Disney just announced that the Blu-ray DVD for Pixar’s Brave will be in stores on November 13th, just in time for the holiday shopping rush. But if you want to avoid all that rush, you can pre-order it today via Amazon. Brave just recently passed… Read More »Pixar’s Brave Blu-Ray DVD now Available for Pre-Order
I’ve been a fan of director Gary Ross’ work since his directorial debut in Pleasantville (about a brother and sister transported to a television world of black and white and a powerful metaphor for discrimination in America). Ross started out as a writer and he… Read More »Director Gary Ross moves from Hunger Games to Peter Pan
Marvel’s acquisition by Disney has been successful in almost every way. They’ve coordinated a some of the comic book company’s best properties and launched a multi-billion dollar franchise in the Avengers. With the success of the Avengers they’ve asked Director Joss Whedon (who worked for… Read More »The Avengers 2 Gets a Release Date and Disney Profits from Marvel
Disney’s entry into the feel good family film category this year is “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.” It fits the mold very nicely, while at the same time, introducing a little something extra you don’t normally get from those films, metaphor. In fact, not only is the title character who is essentially a metaphor for childhood innocence, the movie itself is also a metaphor for the parental journey and how you deal with life’s struggles and loss.
Those extra layers make this movie more enjoyable for the adults who will be accompanying their kids to the film. But unfortunately, they did not solve some of the other problems.
The movie has that fable feel and doesn’t depart from the script too much. I wish it had departed a bit more. When it does start to explore Tim’s other relationships it gets interesting, but then it becomes afraid to explore those plots too much and instead leaves (sorry) the audience hanging without answers for a lot of the stories told in the film.
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Businessweek recently conducted an interview with Disney CEO Bob Iger during which the recent extreme makeover of Disney California Adventure was a centerpiece. What I found interesting about the interview was how candid Iger was about some of the things went wrong with the original… Read More »Bob Iger Comes Clean on DCA
Disney has released another behind the scenes video from photographer Annie Leibovitz Disney Dream Portrait series. This one features the gregarious comedian Russell Brand as Captain Hook from the Peter Pan stories. This set was shot at Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch near Newhall, CA last… Read More »Video: Behind the Scenes with Russell Brand as Captain Hook under Annie Leibovitz Direction
Three days and three new trailers for Disney’s Wreck-it Ralph. While still featuring Jane Lynch and Jack McBrayer as hosts, this one does not focus on any particular Olympic sport, but rather encourages you to “Get In The Games.” It also implies that playing video… Read More »Wreck-it Ralph – Get In The Game Trailer
Walt Disney Animation Studios has just released some of the first production art from Wreck-it Ralph. In it we get a look at some of the tests for the characters of Ralph and Vanellope Von Schweetz. That’s quite a range of choices for Ralph there, yet Vanellope seems to be relatively in the same ballpark.
They also released artwork from the 8-bit video game “Fix-it Felix Jr.” and more below the jump: