 29, 1956) is an American director, animator, and author, whose credits include directing the animated television series ''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi'' and directing popular ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety, and Foghorn Leghorn. He partnered with Ashley Postelwaite in 1992 to form Renegade Animation. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Early career Darrell Van Citters began his career in animation training at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts in the Disney-sponsored Character Animation program. While still at Cal Arts, he spent one summer working at Chuck Jones' studio as in-betweener/gofer. The next summer he spent as an assistant at Filmation Studios. Walt Disney Animation Studios years After graduating, he went straight into the animation business and started at the Walt Disney Studio as a trainee in animation. He worked his way up to animator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer Fudd
Elmer J.''Hare Brush'' (1956) Fudd is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. '' Looney Tunes''/'' Merrie Melodies'' series and the archenemy of Bugs Bunny. He has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs himself).Elmer Fudd at Don Markstein's Toonopedia Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. But it was evidenced that the true origins of Elmer was that he was actually created by Fred "Tex" Avery in 1937, as a "Running Gag" characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pullet Surprise
''Pullet Surprise'' is a 1997 7-minute ''Looney Tunes'' short released in theaters with ''Cats Don't Dance''. It was produced by Chuck Jones Film Productions. . Since this cartoon was produced after the death of legendary Looney Tunes voice artist on July 10, 1989, the voice of is supplied by |
Carpool (1996 Film)
''Carpool'' is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Don Rhymer, with starring Tom Arnold and David Paymer. The film was theatrically released with '' Superior Duck'' as the preceding cartoon. As of March 20, 2019, the film rights to ''Carpool'' are owned by the Walt Disney Studios through 20th Century Fox, which had obtained the film rights from Warner Bros. in the mid-2010s. Plot Workaholic Daniel Miller is forced to drive their family carpool when Diane Miller becomes ill. Daniel is in the middle of a huge advertising campaign for Hammerman's, a large chain of delis, and initially refuses the carpool until Mrs. Miller guilts him. It includes two sons, Andrew and Bucky, two local ladies; Chelsea and her older sister, Kayla, and local weirdo Travis. Meanwhile, Franklin Laszlo is the owner of a failing carnival. Franklin has the bright idea to rob a bank in order to get the money to keep his business going. As Franklin leaves to attempt his bank robbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amazing Panda Adventure
''The Amazing Panda Adventure'' is a 1995 American adventure film directed by Christopher Cain and starring Stephen Lang, Yi Ding, and Ryan Slater. It follows a 10-year-old American boy (played by Slater) who travels to China and has to take a panda cub to the reserve so it can reunite with its mother. The film was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. under their Family Entertainment label on August 25, 1995, and was preceded by the '' Looney Tunes'' short '' Carrotblanca'' in theaters. Plot Ryan Tyler's father Michael sends him a plane ticket so that he can visit him in China, where he works with pandas. Ryan is not sure he wants to go, but his mother says he can just come back if he doesn't like it. In China, Michael and his two companions, Ling, a young girl and champion translator, and Chu, Ling's grandfather who is very experienced with pandas track down a mother panda and place a radio collar on her. After they leave, she steps into a trap. Back at the reserve, Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrotblanca
''Carrotblanca'' is a 1995 8-minute ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon. It was originally shown in theaters alongside ''The Amazing Panda Adventure'' (in North America) and ''The Pebble and the Penguin'' (internationally). It was subsequently released on video packaged with older ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons and was included in the special edition DVD, and later HD DVD and Blu-ray, releases of ''Casablanca (film), Casablanca'', the film to which it is both a parody and an Homage (arts), homage. At the time of release, WB did not own the rights to ''Casablanca'' (such rights were with Turner Entertainment – they still technically hold the film today, but WB became responsible for distribution a year after the short's release as a result of their Time Warner, parent company's purchase of Turner in 1996). Like the original film, ''Carrotblanca'' is set during World War II. Unlike the previous modern ''Looney Tunes'' shorts, this short was not made by the Greg Ford/Terry Lennon team nor Chuck J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Rich (1994 Film)
''Richie Rich'' (stylized as ''Ri¢hie Ri¢h'') is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and based on the comic character of the same name created by Alfred Harvey and Warren Kremer. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label. The film stars Macaulay Culkin (in his final film as a child actor until he began work as an adult actor in 2003), John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Jonathan Hyde, and Christine Ebersole, while Reggie Jackson, Claudia Schiffer, and Ben Stein appear in cameo roles. Culkin's younger brother, Rory Culkin, played the part of Young Richie Rich. In theaters, the film was shown with a Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon called ''Chariots of Fur'', and it was followed by the 1998 direct-to-video sequel ''Richie Rich's Christmas Wish''. Plot Richard "Richie" Rich, Jr. is "the world's richest boy", the son of billionaire businessman and philanthropist, Richard Sr. Richie has only his loyal butl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chariots Of Fur
''Chariots of Fur'' is a seven-minute '' Looney Tunes'' short released in 1994 by Warner Bros. It features Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner and was directed by Chuck Jones, who introduced the pair in 1949. As in other shorts of the Road Runner series, Wile E. tries to catch his potential prey through the use of various devices. This film's soundtrack uses music from the Bedřich Smetana opera ''The Bartered Bride''. It was released in North American theaters preceding the film, '' Richie Rich''. It was the first time a new short of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner had been released theatrically since 1966. This was the final Coyote/Road Runner short to be directed by Jones before his death on February 22, 2002. The title is a parody of ''Chariots of Fire''. Plot ''Introduction:'' At the beginning, we see the Road Runner ''(Boulevardius Burnupius)'' giving Wile E. a "come on" to chase him, and the camera moves to Wile and freezes to show his Latin name, ''(Dogius Ignoramii)''. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Film
A children's film, or family film, is a film genre that contains children or relates to them in the context of home and family. Children's films are made specifically for children and not necessarily for a general audience, while family films are made for a wider appeal with a general audience in mind. Children's films come in several major genres like realism, fantasy, adventure, war, musicals, comedy, and literary adaptations. Psychological aspects Children are born with certain innate biological dispositions as a product of long evolutionary history. This provides an underlying biological framework for what may fascinate a child and also impose limitations on the same. These can be seen in certain universal features shared in children's films.Grodal Torben (2009) Embodied Visions, Oxford University Press. P 27 According to Grodal, films like ''Finding Nemo'' (2003), ''Bambi'' (1942), or Hayao Miyazaki's ''Spirited Away'' (2001) are based on certain strong emotions like fear, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fictional Character
In fiction, a character (or speaker, in poetry) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, in which case the distinction of a "fictional" versus "real" character may be made. Derived from the Ancient Greek word , the English word dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in '' Tom Jones'' by Henry Fielding in 1749. From this, the sense of "a part played by an actor" developed.Harrison (1998, 51-2) quotation: (Before this development, the term ''dramatis personae'', naturalized in English from Latin and meaning "masks of the drama," encapsulated the notion of characters from the literal aspect of masks.) Character, particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema, involves "the illusion of being a human person". In literature, characters guide readers through their stories, hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters'' is a 1988 animated compilation film featuring classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and animated bridging sequences, starring Daffy Duck. The film was released to theaters by Warner Bros. on September 24, 1988. It was the final theatrical production in which Mel Blanc provided the voices of the various ''Looney Tunes'' characters before his death on July 10, 1989. Unlike previous compilation films, ''Quackbusters'' uses pre-existing music from older ''Looney Tunes'' shorts composed by Carl Stalling, Milt Franklyn and William Lava for both the new animation and classic footage. It was also one of the two compilation films of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts not composed by Robert J. Walsh (the other being 1979's ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie'', which was composed by Dean Elliott). Similar to '' The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie'', which was preceded with the Oscar-winning ''Knighty Knight Bugs'' (1958), ''Quackbusters'' is preceded wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Of The Living Duck
''The Night of the Living Duck'' is a six-minute 1988 '' Merrie Melodies'' cartoon starring Daffy Duck, directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon. It was released to theatres as a part of ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters'' on September 24, 1988 and precedes the film in all of its releases. The title is a pun on ''Night of the Living Dead'', although the cartoon has nothing to do with said film's theme of a zombie apocalypse. This short was also one of Mel Blanc's final performances, as it was released less than a year before his death. Plot Daffy Duck, indulging in his comic book fandom in a sequence reminiscent of his earlier film ''The Great Piggy Bank Robbery'', is reading a scary comic book called "Hideous Tales" (issue #176). The comic's "Noseman" story ends in a cliffhanger involving Schmodzilla and Daffy rifles his bookcase looking for the next issue ("It's a veritable collector's item!"). While doing so however, a monster clock falls and beans Daffy, knocking him out. In his d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
