Three bids have come in to buy the Miramax brand and film library from the Walt Disney Company. The Weinstein Brothers, the original founders of the company, are part of a group who has one of the bids. As NBC did when sending Oswald the… Read More »Should Miramax go back to its founders?
You know a film has high expectations for a studio when they hire writers to start working on a sequel even before the finished product enters theaters. But that’s exactly what has happened with TRON Legacy. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the screenwriters for TRON… Read More »TRON Legacy sequel leaves the starting gate
If you’re at all like me Nicolas Cage performances strike you as either hot or cold. There is rarely anything inbetween. Cage apparently lives his life the same way going on huge spending sprees (buy any castle’s lately?) and then has to sell other items… Read More »Will Cage be Disney’s greatest Wizard
Just yesterday we had a retro take on a trailer for the original Walt Disney film TRON. Now we have a modern take on the now visually retro feeling original film. But after you watch this trailer you’ll be ready to head out to the… Read More »TRON Revisited (again)
Here’s today’s bit of retro-glory, a fan made trailer for the original Tron movie done in the style of Saul Bass, whose style you’ll instantly recognize if you’re were alive in the 70s or watch classic movies. This amazing video is from Hexagonall on Vimeo.… Read More »TRON trailer Saul Bass style
Editor: Please welcome back guest author Mark Storer to The Disney Blog. When Disney’s The Princess and The Frog first came out, there were all kinds of pontifications. Many pundits thought it Disney’s best work, sublime, thoughtful and artfully crafted. Risky, said others. Other still… Read More »The Problem with the Princess and the Frog
The LA Times reports that Disney has decided to shut down the ImageMovers Digital studio, which Robert Zemeckis uses for most of his Motion Capture style of film making. That’s sad news for the 450 employees of IMD, but I have to believe it’s good… Read More »Disney to end Zemeckis style Motion Capture Animation?
Without any further ado… the first trailer from Tron Legacy. Open. Open. Open. This looks a little different from the ‘proof of concept’ trailer that was shown at Comic-Con, but it’s still good. What do you think?