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Blog Post: Hollywood hypes what it hopes will be its 2011 & 2012 hits at the Licensing International Expo

Jim Hill

Welcome to Las Vegas. Where the 2010 Licensing International Expo is just winding down. Just like last year, before attendees could enter the Mandalay Bay Convention Center , they first had to walk through this gauntlet of colorful banners which trumpeted all of The Walt Disney Company’s key brands and...

on10 Jun 2010
Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch: “Toy Story 3” aims to be less like Fredo & more like Frodo

Jim Hill

Let’s start with the obvious question: Is Lee Unkrich concerned that he’s going to be the guy who breaks Pixar’s now-10-pictures-long winning streak? When I got to talk with the director of “ Toy Story 3 ” as part of a roundtable session at Comic-Con last year, Lee admitted that – with each new hit that...

on10 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: Why For did Disney wind up giving Maleficent the bird

Jim Hill

Trina P. wrote in to say: Thanks for sharing those pictures from the Tim Burton exhibition at the MoMA . I’m a huge Burton fan and had wanted to get down to NYC while that exhibit was there, but never found the time. I noticed that you had a lot of pictures from Tim Burton movies that never got made...

on30 Apr 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

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Blog Post: Hollywood hypes what it hopes will be its 2011 & 2012 hits at the Licensing International Expo

Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch: “Toy Story 3” aims to be less like Fredo & more like Frodo

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

Blog Post: Why For did Disney wind up giving Maleficent the bird

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