Disney DVD & Video Newsletter Volume 30 - September 2003
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The inside scoop from Walt Disney Home Entertainment!

Feature Of The Month

Sleeping Beauty
 
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leeping Beauty” On Disney
DVD For The First Time Ever!


Heralded by audiences and critics alike, Sleeping Beauty was the final and ultimate fairy tale to be produced by Walt Disney himself. Now fully restored with revolutionary digital technology, this classic film is coming to video and 2-disc Special Edition DVD on September 9.

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Sleeping Beauty

Spotlights
BIONICLE™: MASK OF LIGHT
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"BIONICLE™: MASK OF LIGHT"
On DVD And Video September 16


For the first time ever, the world of BIONICLE™ comes to life in an epic motion picture event -- BIONICLE™: MASK OF LIGHT! Experience the action-packed adventures that have enthralled
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millions of fans.
Disney's Holes
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“Holes” Comes To Disney DVD
And Video September 23


The award-winning best-seller comes to life in this phenomenally fun, adventure-filled movie!
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Holes is a treasure everyone will dig.
Halloween Treats
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“Spooktacular” Halloween
Fun For Little Ones!


Get the party going this Halloween with three “boo-tiful” titles from Disney: Mickey’s House Of Villains, The Frightfully Fun Collection DVD, and Rolie Polie Olie: A Spookie Ookie
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Halloween/Book Of Pooh: Just Say BOO!
Surf's Up

Finding NemoFinding NemoSneak Peeks
Plunge into this year’s top movie with a sneak peek at Disney-Pixar’s Finding Nemo, coming to DVD and Video November  4. Or catch up with Kim Possible, just your average teenage girl out to save the world with Kim Possible: The Secret Files Finding Nemo(including a never -before-seen episode), now on DVD and Video.

The Lion King Special Edition Fun And Games

Simba saunters, Timon tumbles, and Pumbaa pounces all day long in this totally cool The Lion King Special Edition screenmate with interactive features -- you can use your mouse to gently lift and drop the characters from the top of your computer screen. For more on-line fun, try The Lion King trading card game, where you can collect all of your favorite characters from the movie for a chance to win big prizes, including a trip to Walt Disney World. Or pig out and enter the Piglet’s Big Movie sweepstakes for a chance to win one of 100 grand prizes. Just click on the Piglet Sweepstakes icon to enter. For more trading card fun, visit Stitch! The Movie and collect all of your favorite Stitch characters for a chance to win a Stitch prize pack.


Now  In Theaters

Freaky Friday
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"Freaky Friday"

Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her 15-year-old daughter, Anna (Lindsay Lohan), are not getting along. They don't see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music, and certainly not on each other's taste in men. One Thursday evening, their disagreements reach a fever pitch -- Anna is incensed that her mother doesn't support her musical aspirations and Tess, a widow about to remarry, can't see why Anna won't give her fiance (Mark Harmon) a break. Everything soon changes when two identical Chinese Fortune Cookies cause a little mystic mayhem. On the next morning, their Friday gets freaky when Tess and Anna find themselves inside the other's body. As they literally walk a mile in each other's shoes, they gain a little newfound respect for the other's point of view. But with Tess's wedding coming up on Saturday, the two have to find a way to switch back (and fast). Mary Rodgers' classic novel gets a new spin in this big-screen adaptation.

Rated PG for mild thematic elements and some language.
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Special Offer
Get A $5 Rebate On
“Sleeping Beauty Special Edition”

Sleeping Beauty
Current owners of Sleeping Beauty can get a $5 rebate check by mail when they purchase Sleeping Beauty Special Edition, on DVD or Video September 9. See packages for complete details.

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Offer expires September 9, 2004. Good in USA. Void where prohibited.

Sleeping Beauty...Did You Know?

The restoration for the Special Edition took more than 46,000 hours to complete and involved meticulously reformatting all 108,000 frames of the film one frame at a time.
In the original story, Princess Aurora sleeps for 100 years before being awakened by a prince's kiss. In the Disney version, Prince Phillip comes to her rescue much sooner.
With a budget that exceeded $6 million in 1959, this was Walt Disney's most lavish and expensive animated feature to date.
Determined to make the characters as realistic as possible, Disney had a live action film shot with actors posing as Sleeping Beauty, the Prince, and Maleficent, for the animators to use.
Top 10 Disney Titles

DVD
1 Piglet’s Big Movie
2 The Lizzie McGuire Movie
3 The Jungle Book 2
4 Baby Galileo Discovering The Sky
5 Lilo & Stitch
6 Spy Kids 2
7 Miyazaki's Spirited Away
8 Treasure Planet
9 Monsters, Inc.
10 Spy Kids


Video
1 Piglet’s Big Movie
2 The Lizzie McGuire Movie
3 The Jungle Book 2
4 Baby Galileo Discovering The Sky
5 Air Bud Spikes Back
6 Spy Kids 2
7 Lilo & Stitch
8 Atlantis 2: Milo’s Return
9 Baby Mozart® Music Festival
10 Treasure Planet
Figures are for video and DVD sales
8/1/03 - 8/16/03