What’s this? We’re now just 4 months away from Disney’s next “live-action” remake. This one will use digital composition to recreate the Walt Disney classic animated feature “The Jungle Book.” Complete with Baloo the Bear, Bagheera, Shere Khan and Kaa. To mark the occasion, Disney… Read More »Disney The Jungle Book movie living poster
For Richard Sherman, the past year has been among the most rewarding he’s experienced. Even at age 87, he’s still sharing his unique ability touch audiences from cradle to grave with songs he wrote with his brother Robert, other collaborators or by himself. The beloved… Read More »PBS Special Caps a Wonderful Year for Disney Composer Richard Sherman
It’s a Disneyland tradition that dates back 50 years, the Disney Ambassador position was created to help Walt Disney help promote the park, escort VIPs, and to act as an official representative for the resort. Today’s ambassadors, Allie Kawamoto and Jessica Bernard recently sat down… Read More »What it takes to be a Disney Ambassador at the Disneyland Resort
In a ceremony inside the original Animation Building, the Walt Disney Company Chairman and CEO Bob Iger, joined by members of the Disney family, dedicated Walt Disney’s newly restored studio office suite on the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank today. To celebrate the 75th… Read More »Walt Disney’s Studio Office Restored to Original Location by Disney Archives
About a year about The Disney Blog’s twitter account was followed by a parody twitter account named @WaltsFrzenHead. I thought it was a clever joke on the urban legend that Walt Disney had his body cryogenicly preserved. We know it’s not true, his ashes are… Read More »Walt’s Frozen Head movie trailer
Walt Disney started the Silly Symphonies animated short series as a way to complement his new, but already very popular Mickey Mouse cartoons. The first in the series — The Skeleton Dance — was released in 1929 just one year after Steamboat Willie. The series… Read More »Silly Symphonies – The Skeleton Dance
I watched the first episode of Walt Disney from American Experience on PBS last night and did a bit of live-tweeting throughout. Overall, I was impressed with the documentary and even learned a tidbit or two I had not previously known. But there did seem… Read More »Walt Disney documentary continues tonight on PBS
Based on the long list of remakes and sequels already on Disney’s slate of future movies, it was inevitable that the company would eventually return to their best known live-action film for a remake. That’s right, Disney announced yesterday that they would return to the… Read More »Disney to revisit Mary Poppins with a new movie musical