[121] In July 2017, it was announced that Egyptian-Canadian actor Mena Massoud had been cast as Aladdin, Scott as Jasmine, and Smith as the Genie. [67] A THX-certified widescreen LaserDisc was issued on September 21, 1994,[68][69][better source needed] and a Spanish-dubbed VHS for the American market was released on April 14, 1995. After defeating the attempts of the frustrated African magician and his even more wicked younger brother to recover the lamp, Aladdin lives in longtime marital happiness, succeeds the sultan, and reigns for many years, “leaving behind him a long line of kings.”. [20], Musker and Clements wrote a draft of the screenplay, and then delivered a story reel to studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg in April 1991. [61], The film was first released in VHS on October 1, 1993, as part of the Walt Disney Classics line. [55], Outside of North America, the film grossed $200 million in 1993,[56] and $250 million by January 1994. [12], In gratitude for his success with Touchstone Pictures' Good Morning, Vietnam, Robin Williams voiced the Genie for SAG scale pay—$75,000—instead of his asking fee of $8 million, on condition that his name or image not be used for marketing, and his (supporting) character not take more than 25% of space on advertising artwork, since Williams's film Toys was scheduled for release one month after Aladdin's debut. [31] Animator Randy Cartwright described working on the Magic Carpet as challenging, since it is only a rectangular shape, that expresses itself through pantomime—"It's sort of like acting by origami". Because of the controversy, Disney removed the line on the DVD release. Aladdin, Arabic ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, hero of one of the best-known stories in The Thousand and One Nights. [13] Along with partner Alan Menken, Ashman conceived several songs and added Aladdin's friends named Babkak, Omar, and Kasim to the story. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. But, have you ever stopped to think how old all these prince and princesses are? "[90], Aladdin also received many award nominations, mostly for its music. [125] In August 2017, Marwan Kenzari, Nasim Pedrad, and Numan Acar joined the cast as Jafar, Dalia, and Hakim, respectively. Aladdin is a 1992 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.The film is the 31st Disney animated feature film, and was the fourth produced during the Disney film era known as the Disney Renaissance.It was produced and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, and is based on the Arabic folktale of the same name … [9] Iago's supervising animator Will Finn tried to incorporate some aspects of Gottfried's appearance into Iago's design, especially his semi-closed eyes and the always-appearing teeth. [80] Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the film on a Diamond Edition Blu-ray on October 13, 2015. "[92] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said the comedy made the film accessible to both children and adults,[93] a vision shared with Desson Howe of The Washington Post, who also said "kids are still going to be entranced by the magic and adventure. [77] Instead, Peter Pan was released on Blu-ray as a Diamond Edition on February 5, 2013 to celebrate its 60th anniversary. [122][123] At the 2017 D23 Expo, Menken announced that he would be co-writing new songs for the film with Academy Award winners Pasek and Paul[124] while Vanessa Taylor would re-write the script. The film is the 31st Disney animated feature film, and was the fourth produced during the Disney film era known as the Disney Renaissance. The son of a deceased Chinese tailor and his poor widow, Aladdin is a lazy, careless boy who meets an African magician claiming to be his uncle. [120] Production had originally been scheduled to begin in July, but was delayed due to Disney having trouble finding the right people to play Aladdin and Jasmine. We didn't really want that to be the message of the movie. While there are plenty of horror, If you don’t think true love exists, then you haven’t heard of The Christmas Chronicles, and the fact that real-life, ionic couple Kurt Russell, Make Way For Anne Hathaway, Grand High Witch Of Camp, Let Me Remind You Of The Most Underrated Spooky Season Movie, Awesomely Terrible Horror Movies That Are So Bad They're Good, The Best Spooky, Scary Halloween Movies On Netflix Right Now, Everything Leaving Netflix in November 2020, These 20 Movies Are Incredibly Scary & Gore-Free. "[86] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 86 out of 100 based on 25 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". They criticized the characters' anglicized features and Anglo-American accents, in contrast to the other characters in the film, which have foreign accents, grotesque facial features, and appear villainous or greedy. Aladdin decides instead to keep his promise and frees the Genie. ", "Aladdin (1992) – Domestic Total Adj. In, That said, actors who play teens are generally a bit older than their characters, and. [48] Being "imprisoned" is also presented, a fate that occurs to most of the characters—Aladdin and Jasmine are limited by their lifestyles, Genie is attached to his lamp, and Jafar to the Sultan—and is represented visually by the prison-like walls and bars of the Agrabah palace, and the scene involving caged birds which Jasmine later frees. [13] As with Woolverton's screenplay, several characters and plot elements were based on the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad,[27][28] though the location of the film was changed from Baghdad to the fictional Arabian city of Agrabah. Aladdin, Abu, and the carpet rush to escape the cave as it collapses. Aladdin garnered two Academy Awards, as well as other accolades for its soundtrack which had the first and only number from a Disney feature to earn a Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the film's theme song sung by Regina Belle. [64] By December 1993, it had topped 21 million sales and grossed about $500 million in the United States. [115], In October 2016, it was reported that Disney was developing a live-action adaptation of Aladdin with Guy Ritchie signed on to direct the film. He disguises himself as a wealthy prince, and tries to impress the Sultan and his daughter. He then exposes Aladdin's identity and exiles him, Abu, and the carpet to a frozen wasteland. [90] Warner Bros. Cartoons director Chuck Jones even called the film "the funniest feature ever made. [58] Currently, it is the 35th-highest-grossing animated film and the third-highest-grossing traditionally animated feature worldwide, behind The Lion King and The Simpsons Movie. He returns home and soon finds that rubbing the lamp also produces genies. [117] In April 2017, Will Smith entered talks to play the Genie. Ron Clements and John Musker, "Filmmaker's Commentary". The Broadway adaptation also uses the edited line. [32] Each character was animated alone, with the animators consulting each other to make scenes with interrelating characters. [35] Other inspirations for design were Disney's animated films from the 1940s and '50s and the 1940 film The Thief of Bagdad. A kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. [17][18] Then, directors Ron Clements and John Musker joined the production, picking Aladdin out of three projects offered, which also included an adaptation of Swan Lake and King of the Jungle—that eventually became The Lion King. [50] After a limited release on November 13, 1992,[51] Aladdin debuted in 1,131 theaters on November 25, 1992, grossing $19.2 million in its opening weekend—number two at the box office, behind Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. [21] Among the changes Katzenberg requested from Clements and Musker were to not be dependent on Ashman's vision,[14] and the removal of Aladdin's mother, remarking, "Eighty-six the mother. Wringing his hands in dismay in the dark, Aladdin finds that he can summon up powerful jinn, or genies, by rubbing the ring. He criticized what he saw as the film's use of ethnic stereotypes, writing: "Most of the Arab characters have exaggerated facial characteristics—hooked noses, glowering brows, thick lips—but Aladdin and the princess look like white American teenagers. How Old Are Aladdin & Jasmine In The New 2019 Movie? [111][112] Though Aladdin was released prior to The Thief and the Cobbler, The Thief and the Cobbler initially began production much earlier in the 1960s, and was mired in difficulties including financial problems, copyright issues, story revisions and late production times caused by separate studios trying to finish the film after Richard Williams was fired from the project for lack of finished work. The Disney Hyperion book Aladdin: The Making of an Animated Film listed both of Williams's characters "The Peddler" and "The Genie" ahead of main characters, but was forced to refer to him only as "the actor signed to play the Genie". ", "The original story was sort of a winning the lottery kind of thing ... Like having anything you could wish for would be the greatest thing in the world and having it taken away from you is bad, but having it back is great. The film was released on Digital HD on September 29, 2015. The site's consensus reads, "A highly entertaining entry in Disney's renaissance era, Aladdin is beautifully drawn, with near-classic songs and a cast of scene-stealing characters. He uses his first two wishes to become Sultan and the world's most powerful sorcerer. "[15] Furthermore, English-Irish comedian Spike Milligan considered it to be the greatest film of all time. Williams came for voice recording sessions during breaks in the shooting of two other films he was starring in at the time, Hook and Toys. [116] Lin revealed that they were looking for a diverse cast. Aladdin gives the lamp to Jafar, who throws him and Abu back into the cave, though not before Abu steals the lamp back. Netflix’s October lineup is full of ghastly offerings about monsters, ghosts. ", Robin Williams's conflicts with the studio. [44] Composer Alan Menken and songwriters Howard Ashman and Tim Rice were praised for creating a soundtrack that is "consistently good, rivaling the best of Disney's other animated musicals from the '90s. Princess Jasmine of Agrabah is upset that the law requires her to marry a prince instead of one she loves, escapes the palace, and meets Aladdin and his pet monkey, Abu. A live-action film adaptation directed by Guy Ritchie was released on May 24, 2019. The animators based their designs on the work of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, and computers were used for both finishing the artwork and creating some animated elements. [81][82][83] Upon its first week of release on home media in the U.S., the film topped the Blu-ray Disc sales chart and debuted at number 2 at the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart, which tracks overall disc sales behind the disaster film San Andreas. They are told that only one person is worthy to enter: "the diamond in the rough," whom Jafar later identifies as Aladdin, an Agrabah street urchin. Aladdin, hero of one of the best-known stories in The Thousand and One Nights. Send for free list of books and brochure on Aladdin collecting. [9] Jasmine is also depicted as a different Disney Princess, being rebellious against the royal life and the social structure. As a means of apologizing, Aladdin takes Jasmine on a ride on the magic carpet. Aladdin returns to the palace and exposes Jafar's evil plot. [23] Screenwriting duo Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio were brought in to rework the story,[15] and the changes they made included the removal of Aladdin's mother, the strengthening of the character of Princess Jasmine, and the deletion of several of the Ashman-Menken songs.

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