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Where Disney failed, Studio Ponoc succeeds with its debut animated feature, “Mary and The Witch’s Flower”
Jim Hill
If things had gone a little different at Walt Disney Animation Studios back in the early 1980s, it wouldn’t have been J.K. Rowling who first introduced the world to the idea of a school that then specialized in teaching wizardry and witchcraft. But rather, it would have been another English author...
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17 Jan 2018
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As "Baymax Returns" proves, Happy Endings get harder to come by as Walt Disney Animation Studios productions move from the big screen to television
Jim Hill
Whatever happened to "Happily Ever After" ? It used to be - when a Walt Disney Animation Studios production came to a close - you could count on that story being neatly tied up. With the villain being vanquished and the hero & heroine getting hitched. But now that a number of the more recent...
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17 Oct 2017
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Ernie Sabella shares his 25-year history of voicing Pumbaa the warthog for Disney's "The Lion King"
Jim Hill
So how exactly did Ernie Sabella wind up with " ... the greatest gig of my life" (i.e., being cast as the voice of Pumbaa the warthog in Disney's "The Lion King") ? To hear this Broadway veteran talk, it was all because Nathan Lane doesn't like to work alone. "In early...
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4 Oct 2017
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The longish path that "Catch My Breath," Paul Briggs' picture book took to be published by Disney Hyperion
Jim Hill
How long can you hold your breath? I ask this question because Paul Briggs wound up holding his "Breath" (i.e., "Catch My Breath," that charming picture book which Briggs wrote & illustrated. This is also the 48-page hardcover that Disney Hyperion sent out into stores late last...
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3 Oct 2017
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"Ralph Wrecks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2" to feature brutally funny send-up of the Disney Princesses
Jim Hill
Back when he was promoting "Zootopia" 's theatrical release, screenwriter Phil Johnston shared this great behind-the-scenes story about one of the more memorable / infamous moments from that 2016 Walt Disney Animation Studios production. You know the scene that I'm talking about. The...
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16 Jul 2017
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Artist Showcase program encourages the creation of new children’s books
Jim Hill
The creative legacies of Mary Blair & Bill Peet extend far beyond the time that these two spent at the Mouse House. And that is largely because – in addition to all the classic animated films & shorts that these Disney Legends contributed to – Mary & Bill also worked on children’s...
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26 Apr 2017
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How Baby Moana went from being a test subject to a scene stealer in Walt Disney Animation Studio's latest hit
Jim Hill
It's that moment in " Moana " where most audience members go from passively viewing this motion picture to being swept up in the magic & the wonder of this Walt Disney Animation Studios production. Which sequence am I talking about? It's right after the toddler version of this film's...
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17 Apr 2017
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The Walt Disney Family Museum celebrates the on-going artistry of animation master Andreas Deja
Jim Hill
Though Andreas Deja may not be working for Walt Disney Animation Studios right now, don't make the mistake of thinking that this master animator is retired. "That's why I react funny when people ask me 'So how's retired life treating you?,'" Andrea revealed during a recent...
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5 Apr 2017
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What with "The Boss Baby" paying tribute to "Beauty & the Beast," are Disney & DreamWorks Animation now finally declaring a truce?
Jim Hill
Times certainly have changed in Toontown. 20 years ago, this was a particularly competitive & cutthroat corner of Hollywood. Take - for example - the extraordinary lengths that Disney went to back in November of 1997 in order to maintain its dominance in feature animation. To deliberately undermine...
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21 Mar 2017
Blog Post:
How relocating to a leaky old warehouse made rebooting Disney's smart, subversive "Zootopia" so much easier
Jim Hill
It was the one-two punch that would have felled a lesser group of filmmakers. Back in November of 2014, the " Zootopia " story team had just realized that - after 3+ years of developing this project for Walt Disney Animation Studios - they were going to have to change this movie's protagonist...
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17 Feb 2017
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