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Nation's largest public pension fund to withhold its votes for Eisner
…the company”. The powerful state retirement fund is the “29th single largest shareholder of Disney, with 9.9 million shares”, and the largest public pension fund in the country. The announcement… |
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A Front Row Seat in Philadelphia
…and Roy Disney were allowed to speak and were greeted with enthusiastic applause. They repeated the themes they had made at their meeting the previous day, but Gold made the… |
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Disney goes South Of The Border
No, not another remake from the Mouse House (of Walt’s 1942 trip to Latin America, which resulted in the films Saludos Amigos, The Three Cabelleros and the documentary South Of… |
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Almost 3/4 of Disney's 401(k) plan participants vote against CEO Eisner, over 3/5 against Chairman Mitchell
…Walt Disney Company 401K trustee”. Disney and Gold said that “the simple fact is that the vast majority of people who participate in the company’s 401K plans and voted their… |
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Some Saturday gaming fun!
…{{link http://www.crocco.net/nemosrevenge.html Nemo’s Revenge: The Quest For The Lost Pearl}} is some Flash-animated fun which ‘seas’ (sorry!) you as an underwater diver on the search for the Nautilus’ power source…… |
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Clerks' 10th Anniversary DVD to contain new animated sequence
…filmed, will be included as an animated bonus feature. Featuring the voices of Brian O’ Halloran, Jeff Anderson, and Joey Lauren Adams, the “lost scene,” animated by Powerhouse Animation, can… |
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Solomon and Matheson's stop-motion film: Hitler to be killed by Automatons
…those in charge decide to just let the submarine sink to the bottom of the Atlantic. Flash forward, and we find the two robots have finally arrived on dry land,… |
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Charley Bowers: profile and review of a forgotten pioneer
…remembered by some today for the cartoon series based on the Mutt And Jeff and The Katzenjammer Kids newspaper comic strips. A companion to the piece is Del’s {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/reviews/315… |
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Aladdin to sponser Clay Aiken's tour
…Clay Aiken’s performance and I was knocked out by the strength of his talent”, says composer Alan Menken. “To have this lost song, so dear to my heart and so… |
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Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas screen shot and press release
…their only course of action is to break into Santa’s workshop and write their own names on the list. By the time their mission is complete, however, they learn a… |
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Three Musketeers "a fun return to the screen for the classic characters"
…clearly love the characters and wish to keep them the way they were intended. The starring trio retain their classic personas, and it’s just nice to have them on screen… |
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New shorts profiled at AWN
Animation World Network has a new review of five different animated shorts, including one about a pig who has lost its snout, a Christmastime dinosaur tale, and an oil paint… |
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Announcing Walt's People
…in making Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the making of Destino with Dali, the process that led to the production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the frustrations and… |
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Shark Tale opens to high box office expectations and mixed reviews
After opening at #1 in Australia and New Zealand last weekend with $3 million, Shark Tale opens domestically in 4,016 theaters, the largest launch ever for a fall film and… |
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What's in that new Pirates thing, anyway?
Ultimate Disney has a new review up for the new 3-disc Gift Set of Pirates of the Caribbean, arriving in stores November 2nd. It is suggested that only the most… |
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Mulan DVD worth the double dip
…in all, the non-appearance of a redundant full-frame version has meant the filling of the discs with more original content”, says the review. “A solid return to the informatively packed… |
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Cars Teaser Will Premiere with The Incredibles
…Springs, a downtrodden town off fabled Route 66 that has been bypassed by the interstate. There, he learns about what really matters from the cars of the 1950s and ’60s…. |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
…have made sense to build a city and then figure out how to try and film it. So we pre-visualized the scene and then filmed the action. Only then did… |
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Aladdin sequels first look; World Of Tomorrow flies again
…in the same way that The Lost Disc came packed with the Pirates Of The Caribbean. VB also mentions that Kerry Conran’s Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow will… |
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Pirates sequel talk
…on to do the sequel, the tentative subtitle for the second film is not Treasures of the Lost Abyss, and back-to-back productions of two sequels has not yet been approved…. |
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Mickeybot's Twice Upon A Christmas
…creations”. The review adds that “off model, strangely lit, and devoid of all personality, Twice Upon A Christmas is a clearer indication than any that Disney has lost its roots… |
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Surf's Up for more stars?
…Adam Brody (television’s The O.C.), and Felicity Huffman (television’s Desperate Housewives) have been approached to join the cast of Sony Pictures Animation’s Surf’s Up. Also, look for a cameo in… |
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Announcing the Walt's People book series
…statements expressed in these interviews are solely the opinions and perspectives of the authors and the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the opinions and policy of the Walt Disney… |
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Throwin' money around
As if Michael Ovitz’ $140 million severance package wasn’t enough, Chuck Oberleitner discusses at his o-meon site the fact that a couple billion dollars have been lost at The Walt… |
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Robots receives early mixed reviews
…experience seeing Robots with his 4 1/2 year-old grandson: “Colorful and very fast paced, the funniest thing was the Ice Age short [teaser trailer] beforehand, the film was ultimately as… |
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Henry Selick keeping very busy, talks \\The Wall and the Wing\\ and \\Moongirl\\
Henry Selick (\\The Nightmare Before Christmas\\, \\James and the Giant Peach\\) is attached to direct a film version of the children’s novel \\The Wall and the Wing\\ for the independent… |
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Whedon to direct \\Wonder Woman\\
Recently named writer and director of the long-in-development \\Wonder Woman\\, Joss Whedon (\\Toy Story\\, \\Titan AE\\, \\Atlantis: The Lost Empire\\) plans to take the superhero back to her roots, according… |
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Studio Ghibli Next Animated Project
…Lost my Little Boy), by Yishu. The short novel is written in children’s language and tells the story of Mimi, a boy suffering from heart desease and his fantastic voyages…. |
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Pocahontas concept art preview
…An early game of hide and seek Vote for Powhatan and he will make all of your wildest dreams come true Lost Van Gogh? Straight outta Bambi Deleted character Redfeather… |
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Madagascar: The Animated News Review
…test the survival instinct in the lemurs and the castaways. As the refrain of the Born Free theme played in a dream sequence at the beginning of the film would… |

