Lilo & Stitch on DVD December 3rd

[hopemax]

http://www.dvdfile.com/news/web_wire/press_release/titles/liloandstitch.html

Disney’s Animated Box-Office Sensation
Comes To Disney DVD And Video

LILO & STITCH

Available For The Holiday Season On December 3

BURBANK, Calif., August 26, 2002 – LILO & STITCH, Disney’s animated feature masterpiece, is available for the first time ever on Disney DVD and video on December 3 from Walt Disney Home Entertainment. This worldwide box-office sensation is presented on Disney DVD loaded with fun-for-everyone bonus features. Combining out-of-this-world storytelling, stunning Disney animation and irresistible characters, LILO & STITCH features the legendary music of Elvis Presley in a fun-filled, heartwarming comedy about the power of loyalty, friendship and finding your place in the world.

LILO & STITCH in theaters was the second-highest-grossing traditionally animated film since Disney’s “Tarzan,”„ and among traditionally animated films it enjoyed the highest box-office opening week since Disney’s “The Lion King.” LILO & STITCH will be available in Dolby‚ 5.1 Surround Sound on Disney DVD for $29.99 (S.R.P.) and on VHS for $24.99 (S.R.P.).

Backed by a multi-million dollar marketing campaign, the LILO & STITCH DVD and video will also be supported by a massive Hawaiian giveaway, with the opportunity to win 25 trips to Hawaii. Entry forms are found inside the LILO & STITCH video and DVD product. LILO & STITCH will also feature a $3 coupon good towards purchase of the Lilo & Stitch soundtrack CD.

LILO & STITCH on Disney DVD will include loads of bonus features, including:

Ý Deleted Scenes:
Found only on the DVD, included are scenes planned for the original film which didn’t make the final cut, presented in various stages of animation: “Stitch’s Trial,” “Bedtime Story” and “Gantu Challenges.”
Ý InterSTITCHals - The Teaser Trailers:
These are the four outrageous teaser trailers seen by audiences when Lilo & Stitch ran in theaters. They feature Stitch as he comically elbows his way into parts of Disney’s Beauty & The Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and The Lion King.
Ý New InterSTITCHals ! A Stitch In Time: Follow Stitch Through The Disney Years:
Featuring all-new “InterSTITCHals,” created exclusively for home entertainment! Believe it or not, Stitch has been trying to break into films for years. In this piece you will see all of the previous movies Stitch tries hilariously to be a part of, as he interrupts such classics as: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Lady & The Tramp, 101 Dalmatians and more…
Ý “Burning Love” – Behind The Scenes With Wynonna:
Meet country star Wynonna, hear her sing and hear what she has to say about Elvis, his songs, and Lilo.
Ý “I Can’t Help Falling In Love With You” Music Video Performed By A-Teens
Ý Create Your Own Alien Experiment Game: Jumba has three new aliens he wants to create, but it seems the Galactic Alliance has destroyed his documents. Can you help? Answer trivia questions and mix the potions in the correct order and you can create your own aliens.

LILO & STITCH/PAGE THREEÝ DisneyPedia: Hawaii – The Islands Of Aloha:
Explore the fascinating world of the Hawaiian Islands with your hosts Lilo & Nani. Packed with interesting facts, this fun-filled program offers up all six of the Hawaiian Islands. Two viewing options allow you to explore individual topics at your own pace or watch all ten in one continuous program.

Ý Hula Lesson:
Learn the ancient art of hula for yourself with this featurette. Hosted by Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu, a real life Hula Master.
Ý Young Voices Of Hawaii:
A look at the Kamehameha School Children’s Chorus recording the Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride & He Mele No Lilo in the film.
Ý The Look of “Lilo and Stitch” (the unique rounded look):
Chris Sanders, one of the film’s directors, had a specific style in mind when he pitched the movie. He likes a rounded look with no hard edges. Throughout the film you’ll see everything is rounded.
Ý Animating The Hula:
A featurette on how the filmmakers researched the hula, including a look at a real Hawaiian hula school & master. A great mix of live action footage, pencil animation & final animation.
Ý On Location With The Directors:
A 20 minute documentary utilizing footage shot by the producers of the film. This is a fly-on-the-wall look at the filmmakers’ experiences.

The sizzling soundtrack for LILO & STITCH includes six great songs by Lilo’s favorite performer, Elvis Presley. Also included is the exciting version of Elvis’s hit “Burning Love” by Grammy-Award-nominated country singer Wynonna, and the Elvis classic “Can’t Help Falling In Love With You” is performed by the popular Swedish vocal group the A*Teens. Acclaimed composer Alan Silvestri adds to the fun with his beautiful original score, a Hawaiian themed work that includes collaborations with renowned hula master/performer Mark Keali‘i Ho‘omalu and members of the Kamehameha School Children’s Chorus.
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The animation for LILO & STITCH includes the Disney Studio’s first extensive use of watercolor backgrounds in over six decades. A technique used in such classic Disney animated masterpieces as SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, PINOCCHIO and BAMBI, the animators’ rediscovery of this classic technique works perfectly to evoke the lush and beautiful charm of the Hawaiian Islands.

In LILO & STITCH, an independent-minded little Hawaiian girl named Lilo (Daveigh Chase, TV’s “Fillmore!”) plays Elvis Presley records and causes mischief for her older sister and guardian, Nani (Tia Carrere, “Wayne’s World,” TV’s “Relic Hunter”). When the no-nonsense social worker Cobra Bubbles (Ving Rhames, “Mission Impossible”) threatens to separate Lilo and Nani, the sisters try to get their act together. Their lives are turned upside down, however, when Stitch arrives in Hawaii. Actually a mischief-making creature who is officially known as “Experiment 626,” Stitch has escaped from his creator, the mad alien scientist Jumba (David Ogden Stiers, Disney’s “Beauty And The Beast”) and is on the run.

When Lilo adopts Stitch in an animal shelter as the family dog, Stitch realizes he may have found the perfect place to hide out. Prone to somewhat anti-social tendencies, Stitch makes a hilarious mess of Lilo and Nani’s home life, wreaking havoc and hanging ten while he evades the alien bounty hunters who are bent on recapturing him. Soon, however, Stitch learns that the Hawaiian concept of ‘ohana (a family tradition where “no one is left behind”) even applies to runaway aliens.

The talented voice cast of LILO & STITCH also includes Jason Scott Lee (Disney’s “The Jungle Book”) as Nani’s boyfriend David, four-time Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell (“The Purple Rose of Cairo”) as the alien Grand Councilwoman, Kevin McDonald (TV’s “That ‘70s Show”) as the hapless alien Pleakley and Kevin Michael Richardson (TV’s “ER”) as the gigantic alien Captain Gantu.
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Street Date: December 3
Direct Prebook: October 8
Distributor Prebook: October 22
Rated: “PG For Mild Sci-Fi Action.”
Bonus material unrated and subject to change.
Running Time: Approximately 85 minutes
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[Luv2Roam]

 

[TiggerFreak]

Is this a record for release to home video?
What will it be, 161 days from Big Screen to DVD?
Is this ME's way of making the numbers look better for 2002?

 

[raidermatt]

Cool, thanks!

Question though, is it normal for Disney to release three major animated features on DVD/Video so close together? That's three in 11 weeks (Monsters, Beauty, and Lilo).

Maybe it is, but I was just curious...

 

[TiggerFreak]

I'll ask it again, is ME pulling out all the stops to get good year end numbers?
Where will it leave them next year if they push all these releases out this year.
Will they have anything left that is salable?

 

[hopemax]

Don't worry, there is already a SECOND Lilo & Stitch DVD in the works Next February-ish there is supposed to be a 2-disc set (this one is only one).

There's a good thread about it on the Laughing Place boards, one of the posters is in the animation business and has friends at Walt Disney Home Video.

 

[TiggerFreak]

HopeMax,

Didn't mean to turn this thread into another ME rant
Actually I'm thrilled that L&S is coming out so soon.
That means we will all get to watch it over and over and over ....
Just like my kids did to their favorite movies when they were younger, like I act now

 

[d-r]

ya'll Disney is trying to come up with some capital or something in quick way. Did anybody else see how cheap the lithographs were for the beauty and the beast preorder? What is the deal with the price of the lilo and stitch dvd? I thought that Disney had overpriced some of their first dvd releases, but that they were coming more in line, with the 2-dvd sets for monsters inc. and beauty and the beast being $19.99, but this is a one disc for 29.99? And VHS for $24.99? What are they thinking? WHy is this coming so fast? And I thought they had proven that they learned fom bugs life and tarzan not to release a "Collecter's edition" set a few months after the release of the first disc? What is up with that?

I'm really amazed by this...

DR

 

[Luv2Roam]

Awhile back a DS CM told me this would happen. She said summer movies are generally released right after the first of the year. I think it's their way of getting people to buy right after the first of the year.
Does seem like a lot of lag time between when B&tB and MI were released though.

 

[mickey4ver]

Originally posted by d-r
Did anybody else see how cheap the lithographs were for the beauty and the beast preorder?
DR

I pre ordered and I don't find them cheap looking at all. I like the matte finish.

 

[d-r]

Mickey4ever,
I'm wondering if you got different ones in your disney store then - or maybe I'm not a good judge of the quality. The ones we got seemed like they were run on a color copier; you can almost see the pixelization. The color seems blocky and chunky.

 

[mickey4ver]

Not sure, the paper reminds me of a heavier cardstock, but can't think what it is called. I just think they are nicer than the shiny ones myself. I wish I could think of what type of paper you would call it....age dulls the mind sometimes...

 

[maleficent1959]

Yes, Lilo and Stitch would be coming out earlier than the summer releases traditionally do. Every year we have many guests complain that they can't buy Tarzan or Mulan or whatever for their kids for Christmas. Now Disney is finally realizing that guests want it sooner, they're putting it out for the holidays and now people are complaining about that. There's just no pleasing some people I guess.

 

[doombuggy]

The fiscal year for the Walt Disney Company starts October 1, I believe, and not January 1. So the thought of "pumping up the year end numbers" is actually a misnomer. That is the first quarter of the fiscal year.

I agree about the price though - that doesn't sound right.

 

[raidermatt]

Just to be clear, I am not necessarily complaining about the release dates. Its great from a customer perspective.

My question however, is why is this being done? If its simply to make us happy, great, but that's not the pattern for other decisions.

I thought there were some legitimate reasons for spacing the releases out? But perhaps they feel the spacing is not necessary? Perhaps its to get cash sooner ?

(I saw an analyst speculating that Disney was going to experience a cash crunch next year similar to what Vivendi is going through. I'm not taking this as fact, but the thought is "on the street".)

We all know what kind of pressure the stock is under. And while its too late to do much about Disney's 4th quarter, which ends in about 5 weeks, they could be trying to pump up 1st quarter by having three major releases of theatrical animated features. Given the focus placed on "meeting the quarterly numbers", it has to at least be a possibility that Disney is trying to maximize short term earnings...

 

[hopemax]

Re: the price

It's seems to be standard practice for DVD's to retail for less than their MSRP at the original release. The MSRP for the Beauty & the Beast Platinum edition is $29.99 but that's not what the pre-order price is. Same thing for Monsters, Inc the MSRP is $29.99.

So even though the MSRP says $29.99, you can expect to buy Lilo & Stitch for under $20.

 

[doombuggy]

"Stitch - the movie" is due out sometime next year on video, and will segway into a tv series in the fall. i read this in "Eyes & Ears."

 

[Jakey]

Since I'm in the video business I can tell you that there is no big secret as to why this is being done. All the studios are doing it. They have discovered that a long wait between theatrical release and video release 1. Makes the consumers mad. 2. Makes the studios have to spend even more money to promote the video release when they can spend less if they ride the wave of promotion from the theatrical department. The bigger the box office, the quicker the video/DVD release. They don't want to lose the momentum of the advertising and word of mouth. New Line is going to release Mr. Deeds at about the same time and that will be an even shorter window from theatrical.

I just returned from studio meetings yesterday. "Lilo and Stitch" was originally scheduled for Disney's usual February slot they've used for years for animated hits, but when "Spy Kids 2" turned in good numbers, they realized they could move "Lilo" to the Xmas slot since they didn't have any major new animated hit for Xmas this year. Every other year this Xmas slot is usually occupied with something from Pixar. "SP2" will be out in February and they also have "Signs" in the waiting for a first quarter release.

I think too many are reading something into all this. The windows between theatrical and video releases are getting shorter all the time and from every studio. Even the new "Austin Powers" will be out on video and DVD before Xmas.

On a related subject, much has been talked up on the boards lately about how great Universal is doing compared to Disney. I can tell you that Disney has some great looking film projects in the works, from all divisions. Universal, on the other hand, has the biggest pile of garbage I've ever seen. Their slate of films for the next two years is nothing but remakes and sequels. When they unveiled their production teaser reel three months ago, I can only describe the reaction among video retailers as appalled! "Undercover Brother" and "The Borne Identity" are only the tip of a very ugly iceberg. Let's hope someone with taste ends up buying Universal and cancels most of this stuff before the film can be exposed. Dreamworks is distributed by Universal and there wasn't much of anything decent from them either. Unless Imagine comes up with something, they're going down the tubes.

Of course it's just my opinion but Disney isn't doing that bad with their movies in comparison to other studios.

 

[doombuggy]

Thanks for the great info, Jakey!

 

[SnackyStacky]

I'm very happy that Lilo & Stitch will be out that soon. My only complaint is that they really SHOULD offer those two-disc sets immediately. I haven't pre-ordered anything from Disney since Emporer's New Groove, and when they did that one, you could pre-order the two-disc set and I did!

It makes me upset that I have to pay for the single disc set when I know that in two or three months, I'm going to be buying another copy!!! I suppose that's a move they make to up the profit though.

But definitely, yeah to the 12/3 release date!