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• Tube Thursday : Are the gruesome extra features found on "Primeval" ' s promotional website eventually going to bite Disney in the butt ?

  Jim Hill talks about the site that Buena Vista Home Entertainment set up to help promote this Mouse-produced horror movie. Which features an interactive guide to serial killers as well as an online game where you can then pretend to be a vicious crocodile that eats machine-gun-toting mercenaries Read More... Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:00 AM | 25 Comments Filed under: Disney, DVD / Video, movies, other, Visual Effects, CG, Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

• "Bring Me That Horizon" features a treasure trove of tales about Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy

  Jim Hill checks out Michael Singer's new behind-the-scenes book, which features lots of great stories about how "The Curse of the Black Pearl," "Dead Man's Chest" and "At World's End" were actually created Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: Disney, DVD / Video, movies, theme park, Visual Effects, attraction, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jerry Bruckheimer, Johnny Depp, Gore Verbinski, Walt Disney Pictures

• Why For did Michael Eisner try and shut down production of "The Curse of the Black Pearl" back in 2002 ?

  Jim Hill shares some stories about the first film in the "Pirates" trilogy. In particular how Disney's former CEO -- because he genuinely believed that teenagers would think that a movie that was based on a theme park attraction was totally lame -- repeatedly tried to pull the plug on this project (WARNING : This article does contain some mild "At World's End" spoilers) Read More... Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 12:00 AM | 26 Comments Filed under: Disney, DVD / Video, movies, theme park, Why For, Visual Effects, attraction, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski, Walt Disney Pictures, Michael Eisner, Dick Cook

• "Droidmaker" takes an entertaining & informative look back at the development of computer animation

  Jim Hill reviews Michael Rubin's delightful history of the digital revolution, which includes many entertaining tales about John Lasseter's initial efforts to get WDFA to embrace CG Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:00 AM | 9 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, Pixar, Visual Effects, traditional animation, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter

• Toon Tuesday : Why Cundo Rabaudi is the model DreamWorks Animation employee

  JHM profiles a PDI / DreamWorks Animation visual development artist who creates these incredibly elaborate models which are then used for reference on that animation studio's features. WARNING ! This story contains some mild spoilers for "Shrek the Third" Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:00 AM | 14 Comments Filed under: animation, DVD / Video, TV, DreamWorks, Visual Effects, ABC, CG, Walt Disney Pictures

• Tune Tuesday : Meet the (Julie) Andrews Sisters

  Jim Hill points you toward a fun YouTube clip from 1972. Where -- for the first & only time -- Julie Andrews shares the stage with her two most famous characters, Eliza Doolittle and Mary Poppins Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:00 AM | 14 Comments Filed under: Disney, DVD / Video, movies, music, theater, TV, Broadway, musical, Visual Effects, computer animation

• Walt Disney Pictures plans cheesy promotional stunt for "Ratatouille"

  Jim Hill shares the Gouda news about how the Mouse is going to get the word out about Pixar's next release. Would you believe a 25-foot-tall wedge of cheese that you can actually walk through? Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, DVD / Video, TV, Pixar, Visual Effects, Pirates of the Caribbean