To celebrate ananniversary of a theme park in France you would expect there to be wine and champagne a plenty. Anticipating the need, Disneyland Paris has revealed a 15th Anniversary Wine. There will be a Merlot and a Sauvignon Blanc. I’ll opt for the latter, thanks. Disneyland Paris is the only ‘Magic Kingdom’ branded Disney… Read More »Taste the Magic with Disneyland Paris branded Wine
Claudia Eller of the Los Angeles Times reports the wait time between a release of a movie in the cinemas and its release on DVD is shrinking. The average time between the premiere of a movie at the multiplex and its appearance on DVD shrank an additional 10 days last year, further unnerving theater owners… Read More »From Cinema to DVD Lickety Split
The local news station ‘Local 6’ recently ran an interesting piece on how close an eye Disney keeps on its online fan community. It focuses largely on Disney podcaster Ricky Brigante of ‘Inside The Magic‘, but has clips from LaughingPlace.com and WDWMagic.com as well. Good stuff. We in the online community have known this for… Read More »Disney uses fan sites for ‘research’
Last year I started watching this show on BBC America that had such good reviews, they made it all they way across the pond. Life on Mars (wikipedia) follows a two-season arc of a present day detective who is thrown back in time, to the 70s to be exact, and thrown into a world of… Read More »ABCs Life on Mars slow to lift off
Have you ever dreamed of flying over Disneyland in an airplane? With air space restrictions being what they are these days, that may never come true for you. But Mark Caswell-Daniels has created a flight simulator game that might just provide you with some measure of satisfaction. (via Danny’s land)
Nicole Sperling and Carolyn Giardina of The Hollywood Reporter write that "Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D" was the tipping point. Still, many challenges on the deployment of digital cinema remain. More than 2,000 screens out of 43,000 nationwide have been deployed, with technology integrator AccessIT being the most bullish in its rollout. The… Read More »3-D Cinema Here to Stay This Time?
If you hadn’t heard, Disney’s next Animated Feature release, Meet The Robinsons, will be coming to a big screen near you starting March 30th. They’ve made some fun stuff available to help promote the film. I like these .sig files where you can watch the T-rex dinosaur named Tiny dance until your heart is content.
John Eggerton and Jim Benson of Broadcasting & Cable report that CBS has hired former Paramount executive Bruce Tobey as Chief Operating Officer of their feature film start-up, CBS Feature Films. Since Viacom (parent of Paramount Pictures) and CBS split over a year ago, CBS has been looking to grow into areas where it will… Read More »CBS Get COO For New Film Division