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Blog Post: “The Men Who Would Be King” recalls the bad old days when Disney, DreamWorks & Pixar used to brawl

Jim Hill

Given that we now live in the age of DreamWorks 3.0 , with Walt Disney Studios distributing the films that Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider will soon be producing, it’s kind of hard to remember the bad old days. When Jeffery Katzenberg was … … out to deplete Disney’s talent pool. He flattered Disney...

on12 May 2010
Blog Post: Volume 9 of the “Walt’s People” series features some great behind-the-scenes stories

Jim Hill

Good God. Are we really already be up to Volume 9 in the “Walt’s People” series? I can recall when Disney Historian Didier Ghez initially proposed these books (which – if I’m remembering correctly – was sometime back during the Pleistocene Epoch) that would collect & then reprint the very best Mouse...

on5 May 2010
Blog Post: "Anything Can Happen If You Let It" chronicles Mary Poppins' journey from page to stage

Jim Hill

Do you want the Disneyana fan on your holiday shopping list to have a very "Mary" Christmas? Then be sure and pick them up a copy of Brian Sibley & Michael Lassell's " Mary Poppins: Anything Can Happen If You Let It " (Disney Editions, December 2007). Subtitled "The Story Behind the Journey from...

on18 Dec 2007
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: “The Men Who Would Be King” recalls the bad old days when Disney, DreamWorks & Pixar used to brawl

Blog Post: Volume 9 of the “Walt’s People” series features some great behind-the-scenes stories

Blog Post: "Anything Can Happen If You Let It" chronicles Mary Poppins' journey from page to stage

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