Here’s a first look at the next Disney Animated film, The Wild. It opens in theaters nationwide on April 14th. Trailer 1 – QT 300 – 1500 / Real SM LRG / Ipod Total cost for the film is estimated to be around $80 million. Some of the team of animators who worked on The… Read More »Trailers for Disney’s next Animated Film: The Wild
The Fan Video of The Week peers into the dark reflecting cloud of smoke that is ABC’s hit Television show LOST and it likes what it sees. This week it sees ‘The Men of Lost‘ a 7+ minute video with music that offers interesting insight into all the men of Lost. I particularly like the… Read More »Disney Fan Video of The Week: The Men of Lost!
The UPI is reporting that Disneyland Hotels, all 2,224 rooms, will go smoke free as of March 1st. I suspect this really means they’ll no longer designate some rooms smoking and some rooms non smoking. Now they’ll have a ‘designated smoking area’ outdoors somewhere. Of course, there was nothing preventing smokers from smoking in a… Read More »Disneyland Hotels to go Smoke Free!
MacDailyNews is posting a rumor that Disney may buy into iTunes as part of its eventual plans to split off from Apple with an IPO. This sounds like it might be true and Steve Jobs way of rewarding Disney’s CEO Bob Iger for sticking with them during the early days of iTunes Video and the… Read More »Disney to buy into iTunes?
You’ve probably seen Winnie-the-pooh or Mickey Mouse on a box of cereal somewhere (my favorite was Buzz Lightyear), but now be prepared to see the visage of Disney’s latest action hero, Johnny Depp as Captain Jack, gracing the new Pirates of the Caribbean cereal by Kellogg’s. According to the description on the steering wheel, the… Read More »Johnny Depp on Pirates of the Caribbean Cereal… it’s true!
As long as Disney CEO Bob Iger is taking up old causes, I have another one for him. Put the weight of the Walt Disney Company, and the minds of the Imagineers, behind rapidly implementing a network of monorails across the Los Angeles region. Why… Read More »Walt’s Vision: Bring Monorails to Los Angeles Now!
The Pixar Animation buyout, as cool as it is, won’t be complete for another few months. But David Stainton, former head of Disney Feature Animation has already move out. So Don Hahn, who is know for his storytelling and creative abilities, has been appointed temporary head of WDFA. Don’t know what the practical affect of… Read More »Don Hahn Temporary Head of Walt Disney Feature Animation
I’ve always enjoyed Barbara’s blog about Celebration Florida. I missed her post on her 1-year anniversary of actually moving there and fulfilling a dream of hers. As usual, it’s a great read. The last 365 days have been a whirlwind of activity and revelry in our adopted hometown. From the very first night, when the… Read More »One Year in Celebration, FL