7. Snow White Lives Happily Ever After In... Happily Ever After
Filmation began life as a semi-reputable animation studio, producing the Star Trek Animated Series which brought back all the main cast and a lot of the writers from the original sixties show, following its cancellation. They also made He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe. Their first run in with rip-offs came with a cartoon called The Ghosbusters, aired a year or so after the film of the same name. In that case it was Filmation who were in the right - they had a live-action series in the seventies called The Ghost Busters - but since then, they've been playing fast and loose with intellectual property laws themselves. In its final years, the studio mainly worked on big screen adaptations of their He-Man and She-Ra properties, as well as a slew of somewhat less reputable projects. Their unofficial sequels to Disney animated classics began with 1987's Pinocchio And The Emperor Of The Night, and ended with the infinitely more brazen Happily Ever After: a sequel to Disney's first feature animation, biting the ground-breaking animation style of Disney, with the added presence of bonafide stars like Malcolm McDowell and Zsa Zsa Gabor in the cast list (the latter as a female dwarf called - shudder - Dwarfelle).
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