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• London’s original musical “Mary” is now Broadway’s newest nanny

  Jim Hill talks with Laura Michelle Kelly, the Oliver Award-winning actress who has just begun appearing at the New Amsterdam Theatre in Disney & Cameron Mackintosh’s long-running production Read More... Posted Friday, November 06, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: restaurant, Minskoff Theatre, Cameron Mackintosh , Broadway, Broadway musical, 2004, 2005, 2009, Tony, Tony Award, London, Broadway production, Disney, NYC, Disney Theatrical, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, New York City

• “Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol” book is sure to be a hit with baby boomers

  Jim Hill reviews Darrell Van Citters’ making-of book. Which takes you behind-the-scenes on the production of TV’s first animated holiday special Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Carol, CBS, television, television program, television show , performance capture, ImageMovers, ImageMoversDigital, holiday, holiday classic, holiday season , holiday special, holiday story , holiday treat, holidays, Charles Dickens, book, animated version, animation, 1962 , 1964, 2009, UPA, Christmas, Christmas special, Robert Zemeckis, Disney, NBC

• AquaDuck to bring theme park thrills out onto the high seas

  Jim Hill reports in from last Thursday’s Disney Cruise Line press event. Which talked up some of the more innovative features that will be found on the Disney Dream, the newest ship in the DCL fleet Read More... Posted Monday, November 02, 2009 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: D23, technology, water , Disney Cruise Line, Disney Dreams, creative process, creative team , 2009, 2011, tween, tweens, Typhoon Lagoon , Disney, Bob Iger, NYC, ocean, Walt Disney Imagineering, New York City

• Toon Tuesday: Klay Hall tinkers with Tinker Bell

  This sitcom vet talks about how he tried to make the Disney Fairy who stars in "Lost Treasure" much more like the version of Tink that Marc Davis drew for "Peter Pan" back in 1953 Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: The Simpsons, Ed Catmull, DisneyToon Studios , Disney Fairies, 2009, 2012, Tinker Bell, John Lasseter, Marc Davis, Disney, home premiere, Walt Disney Home Entertainment

• Disney treasures to come up for bid at S/R Labs’ Fall 2009 auction

  Jim Hill shares some of the 237 story sketches, animation drawings & concept paintings that will be go under the gavel today & tomorrow in Westlake Village, CA Read More... Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Walt & El Grupo, Walt Disney, Tim Burton, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Snow White, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Peter Pan, Mary Blair, Disney animation rarities, animation, animation fan, 2009, Disney, The Fox and the Hound, Disney Studios

• Practice makes perfect with the stage version of Disney's "The Lion King"

  Jim Hill goes backstage at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino, expecting to see all sorts of craziness. But what he finds instead is a smooth-running, relatively stress-free musical-making machine Read More... Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: Paris, tours, The Lion King, stage, stage manager, stage show , stage version, stagecraft, stagehands, staging, Singapore, set, musical, Las Vegas, Julie Taymor, costume designer , costumes, Broadway, Broadway musical, 1997, 2009, 2010, Tokyo, London, Mandalay Bay, Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, Broadway production, Disney, backstage, sets, Disney Theatrical

• Monday Mouse Watch: Beyond the Blu-ray Horizon

  As DVD sales levels continue to fall and Hi-Def struggles to deliver on initial expectations, could an online subscription service that delivers top quality Disney content be waiting in the wings? Jim Hill shares what he’s heard Read More... Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: Song of the South, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, content, 2008, 2009, Disney, DVD, DVD sales, Blu-ray, Bob Iger, online, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

• Toon Thursday: Disney hits the reset button on Winnie the Pooh

  Jim Hill talks about that new hand-drawn feature that Walt Disney Animation Studios currently has in development. Which will be done in the style of the "Pooh" featurettes of the 1960s & 1970s Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, cutsie-poo, cutsie-pooh, D23, D23 EXPO, Darby, David Benedictus, A. A. Milne, source material , Pixar, Pixar Animation Studios, technique, television show , feature-length project, featurette, featurettes, watercolor, watercolor backgrounds, WDAS, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Princess and the Frog, The House at Pooh Corner, The Book of Pooh, stuffed animal, stuffed animals, style, silly old bear, relaunch, reset, reset button, Return to the Hundred Acre Woods, Playhouse Disney, Pooh featurette, Pooh featurettes, Pooh products, original source material, North Pole, My Friends Tigger and Pooh, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Las Vegas, Licensing International Expo, juvenile, Japanese, Japanese Bunraku puppeteering, Hundred Acre Woods, hand-drawn, hand-drawn animation, hand-drawn feature, hand-drawn film, expo, Expotition, Eeyore, Don Hall, Disney Consumer Products, DCP , Development , contemporary audiences, CG, CG animated, chapter, characters , animated film, animation fans, 1960s, 1966 , 1968, 1970s , 1977, 2009, 2011, tone, TV series, TV show, Steve Anderson, story supervisor, storybook, Christopher Robin, Meet the Robinsons, Bunraku, Burny Mattinson, Buster, Disney, Dutton, Dutton Juvenile, home premiere, October, old school, Walt Disney Productions, theater, theaters, theatrical release, Disney Legend, whimsical, Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, Winnie the Pooh franchise, Winnie the Pooh movie, commercialized

• Let George Do It: One-time WDW busboy becomes Disneyland’s newest president

  Jim Hill looks back over this Park & Resorts vet's 38-year-long career with the Company. In particular why George Kalogridis was chosen to help guide the Disneyland Resort through its upcoming transitional period Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: Grand Flo, cast member, cast members, pin, pins, adversity, Al Weiss, UCF, training issues, transition period, transitional period, The Walt Disney Company, Sunshine Plaza, senior management, senior management position, Resort Operations, Rich Ross , opportunity, Nagano, millennium celebration, IBM, Happiest Place on Earth, gay, general manager, George Kalogridis, Ed Grier, Disney's World of Color, DLP, Downtown Disney, Disneyland, Disneyland Hotel, Disneyland Paris, Disneyland Park, Disneyland Resort, development team, Contemporary Resort Hotel, Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadershio Strategies from a Life at Disney, Coca-Cola, Chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Anaheim property, 1971, 1976, 1988, 2009, 2010, 2012, University of Central Florida, 15th anniversary, maintenance, busboy, Disney, Epcot, Disney's California Adventure, Disney's Contemporary Resort, Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, regional theme park, Olympic pins, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney World, Walt Disney World Resort, The Walt Disney World Resort, Disney Parks & Resorts, Disney Wonder, Disney World, Winter Olympics

• Wine & dine & run for your lives! Mickey may be getting into the blood-sucking business

  Jim Hill reviews some of the domain names that The Walt Disney Company recently registered. Several of which suggest that the Mouse House now has a vampire project in the works Read More... Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: The Maker's Song, Dante Baptiste, 3K, special agent, Adrian Phoenix, film, fish, Fish Hooks, Fishhooks, Yellow Submarine, young adult fantasy, WDW Marathon, theme park attraction, The Twilight Saga, Summit Entertainment, Silvertongue, Rush of Wings, Race for the Taste, pet store, Hyperion, ImageMovers, ImageMoversDigital, In the Blood, Food and Wine Festival, FBI, domain name , domain names, Disneyland, Disneyland Marathon, Disney Channel, Disney Fish Hooks, Disney Fishhooks, Columbus Day, Charlie Fletcher, Cheetah Chug, book, book series, books, 2011, vampire, vampire rock star, trio, TV show, Twilight, Twilight saga, 10K, International Food and Wine Festival, Ironhand, Stoneheart, Stoneheart trilogy, Mickey, Robert Zemeckis, rock star, marathon, marathons, Disney, blood-sucking, Heather Wallace, endurance event, endurance events, Epcot, Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival, Mouse House, Disney's Fish Hooks, Disney's Fishhooks, October, Walt Disney World, Walt Disney World Resort, Disney World, Disney World Marathon, Disney XD, wine dine and run, new worlds, Mouse

• You don’t know Jack about Disneyland’s “Halloween Screams - A Villainous Surprise in the Skies"

  Jim Hill talks with John Addis, Senior Show Director for Disney Entertainment Productions, about how this new fireworks show came together Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: The Magic Kingdom, Cruella De Vil, Castle, Castle walls, parades, Paul Frees, fireworks, fireworks display, fireworks show, flight path , flight pattern, Zero, WDW, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Haunted Mansion, The Hub, spectaculars, spider, spiders, Sleeping Beauty Castle, snow, snow falling, snow falling on Main Street, Senior Show Director, public performance, November, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, M.C., Jack Skellington, Holidays at the Disneyland Resort, Halloween, Halloween fireworks display, Halloween Screams, Halloween Screams - A Villainous Surprise in the Skies, Halloween Time, Happy HalloWishes, Happy HalloWishes: A Grim Grinning Ghost Spectacular in the Sky, Ghost Host, Disneyland, Disneyland Guests, Disneyland Park, Disneyland Resort, Disney Entertainment Productions, Corey Burton, Anaheim, animation, 2005, 2009, John Addis, Ursula, Ursula the Sea Witch, trick or treat, trick-or-treat, trick-or-treating, Steve Davison, Cinderella Castle , Scream-Along, Magic Kingdom, magical, magical orb, main street, Disney, Dumbo, Haunted Mansion, The Ghost Host, shell, shimmering lights, Oogie Boogie, Walt Disney Creative Entertainment , Walt Disney World, theme park, Disney Legend, Disney Villain, Disney Villains, Disney World

• Monday Mouse Watch: What to make of Mickey’s mixed signals

  Jim Hill talks about all of the recent changes at the Mouse House. More importantly, what Bob Iger will be looking for from Rich Ross, the new Chairman of Walt Disney Studios Read More... Posted Monday, October 05, 2009 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: D23, D23 EXPO, 5th Avenue, soundtrack, cell phone, cell phone user, cell phone users, Pixar, Pixar Animation Studios, Pixar campus, Pixar expansion plans, plan, prestige picture, prestige pictures, production slate, fiscal year, flagship store, World of Disney, WDI, WDW, virtual world , tradition, Tim Burton, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, The Queen, The Walt Disney Company, superhero, superheroes, taking it in the shorts, stable of characters, Rich Ross , quality content, music, Nancy Lasseter, Marvel, Marvel Entertainment, long term, long term strategy, Lasseter Family Winery, HSM3, Inc., High School Musical 3, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Hannah Montana , Fall, Fantasyland, Emeryville, Emeryville campus, Enchanted Adventures Parade, division, divisions, Disney Channel, Disney Channels Worldwide, Disney Double Dare You, Dick Cook, content, corporate headquarters, Chairman, Chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Camp Rock , Andrew Stanton, animated feature, animated features, animated film, animated films, acquisition, 2009, 2010, 2011, Tom Staggs, Jerry Bruckheimer, John Carter of Mars, John Lasseter, Utah, Vancouver, Verizon, TV show, TV shows, instant-messaging, Steven Spielberg, storefront, strategy, Robert Zemeckis, live action, live-action, Magic Kingdom, business initiative, business initiatives, Disney, DVD, DVD sales, Blu-ray, Bob Iger, heritage, High School Musical, Mouse House, The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Shanghai, Shanghai Disneyland, Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Studios, Disney Mobile, Disney Music Group, Disney Theatrical, widget, widgets, Miramax, Miramax Films , mobile, mobile storefront

• The Muppets lead the way with Disney Parks & Resorts' new "Give a Day, Get a Disney Day" promotion

  Jim Hill talks up this new Walt Disney Company initiative. Which hopes to inspire a million people to do volunteer work in their local communities Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:00 AM | 10 Comments Filed under: Kermit the Frog, LA, Teri Hatcher, terms & conditions, terms and conditions, worksite, website , volunteer, volunteer work, volunteering, The Walt Disney Company, promotion, promotional campaign, Puerto Rico, Photo ID, Orlando, Mr. Toad, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Muppet, Muppets, Muppet-themed, Mad Tea Party, legacy, James Denton, January, Habitat for Humanity, Get a Disney Day, Give a Day, Give a Day Get a Disney Day, framing, free admission, free ticket, Disneyland, December , Desperate Housewives, Chicago, campaign, Canada, Bethune School of Excellence, Anaheim, 2009, 2010, Jim Henson, 18 years of age, initiative, Robin, local communities, local community, Disney, birthday, online, Walt Disney World, Walt Disney World Resort, theme park, Disney Parks & Resorts, Disney theme park, What Will You Celebrate, What Will You Celebrate?, Miss Piggy

• Gary Vaynerchuk wants you to think outside of the box wine

  Jim Hill reports in from the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Where the “King of Social Media” held court this past Friday Read More... Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: cuisine, Green, Green Point Reserve, Green Point Reserve Shiraz, socks, King of Social Media, Gary Vaynerchuk, Pinot, World Showcase, You gotta try new things, Washington State, WDW visitor, WDW visitors, webcast, vintage, vintages, vintner, vintners, Walla Walla, The Thunder Show, Orlando, November, Napa, Mickey Mouse, marketplace, marketplaces, Hollywood, food, Food & Beverage , Food and Wine Festival, foodie, education, chianti, Chianti Classico, box wine, Brazil, authentic experience, 2009, varieties, Variety, U.S., 14th annual International Food & Wine Festival, international, International Food and Wine Festival, international marketplaces, Satori Di Verona, Rio de Janeiro, rock star, mantra, Disney, drink, Bangkok, entertainment, Epcot, Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival, Red, reds, sheep butt, Shiraz, Odyssey, Odyssey restaurant, Walt Disney World, Walt Disney World Resort, The Walt Disney World Resort, theme park, Disney World, white, whites, wine, wine seminar, wine world, confidence, Misha

• Tune Thursday: Why "The Lion King" gets the lion's share of the attention on the Las Vegas Strip

  Jim Hill talks about the ambitious promotional plan that the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino and Disney Theatrical put together to help hype this new sit-down production of that Tony Award-winning musical Read More... Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: Dancing with the Stars, ABC, key card, video marquee, The Producers, The Strip, The Lion King, The Lion King Exhibit, stage, stage show , stage version, Results Show, promotion, promotional campaign, Raleigh Studios, musical, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Strip, Julie Taymor, Hairspray, Broadway, Broadway musical, Avenue Q , 1996 , 1997, lion, Mandalay Bay, Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, Mandalay Place, Disney, hotel, Eric Stonestreet, show, shows, theater, Disney Theatrical, Modern Family