One of the reasons to go see Beauty & The Beast 3D in theaters this week is because of what comes before it. The new Disney animated short “Tangled Ever After” tells a wild and wacky story about the wedding of Eugene (aka Flynn Rider)… Read More »Tangled Ever After – Why Disney Made It
With the success of The Lion King 3D, Disney’s 3-D conversion factory (we kid) will be working overtime to pump out four new conversions for limited theatrical 3D engagements. The following titles from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios will be released in 2012 and… Read More »Disney and Pixar Announce Slate of Four New 3-D Re-releases into Movie Theaters
I recently had the pleasure of sitting in on a virtual roundtable interview with directors, Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff from Disney’s animated feature The Lion King. In the talk they discussed the recent conversion to 3-D, how it impacted the film, it’s successful return to the box office, along with general questions about the making of the film. The Lion King 3-D’s theatrical run has been extended at least one more weekend and the Blu-Ray/DVD/Limited Edition 3-D Combo pack hits shelves on October 4th.
The full interview is below the jump:
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In its third trip back to movie theaters, but the first time in 3-D, Disney’s The Lion King is ruling the box office again. It brought in an estimated Update: $30.2 million ( was $29.3 million) over the weekend, placing it atop the list of… Read More »The Lion King 3D Rules Box Office Again
The Annie Awards are to animation as the Emmys are to TV. But the last few years of awards have come off as slightly biased with the Annies not aligning with other industry awards due to irregularities in voting procedure (Dreamworks was allowed to essentially… Read More »Disney/Pixar ends boycott of Annie Awards
For those familiar with the legend of Walt Disney the phrase Persistence of Vision. It was the name of a Disney history magazine, but also stood in for Walt’s driving force. So when I read a letter from one Disney/Pixar animator to those wishing to… Read More »Pixar Animators Motivational Persistence of Vision Letter
Been a while since I did one of these. But I have a lot of open tabs that need to be closed, so here we go. A woman who was injured when the small watercraft her husband was piloting collided with a passenger ferry in… Read More »The Morning Report – Wednesday Wrap Up
According to Box Office Mojo Cars 2 continued being a decent draw during the week with totals in the respectable range: Monday: $6,958,490 Tuesday: $7,089,413 Wednesday: $5,540,193 Thursday: $5,207,012 The real question is what would happen when faced by the latest Transformers juggernaut. Well the… Read More »Cars 2 springs a leak at the Box Office