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Blog Post: Terrific "Tangled" is the hair ... er ... heir apparent to Disney's fairy tale crown

Jim Hill

I have been writing professionally about The Walt Disney Company for over 25 years now. Which is why I can tell you what it felt like to be in a theater on November 17, 1989. Which was the night that " The Little Mermaid " was first released to theaters. As the credits rolled, I remember turning...

on30 Sep 2010
Blog Post: Disney’s “Prince of Persia” ends well. But is that really enough?

Jim Hill

All’s well that ends well. Or so says William Shakespeare and/or John Heywood . But it’s not Heywood that we’re talking about today. But – rather – Hollywood. And after having watched Disney’s “ Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ,” I’m now wondering if it’s actually okay to overlook the first 100 minutes...

on28 May 2010
Blog Post: How do you carve “Snow White” ‘s Hag and Evil Queen out of clay?

Jim Hill

David Kracov remembers the night that he decided to quit working in animation. “A bunch of my friends took me out to Astroburger . And while we were eating, Brad Bird tried to talk me out of quitting. Brad said that he wanted me to come work with him on this new movie he wanted to make. Which was about...

on4 May 2010
Blog Post: Toon Tuesday : Will Disney Animation's latest "Rapunzel" rescue attempt have a negative impact on "Bolt" 's debut ?

Jim Hill

By now, I'm sure that you're heard that Glen Keane is no longer the co-director of "Rapunzel." That he and Dean Wellins will be turning the reins over to Byron Howard & Nathan Greno , who were the co-director and head of story on " Bolt " respectively. To be honest, this change couldn't have come...

on14 Oct 2008
Blog Post: Animation fans prematurely shoot off their mouths about "Bolt"

Jim Hill

How many of you know the story of the blind men and the elephant ? I bring up this ancient Indian fable because ... Well ... I have to admit that I was highly amused by what happened last Wednesday. When the on-line animation community went completely bananas over those "Bolt" pre-release images . Copyright...

on1 Jan 2008
Blog Post: "To Infinity and Beyond!" is an entertaining look back at Pixar's first two decades

Jim Hill

There's this genuinely eerie passage in Karen Paik 's " To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios " ( Chronicle Books , November 2007), which talks about how a single book basically changed the course of John Lasseter 's life. In ninth grade, Lasseter was searching the art section...

on28 Nov 2007

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Blog Post: Terrific "Tangled" is the hair ... er ... heir apparent to Disney's fairy tale crown

Blog Post: Disney’s “Prince of Persia” ends well. But is that really enough?

Blog Post: How do you carve “Snow White” ‘s Hag and Evil Queen out of clay?

Blog Post: Toon Tuesday : Will Disney Animation's latest "Rapunzel" rescue attempt have a negative impact on "Bolt" 's debut ?

Blog Post: Animation fans prematurely shoot off their mouths about "Bolt"

Blog Post: "To Infinity and Beyond!" is an entertaining look back at Pixar's first two decades