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• Monday Mouse Watch : “Carol” makes cash registers ring, while “Frog” ‘s financial future makes Disney animators jumpy

  Jim Hill looks past what “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” earned over its opening weekend to what this new Robert Zemeckis movie will gross over the next 3 to 5 years. He also talks about what impact “The Princess & the Frog” ticket sales may have on veteran animators’ careers Read More... Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 12:00 AM | 10 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, A Christmas Carol, CG, John Lasseter, Robert Zemeckis, Walt Disney Animation Studios, WDAS, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton, Burbank, Ed Catmull, ImageMoversDigital, box office, 2009, animated feature, ticket sales, opening weekend grosses, opening weekend, Disney Feature Animation, animated features, soundstage , hand-drawn animation, animators , CG feature, Disney Digital 3D, 2011, Warner Bros. , The Polar Express, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D , seasonal run , box office projections, box office estimates, The Princess and the Frog, hand-drawn, limited release, Charles Dickens, seasonal event, animated film, animated films, ImageMovers, hand-drawn feature, Winnie the Pooh

• Toon Thursday: Disney hits the reset button on Winnie the Pooh

  Jim Hill talks about that new hand-drawn feature that Walt Disney Animation Studios currently has in development. Which will be done in the style of the "Pooh" featurettes of the 1960s & 1970s Read More... Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: Disney, theater, Pixar, Disney Consumer Products, CG, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Playhouse Disney, Disney Legend, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions, WDAS, featurette, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Las Vegas, 1977, D23, 2009, October, 1970s , TV show, 1966 , 1968, hand-drawn animation, home premiere, 2011, theatrical release, Meet the Robinsons, characters , 1960s, Development , chapter, relaunch, Licensing International Expo, DCP , source material , television show , The Princess and the Frog, D23 EXPO, hand-drawn, featurettes, TV series, animated film, reset button, hand-drawn feature, Steve Anderson, story supervisor, Don Hall, Winnie the Pooh, animation fans, old school, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, A. A. Milne, Japanese Bunraku puppeteering, technique, Japanese, storybook, stuffed animal, Bunraku, stuffed animals, Christopher Robin, The Book of Pooh, CG animated, watercolor, My Friends Tigger and Pooh, watercolor backgrounds, Hundred Acre Woods, whimsical, contemporary audiences, Darby, commercialized, Buster, feature-length project, Winnie the Pooh franchise, silly old bear, hand-drawn film, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, style, tone, Burny Mattinson, David Benedictus, Return to the Hundred Acre Woods, Dutton Juvenile, Dutton, original source material, The House at Pooh Corner, Eeyore, Expotition, North Pole, cutsie-pooh, cutsie-poo, expo, reset, Pooh products, juvenile, Winnie the Pooh movie, Pooh featurette, Pooh featurettes, theaters

• "The Alchemy of Animation" takes a look inside the modern Mouse Factory

  Jim Hill reviews Don Hahn's latest book. Which offers an in-depth look at how some of Disney & Pixar's very best films came together Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, Pixar, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lion King, Cars, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Disney Editions, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Tim Burton, Bolt, Glen Keane, 2008, The Fox and the Hound, 2006, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean films, 1984, Don Hahn , paperback, The Princess and the Frog, Snow White, Maleficent, The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age, Frankenweenie, 1937, hand-drawn, stop-motion, computer-generated, performance capture, politics, sausage, debate, producer, veteran producer, Nine Old Men