I am long accustomed to seeing the Disney brand name everywhere I look, even the supermarket. Lately it has been turning up in some interesting places. Sure, cereal is either named for a Disney movie or contains the promotional merchandise of one, but that’s old hat. I have purchased lots of stuff that I may… Read More »Disney & The Grocer
For every young actor that Disney shapes and molds into a network star it seems that three or four get away. The latest to escape the maze of the Mouse House is Ashley Tisdale of High School Musical fame. She just signed to have her musical career controled by Warner Bros Records. The article doesn’t… Read More »Another Talent escapes the Nest
One of the first things John Lasseter and company did when they were brought down to the Walt Disney Studios for the first time after the merger is to stop production on Toy Story 3 by Disney’s ‘Pixar Killer’ team Circle 7. Lasseter believes that sequels should be done by the unit that did the… Read More »The Toys are back in town… again
Finally. Scott Powers writes at the Orlando Sentinel’s Tourism Blog that Disney has decided to scale back its support of pin trading at its resorts. Is pin-trading on the way out? If so, it’s likely to be a long, slow decline. Disney pins are everywhere. It seems as if Disney produces them for everything. And… Read More »Disney Pin Craze Fading Away?
With the stock price hovering around $30, up from $24 when his appointment was announced, Bob Iger must be doing something right, at least in the minds of investors. None the less, Iger decided to shake things up at the studio division of the Mouse House. If the realignment continues as expected it will signify… Read More »Bob Iger and Dick Cook update Disney’s recipe, will it be a success?
Finishing its third weekend with $35 million in additional loot and lifting its domestic total to $321.7 million, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is poised to pass Finding Nemo as Disney’s most successful film at the domestic box office. Pirates continues to open in more countries and is now over $124 million internationally,… Read More »P2 still number One
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