Points of Pride

The Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray and Disney+ releases have completed the journey for Disney’s photo-realistic computer-animated remake of The Lion King, which opened in cinemas in July 2019, quietly going on to overtake Frozen as the highest-grossing animated film of all-time (US$1.6bn worldwide to date), and the seventh-highest of all-time.

Its commercial success was perhaps never in doubt. But artistically, it was an epic creative venture, stacked high with challenges.

“It was probably just the scale of it and that it’s a remake of such a classic movie,” Elliot Newman, VFX Supervisor at MPC in London, told us. “It was enormous for us; the expectations were incredibly high