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December 2007

Ratatouille leads nominations for major animation awards

Disney’s merger with Pixar continues to pay off, this time with 13 nominations for Ratatouille at the Annie Awards. The categories Ratatouille received nominations for are:Best Animated FeatureAnimated Effects (twice! Gary Bruins & Jon Reisch)Character Animation in a Feature ProductionCharacter Animation in a Television ProductionDirecting in an Animated Feature ProductionMusic in an Animated Feature ProductionProduction… Read More »Ratatouille leads nominations for major animation awards

Finding Nemo – the Musical in photos

Finding Nemo the Musical – Disney’s Animal Kingdom Originally uploaded by hyku. Met up with local blogger and PR guru Josh Hallet and his wonderful family at Disney’s Animal Kingdom this weekend. Josh brought his camera with a low-light zoom, perfect for taking some pics at Finding Nemo – The Musical. His flickr set contains… Read More »Finding Nemo – the Musical in photos

Classic Chip ‘n’ Dale Holiday Shorts

It’s the holiday season and the time to whip out those good old Disney holiday animated shorts. While there are many great shorts like 1932’s “Mickey’s Good Deed” and its iconic depression-era tale of selfless giving, perhaps none are as festive and fun as the classic Chip ‘n’ Dale films. I personally have three favorites… Read More »Classic Chip ‘n’ Dale Holiday Shorts

Enchanted tops slow box office weekend

Disney’s "Enchanted" topped a slow weekend box office with $17 million putting it over the $70 million mark for its first 12 days of release. This continues to be the ‘Grandma’ movie of the season, meaning that it’s a movie you can take the whole family to without argument from even Grandma. That’s usually a… Read More »Enchanted tops slow box office weekend

Who the Heck are the Osbornes and Why Can Their Lights be Seen from Space?

Perhaps you are like me.  I had heard that there is some sort of Christmas light event every year at Walt Disney World, but I’ve never actually been there to see it.  It sounds great and thanks to YouTube and the like I have managed to garner a brief glimpse of it, but not really… Read More »Who the Heck are the Osbornes and Why Can Their Lights be Seen from Space?

Social Networks and your local theme park

Rick Munarriz covers the theme and amusement park industry for the Motely Fool. Lately he’s written about a lot of closures and struggling parks. And yet, there are a few of these parks out there that are going along strong. Munarriz’s latest column posits one possible explanation. They’re reaching out to guests on the Internet… Read More »Social Networks and your local theme park

Steve Jobs to appear in redone SpaceShip Earth at EPCOT

What does sitting on the Board of Directors for the Walt Disney Company get you these days? How about a figure of yourself in a famous Disney attraction? Distant Creations blog is reporting that Apple computer co-creator Steve Jobs will appear in a scene in the recently renovated SpaceShip Earth attraction at Epcot depicting the… Read More »Steve Jobs to appear in redone SpaceShip Earth at EPCOT

THE PIXAR STORY in L.A. on December 11th

Get your tickets now for a special screening of Leslie Iwerk’s feature documentary The Pixar Story at Los Angeles’ famous Egyptian Theatre on December 11th. This film is generating great buzz and is being considered among the lead contenders for the Feature Documentary Academy Award.

The American Cinematheque presents

The Pixar Story
A feature documentary by Leslie Iwerks

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 – 7:30pm

Hollywood Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA
(between Las Palmas & McCadden)

Q&A Following with:
Director/Producer: Leslie Iwerks
Director Emeritus/Consultant, The Walt Disney Company: Roy E. Disney

For ticket and additional information visit:
www.americancinematheque.com
http://egyptiantheatre.com/tixtheatregeneralinfo.htm#tix

www.thepixarstory.com

While you’re there… ask them to bring their show on the road to Orlando. I’m sure we can find a spare theater somewhere on the Disney World property, or nearby. Heck, I can come up with a place that will hold 120 for free.

More details on the film are below the cut

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