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The Princess and the Frog DVD Blu-ray Announced
Burbank, Calif., January 26, in the year of our Lord
2010 – Tiana, the ninth and newest enchanting addition
to the legendary lineage of Disney Princesses, makes her home
entertainment debut in a rollicking Big Easy-style fairy tale
when The Princess and the Frog arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack and
DVD on March 16, 2010 from Walt Disney Studios Home
Entertainment.
A timeless heroine in the tradition of Snow White, Ariel,
Jasmine and the rest of the beloved royal sisterhood, Tiana
comes to life with classic hand-drawn Disney animation from the
revered team of John Musker and Ron Clements (Aladdin, The
Little Mermaid) and a jazz-infused musical score from Academy
Award® winning composer Randy Newman (Best Original Song,
Monsters, Inc., 2001). A royal procession of exclusive bonus
features, including games and specially- created featurettes,
take viewers on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of the storied French
Quarter of New Orleans and into the magic-steeped bayou for
hours of
can’t-miss family entertainment.
The Princess and the Frog transports audiences to glorious,
glamorous New Orleans as Tiana, the first African American
Disney princess meets her frog prince and gives him the fateful
kiss that leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the
mystical, magical bayous of Louisiana. The Princess and the
Frog’s colorful cast of one-of-a-kind new characters joyfully
raises the roof, with voice performances from stars including
Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Jenifer Lewis,
Jim Cummings, Michael- Leon Wooley, Bruno Campos, Peter
Bartlett, Terrence Howard, Jennifer Cody, Oprah Winfrey and John
Goodman.
Bonus Features
The single disc DVD comes with these exciting bonus features:
• Deleted Scenes
• Audio Commentary by John Musker and Ron Clements (co-writers
and directors) and Peter Del
Vecho (producer)
• “Never Knew I Needed”- Music video by Ne-Yo
Games and Activities
• What Do You See: Princess Portraits — A bayou-style quiz tests
viewers’ knowledge of all of
Disney’s beautiful princesses. Ray’s firefly family creates
twinkling portraits of each princess and if
the player correctly identifies her, they can enjoy a
tongue-cheek mini re-telling of that character’s
story.
The Blu-ray Combo Pack edition comes with additional bonus
features, including:
Backstage Disney
• Magic In The Bayou: The Making of A Princess — Co-writers and
directors John Musker and Ron
Clements take a freewheeling, behind-the-scenes look at the
making of Disney’s newest animated
film as it grows from an initial concept to a lavish animated
film set in the enchanting world of New
Orleans and the surrounding bayous.
• The Return To Hand Drawn Animation
• The Disney Legacy
• Disney’s Newest Princess
• The Princess and the Animator
• Conjuring The Villain
• A Return To The Animated Musical
• Bringing Life to Animation with an introduction by John Musker
and Ron Clements.
• Deleted Scenes introduced by the filmmakers
• Art Galleries — A collection of storyboard art traces the
visual development of The Princess and the Frog’s rich gallery
of characters and settings.
With extravagant musical numbers, stunningly realized settings
and gorgeously rendered costumes, The Princess and the Frog
serves up an experience Richard Corliss of Time calls “A
start-to-finish delight.”
Magic, music and romance are waiting around every corner of the
legendary Big Easy as Disney’s newest princess sets out on an
exciting adventure through a magical new world. Tiana (voiced
by Anika Noni Rose) is a beautiful and hardworking young woman
determined to fulfil her father’s dream of owning an elegant New
Orleans supper club. When Naveen (Bruno Campos), a handsome
prince arrives in town looking for romance, the evil Dr.
Facilier (Keith David) hatches a nefarious plot and turns Naveen
into a frog. A kiss from Tiana should return him to his true
form, but in a hilarious twist on the classic story, she is
instead transformed into a frog herself! The pair must travel
into the heart of the mysterious Louisiana bayou with only a
trumpet-playing alligator and a love-struck firefly as guides to
find the priestess who can reverse the curse in order to find
their “happily ever after.”