It was also the first Disney animated feature to open at first place at the North American box office since Pocahontas ( 1995). When it was released on June 18, 1999, its production budget of $130 million made it the most expensive animated film ever made until it was topped by Disney's own $140 million Treasure Planet in 2002. Tarzan is considered by many to be the last major box office success of the Disney Renaissance before the studio's decline in the early to mid 2000s (sometimes known as Disney's 'Second Dark Age'), although some consider Dinosaur ( 2000) to be the last film in the Disney Renaissance. The 37th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon, it is based upon the Tarzan of the Apes novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and is the only major motion picture version of the Tarzan property to be animated. Source Tarzan is a 1999 film animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
