The studio's next release, The Great Mouse Detective, fared better in relation to its significantly smaller budget, but it was overshadowed by Don Bluth's An American Tail, another film featuring mice characters that competed directly with Mouse Detective in theaters.

Don Bluth's company had been driven to bankruptcy twice: once, as Don Bluth Productions, after the disappointing box office take of The Secret of NIMH coincided with an animator's strike ; and again, as the Bluth Group, after the Video game crash of 1983 — when Cinematronics, in an attempt to cut its losses, charged fees and royalties of over $ 3 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) to Bluth's company while it was working on a sequel to the laserdisc-based animated arcade videogame Dragon's Lair.

In 1992, Rock-a-Doodle was panned by critics and ignored by audiences ; its dismal box-office performance of $ 11, 657, 385 ($ in today's dollars ) contributed to Sullivan Bluth's bankruptcy.

She was given special guest-star status on nine episodes of NBC-TV's Scrubs during its fourth season ( 2004 – 2005 ), and also appeared as George Michael Bluth's ethics teacher in an episode of Fox's television series, Arrested Development.

DeLuise also lent his distinct voice to various animated films and was a particular staple of Don Bluth's features, playing major roles in The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, A Troll in Central Park and All Dogs Go to Heaven.

In fact, Bluth's first comments about Twitchell's death was that he saw Twitchell carried out of his body by a " celestial cloud of feces.

Bluth's studio was left without a source of income and the Bluth Group filed for bankruptcy on March 1, 1985.

The character of Spike was inspired by Don Bluth's pet chowhound, Cubby.

However, that date was further moved to April 1992, in order to avoid competition with Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Universal / Amblin's sequel to Don Bluth's film, An American Tail, Fievel Goes West, in which Bluth was not involved.

The film, although a sequel, was created without Don Bluth's support or input, as MGM owns all rights to the original film.

It brought in a box office total of nearly $ 50 million during its domestic release, slightly more than Don Bluth's previous film, An American Tail.

Bluth's next feature, 1994's Thumbelina fared no better critically or commercially, while A Troll in Central Park, also released in 1994, barely got a theatrical release, grossing $ 71, 368 against a budget of $ 23, 000, 000 ( or $ against $ in current terms ).

Teaming up with producer Steven Spielberg, Bluth's next project instead turned out to be An American Tail ( 1986 ), which at the time of its release became the highest grossing non-Disney animated film of all time, grossing $ 45 million in the United States and over $ 150 million worldwide.

The worldwide gross totaled $ 139, 804, 348, making it Don Bluth's highest-grossing film to date.

Its $ 11. 6 million take at the U. S. box office forced Don Bluth's studio into liquidation half a year after its release.

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However, often traditional animation and 3D computer animation will be used together, as in Don Bluth's Titan A. E.

Still, Bluth's troubles continued when he directed the futuristic space adventure Titan A. E.

He started out lending his voice to animated feature films, including Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird and Don Bluth's 1991 Rock-A-Doodle.

In an effort to accelerate their skills in preparation for leadership assignments within the Disney organization, Goldman and Bluth began to purchase used animation equipment and probe every aspect of animated production, at Don Bluth's home.

It took four years, working nights and weekends in Bluth's garage.

The book sequel seems to be subtly influenced by Don Bluth's film adaptation of the book, The Secret of NIMH.

Overkill released the follow-up to Taking Over, the aptly titled Under the Influence, in 1988.

The project started in 1988, as a follow-up to CMU's previous WARP research project, in order to explore building an entire parallel-computing " node " in a single microprocessor, complete with memory and communications links.

The follow-up to The Final Countdown was entitled Out of This World and was released in 1988.

He also wrote the hit " Patience " off the follow-up album G N ' R Lies, which was released in November 1988 to US sales of five million copies, despite containing only eight tracks, four of which were included on the previously released EP Live?!

* 2008: Intel reproduces the original 1894 implementation of electrodynamic induction and Prof. John Boys group's 1988 follow-up experiments by wirelessly powering a nearby light bulb with 75 % efficiency.

It spawned a follow-up multi-platinum album in February 1988, entitled More Dirty Dancing.

A follow-up television series ran for two series: This is David Lander ( starring Stephen Fry ) in 1988, and This is David Harper ( starring Tony Slattery ) in 1990-Fry being unavailable for the second series due to other commitments.

Their follow-up album, Volatile, which was released in May, 1988 unfortunately it didn't receive the same level of recognition as The Cave Comes Alive !.

The band's success continued with their 1988 follow-up album Just Coolin ', which was nominated in the Best R & B / Urban Contemporary Album of the Year category for the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards.

When these two opted to make Twins ( 1988 ), the script was bought by New Line Cinema as the follow-up to another Hulk Hogan film, No Holds Barred ( 1989 ).

After the success of Third Stage, the band began planning a follow-up and writing for Walk On began in 1988.

Their 1988 follow-up 1-2-1 was a more guitar-based pop album that also became a hit in Canada.

3 is the 1990 follow-up album by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys to their 1988 debut Traveling Wilburys Vol.

One of his most notable roles was that of Sir Arnold Robinson, the Cabinet Secretary in Yes Minister ( 1980-1984 ) and President of the Campaign for Freedom of Information in the follow-up Yes, Prime Minister ( 1985 – 1988 ).

In June 1988, Will to Power released a follow-up single, " Say It's Gonna Rain ", which featured Carr on lead vocals.

Their follow-up single " Strangers ' Thoughts " was released in February 1988, rising to number 20.

Twenty-three species of birds were found in a 1969 survey, of which 19 were observed during a follow-up count in 1988.

With its lineup complete, the band released a follow-up album, Are You Shakespearienced ?, on the Minneapolis-based independent label Gark Records in 1988.

A 1988 follow-up album, Blueberry Gossip, failed to catch on and the group disbanded in 1989.