Walt Disney World has announced that all rooms, including all of the Disney Vacation Club resorts, will be non-smoking by June. To be honest, I just assumed they already were. The rooms out here at all three (3) of the Disneyland Resort Hotels have been smoke-free for some time. Disney uses AAA has an example… Read More »WDW Rooms Go Non-smoking
Joe at Universe of Synergy is a Disney fan and a member of the Experience Music Project in Seattle. So of course he attended the talk by former Imagineering President Marty Sklar on the Imagineering of Music. He began with a prepared multimedia presentation, including some talks about the history of Imagineering, but then the… Read More »Marty Sklar on the Imagineering of Music
Movie Marketing Madness has a very detailed post up on what’s behind the marketing for Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End. What’s next for Orlando Bloom? He will be spending some time away from Hollywood movies and is returning to the London Stage. ESPN won twice in the EPpy Awards for best media website.… Read More »Morning Roundup – May 25th
LaughingPlace.com has their coverage of Saturday’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End world premiere at Disneyland. They captured lots of great photos and an insane amount of video interviews with many of the big players to walk down the red-carpet. You can also find some more photos of the event over at Daveland.
I hope everyone who can is out enjoying the third film in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series tonight. It’s opening on 4,362 screens, a record for any release. That huge number is important because if Pirates is to break box office records this weekend, they have to have a ton of screens to make… Read More »Pirates 3 to open on record 4,362 screens
Reviews of Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End are rolling in and the critics are unanimous, it’s a long film. Luckily most critics also agree it’s a fun film. Still that doesn’t explain the very low score of 50 on RottenTomatoes, the review aggregation site. Comments continue on the Disneyland POTC Premiere post. Some… Read More »Morning Roundup
The Imagineering Re-birth blog hopes they may be out of business. Regardless, the announcement is a substantial one and could signal the beginning of the end of WDI’s paranoiac, toxic and grade school culture as well as set the stage for the renaissance of WDI into the creative powerhouse and industry leader it once was.… Read More »Cautious Optimism from Disney’s critics
Some little movie opens tomorrow night. Here in Orlando there’s a big merchandise event where people paid big bucks to be the first public audience to see the movie at Midnight Thursday, alas now that the debut has been moved up to 8PM Thursday, these guests are understandably upset that their time hasn’t been moved… Read More »Morning Roundup – May 23rd