The Royal Plaza Hotel in the Walt Disney World Resort has officially reopened. The independently operated hotel has been closed since August 2004, when it sustained damages from Hurricane Charley. If you don’t remember which one it is, it’s the big pink thing you saw from the I-4 right around the 535 exit. all public… Read More »Royal Plaza reopens after hurricane damage
Over at BusinessWeek Ronald Glover lays out the reasons Jobs won’t sell Pixar to Disney. Buying Pixar would cost Disney a bundle, maybe $8 billion or $9 billion and could send Disney’s stock into a tailspin. When the rumor first surfaced on Jan. 4, the share price promptly dropped 1.5% in the 45 minutes before… Read More »Iger and Jobs sitting in a tree
DisneyEverest.com is open for business. Go check out the awesome time lapse photography of the Expedition Everest attraction construction, a lot of detailed photographs, and a downloadable game where you get to be the Yeti on the path of destruction! Just put your computer on Mute first if you’re in a sound sensitive environment. The… Read More »DisneyEverest.com Opens
Luxist quickly notes that Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband, David E. Kelley,have sold their Brentwood estate for about $19 million to Robert Iger, chief exec. of Walt Disney and his wife Willow Bay. It’s good to be the king!
Portland Oregon based LAIKA Entertainment has appointed animation executive Dan Philips to the new post of Vice President and Head of Production. LAIKA is the reincarnation of Will Vinton’s animation studio after it was bought by Nike Mogul Phil Knight. Mr. Philips is an animation veteran whose career highlights include time at Dreamworks Animation, Walt… Read More »LAIKA hires Dan Philips
Studio Estimates put Disney’s "Glory Road" at the top of the box office chart this weekend. Official numbers for the four day weekend won’t be released until Tuesday. "Glory Road" sold about $13.5 million worth of tickets in the Friday-to-Sunday period, followed by the Queen Latifah comedy remake "Last Holiday" with $13.0 million, and the… Read More »It’s a Glory Road at the Box Office
Glory Road I’m usually no good at writing movie reviews. I tend to write a bunch of critical stuff about a movie and then say that you should see it anyway as despite all its weaknesses, it’s a good film worth at least a matinee price and some popcorn. And now here I am writing… Read More »Disney’s latest feel good sports movie is just that
Blogging Baby has an interview with the creators of Disney’s Kim Possible, Mark McCorkle and Robert Schooley. In it some clues about the fight to save the show are revealed along with a lot of other fun and interesting stuff… here’s a taste: We thought So the Drama was the series finale. That was it.… Read More »Interview with Kim Possible creator!