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COURIER-POST, Monday, May 29, 1995 8D Disney to tap direct-to-video market A look at regional companies in last week trading. South Jersey Stocks ANNUAL CLOSING CLOSING CHANGE CHG By JOHN HORN Associated Press BURBANK, Calif. The Walt Disney home video unit expects to produce as many as four movies a year that will debut in video stores, including a live-action sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Buena Vista Home Video is also considering a direct-to-video sequel of Pocahontas, the new Disney animated musical due in theaters June 23, said Ann Daly, president of the home video unit. The push for direct-to-video movies follows the runaway success of last year's The Return of Jafar, an animated sequel to Aladdin that bypassed theaters and was first available on videocassettes.

The Return of Jafarsold 10 million cassettes, and Disney said it was more profitable than the studio's 1990 blockbuster Pretty Woman. Rick Moranis, who starred in 1989's Honey, 1 Shrunk the Kids and 1992's Honey, I Blew Up the Kids, will reprise his lead role in the third film. The company is also making Aladdin and the King of Thieves, a sequel to The Lion King and Disney's first feature-length movie based on the Winnie the Pooh character. Both the Aladdin and Honey sequels are due out next year. Daly said the company plans to make at least two live-action and two animated direct-to-video sequels annually.

The success of Jafar, a lower-budget version of Aladdin without elaborate animation and well-known actors' voices, proved "there is a market for good programming," Daly said. The direct-to-video movies, she added, "are not meant to replace what is currently being produced for the theaters." Aladdin videocassettes sold 25 million tapes, she said, "so the market does tell you there's a difference" between a theatrical and direct-to-video presentation. Disney is not alone in discovering the direct-to-video market, which had been dominated by exploitation movies and films so bad they didn't qualify for theatrical distribution. MCA home video arm is releasing a direct-to-video sequel to 1990's Darkman. It is due in July.

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