It seems like every year some writer or another gets the assignment to visit Disneyland and write a story. More often than not that story takes the form of “how can a jaded reporter visit Disneyland and not come away even more cynical.” Here’s this… Read More »Is Disneyland for Grown-ups?
A blog at the Hollywood Reporter talks about why it’s probably a good move for Disney to push back the theater release of the 3D upgrade to Beauty and The Beast. For one thing, they’re just releasing the 2D version on Blu-ray for the first… Read More »Beauty and the Beast 3D theater release pushed back
The team at Disney Cruise Lines has produced a nice video that loops together all the concept art they’ve released for the Disney Dream, due to sail for the first time in 2011. I’ve never been on a Disney Cruise and this really makes me… Read More »Early Video Tour of the Disney Dream
When we look back on the success of TRON: Legacy I believe we’ll find that one of the smartest moves they made was to have the indy punk techno band Daft Punk compose the music for the movie. It’s going to bring in a whole… Read More »Daft Punk Tron Mashup
I wonder if the outside community realizes how much Disney has down for the Orlando region. One example is their participation in the community is their funding of the Disney Entrepreneur Center in Downtown Orlando. This center works with local business people to start and… Read More »Disney Entrepreneur Center considers move to mall
I feel a little bad for posting this. But I really can’t resist one last jab at California Adventure. After all, there is a reason it’s undergoing a multi-billion dollar upgrade. Plus it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all day.
Every year about this time Disneyland and Walt Disney World have been raising their admission prices, sometimes for the second time in the same year. Why would they raise prices when the economy is still recovering? Because they can. The cost of a single day… Read More »Disneyland and Walt Disney World raising admission prices tomorrow
You may have heard that the Walt Disney Company is working on a 3D version of their popular Beauty & The Beast animated feature, but you may not have realized that it’s been 7 years since the DVD version of that movie was put in the vault. Now, Disney is preparing to release a ‘Diamond Edition’ on Blu-ray and DVD just in time for Christmas shopping this year.
I’m not sure this is the best move if they want to build excitement for the 3D version when it hits theaters. But I am looking forward another generation getting a chance to see one of my favorites of the modern tales for the first time.
Correction: This DVD is still scheduled for release on Oct 5th. Nov 10th is the UK release date.
The full press release is below the jump: