Don Bluth first found his "laughing place" — a term he uses to refer to an intangible mental refuge from the drudgery of existence — in the films of his lifelong hero, Walt Disney. Today an animation ...

Rachel Poletick is a writer for Collider. She studied journalism and film studies at Northwestern University. She is often found stumbling down research rabbit holes and collecting curious historical ...

The defection of Don Bluth and like-minded colleagues from Disney in 1979 is a well-worn story in Hollywood animation. Less has been said about a chapter in Bluth’s career that followed soon after: ...

Your favorite childhood movie might’ve been a total box-office dud. The animated movies that defined the late ‘90s and early 2000s are beloved by a generation that grew up watching them on VHS, but ...

Here’s a rare treat. Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth discuss the future of animation on Nightcap, a literary roundtable hosted by journalists Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin. Here Bakshi and Bluth are ...

It’s impossible to talk about Don Bluth without talking about Walt Disney. Bluth started as an animator and director at Walt Disney Animation Studios before founding a rival company that became Disney ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Don Bluth, who changed the landscape of animated films with his many great works from years past, made a rare appearance at an ...

Don Bluth draws Fievel from An American Tale. Animator and director Don Bluth at the Don Bluth Front Row Theatre in Scottsdale on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. A former chief animator for Disney, Bluth left ...

At Don Bluth Front Row Theatre the other day, the man for whom the theater is named stretched out across a row of seats for a midday nap. When a stranger stopped by to discuss Bluth’s storied career ...