Word: jafar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternative--a place to release franchise spin-offs, avoid $50 million marketing costs, make a bundle. Sequels to such mainstream fare as Land Before Time, Darkman, Children of the Corn and the Jim Varney Ernest series have been big DTV hits. In 1994, when Disney released The Return of Jafar, a DTV sequel to Aladdin, it expected to move about 2 million copies. Jafar sold close to 11 million, earning Disney around $100 million...
...film is brilliantly acted, with such simplicity that it is hard to imagine that he people on the screen are actors. In fact, in order to preserve the genuineness of the acting and to add real emotion and suspense, director Jafar Panahi would not allow the actors to read the full script before shooting. Adding to the film's documentary-like quality is the fact that it was filmed within a span of a few hours on location in Tehran on New Year...
WHAT COULD BE POLITICALLY incendiary about a sweet little Iranian movie that tells the story of a small girl looking for some lost money? Not a thing. Yet Jafar Panahi's The White Balloon has become the victim of an international skirmish over the U.S.'s alleged efforts to destabilize Iran. That country's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has announced that The White Balloon, submitted as Iran's entry in the foreign-language category of the Oscars, was being withdrawn. In response, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it would not allow a film...
...sultan-material on the inside if not on the outside. Like the Beast, he must get beyond the lowly image he projects and show them what he's made of. This is exactly what he does when he comes head to head with the evil vizier Jafar, who seeks to usurp the throne of Agrabah from Princess Jasmine's father. By being himself and showing his inherent goodness, Aladdin defeats the evil vizier and wins Princess Jasmine's heart...
Gilbert Gottfried also turns in a fine performance as Jafar's parrot sidekick Iago. The bird is Gottfried's animated avian counterpart. Gottfried defines the bird's loud and obnoxious personality in the likeness...