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

• When it comes to the retail world, Speed Racer whomps WALL-E

  Jim Hill shares an interesting tidbit about Pixar's latest picture. To be specific, how difficult it was for Disney Consumer Products to convince toy manufacturers to produce "WALL-E" -related merchandise this year Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:00 AM | 26 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, Disney Consumer Products, Cars, Pixar Animation Studios, Toy Story, Disney / Pixar, merch, merchandise , Speed Racer , WALL-E

• Disney Consumer Products isn't getting its hopes up for "Up"

  Jim Hill takes a close look at the retail side of the Mouse House. In particular why Disney Consumer Products is now taking a much more pragmatic approach toward the licensing of Pixar's next few pictures Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:00 AM | 21 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, toys, Disney Consumer Products, John Lasseter, Disney's California Adventure, Cars, Ratatouille, Brad Bird, Disney Store, Pixar Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, WDI, DCA, 2008, 2009, Disney / Pixar, animated feature, Cars Land, Pete Docter, 2006, retail chain , 2010, Up

• Monday Mouse Watch : Why all the dough that "The Simpsons Movie" is earning is making Disney & Pixar executives say "D'oh !"

  Jim Hill shares some interesting comments from this past Wednesday's quarterly earnings conference call. Which suggest that Mouse House officials have finally accepted the fact that "Ratatouille" won't actually do as well domestically as "Cars" did last year Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 12:00 AM | 68 Comments Filed under: DVD / Video, Pixar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney Consumer Products, traditional animation, computer animation, Harry Potter, Bob Iger, Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Ratatouille, The Simpsons Movie, Tom Staggs, Shrek the Third, DreamWorks Animation, Brad Bird, David Silverman

• "Why must you always be so negative when you write about Pixar?"

  Jim Hill takes a moment to answer his critics. Particularly those folks who have grown tired of the JHM articles that touch on the $7.4 billion that the Walt Disney Company spent to acquire Pixar Animation Studios Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:00 AM | 75 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, Pixar, Disney Consumer Products, CG, John Lasseter, Bob Iger, Walt Disney Pictures, Michael Eisner, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

• Say "So Long !" to direct-to-video sequels : DisneyToon Studios tunes out Sharon Morrill

  In a stunning turn of events, the longtime president of DisneyToon Studios was asked to step down earlier this week by Mouse House management. Jim Hill reveals the reasons behind this executive's forced exit as well as discussing the long-term ramifications of this controversial decision Read More... Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:00 AM | 44 Comments Filed under: animation, DVD / Video, Pixar, Disney Consumer Products, Disney Channel, traditional animation, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, Bob Iger, Buena Vista Home Entertainment