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• “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” serves up quality holiday schmaltz

  It’s a two-fer today as Jim Hill reviews Robert Zemeckis’ latest movie as well as the new making-of book that Diana Landau wrote about this ImageMovers Digital production Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: A Christmas Carol, film, seasonal run , performance capture, ImageMovers, ImageMoversDigital, holiday, holiday classic, holiday season , holidays, Disney Digital 3D, Disney Editions, Charles Dickens, book, Jim Carrey, Christmas, Robert Zemeckis, London, Disney, movie, Walt Disney Pictures

• Do eye-popping effects & an emotional thru-line really hold the key to audiences connecting with “Alice” ?

  Jim Hill shares what Tim Burton said at Comic-Con last month while this acclaimed filmmaker was talking up Disney’s new Digital 3D version of “Alice in Wonderland” Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: 3D, 3D film , 3D movie, Alice in Wonderland, Pretty in Pink, film, Tim Burton, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Johnny Depp, Disney Digital 3D, animated feature, 2009, 2010, San Diego, live action, London, Disney, movie, Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Comic-Con , Comic-Con International

• Stage version of "Mary Poppins" draws a lot of its inspiration from ... Well, drawings

  Jim Hill looks back at the development of this Disney / Cameron Mackintosh production. Which is not just based on the 1964 film, but also draws its inspiration from P.L. Travers' stories and Mary Shepard's illustrations Read More... Posted Friday, June 20, 2008 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: The Marble Boy, governess, A Spoonful of Sugar , production team, Temper Temper, penguins, film, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, talking shop, stage, stage show , stage version, set, set designer , Royal Doulton , Ruth Gottschall, Practically Perfect, P L Travers , North American National Tour , Mrs Corry , musical, Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back , Mary Poppins in the Park, Mary Poppins Opens the Door , Mary Shepard , Matthew Bourne , Matthew Garber, Let's Go Fly a Kite, Jolly Holiday, Julian Fellowes, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice, Jaws 3 People 0, illustration, illustrations, Gavin Lee , George Stiles , gilt stars , gingerbread , Gingerbread Stars , footman, Fannie, Ed Wynn, costume designer , costumes, creative team , chapter, Chicago, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Cameron Mackintosh , Broadway, Broadway musical, Ashley Brown , Academy Award, 1964, 2009, title role, Tony Award, 1934, 1943, Starlighter , statue , statues, Richard Eyre, road company, Robertson Ay, London, March, Broadway production, Dick Van Dyke, Disney, Drama Desk Award, Bad Wednesday, bake shop, Annie, Anthony Drewe , Anything Can Happen If You Let It, birdcage , Bob Crowley, England, movie, setting, NYC, Theatre Royal Plymouth , Disney Theatrical, national tour, Neleus, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, constellations , Miss Andrew, motion picture

• "Dream Worlds" offers look at abandoned Disney animated features

  Jim Hill reviews Hans Bacher's new "Production Design for Animation" book. Which features visual development art from "My Peoples," "Fraidy Cat" and "Wild Life" Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: the New World, A Few Good Ghosts, LA, Alfred Hitchcock , production designer, production notes, film, WDAS, visual development, visual development artist , Wales, Walt Disney Animation Studios, The Secret Lab, stage version, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, series finale, Pygmalion, paintings, Mulan, My Peoples, massaged , hipster, Hans Bacher , generic-looking , George Bernard Shaw, Germany, Focal Press, Fraidy Cat, France, edited, Elgin's Peoples , emperor, Disneyana fans, December , development art , crime story , book, Broadway, Broadway musical, Beauty and the Beast, artists , Andreas Deja, Angel and Her No Good Sister, animated feature, animation, 2007, urban, 101 Dalmatians, inspirational material , story points, China Doll, school rivalry , logo, Loire , London, Dinosaur, Disney, drawings , Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation , animators , European version, Once in a Blue Moon , Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Publicity , Disney Theatrical, Wild Life