Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor Ep 429: How “Rhapsody in Blue” became part of “Fantasia 2000”

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about Warner Bros Discovery’s Q4 earnings call. They then talk about which animated features & shorts took home awards at this year’s Annies Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: What was the name of the “Fantasia” follow-up that Disney had in the works in the early 1980s How many nominations did “Nimona” have going into this year’s Annie Awards ceremony At which animation studio did Ken Melton start out sculpting maquettes Which members of the original “Fairly Oddparents” creative team are returning to work on “A New Wish” Who did Michael Eisner originally try & recruit to become as the celebrity conductor who’d then ride herd on “Fantasia Continued” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.
0:05.7	I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill and Mr. Taylor, whose writings on the industry you can regularly read over on the rap
0:12.2	and whose musings on the Mission Impossible movies
0:15.0	you can listen to on Light Defuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast.
0:20.7	He and I are recording this week show on Friday, February 23rd,
0:25.8	2024 and Drew you've been up since the butt crack of dawn I have been and that
0:32.1	was because the Warner Brothers
0:34.4	Discoverly fourth quarter earnings call that 8 a.m. East Coast? 8 a.m.
0:39.4	East Coast?
0:40.4	8 a.m. I don't know why they did it so early but yes I was up at 5 o'clock.
0:44.0	It was tough. But we'll talk about that soon.
0:49.0	Well, we will. We will. In fact, we're going to talk about it now.
0:52.0	You know, because that's a thing.
0:54.0	There's this wonderful article over at the rap written by Drew Taylor, which talks about
0:57.7	Warner Brothers Discovery's Attack Plan for 2024, Mr Zazlav, the CEO and president over there, spoke of this attack plan
1:06.4	is one of the reasons that we're getting some of the very best people coming on
1:10.0	board with us over there and some of those very best people are actually your good
1:14.4	close personal friend mr. Cruz yes yes they they formally announced a new
1:20.3	project with him in Alejandro Ineritu, who won the Oscar for The Revenent, and I think he won for Birdman too, actually.
1:28.3	So, but yeah, they don't know what that project is, but it is happening apparently.
1:32.4	No mention of what we wish
1:34.6	someone had brought up. And I wanted to ask about that because again they
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