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• Extended "Ratatouille" sequence to be screened at Wondercon 2007 this Saturday

  Want to check out 12 minutes of Brad Bird's brand-new animated feature? Then Jim Hill suggests that you make your way to the Moscone Center this coming weekend. Where Bird & Patton Oswalt will be hosting a preview of Pixar's latest production Read More... Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:00 AM | 23 Comments Filed under: animation, comics, Disney, movies, Pixar

• Where's Roger? What's going on with Mouse Surplus? And what should I doing this weekend if I'm a Disney fan who lives in LA?

  In preparation for tomorrow's "Why For" column, Jim Hill clears the decks. Answering some JHM readers' questions that don't actually have all that much to do with the Mouse Read More... Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:00 AM | 10 Comments Filed under: animation, book, comics, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, theme park

• Is Mickey going to botch "Ratatouille" 's marketing? Don't Betty on it

  A Mouse House insider points to the innovative promotional campaign that's now underway for "Ugly Betty" as an example of what the Walt Disney Company can do that other media conglomerates can't Read More... Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:00 AM | 27 Comments Filed under: animation, comics, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, theme park, TV

• "Today in Disney History" is a perfect last-minute gift for the Disney obsessive on your holiday shopping list

  Getting ready for that one final trip to the mall, but you don't have a clue about what to get that Disney fan in your family? Pick up a copy of Eve Zibart's breezy paperback. Which is just loaded with fun facts & trivia about the Mouse House Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: animation, book, comics, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, music, other, theater, theme park, TV

• "Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation" offers an entertaining overview of this international artform

  Jim Hill takes a look at this new paperback from Gemstone Publishing, an affordable & informative paperback that offers highlights of the past seven decades worth of internationally published Disney comics Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 06, 2006 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: animation, book, comics, Disney, DVD / Video, movies, TV

• How much "Pirates" is too much "Pirates" ?

  Though it's still a month or more 'til "Dead Man's Chest" opens in theaters nationwide, Jim Hill's got all sorts of info about all of the other "Pirates" -related projects that the Walt Disney Company currently has waiting in the wings. Would you believe "Pirates" comic books, "Pirates" junior novelizations as well as an online multi-player "Pirates" game? And -- even though they haven't yet finished filming "Pirates III" -- there's already lots of serious talk at the studio about "Pirates IV." Jim now shares all of his nautical news Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:00 AM | 25 Comments Filed under: book, comics, Disney, movies

• Wouldn't it be cool if ...

  JHM rolls out a brand-new feature today. One that will allow this website's readers to make suggestions that Walt Disney Company officials will (hopefully) take seriously. In this debut column, Ken Plume points to a long-abandoned short subject that WDFA should probably seriously consider reviving Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:00 AM | 35 Comments Filed under: comics, Disney

• Did you hear? Jim Hill is a con man!

  Yep. Hill - and an estimated 80,000 of his close, personal friends - are all attending Comic Con. As he fights his way through the crowded aisles at the San Diego Convention Center, Hill reports in on who he's already seen at this year's show. Read More... Posted Friday, July 23, 2004 12:00 AM | 0 Comments Filed under: comics