Mike Jutan blogs about his internship at Pixar. Normally a mild mannered college student in Canada, Jutan gets to watch history being made as Pixar and Disney join forces. Recently he met Monsters Inc director Pete Docter and got Cars themed sheets for his bed. Lucky man. Lucky man.
This year was quite a roller coaster ride for fans of the Orlando Magic NBA team who just barely failed to make the playoffs. One member of the squad took that literally and went to ride Disney’s newest roller coaster – Expedition Everest. Forward Dwight Howard squeezed his 6-11" frame into the coaster and went… Read More »Orlando Magic experiences the Magic
Star Wars Weekends start up again in May (the 19th is the first one … so soon, so soon!). A whole new run of collectibles will be available this year and StarWars.com has the scoop. If you missed it, here’s the guest list (some big names this year).
As you may have read ex-Disney CEO Michael Eisner has woken up to the fact that the future of television is distributed across multiple channels. Why he couldn’t figure this out when he was CEO? I don’t know. But welcome to 1995 Mr. Eisner. Now, can I talk to you about Simultaneous DVD release?
This falls under the "what were they thinking" catagory. Kimberly Williamson Butler, the controversial candidate for Mayor of New Orleans, finally changed the photo of Disneyland’s New Orleans Square that she had placed on her election website. Of course she didn’t change it to a photo of the real New Orleans, no that would make… Read More »Butler, Still Running for Mayor of Disneyland
J.J. Abrams, the creative force behind Alias and LOST two of the biggest hits for Disney and ABC and director of Mission Impossible III, talks with the New York Times about his favorite things. His favorite food: "There is this restaurant in New York called Shopsin’s General Store, and they have a sandwich called the… Read More »J.J. Abrams Favorite Things
Two of the stars of Disney/Pixar’s exciting new computer-animated
feature "CARS" will race straight off the movie screen and into the
real world as actual life-sized models of hotshot rookie racecar
Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) and Sally Carrera, a snazzy
2002 Porsche 911 (voiced by Bonnie Hunt) will hit the road today for
Disney/Pixar’s "CARS Road Trip ’06" presented by State Farm(R), it was
announced today by Brett Dicker, Executive Vice President of Buena
Vista Pictures Marketing.
Full list of tour dates below the cut. (link)
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Warren Hsu Leonard scored a tour of the Pixar campus. While he wasn’t allowed to photograph any of the work areas you do get a really good idea of the type of environment the company cultivates for its employees. [ Tags: pixar, disney, animation, emeryville, tour, photo ]