The Orlando Sentinel reports that Walt Disney World is offering to pay some relocation expenses for Hurricane Evacuees who are qualified to fill a number of seasonal and full-time positions at the resort. Disney employees will be attending a job fair in Houston for interviews. The most needed positions include character performers, culinary workers and… Read More »Disney World Hiring Hurricane Evacuees
this exoticism is tamed and made familiar as it is animated and integrated into Disney’s own prexisting narratives and cast of cartoon characters. For the wildlife are, equally, discussed as though they were candidates in a Hollywood screen test: Disney is searching for characters who can dance, play, sing, and interact with his established (and… Read More »Saludos Amigos Unveiled.
As everyone has been saying, one of Bob Iger’s top priorities needs to be mending the rift between Disney and Pixar. Steve Jobs of Pixar has threatened to take his marbles and go play in someone else’s lot if Disney doesn’t start to play nice with the profit distribution. This article in Slate looks at… Read More »Disney’s leverage over Pixar in negotiations
Parlez Vous Francais? If not you might want to make a trip to babelfish for a translation of this diary. EPCOT’s world showcase is known for bringing over citizens of the countries to staff the country pavillions. Here’s the blog of one cast member from France. Ils s’essaient tous à la langue française et nous… Read More »Cast Member from France, Oui!
Dear All,
I’m sitting in my office thinking about how
much I have enjoyed working with the people who make up this Company. I
am about to pack up 21 years of pictures, books and letters and other
Disney memorabilia from around the world that hopefully my great
grandchildren will not sell on eBay. In the meantime, I will use these
objects to trigger fantastic memories of my two decades sitting under
the roof supported by the seven dwarfs in the Team Disney Building.
I predict this feature will be a box-office smash of SHREK 2 proportions. I hope AARDMAN is considering another feature length WALLACE & GROMIT adventure. I’ll be first in line. High Praise for Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the were-rabbit from CartoonBrew, a Dreamworks release of an Aardman Studios picture. Sounds like there is some… Read More »High Praise for Wallace & Gromit
Another by-product of the Eisner/Iger switch was the departure of the Weinstein brothers, Bob and Harvey. They’ve left Disney and the company they created and have now officially started work at their new eponynous establishment. Best of luck to the boys. Keep releasing good films, fun films, and interesting storylines and I’ll keep coming to… Read More »Weinsteins Off the Reservation
If you’ve been thinking of taking a Disney cruise, now might be the time. The Disney Magic is about to come off it’s first major renovation in its seven year operation. Now the big question is when does it make sense for Disney to add another ship or two and send one back to the… Read More »We sail the ocean blue