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Grab your tiaras & doubloons For Disney Junior Live On Tour
Paul Perrello
Avast, me hearties ! Walking the plank off the television screen and into an arena near you, look for some popular Disney Junior characters to make a stop in your hometown. Jake and the Never Land Pirates and Sofia the First will be hitting the road starting this summer as Feld Entertainment announces...
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16 May 2013
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Disney Legends Richard M. Sherman and Alan Menken for a once-in-a-lifetime concert
Jim Hill
For one night only, two of the world’s most celebrated songwriters and composers will take to the stage for “Richard M. Sherman and Alan Menken: The Disney Songbook.” The concert will take place at the D23 Expo 2013 at the Anaheim Convention Center in the D23 Expo Arena on Saturday...
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16 May 2013
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Mike & Sulley join the long parade of Pixar & Disney stars who "Got Milk ?"
Jim Hill
So what's the drink of choice in Monstropolis these days? Milk, of course. And if the college-aged versions of James P. Sullivan & Mike Wazowski are to be believed, milk doesn't just do the human body good. It also does wonders for a growing monster. Giving Sulley a thicker coat of fur and...
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15 May 2013
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"Moving Innovation" is a ridiculously entertaining & informative look back at the history of computer animation
Jim Hill
"Discover a new world with Epic the Movie by Blue Sky Studios , a brand-new 3D animated film from the people who brought you Ice Age ." That's the message that the folks who work in promotions at 20th Century Fox have been hammering home for the past few weeks. As they try & make sure...
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13 May 2013
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Knott's Berry Farm freshens its flume with a multi-million dollar redo of Timber Mountain Log Ride
Jim Hill
It's one of the hard realities of the theme park business. You may have this absolutely killer concept for a new attraction in your head. But when you factor in the size of the budget that you've been handed coupled with the amount of time that you have left to actually construct this ride, sometimes...
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29 Apr 2013
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Huffington Post -- Is Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Get A Horse!" something old, something new or something inbetween?
Jim Hill
Toon fans and film historians just don't know what to make of Walt Disney Animation Studios ' " Get a Horse! " There's a real air of mystery surrounding this animated short. The fact that it's done in black-and-white, features rubber-hose, pie-eyed versions of classic Disney...
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28 Apr 2013
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Monstrous makeover: How Pixar artists made Mike & Sulley look more youthful in "Monsters University"
Jim Hill
So how exactly do you make an eyeball look like it's 18 years old? Copyright Disney Pixar. All rights reserved That was the challenge that Ricky Nierva faced on " Monsters University ." As the art director / production designer of Pixar's first-ever prequel, Nierva (working closely...
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27 Apr 2013
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Huffington Post -- Director Jeff Calhoun has nothing to "Hyde" when it comes to Disney's "Newsies"
Jim Hill
You'd think -- what with getting the revival of "Jekyll & Hyde" ready for its 13 week-long, limited engagement at the Marquis Theatre -- that director Jeff Calhoun wouldn't have any time left for his other Broadway show, Disney's "Newsies ." But that's where you'd...
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23 Apr 2013
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Video: See how 'Disney Dreams!' in Disneyland Paris was created then watch the show in its entirety
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23 Apr 2013
Blog Post:
Why For does Disney think that "No Nudes is Good News"
Jim Hill
Earlier this week, Paul T. sent me an e-mail with an image attached that -- I'm sure -- will titillate a certain segment of the Disney fan community. Jim, Check out what I found on an animation art auction cite!! It's a bare-ass Ariel!! Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved Well...
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22 Apr 2013
Blog Post:
Want to show that you actually care about what just happened in Boston? Make plans now to visit Beantown later this year
Jim Hill
It's been 36 hours or so now since those bombings happened at the finish line of the Boston Marathon . And a lot of us are feeling ... Well, kind of helpless. We wonder what we can do to show our support. Let the people of Boston know that we're solidly in their corner. That we genuinely care...
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17 Apr 2013
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"Disney U" features many informative & hilarious stories about how things really work behind-the-scenes at the Mouse House
Jim Hill
Did you need a distraction from all of the sad news coming out of Boston tonight? I know that I do. Which is why -- rather than watch that footage of the explosion at the marathon's line yet again -- I picked up a copy of Doug Lipp 's terrific tome, " Disney U: How Disney University develops...
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15 Apr 2013
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Pixar Animation Studios shows its school spirit at "Monsters University" press day
Jim Hill
So how was your Tuesday? Me? I wound up getting schooled on Pixar 's next full length animated feature, " Monsters University ." Photo by Jim Hill Early yesterday morning, I flew out to San Francisco to take part in a Press Day for this "Monsters, Inc." prequel. And I'll say...
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10 Apr 2013
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Now it's time to say good-bye: Remembering Annette Funicello (1942 - 2013)
Howard Green
Annette Funicello , long-time Disney and Beach Party star, passed away on Monday April 8 at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, CA, at the age of 70. She died peacefully from complications due to Multiple Sclerosis, a disease she battled for over 25 years. Beloved by television viewers in the 50s...
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8 Apr 2013
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My Disney Experience delays are having a domino effect on several Magic Kingdom projects
Jim Hill
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray." This oft-quoted line from Robert Burns ' 1785 poem applies to an awful lot of aspects of modern day life. But none more so than the work that's recently been done in & around WDW 's Magic Kingdom Park . Take -- for example...
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7 Apr 2013
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Disneyland Paris makes its nighttime spectacular even more magical by adding "Brave" & "Lion King" -themed scenes to Disney Dreams!
Andrea Monti
One really has to tip their colorful, blinking mouse ears to the Disneyland Paris Creative Entertainment team. Between those two new scenes that were just added to the Disney Dreams! nighttime spectacular and that "Glow with the Show" technology which made its international debut this past...
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28 Mar 2013
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Remembering Legendary Disney film editor Norman "Stormy" Palmer (1918 - 2013)
Howard Green
Veteran Disney film editor Norman "Stormy" Palmer passed away this past Saturday, March 23rd at his home in Northridge, California from age-related natural causes. He was 94 years old. Palmer worked at the Walt Disney Studios for 45 years, and became closely associated with the acclaimed series...
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28 Mar 2013
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Huffington Post -- Vocal cast for Disney's "Planes" includes a "Top Gun" cameo, top names from stand-up comedy
Jim Hill
Huffington Post -- Vocal cast for Disney's "Planes" includes a "Top Gun" cameo, top names from stand-up comedy So how did Klay Hall wind up as director of Disney's "Planes" ? First there was this train derailment ... Or should I say: First an earlier project that...
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27 Mar 2013
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Toon Tuesday: It's a darn shame that Disney doesn't have any new hand-drawn animated features in the works
Floyd Norman
"We currently have no traditional hand-drawn animated motion pictures in production or development." Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved I'm paraphrasing what Disney CEO Robert Iger said at the recent shareholders meeting in Phoenix, AZ . But whether he knew it or not...
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26 Mar 2013
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Are Disney's new interactive queues actually encouraging theme park Guests to be more destructive?
Jim Hill
Figment's Friend sent me a rather anxious e-mail last week. This JHM reader wanted to share a bit of news coming out of WDW's Magic Kingdom which had really upset him: Did you see what happened to that portrait of Tony Baxter which was hung in the new interactive queue of Big Thunder Mountain...
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25 Mar 2013
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