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

• Toon Tuesday: Will “Toy Story 3” will be that rare sequel that equals the original?

  WARNING !! There be spoilers ahead as Jim Hill reveals key plot points from this highly anticipated follow-up to the first two “Toy Story” films. Which hits theaters in Disney Digital 3D on June 18, 2010 Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: Pixar, John Lasseter, Pixar Animation Studios, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, movie, D23, animated feature, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Disney Digital 3D, Whoopi Goldberg, 2010, Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich, Woody , Toy Story characters, Buzz Lightyear, D23 EXPO

• "Kung Fu Panda" 's opening weekend grosses really kicked butt ... but here comes "WALL-E"

  Jim Hill shares what he's heard about this new Andrew Stanton film. Which looks ready to reverse the domestic box office trends that tripped up Pixar's last three pictures Read More... Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 12:00 AM | 21 Comments Filed under: Disney, DreamWorks, CG, Walt Disney Pictures, Cars, Ratatouille, Shrek the Third, DreamWorks Animation, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Labor Day, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Shrek 2, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, box office, 2008, Disney / Pixar, animated feature, opening weekend grosses, opening weekend, TV show, franchise, Andrew Stanton, Cloverfield, animated features, animated series , CG feature, Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both World Concert, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung Fu Panda, John Stevenson , Mark Osborne , WALL-E, Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda TV series, Kung Fu Panda animated series, Sex and the City, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Ice Age: The Meltdown , Ice Age , box office projections, box office estimates, research, Camp Rock 2: Final Jam, 2004, Summer

• "WALL * E" trailer soft-pedals the more controversial aspects of this new Pixar film

  Jim Hill points out the stuff in this trailer that the Mouse's marketing department was hoping you'd overlook. WARNING !! There be spoilers ahead ! Read More... Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:00 AM | 45 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, Pixar Animation Studios, animated feature, Andrew Stanton, Disney Publicity , Disney Pixar

• Toon Tuesday : How Pixar fixed "Finding Nemo"

  Been hearing disappointing things about those "WALL*E" test screenings? Jim Hill reminds us what happened when Michael Eisner predicted that Andrew Stanton's last film would flop Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:00 AM | 29 Comments Filed under: Pixar, Michael Eisner, Roy E. Disney, Finding Nemo, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, The Walt Disney Company, Shrek 2, Steve Jobs, movie, 2008, animated feature, Andrew Stanton, 2003, Academy Award winner

• A special "Where's WALL-E" edition of Why For?

  Jim Hill's back with even more answers to your Disney-related questions. This time around, Jim tries to put together a definitive list of where the in-jokes & self references in Pixar's feature films & shorts are located Read More... Posted Sunday, December 09, 2007 12:00 AM | 26 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Pixar, CG, John Lasseter, Ratatouille, Brad Bird, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., DVD, film, movie, Disney / Pixar, animated feature, The Adventures of Andre & Wally B, animated short, short, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Your Friend the Rat, Plan B, Luxo Jr, Red's Dream, For the Birds, Boundin', Lifted, Jack-Jack Attack, Geri's Game