The Port Huron Times-Herald looks in on a local home being built by the ABC hit TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and wonders, "does the quality suffer when the home is built in a week?" The proof, Korman said, is a house the show built in New Orleans 2½ years ago. After Hurricane Katrina… Read More »Extreme Makeover Home Edition: Built to Last?
This year’s most popular Disney Channel movie, High School Musical, is about to find itself a part of Disney’s theme parks; most likely California Adventure in Anaheim, CA and the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, FL. Auditions are underway and rehearsals are scheduled soon to stage High School Musical Pep Rallys with song and dance from… Read More »High School Musical to play at Disneyland and Disney World
Back in the mid-90s Disney flirted with the idea of having webcams in their parks. They had a couple in Walt Disney World, including one looking down Main Street U.S.A. at Cinderella Castle. It was great to see if the park was busy or in bad weather, so you could decide to drop in later… Read More »Matterhorn Webcam, see Disneyland’s famous icon
The next animated feature coming from Disney is Meet The Robinsons. A few more publicity pictures have gone up at Disney-MGM Studios and Animated-News has a few shots of them. I’ll try and get to the park sometime this week and get some clearer pictures and see if there is anything else from the film… Read More »New Meet The Robinsons Pictures
The news from Shanghai on the future Disney theme park is a tad bit confusing. Last week the reports were that citizen relocation was underway to get ready for the constructrion; this week the Shanghai government claims that no relocations are happening and that the project isn’t even approved yet. Another paper from Signapore confirms… Read More »Mixed Messages out of Shanghai
Jette Kernion at Cinematical reviews Disney’s Step Up. Jette says it’s better than Take The Lead (starring Antonio Banderas), which might be faint praise. But the two films share a very similar storyline. Step Up follows the journey of Tyler (Channing Tatum) and Nora (Jenna Dewan) as they meet from opposite sides of the tracks… Read More »Step Up to the Step Up Reviews
Usually when there is a price war it is to see who can be the first to get to the bottom of a price range. Think airline fare wars. Orlando theme parks, on the other hand, race to see who can get their ticket prices the highest first. The idea being that the public sees… Read More »Universal Matches Disney in Price Wars
Disney to distribute Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto despite rumors to the contrary. See full story at Movieland.