Johnon Houl's animated film in 1989 "Fortunately Sometimes" was conceived as a continuation of the "Snow White" fairy tale. His story extrapolates partly from the earliest published version of the Grimm brothers, but also partly by The movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" produced by Disney in 1937. "Fortunately sometimes" did not use any of the designs, voices, characters or Disney concepts (at least none that were no longer in the public domain), but it can be seen how Houli's film relied on vague cultural echoes that Disney initially dropped into mass consciousness. For example, Snow White (Irina Kara) had almost identical hair and wore a similar dress with the version of the character designed by Walt Disney.

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"Fortunately," he once stunned during the short theater deadline, making only $ 3.3 million to the box office with a modest budget of $ 6.8 million (although later rented on VHS). However, one of the reasons he fought was because Disney didn't like it. Namely, Disney felt that the film, the company that made it "happy sometimes", tore "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Indeed, the film was already on the Disney list *** after the 1987 lawsuit.

It seems that Disney, always notorious personal, thought that the animated feature of film in 1986 "Pinocchio and Emperor of the Night" was just a little too similar to Disney's 1940 film "Pinocchio". (Never worry that Pinocchio's image comes from the novel of Carlo Colodi's public domain with the same name.) Maybe angry Disney, The filmmaking won that caseclaiming that Disney had no legal claim for the character of Pinocchio. (What, again, is true.) The question is discussed in the invaluable book by Jerryiers Beck "The Animated Film Guide".

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Disney returned when "happily ever after" opened home in 1993, however, claiming once again that the film tore the studio to make its film "Snow White". The original work titles for the film were "Snow White: The adventure continues", "Further adventures of Snow White" and - and I love this - "Snow White in the country of the accident".

"Fortunately" happened "after the wicked queen of" Snow White "was defeated, with Snow White preparing to marry her beautiful Prince (Michael Horton). As so, the wicked queen has an equally evil brother named Malis (Malcolm McDowell), an evil wizard. When he found out from Magic Mirror (Dom Deluiz) that his sister was killed, he began to preserve his revenge. It then turns into a dragon, transforming the Kingdom of Snow White into a wasteland at the same time. Snow White is forced to fight Malis with the help of the seven sisters of the seven elves. Thejuvesti, as they call themselves, are named Moody (Carol Channing), the Sun (Sali Kellerman), Blossom (ZSA ZAA Gabor), Marina (Linda Gary), Criterina (also Gary), Munbem (Tracey Ulman). They further record the mother nature (Philis Dealer) in their scheme.

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Other acting members include the Athonian Harris, Edan and,, Of course Frank Welker. The film boasts an ensemble of All-Star, before the actors with a big name join the animated features of regular.

After the film opened in the Philippines in 1989, Disney was already all "happily ever after" and the film. Due to the "Pinocchio" lawsuit, a film was required to make its animated fairy tale legally different from everything Disney ever did. As such, the title was changed by "Snow White: The adventure continues" in "Snow White and Dwarfs" (the dwarfs were originally intended to be the seven dwarfs, but had to be gradual in the post) and then, finally, to "happily ever after." Unfortunately the state of the film was delayed for several years because The film closed its doors in 1989leaving the film to find a new distributor in the form of the first national film corporation. (Hence, the film does not debut in the United States until 1993.)

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Of course, not satisfied that it already caused enough problems for the film, Disney decided to throw it out "happily ever after" while it was down. The film was released in American theaters on 28.05.1993 ... And Disney decided to release "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" next July. With a good cash campaign, Disney has tried to bury him "happily ever after". Since the film was bombing, it can be said that Disney was successful.

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Don't think that re -publishing "Seven Dwarfs" was accidental, realize that Disney pulled stunts like this before. When the 20th -century Anastasia film "Anastasia" was scheduled for release in 1997, Disney tried to release her hit in 1989 "The Little Mermaid" on the same day. Because of this, the animation audience was divided between the two films, causing Anastasia to open the #2 of the box office and "Mortal Komat: Destruction" to rule the weekend (with the "little mermaid" coming to #3). This was, in fact, a harmonized Disney effort to destroy the match.

All of this came after the 1992 incident when "Feranguli: The Last Rain Forest" was in production. Also, Disney's fox film opposed the fact that another studio was trying to get into the animation market. His directors were also upset Their starfish "Aladdin", Robin Williams, refused to give up the Fox movie in favor of their. As such, one of Disney's main greetings at the time, Effeefrey Katenberg, found the animation studio made by "Ferrghuli" ... and bought it. In other words, the mouse house deliberately tried to slow down the production of "ferring". It was enough devilish move.

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Would "Happy Sometimes" be a hit without Disney constantly blocking it? Who can say? But her theater edition would certainly be smooth.