Johnny Depp is currently filming the Tim Burton production of Sweeney Todd. His next hair raising adventure might take him back to the high seas in a fourth movie in the Pirates Of The Caribbean Series. Whit posted the news earlier this week after hearing from a credible source. Now the Los Angeles Times chimes… Read More »Pirates IV Rumors gain traction
Modern Mechanix blog has unearthed an incredible five-page spread about the making of Walt Disney’s first feature animated film – Snow White. The article is from the January 1938 issue of Popular Science and is reproduced in full color glory, as well as a text version of the story. In many ways today’s animated films… Read More »Technology of Snow White revealed
Here’s a quick roundup of what people across the blogosphere are saying about Meet The Robinsons: Broke Hoedown: there will be a real divide between those who see the film in 3D, and those who don’t. If you’re going to see it at all, you need to see it in digital 3D. Plus, that means… Read More »Meet The Robinsons Review Roundup
View down Barham Originally uploaded by karakrio. Apparently there was a little fire in Burbank today (see Flickr stream), about 150 acres. It burned close to Universal Studios and across the LA River from the Warner Brothers lot. (Just a few blocks from the Disney lot, really.) When I lived in Burbank, I worked in… Read More »Fire in Burbank
I’m not sure who greenlighted this project. But from the moment I read about the auditions last year, I knew "The Great American Dream Vote" would be a stinker. Why would anyone in America feel like they were competent to judge whose ‘American Dream’ was better than another. There was no ‘pay-it-forward’ aspect like Extreme… Read More »ABC Reality TV: Great American Dream Vote a Nightmare for Disney
I took this short clip last weekend while on the Kilimanjaro Safari attraction at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Meant, to throw it up sooner, but it’s never too late for cute baby elephants.
Chris at Angry Tiki blog discovered one of the rare R2-D2 Star Wars Astromech themed USPS Mailboxes just across the street from where he works. Where’s that you may wonder… try outside the World of Disney store at Downtown Disney, Lake Buena Vista, FL. Chris and his friends took photos of themselves with the Mailbox,… Read More »R2-D2 Mailbox at Downtown Disney
ArsTechnica takes a look at Disney’s revamped Disney.com. When you serve more than one billion pages a month, redesigning your web properties is a Big Deal. Disney recently completed a year-long revamp of its site at the direction of Bob Iger, the company’s CEO. Eric Freeman, the company’s VP of Technology, said that getting the… Read More »New Disney.com examined