I used to be a big fan of JJ Abrams’ Alias. It featured the beautiful and talented Jennifer Garner as a woman whose abilities as a spy, including those used to create her many aliases, had her caught up in a web of intrique, double-lives, and betrayal. At some point in the second season the… Read More »Alias: the spy who retired…
Moviefone has been a great place to go and get information on Disney’s upcoming release of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (imdb). They’ve just added an exclusive clip from the film. If features the two armies approaching each other to do battle. Quite impressive, as good as anything we’ve seen from WETA… Read More »Narnia: New Clip from Film
Dave visits Disney’s Animal Kingdom and drools over the upcoming opening of Expedition Everest, the latest addition to Disney’s famed Mountain Range of Roller Coasters. Also see this post with photos from Blackpool England a little farther down. Those coasters sure look like fun.
I hate to keep playing the one note rag, but the word of Hong Kong Disneyland’s ‘troubles’ has hit the American Business press. This story in Forbes recounts the usual woes of poor attendance, pissing off Hong Kong celebs, and ignoring cultural sensitivities. Reminds me of Euro Disney and that’s not good. [ Tags: disney,… Read More »News of Hong Kong Disneyland hits the states
In a well worth reading interview with The Hollywood Reporter George Lucas mentions where he sees the future of Theatrical Releases: I don’t think the theatrical exhibition business will go away because I think people will always want to go to the movies, just as they go to the opera, they go to the ballet,… Read More »Lucas predicts Future for Disney
The Bonner County newspaper has a look at what it takes to be one of the local contractors that helps the ABC hit tv show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition work its magic. When all systems were "go," Dave closed down his own construction company which was already working on two new homes that were put… Read More »EM:HE – The Herbert Home, Sandpoint Idaho
A Hong Kong Newspaper spent two days (Sunday and Wednesday) counting the number of guests that entered the new Disney theme park there and arrived a number that looks bad for Disney. The paper counted only 13,000 guests a day on average while the park has stated it expected those numbers to be around 15,000… Read More »HKDL: Low attendance reports
Update: July 2009 Fatal Monorail Accident information story There is a report of an accident on the Walt Disney World Monorail system on Saturday. Sounds like the ‘tugger’, a gas powered service vehicle, ran into monorail yellow. The tugger was approaching to service the stalled… Read More »WDW Monorail Accident Reported