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BOLT! sucked dry by Vampire Romance Flick

The numbers from this weekend’s box office will be tough to swallow at the house of mouse on Monday morning. $27 million for BOLT! versus $70.5 million for Twilight. BOLT! didn’t even creep into second place on the charts. That was reserved for super spy… Read More »BOLT! sucked dry by Vampire Romance Flick

Destiny calls Disney Animator to Voice Talent Stardom in Bolt!

The NY Times has a terrific article about Mark Walton, the Disney Animator and general pop culture nerd, whose ‘scratch’ track for Rhino, the wheel bound Hamster from BOLT!, became the breakout character of the movie. A couple months ago, though, the co-directors asked Mr.… Read More »Destiny calls Disney Animator to Voice Talent Stardom in Bolt!

Bolt Previews have begun

A couple early reviews of Disney’s upcoming animated feature BOLT! have begun to leak out. Obviously you’ll want to avoid them to remain spoiler free. But here are some summary thoughts. Jerry at CartoonBrew recommends you see it: I really enjoyed the film – especially… Read More »Bolt Previews have begun

The Incredibles Quantum of Solace – James Bond Trailer

In the spirit of excellent Disney movie trailer mashups I present to you Pixar’s The Incredibles meets James Bond in Quantum Of Solace. I’m quite ready to see 007 in his latest flick and found this trailer to make me even more excited. How about… Read More »The Incredibles Quantum of Solace – James Bond Trailer

Pixar releases second trailer for “Up”

Disney/Pixar has released the second  trailer for the May 29 2009 movie “Up”. It’s available at Apple.com’s trailer site and here. It’s so hard to tell much about how good the movie will be from trailers like this. But you can tell that the rich… Read More »Pixar releases second trailer for “Up”

Sunday Night Review – Disney News and Links

  • The Disney Channel graduate High School Musical 3: Senior Year remained top of its class for the 2nd week running. This trend will end next week as Quantum of Solace his the air.
  • Bad news for the Disney Webmaster Bowling League. The company that was contracting to build the 100 lane Bowling Alley at Wide World of Sports is unable to make its committments due to the tough economy. That said, the folks at WWOS seemed pretty excited about the potential for this bowling alley to bring lots of new visitors to Walt Disney World, so it will probably get built anyway.
  • Via former Orlando Sentinel’s food critic Scott Joseph’s blog we learn that Chef de Cuisine at Victoria & Albert’s Scott Hunnel has been awarded the Culinary Professional of the Year by Sante’, a magazine for food and beverage professionals. Also recognized are Gary Kaikaka of California Grill, who received the Service Professional Award for outstanding achievement in food, wine and spririts service. The winners will be feted at an awards ceremony November 4th at Silverado Resort in Napa, California.
  • Read the story how Disney Story Artist Mark Walton became the voice of ‘Rhino’ the hamster from Disney’s upcoming Animated feature Bolt.
  • Graeme McMillan over at i09 makes a great case for why everyone should be watching Pushing Daisies.

Finally, below the cut is a video of a ride through Walt Disney World’s Space Mountain with the lights on. I don’t know why they don’t leave the lights on normally, it’s much more frightening to see how close you come to those crossbars sometimes.

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Bolt Music Video – I Thought I Lost You

Here’s a little ‘duet’ between Miley Cyrus and John Travolta. I put duet in quotes because Travolta’s more of a backup singer, but he’s in the video. So hey. I think Disney is doing what it can to make sure Bolt is a hit. Releasing… Read More »Bolt Music Video – I Thought I Lost You

Report from an early screening of Pixar’s “Up”

One of the benefits of living in Burbank I loved was that I was often able to sneak in on a film screening where the studio involved wants to test the current version of the film with a live audience. Apparently this happens wherever Larry… Read More »Report from an early screening of Pixar’s “Up”