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On the night of a full moon, Aladdin is caught between his promise to spend the night alone with Jasmine, and his desire to help his friends uncover a mysterious treasure. Complicating matters is a mysterious young woman and a jackal, which the group soon realizes are actually one and the same and must save an angry Jasmine from being harmed.
Aladdin and the King of Thieves is the second and final direct-to-video sequel to Aladdin. It was directed by Tad Stones and was released on August 14, 1996, by Walt Disney Home Video. The story concludes as Aladdin and Jasmine are about to have their wedding and Aladdin discovers that his father is still alive, but is the leader of the Forty ...
Aladdin: The Series (also known as Disney's Aladdin: The Series) is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation that aired from February 6, 1994, to November 25, 1995, concluding exactly three years to the day from the release of the original Disney's 1992 animated feature film of the same name on which it was based. [1]
Twenty-five years ago -- November 25, 1992, to be exact -- Disney's animated classic 'Aladdin' premiered.
Aladdin is the best-selling release of the Walt Disney Classics line. The VHS was first released on September 29, 1993, although it was not officially advertised until October 1. [60] By early 1994, it had sold more than 25 million cassettes with over $500 million in revenue.
Aladdin was the third—after The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast—and final Disney film that Alan Menken and Howard Ashman had collaborated on, with Tim Rice as lyricist after Ashman had died in March 1991. [52] Although fourteen songs were written for Aladdin, only seven are featured in the film, three by Ashman and four by Rice. [53]
Shortly after its appearance as a VHS by GoodTimes, the Disney Company brought an unfair competition and infringement lawsuit, claiming that the GoodTimes packaging deliberately imitated the style of the images used by Disney to promote its own Aladdin theatrical film thereby deceiving consumers into thinking they were buying the Disney film (which had not yet been issued on VHS).
In its first two days, it sold more than 1.5 million VHS copies; [2] more than 4.6 million VHS copies were sold in less than a week. [12] In the United States, more than ten million copies were sold, ranking among the top 15 top-selling videos of all time (at the time), earning $150 million in profits. [ 14 ]