

Waking Sleeping Beauty
From 1984 to 1994 a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever.
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $84.9K
- Language
- English
- computer animation
- struggle for survival
- documentary filmmaking
- innovation
- challenge for change
- motion picture studio
- movie studio
- struggle for independence
- animation documentary
- economic struggle
- sleeping beauty
- past failure
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival5 Sept 2009
- Theatrical (limited)PG26 Mar 2010
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival8 Aug 2010
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival15 Sept 2009
FinlandFI
- TVK-1225 Dec 2015
FranceFR
- PremiereDeauville American Film Festival11 Sept 2010
- Theatrical6 Oct 2010
ItalyIT
- TVRai 128 Oct 2011
PolandPL
- Digital / OTTCHILI18 Jan 2019
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Waking Sleeping Beauty was released on 26 March 2010.
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