Hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. We had friends in town and enjoyed showing them around Walt Disney World. This is usually a busy weekend, but I didn’t notice atrociously long lines anyway. Tomorrow though June 4th is Gay Days 2007 at Walt Disney World. Be prepared for ultra busy parks as the… Read More »Morning Roundup – May 29th
According to BoxOfficeMojo.com Walt Disney’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End earned $126 million through Sunday. That puts it on a pace to beat the previous record for Memorial Day Weekend and, possibly, to become the highest grossing film ever. What’s more if you add in the worldwide grosses and the film is already… Read More »Pirates Of The Caribbean Rules the Box Office
Looking for a project this Memorial Day Weekend? How about building your own Pinocchio Marionette? As part of the original publicity campaign for the Walt Disney Classic Animated Feature Popular Science ran a feature on how to make your own marionette based on the ones animators used as a model during the film’s production. Puppetbuilding.com… Read More »Make your own Pinocchio Marionette – 1941
I look at the recent management changes at Walt Disney Imagineering to be a good thing. Whether or not will end up taking WDI in a better direction will depend on many factors. Even if everything internally gets all hunky dory, WDI does not operate in a vacuum. It is part of a large corporation… Read More »Thoughts on WDI Management Changes
Steve Hulett, current of The Animation Guild Blog, used to be an animator for Walt Disney Feature Animation. He recently posted some reflections back to the year 1983, (part 1 and part 2) the last year before Michael Eisner and Sparky Katzenburg made their influence known and the WDFA of old was gone forever. There… Read More »Back in the Day at WDFA – 1983
National Bingo Night had another strong episode tonight. Ed Sanders was a great host that obviously connects with the contestants. The editing was smoother and the new games were a lot of fun. I have one suggestion for the producers, since the last game only results in another chance to win for the viewers, why… Read More »Morning Roundup – May 26
Blue Sky Disney is out with a big roundup of rumors for development over the next 6-7 years at Walt Disney World. Among the big rumors are a third water park (didn’t they close River Country a few years ago?), a new name for Disney-MGM Studios (Disney-Pixar Studios), some rebranding, a new Star Tours film… Read More »Walt Disney World Rumors galore!
The Walt Disney Studios’ ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’ Uncovers $58 Million in Worldwide Box Office Treasures in Pre-Weekend Tally; Figure Includes $17 Million from Domestic Shows on Thursday Evening Walt Disney Pictures is reporting a phenomenal worldwide gross of $58 million in its first two days of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At… Read More »Pirates 3 Strikes Box Office Gold and positive viewer ratings