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The Pixaresque tale of John Lasseter

…his career from his first job at Disney to his instillation as the creative genius behind Pixar’s force to his vindicating return to head up Walt Disney Feature Animation this…

Eisner shares Conversation with Iger

The Los Angeles Times summarizes current Disney CEO Robert Iger’s appearance on a former Disney CEO’s talk show, Conversations with Michael Eisner. Topics raised during the talk included Disney’s acquisition…

The end of Stitch?

Disney’s Leroy and Stitch will premiere tonight on the Disney Channel at 8pm only four days before its DVD release. “The adventure never stops as Lilo and Stitch face the…

Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels

…Technology (Washington State) and an award winning animator. “From traditional to computer animation, from film to gaming, a great text for all who teach,” praises Robert Adams, Walt Disney Productions/Warner…

Iger meets with Imagineering vets; Enchanted update

Jim Hill Media writes of a luncheon Disney CEO Bob Iger recently shared with three Imagineering veterans at the Team Disney building. The purpose of the meeting was for Iger…

Dead Man's Mail

Today, everyone’s a pirate as the world celebrates International “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” and to kick off the rabble rousing, Disney Home Entertainment announces the highly anticipated DVD release…

Singing Nemo

Yahoo! Finance reported yesterday that the Disney/Pixar hit Finding Nemo will be adapted into a 30-minute stage musical to be presented at the 1,500-seat Theater in the Wild at Disney’s…

[Updated] Enchanted artwork, character designs!

“Kinoo” at the Animated News & Views Forum has posted artwork and character designs for Walt Disney Picture’s Enchanted. Arriving from “Prince Kido” and “Unpseudoriginal” at the French message board…

The Beatrix Potter Collection

…forgotten in the rush to praise Pooh Bear as a Disney creation. Perhaps mindful of that fact, the BBC steadfastly adapted the Potter books into delightfully whimsical animated featurettes for…

Peter Pan panel reports and photos

Ultimate Disney and Mice Age have both reported on last Thursday’s panel discussion held at Disney’s own El Capitan Theatre before a screening of the digitally restored Peter Pan. Read…

Artspace plans Art of Meet the Robinsons exhibit

The Shreveport Times reveals that artspace is planning to bring the Art of Disney’s Meet the Robinsons exhibition to the Louisiana city of Shreveport. Opening April 9, the event “will…

Peter Pan Grab Bag III

…DVD are these five menu screens from disc 2 as well as a link to an official Disney podcast: Podcast: Why I Made Peter Pan in Walt Disney’s Own Words…

Ratatouille trailer news

…23rd at 9:05PM PDT. The ad’s online entrance will follow its television debut that same evening, during Cory in the House on The Disney Channel. In the meantime, Disney.com offers…

Digital 3D – Everybody's Doin' It!

The March 30 release of Meet the Robinsons in Disney Digital 3D on over 600 screens, is seven times the number of screens that ran Disney’s Chicken Little in 3D….

From the Red Carpet: World Premiere of Meet the Robinsons

On Sunday, Walt Disney Pictures held the world premiere of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ next CG-animated film Meet the Robinsons. o-meon was there talking with director Steve Anderson, Disney Animation…

Hola Amigos!

Disney is really pushing their release today of the Classic Cabelleros Collection, their new rounding up of two of the Studio’s Package Features from the 1940s: Saludos Amigos and The…

RIP, Erica Cassetti

Disney, working on such films as The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Hercules, Tarzan and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Eventually, she left Disney to work on DreamWorks’ Sinbad: Legend Of The…

Kimball railroad being dismantled

…Betty, for around 70 years. Interestingly, the article notes that Grizzly Flats helped inspire Walt Disney to build the famous passenger train system that circles Disneyland. With that said, it…

Robinsons, Ratatouille release dates?; Platinum news

Receiving inside insight from a Disney Store cast member, Ultimate Disney indicates the DVD release dates for Meet the Robinsons (September 18), Ratatouille (November 6) and Pirates of the Caribbean:…

Animated News & Views does Comic-Con 2008!

…coolest autographs, what will we do then? Well, we’re going to Disneyland! That’s right – we three Disney geeks will be going back to the Happiest Place On Earth where…

Cars a 'hot property' for consumers

Blue Sky Disney points to Variety, which speculates on the popularity of merchandise for the Disney/Pixar vehicle Cars. Products inspired by the film, particularly a series of die-cast miniatures, continue…

DisneyToon's Sharon Morrill steps down

AWN reports that Sharon Morrill, president of DisneyToon Studios, has stepped down from her post, where she had been responsible for producing direct-to-video sequels of the Disney Co.’s animated features….

Sleeping Beauty going Platinum, coming to Blu-ray

Disney Consumer Products has revealed that not only will the 1959 Disney classic Sleeping Beauty receive the Platinum Edition DVD treatment in October 2008, they plan to release the film…

Art Stevens, RIP

o-meon reports the sad news that Disney animator/director Art Stevens passed away last May 22 due to a heart attack. Stevens began work at Disney in 1940 and worked on…

Titans, Toons, Loons…reviews and a Nightmare chat!

…that I’ve had bubbling away for a while is for the recent American import edition of Once Upon A Time…Walt Disney, the documentary that accompanied the exhibition of artistic sources…

Ariel’s Song: Jodi Benson, a fortunate soul under the sea!

…his relationship with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Peter Schneider at the Walt Disney Studios, they had come to see the show, and because of me singing Disneyland, they invited Mickey Mouse…

Neal Gabler podcast

o-meon updates with a podcast interview with Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney, The Triumph of the American Imagination. “With the full cooperation of the Walt Disney Company, and especially…

Bambi II Better Than Bambi?

Slate has an interesting article which talks and argues about Disney’s direct-to-DVD sequels and why Disney should not kill them. Disney has announced that there will be no more straight-to-DVD…

Full press release for The Tick Vs. Season Two

…Walt Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax and Buena Vista product, which includes DVD, Blu-ray Disc and electronic distribution. Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment is a division of Disney Enterprises, Inc….

The Jungle Book at the El Capitan

Gearing up for the 40th Anniversary Platinum Edition DVD of Disney’s The Jungle Book (release date: October 2), Animation World Network reports that the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Blvd….