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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…actual musical cues – doesn’t fare so well. The songs are great, but the score remains Menken’s blend of musical motif and often heavy-handed “Mickey Mousing” the action. He won… |
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Q&A with Disney director George Scribner
…behind-the-scenes stories, including anecdotes on the original director of The Lion King, Oliver And Company and the theme park rides he has been a part of creating, including Mickey’s Philharmagic…. |
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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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Never before seen sketches by Walt
…their red carpet strut. Corny? Yes! But a good excuse to post some never before seen sketches by Walt Disney that were used in the 1933 short Mickey’s Gala Premier…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #32: Mulan – Yodeling Huns
…battle on the mountain, very Star Wars, Chinese-made rope, “apparently there’s a hidden Mickey…”, Animation Law #2: Disney women must not have short rule, “It’s ok to cross dress”, Jafar… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…then it’s all Disney’s fault for stretching out the franchise), plus previews for Epic Mickey: The Power Of Two, Mulan, SuperBuddies, Return To Never-Land, the next, untitled Tinker Bell outing… |
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Science explains the attraction of animation
…is why someone can cry over Snow White or Bambi, and laugh over Mickey, even though we know on a rational level that these characters are not real or alive”…. |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…personal favorites was Mickey, Donald & Goofy: The Three Musketeers, directed by Donovan Cook. “Occasionally, you would get a strong director who would latch onto something that the other parts… |
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Arthur Rankin Jr. of Rankin/Bass Productions passes away
…of Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney. Rankin was also responsible for a number of theatrical releases, with varying results in terms of box office returns and critical response. Mad Monster… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…parks had already seen cooperative marketing between Lucasfilm and Disney (think Jedi Mickey bobble heads, one of which is on display in my home); but having Donald Duck, Luke Skywalker,… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…essentially playing the Mickey Rooney role from the original, but here imbued with a more mythical approach as the only one to have seen the dragon many years before. Redford… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…all was well in Mickey’s Studio. The polished image that was carefully crafted for years is a far cry from reality. There were rivalries, hurt egos, politics, jealousies, bitterness and… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…your methodology to work within that realm? DV: Their original approach was, they didn’t want it to be a normal cartoon with non-stop music and some mickey-mousing going on. They… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…team’s outstanding storytelling alongside the amazing animation produced by Titmouse. The announcement that Amazon had ordered at least two more seasons as well as adapt the second campaign made for… |
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Brendan Fraser too politically incorrect for Disney?
…concept by the folks at Disney – the Mouse House’s politically correct managers quickly nixed the idea”. Check out Jim Hill Media for the details of this very interesting story…. |
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Troubled My Peoples project cancelled?
…is less than a few months away at the very least. Until we get an official announcement from the House Of Mouse this report must be viewed as a “confirmed… |
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Don't forget about Felix
{{link http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/popcandy/2003-11-18-pop-candy_x.htm USA Today}} asks “Enough of the mouse – what about the cat?” The writer takes an interesting and fun look at the world’s first animated star, Felix the… |
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Wal-Mart to buy The Disney Store chain?
{{link http://www.fabulousdisneybabe.com/fab/articles/showArticles.asp?ID=43 FabulousDisneyBabe.com}} reports that a source has informed them that Wal-Mart “has made a very nice offer for the ailing chain, and that barring disaster, the Mouse will say… |
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2003: ’Tis The Season To Buy Presents!
…“pull-out” artwork and samples from Disney’s history, plus an hour long CD featuring previously unreleased interviews and audio with Walt Disney – sheer Heaven! Mouse Planet has a look inside…. |
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Mr. Eisner's Wild Ride
{{link http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101031215-557062,00.html Time Magazine}} made available online a story from its December 15th print issue, which looks at the current Mouse chief’s track record and how the the Roy Disney… |
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Parent Trap set for television twins
Walt Disney’s 1961 live-action feature The Parent Trap (which featured a classic stop-motion animated opening sequence) is being lined up to appear on the Mouse’s ABC Network as a new… |
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Jim Hill shines spotlight on Disney Feature Animation – Florida situation
{{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/legacy/index.htm?../articles/01052004.2.htm~contentFrame Jim Hill Media}} will spotlight the situation at Disney Feature Animation – Florida this week, and is hoping to “embarrass Mouse House management into backing down” from shuttering… |
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Disney Florida: three days to go…
From {{link http://www.jimhillmedia.com/articles/01092004.1.htm Jim Hill Media}}: “As the deadline for the official announcement draws ever nearer, JH tries to pin down the exact moment that Mouse House managers lost their… |
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Children's book awards announced
…DiCamillo won the 2004 Newbery Medal given for the year’s best writing. It tells the “story of a small mouse in love with a princess”. \\The Man Who Walked Between… |
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Ruben Aquino Talks: Interview with Brother Bear Animator
…The Little Mermaid (Ursula), Rescuers Down Under (Jake the kangaroo mouse), The Lion King (adult Simba), Pocahontas (Chief Powhatan), Mulan (Captain Shan), and Lilo & Stitch (David and Pleakley). Read… |
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Jim Hill on the Disney/Pixar break-up…
…the company regarding the Pixar news and Disney’s Academy Award nominations. Both articles are interesting reads, as usual, and also contain a couple of jokey digs at the Mouse House…. |
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SaveDisney Movement Plans Investor Meeting Pre-Meeting
…one day before the official meeting of Disney stockholders and is intended to educate shareholders on how “the House of Mouse has lost its creative focus under [current CEO Michael]… |
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Disney goes to Bill Gates for Web movie answer
…or early 2005 according to {{link http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=4310373§ion=news Reuters}}, when their copy-protection devices will enable the Mouse House to offer full-length movies for downloading over the internet. “How will this affect… |
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THAT press conference…
…news, and Roy himself {{link http://www.savedisney.com/news/comcast_comment.asp speaks out}} on the proposed deal, unsurprisingly leaning on the cable giant’s side regarding the issues they believe need addressing at the Mouse House…. |
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Comcast's battle for Disney heats up: Pixar's Jobs and Roy Disney now in the frame…
…including rumors of Microsoft’s role in all of this, and Comcast’s own Steve Burke’s chances of running the Mouse House…these are very interesting times we’re living in… -Source: The Times…. |
