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• Animation fans prematurely shoot off their mouths about "Bolt"

  Jim Hill points out the parallels between what WDAS's next release is now going through and "Beauty & the Beast" & "The Lion King" 's troubled productions Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:00 AM | 18 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, DreamWorks, computer animation, John Lasseter, "Shrek", Walt Disney Pictures, "Beauty & the Beast", John Musker, "The Little Mermaid", "Ratatouille", Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, DreamWorks Animation, "Aladdin", Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg, "Toy Story", WDAS, "The Lion King", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", WDI, Ed Catmull, Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Studios, "Bolt", Academy Award, film, movie, 2008, animated feature, Richard Purdum , "Cranium Command", Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, award, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Feature Animation, "Mulan", "The Emperor's New Groove", "Kingdom of the Sun", "Kiskaloo", blind men and the elephant, Indian fable, pre-release image, teaser poster, November 2008, Bolt the dog, Mittens the cat, Rhino the hamster, Chris Williams, "American Dog", Chris Sanders, quirkiness, Jan Pinkava, George Scribner, Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers, S Gross, lemons into lemonade, November 28

• A special "Toon Much of a Good Thing" edition of Why For

  Jim Hill's back with even more answers to your Disney-related questions. This time around, Jim talks about why Walt Disney Home Entertainment stopped producing 2-disc versions of those new Disney / Pixar DVDs as well as revealing that Walt Disney Animation Studios may already have a second traditionally animated feature in the works Read More... Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 12:00 AM | 30 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, theme park, Pixar, traditional animation, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Pictures, Disney-MGM Studios theme park, Robert Zemeckis, Ron Clements, John Musker, "The Princess and the Frog", "Cars", "Ratatouille", Brad Bird, "Enchanted", Disney's Hollywood Studios, Disney's Hollywood , Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Animation Studios, "The Incredibles", Pixar Animation Studios, Russia, WDAS, Burbank, "WALL * E", WDW, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, WDSHE, WDHE, Disney Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray, "The Magic of Disney Animation", Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, "How to Hook-Up Your Home Theater", "Prep and Landing", "The Ballad of Nessie", Loch Ness, "Glago's Guest", close encounter of the third kind, Walden Media, "A Conversation with Disney's Mark Zoradi", Heartland Film Festival, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group, Mark Zoradi, "Bolt", Glen Keane, "Rapunzel", "A Christmas Carol", Dean Wellins, ImageMoversDigital, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian", DVD

• "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

• Monday Mouse Watch : Disney says it's far too early to write off "Ratatouille"

  Jim Hill talks with Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Walt Disney Studios. Who says that the real test for this new Pixar production comes in the coming week. When we see how well tickets sell for Brad Bird's latest over the extended Fourth of July holiday Read More... Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 12:00 AM | 96 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Pictures

• Why For did Disney struggle to come up with a marketing campaign for Pixar's latest picture ? Because the Mouse wasn't originally supposed to release "Ratatouille"

  Jim Hill takes you behind-the-scenes on the creation of this new Brad Bird film. Which actually wasn't ever intended to be a Walt Disney Pictures release. But -- rather -- Pixar's first film for another studio after their co-production deal with the Mouse expired in 2005 Read More... Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:00 AM | 68 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, DVD / Video, Jim Hill Media, Pixar, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Pictures, Dick Cook, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

• Monday Mouse Watch : Could underwhelming box office receipts for "Ratatouille" really spell trouble for Disney & Pixar officials?

  Here's an article that's almost sure to upset all you animation fans out there. Jim Hill shares what he's heard about the projected domestic box office for Brad Bird's newest movie. Which suggests that "Ratatouille" is going to earn significantly less than "Cars" did last year Read More... Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 12:00 AM | 100 Comments Filed under: animation, movies, Pixar, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, Bob Iger, Walt Disney Pictures, Dick Cook