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According to former Disney animator Tom Bancroft on Twitter, Disney gutted their hand-drawn animation division this afternoon, and laid off nine veteran animators, including some of the studio’s biggest names: Nik Ranieri, Ruben Aquino, Frans Vischer, Russ Edmonds, Brian Ferguson, Jamie Lopez and Dan Tanaka. Two of the animators who still have jobs are Eric Goldberg and Mark Henn. The news of cuts in their animation division was leaked last week, but I, for one, did not anticipate that all these top animators would be let go. We’ve reached out to the studio for comment.


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Walt Disney Studios has called in the plumber and the clog has been cleared, resulting in a deluge of animated classics all being released for the first time on Disney blu-ray on March 12, 2013. While not all of have been officially confirmed to us by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, now is the time to start saving those pennies to complete your home video collection.


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Arjun: The Warrior Prince (Arjun) - This animated retelling of the classic Indian tale of Prince Arjun -- part of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharat -- begins during the prince's youth. As the film unfolds, Arjun acquires the maturity and education that allow him to accept his warrior soul.


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The entertaiment trade magazine Variety revealed more of the veteran actors and younger talent who voiced the English dub of Goro Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's From Up On Poppy Hill film on Friday. The main cast includes Gillian Anderson (X-Files, Princess Mononoke), Jamie Lee Curtis (A Fish Called Wanda, Freaky Friday), Bruce Dern (Silent Running, Coming Home), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men, Drive), Ron Howard (Happy Days, American Graffiti), Chris Noth (Sex in the City, The Good Wife), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) and Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac).


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According to Blu-Ray.com, 1992's Aladdin will be released on Disney's "Diamond Edition" Blu Ray sometime during the Spring of 2013 as to celebrate its 20th Anniversary. For whatever reason there is no English DVD Trailer for either this or the other announcement trailers declaring the other animated features Blu-Ray debuts, so this'll have to do. Be sure to check out the Blu-Ray announcement DVD for the bundle back for Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World which have presumably out and purchaseable since August 21st, 2012.

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Arjun: The Warrior Prince is an Indian cel-shaded CG film produced by UTV Motion Pictures. It was completed in 2010 but will be released in India on May 25, 2012. Disney has recently acquired UTV and therefore the movie will be released under the Disney label. This is the second fully-animated Indian film to be released under the Disney name. The first one was Roadside Romeo, a Disney and Yash Raj Films co-production. [SOURCE]


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