Sci-fi wire reports that J.J. Abrams is wrapping up his work in Mission Impossible III and looking forward to sticking his fingers into the mystery that is LOST, perhaps even directing an episode or two. Abrams said that he will dive back into Lost next season, now that M:I III is nearing completion. "I will… Read More »J.J. Abrams Finds LOST … again.
Jim over at Seward Street talks about his shift of jobs from Dreamworks Animation to the upstart James Baxter Animation. I’m really looking forward to seeing the work that comes from the James Baxter studios, having Jim on the staff will only help, I’m sure. Jim also talks about the coming resurgance of 2-D, aka… Read More »Animation Shift
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!