Taking a cue from ABC.com which already streams full episodes of its popular prime-time television series, Disney.com will now begin streaming movies that appear during the Wonderful World of Disney Saturday night presentations. The full-length films will be available for free streaming on Disney.com (www.Disney.com/WonderfulWorld)… Read More »Disney.com to stream Full Length Movies for first time
Ryan Peterson, a student at Vassar College, created this animatic (a mini-film of sketches) about the Michael Eisner years at the Walt Disney Company, approximately 1984-2004. As a discourse on Disney history it does get a few things wrong. Sparky Katzenberg’s influence on the success… Read More »What was wrong with Disney (the Eisner era)
Disney released it’s second quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wall Street today. The results look good for the mouse house with movies (led by Enchanted, Hannah Montana, and National Treasure 2) and theme parks (not affected by the slow economy yet) leading the… Read More »Disney Beats Wall Street Estimates, profits up
The Walt Disney Company releases it’s second quarter results today and stock prices are already up over the last few days in expectation. Fortune magazine looks at why this may be. theme park revenue matters less to Disney than it once did, the company has… Read More »Disney Results Today
Lee Aase attended a speech by Duncan Wardle, Sr VP Disney Global PR, on Disney Park’s social media efforts. It’s worth a read. This was a very interesting presentation. If big brands like Disney are realizing they need to cede control of their messages (or… Read More »Disney’s growing Social Media efforts
LaughingPlace.com is reporting a rumor that the Walt Disney Company board will soon be voting on competing fiscal plans and visions for fixing two of Disney’s ailing theme parks. Plans for both California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland are under consideration.… Read More »Disney Board to vote on Future of California Adventure, Hong Kong Disneyland
Odyssey Exploration divers working with the Disney/Volvo treasure hunt promotion found a real sunken shipwreck laden with treasure while scouting locations to hid the treasure chest that was part of the Volvo contest. They temporarily named the new location the ‘Black Swan’ Due to scavenge laws, confidentiality agreements with Volvo, and other twists the location… Read More »Real life Treasure Hunt interupts promotion for Disney’s Pirates Of the Caribbean film.
The Devil Rays took it into Extra Innings for the second time in three games. But they pulled out the win over the Texas Rangers. This completes the first three regular season MLB games held at Disney’s Wide World of Sports. Except for the first night it sounds like the attendance was a success. Hopefully… Read More »Morning Roundup – Friday May 18th