Tonight’s episode marked another step in the format for “Flash Forward” that I hope continues, where some of the lesser stories are given more screen time while the main plot advances more or less in the periphery. Aaron and his daughter, and Dr. Bryce and his mystery Japanese lady are obvious secondary plots in the overall scheme, but are interesting nonetheless and help flesh out the characters that support our leads…
Update: Apparently this news is no news at all. For NTSB is still on their approximately 1 year from incident timeline for the accident. For a while lit looked like the NTSB report on the Disney World fatal monorail accident would be swift in coming.… Read More »NTSB Report on Fatal Monorail Accident to be delayed
The Walt Disney Company China has announced a local adaptation of ‘Disney High School Musical: China’. This will be Disney Studios third co-production project in China in just two years. The movie should hit theaters in summer 2010. High School Musical continues to be the little property that could for the Walt Disney Company.
Under development for over a year, and created uniquely for Chinese audiences, “Disney High School Musical: China” is the story of a new student who meets a gifted young man with whom she shares a secret passion for singing. With the help of their friends they overcome the odds to win an inter-school singing competition, and discover their true calling in the process.
“Disney’s ongoing commitment to local content development underpins our strategy to connect with new audiences around the world,” said Mr. Jason Reed, general manager, Walt Disney Studios International Production. “Our local team has done an amazing job and we are fortunate to be building on the Disney Channel’s success by working with a world class cast and crew led by our producer Janet Yang and visionary director Shi Zheng Chen.
Have a lot of open tabs with tales dying to be told. So here we go: IAAPA was this week in Las Vegas. I wish I could have been there, but lack the funds. Sometimes it’s tough to find good coverage online, but Themepark Insider… Read More »Around the Hub – Weekend Edition
That Disney Christmas Parade you watch religiously every year, it’s not filmed live. In fact, Disneyland has already filmed much of their part of the special. Walt Disney World will be taping their parts of the Annual Christmas Parade for the ABC Christmas Day Parade… Read More »Disney World Christmas Parade Taping Tickets
The Walt Disney Family Museum recently asked veteran filmmaker Don Hahn to create a film that would celebrate the holidays through the lens of Walt Disney. Under the direction of Diane Disney Miller, her husband Ron, and executive director Richard Benefield, the genesis of this… Read More »Christmas with Walt Disney – a new film
The accurately named CoolHunting blog has an interview with Ron Magliozzi, curator of the Tim Burton Retrospective at NYC’s MoMA. Faced with the responsibility of being the first Museum to present so much previously unseen work from an artist as popular as Tim Burton, who… Read More »Tim Burton Retrospective in NYC
This Sunday marks the official reopening of Space Mountain at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Technically, it’s currently in soft open; which means it might experience some down time. (Heck, it might even experience downtime after Sunday). While not exactly the major overhaul that many… Read More »Space Mountain landing in Magic Kingdom this Sunday