LaughingPlace.com is breaking the news that the Patina Restaurant Group (which operates New York’s Sea Grill, Café Pinot in Los Angeles, and my favorite Disneyland Downtown Disney restaurant Catal among others) will be opening up a restaurant in the space currently occupied by Alfredo’s in the Italy Pavilion in Walt Disney World’s Epcot World Showcase.… Read More »Patina Restaurant to replace Alfredo’s at Epcot
Remember Narnia? That other big franchise Disney is hoping to cash in on? Back on March 11th, they posted this Video Blog from the director Andrew Adamson. (I’ve embeded it below the cut too.) I’m beginning to wonder if they’re planning to continue this blog.
Building up an audience of fans who are interested in how the movie is being producted seems like a great idea to promote the movie. Let’s hope there are more coming.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is scheduled to make it into theaters sometime Spring 2008.
Rob Walker’s ‘Consumed‘ column at the New York Times has run this amazing piece that looks into exactly what has made the Cavemen from the Geico commercials pop culture icons and stars of an upcoming ABC sit-com pilot. There is such a buzz about these characters that it almost seems like people are actually paying… Read More »Geico Cavemen coming to ABC. Behind the Campaign
Statler & Waldorf’s From the Balcony series featured on Movies.com (http://movies.go.com/muppets/archive) has been nominated for a Webby Award in the Best Comedy: Long Form or Series category. As such it is also eligible to win a People’s Voice Award. Which means you get to vote! Voting is open to the public from April 10th to… Read More »Disney Related Stuff up for Webby Awards
High School Musical fans get ready for Zac Efron as you’ve never seen him before… as the hunky baby doll ‘Link’ in Hairspray, the musical. You’ll also get to see John Travolta in drag (not that big of a shock as it turns out) and some great music and dancing. Hairspray the musical movie is based on a stage musical which itself is based on the original 1988 John Waters cult film of the same name. Efron is currently filming (or preparing to film) High School Musical 2 with the rest of the original cast.
The first trailer for Hairspray has hit the nets and it looks great. It’s embeded below the cut so you can see it for yourself. Hairspray will take over the theaters on July 20th.
Part of me wonders why I’m even posting this. But ABC News in Los Angeles is reporting that a 17-year old girl was struck and cut by a falling palm frond while riding the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland. It was a blustery day at the old 160-acre woods and the tree branch scrape the guests… Read More »Sawtooth Palm Frond sends Guest to Hospital at Disneyland
Disneyland has successfully converted their fleet of antique passenger trains from diesel to biofuel. The move is expected to save the park money and reduce emissions. For Disneyland, the switch to biodiesel saves as much as 150,000 gallons of diesel fuel each year, while potentially reducing carbon dioxide emissions by up to 80 percent, Disneyland… Read More »Disneyland’s Train Fleet goes Green
Nikkie Finke posts rumors of a still unfinished Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End and a running length of well over two and half hours. Top Disney execs have begun to see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End internally. But there’s one problem: the film slated to open May 25th around the world… Read More »Pirates III Rumors