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Despite Planetary Downgrade, Pluto Is Still Disney's 'Dog Star'
…if Disney’s Pluto would join us as an 8th dwarf. We think this is just what the DOC ordered and is nothing to SNEEZE at.” As Mickey Mouse’s faithful companion,… |
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Spotlight on Mike Gerard
…Institute of the Arts, Gerard’s credits include: Beauty and the Beast, Mickey’s the Prince & the Pauper, The Simpsons, Tiny Toon Adventures, Angry Beavers, Animaniacs, Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and… |
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Floyd Norman: Walt Disney's 10th Old Man
…The Jungle Book to Monsters Inc., with stops along the way that included nearly ten years of creating the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan,… |
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ASIFA ARCHIVE: Disney Drawing Exhibit
…days (Alice in Cartoonland, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit) the early sound era (Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies), through the classic features (Snow White, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty).” Check it out any Tuesday… |
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Cartoon characters help sell fruit
The Miami Herald writes that Mickey Mouse, SpongeBob Squarepants, Dora the Explorer and Tasmanian Devil are just some of the characters soon to be found in the produce aisle. Health-conscious… |
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Spotlight on Famous Fone Friends
…popular personalities, having assistance from the actual voice actors behind the characters. Mickey Mouse (Wayne Allwine), Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright), Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings), Aladdin (Scott Weinger) and Rocky… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spotting” fun facts with Andreas Deja
…as that. So, it was up to a kind of a devious technician called Ub Iwerks, the original Mickey Mouse animator and one of Walt’s partners in the 20s, to… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres
…article describes the project as, “Imagine if John Waters, Ed Wood and Rob Zombie got sick at Mickey D’s and then collaborated on a project. This would be the hallucinatory… |
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Lasseter at Disney Feature Animation
…from The Denver Post for the article “He Runs That Mickey Mouse Outfit.” Included in the piece is a new photo of Lasseter. Thanks to Lindsay at the Animated News… |
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The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show: The Complete Series
…both names that should be familiar to TV sitcom buffs, did Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. Mickey Stevens replaced Sally Struthers in the Flintstones Comedy Hour episodes. Final Cut: The Pebbles And… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…continues to impress with their classic Disney comic reprints, such as Paul Murray’s Mickey Mouse and Carl Barks’ Uncle Scrooge. As for live action superheroes, I loved seeing the long-awaited… |
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Roy Disney Presents At The Newport Film Festival 2008
…the 1995 short that features an evil Mickey and even a visual allusion to William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. Dave Bossert mentioned that the eagle-eyed viewer can find in this short… |
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Disney Magic US Postage
…Dumbo and Timothy Mouse, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, Mickey Mouse as “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and Aladdin and Genie. Previous themes featured in the USPS’ line of Disney stamps include… |
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The Astro Boy Essays
…terms of cultural significance, Tetsuwan Atomu was the Japanese equivalent of both Superman and Mickey Mouse. Other titles and characters from Tezuka’s enormous body of work are also mentioned throughout… |
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Animated News & Views does Comic-Con 2008!
…Kingdom in the company of Mickey, Minnie and new inhabitant Captain Jack Sparrow! Needless to say, Animated News is being left in the more than capable hands of our excellent… |
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Nintendo DS becomes Enchanted
Details on the Enchanted Nintendo DS game have arrived at Mickey News. Coming this fall, the game will allow one to play as Princess Giselle, Prince Edward and chipmunk Pip… |
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The Reluctant Dragon: Disney Exclusive Edition
…Studio artists, and an audio recording for what appears to be the much earlier released 1936 short Mickey’s Grand Opera. The Reluctant Dragon was shot during the time that Dumbo… |
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Disney unveils Hollywood Studios logo
Blue Sky Disney showcases the new logo for Disney’s Hollywood Studios, currently known as Disney-MGM Studios, at Walt Disney World. The artwork prominently features Mickey Mouse operating a clapboard…. |
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My nose ain't that big! Does Pinocchio's Platinum ring true or false?
…a personality in his own right in additional features (Fun And Fancy Free among them) and was, for a long time, second only to Mickey himself and as important to… |
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Disney to produce Jungle Junction, also Clubhouse, Tigger & Pooh get third seasons
…report, third-season greenlights to CG shows Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and My Friends Tigger & Pooh have also been given as Disney Channel has ordered an addition 35 episodes of both…. |
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Tinkerbell to join Hollywood Walk of Fame
…get her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame later this year. She will join other imaginary characters there including Winnie the Pooh, Kermit the Frog and Mickey Mouse…. |
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Walt Disney World's Pleasure Island closing down
Jim Hill talks about “the real reason WDW’s night club complex is shuttering. Which is Mickey’s desire to create a seamless Guest experience for all those shopping & dining at… |
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The success story of Disney On Ice
…foreign expansion strategy — establishing a Disney Channel outpost to pump Mickey and friends directly into people’s homes — has proceeded slowly because of government restrictions on foreign media. But… |
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And the Oscars go to…the (Slum) dogs!
…Penn for Best Actor, beating out favorite Mickey Rourke. But in most other areas it was business as usual: Penelope Cruz for Vicky Christina Barcelona, Heath Ledger’s inevitable prize for… |
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Britain’s Biggest Red Carpet Rolled Out To Celebrate The BAFTA Awards 2009
…Actor Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler, while tribute was paid to those we lost this year including Charlton Heston, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Crichton, Roy Scheider, Stan Winston, Cyd Charisse and… |
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The Stooge confirmed as a development proposal
It appears Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit are indeed teaming up, at least for a development proposal. On Sunday, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? author Gary K. Wolf, under pen name… |
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Disney Characters Get the Paris Treatment
Remember a few months ago when images of Minnie, Mickey, Goofy, and Donald appeared on the Internet in haute coutre fashion with thinner character designs? Controversary has, of course, sprung… |
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Disney channels’ animated movies, April 2006
…& Company, An American Tail, The Brave Little Toaster, The Land Before Time, Pocahontas, A Goofy Movie, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy: The Three Musketeers, and Tarzan II may be seen…. |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…year before Mickey tooted his way across the screen in Steamboat Willie in 1928), but the three-disc set will come packed with a collection of period cartoons, early sound era… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…This ethos is carried over into Ron Goodwin’s bombastic musical score, full of intentional Mickey Mouseing, heroic stabs, wobbly brass for Frobe’s perpetual misfit and slinky strings for the boo-hiss… |