Business Week has a story on how Walt Disney Animation Studios has begun to adopt the ways of Pixar Studios. Of course, those are really closer to Walt Disney’s animation methods than Disney has been in a long while. In short, if you’ll pardon the pun, the system involves letting new directors cut their teeth… Read More »Disney Animation adopts Pixar’s ways
The Associates Press has a great article that looks at what’s going on with the filming for the High School Musical sequel and the possibility of a HSM 3. What was it about the original movie – also filmed in Utah – that struck such a shockingly huge chord with young viewers? The music? The… Read More »High School Musical 2: some notes and more…
There has been a shakeup at the top of Epcot’s management team. Brad Rex has left and Jim McPhee is in. Say what you want about Rex, since his tenure began in 2001, he’s helped the park recover from what was a very down tourism time to a place that is vibrant and busy, even… Read More »Epcot: charting a course for the future
One of the things Major League Baseball and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays is doing to boost attendance at their 2007 home games, is to have three regular season games played at Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Kissimmee. The goal being to show what a fun time it is to watch a nine inning… Read More »Disney Dining Experience at MLB Game!
When it comes to theme parks, I usually don’t stray too far from either Anaheim or Orlando, but this is too cool a project to pass without mentioning. SeaWorld already has a contest where you can submit your photos of the park and be entered to win free park tickets. That’s for the whole SeaWorld… Read More »SeaWorld’s User-Generated Content Coaster Campaign
One of my favorite times of the year at Epcot is the Food & Wine Festival. Tasting some of the best food and drink from more than 30 countries plus the great chef demo sessions makes it heaven on earth for a Foodie like me. Last year Disneyland Resort exported the concept to California Adventure,… Read More »Disneyland Resort Food & Wine Festival
Kevin Yee has a great rundown on the new games designed by the CMU ETC silicon valley branch students at the exit to Spaceship Earth. Each contains an interesting vision of the future. Nice to see Imagineering tapping the minds of these talented college students. I visited the area last weekend and was able to… Read More »Epcot’s Spaceship Earth gets new post-show
Winners of the ‘Webby Awards’ were announced this week. From the Disney camp, one of the two properties nominated won. ‘Statler & Waldorf: From the Balcony‘ from Movies.com won for the Best Comedy: Long Form or Series, Online Film & Video for 2007 in the annual People’s Voice voting. "The Webby Awards honors the outstanding… Read More »Statler & Waldorf: From the Balcony Wins Webby