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Animation World Network reports back from Comic-Con 2006 with the state of the animation industry. The biggest news is that Eric Goldberg confirms the rumors that Disney has a 2-D hand drawn animated feature underway. The Frog Princess will be headed by The Little Mermaid‘s directors Ron Clements and John Musker. Other treats from the… Read More »Big News for Walt Disney Feature Animation at Comic-Con
Grant McCracken, marketing blogger, looks at two seemingly contridictory decisions by Disney Management how one might save Hollywood and how one risks ruining a studio. The first decision was to let Johnny Depp be Johnny Depp and create the Captain Jack Sparrow character exactly as he wanted to (well, except for the falling off nose… Read More »Chunky is out at Disney
I’ll admit that I own a Disney Jungle Book Dance Pad game, I also own a Dance Dance Revolution. I’ll also admit I don’t use them nearly as much as I should to get any exercise benefit out of them. I really wanted to get the original Disney Dance Dance Revolution game that combined the… Read More »New Disney Dance Dance Revolution Announced
Disney’s mobile telephone and sports new service Mobile ESPN is a flop. Mobile ESPN is estimated to have 30,000 users by the end of the year, compared to the 240,000 predicted when Disney launched the service in February. Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Jessica Reif Cohen said in a report that the service will cost… Read More »Crunch time for Mobile ESPN
EPCOT Central, a blog that really loves Epcot, was in Central Florida recently. But instead of visiting his beloved, he went to Universal and Islands of Adventure. While there he was reminded about what Disney gets right so much of the time.
Cars has crossed the $300 million mark for international box office and earned a very respectable $222 million in the states alone. Those numbers will continue to go up as Cars opens in more countries (including Italy, which should really like the film with its Ferrari characters). Upcoming Pixar has the details.
"I’m Surprised Disney pays me," says Johnny Depp in this excellent interview at Rediff. And unless Depp is pulling our collective legs, you get some behind the scenes knowledge of how he does his character development too. The other thing that helped me with Captain Jack was playing Barbies with my kids. It’s a great… Read More »Rediff Interview with Johnny Depp on Captain Jack Sparrow
Dancing with the Stars and Baltimore Raven Cheerleader Stacey Keibler has signed with Walt Disney Television and will have her talent added to an existing show or perhaps even a new one. Could anything possibly be more exciting.