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June 9, 2009 9:45 am
Here’s an early heads up, The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will host a special installation of Disney animation art on November 15th to tie-in with the release of The Princess And The Frog. Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio will present over 600 pieces of original production art, displayed in separate rooms dedicated exclusively to Silly Symphonies, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Princess and the Frog. This special exhibit will only be in New Orleans from Nov 15 to March 15, 2010 (there will be a fundraising gala on Saturday evening, November 14th). For more information check the NOMA website. 14 Comments » posted in Disney 
June 8, 2009 3:15 pm
A “self-propelled action bed” from a company called “Horsman”? Discuss. (Thanks, Dave Pruiksma) 28 Comments » posted in Bad Ideas, Disney
June 6, 2009 3:00 am
NPR.org posted these thoughtful two-cents from a female Pixar viewer. Linda Holmes writes: “Of the ten movies you’ve released so far, ten of them have central characters who are boys or men, or who are anthropomorphized animals or robots or bugs who are voiced by and imagined as boys or men. These movies feature women and girls to varying degrees — The Incredibles, in particular — but the story is never “a girl and the things that happen to her,” the way it’s “a boy and what happens to him.” While you’re checking in at NPR, don’t miss the interview with Pete Docter recently broadcast on Fresh Air. Docter talks about UP and animation in general. Good stuff. Here’s the link. (Thanks, John Paul Cassidy and PJ) 129 Comments » posted in Disney
June 2, 2009 11:00 am
Some disappointing news out of the Licensing Expo now going on in Las Vegas. Disney has officially announced their next hand-drawn animated theatrical: a new Winnie the Pooh movie. The new Pooh feature is planned for release in spring 2011. This is a real let down for me. I was hoping the The Princess and the Frog was the starting point for a new era of original hand drawn masterpieces. Greenlighting a new Pooh is an understandable commercial business decision, but it only seems to reinforce the stereotype of what hand drawn cartoons have become: a babysitter – and it’s a regression of the medium’s true potential. Disney needs not only to reclaim its mastery of this art form, but to push it forward. I fail to see how Pooh will accomplish this. However, if it keeps artists employed while more ambitious projects are developed, that could be a good thing. And who’s to say a good Winnie the Pooh film can’t be created? The studio also announced today plans to “pump more enthusiasm into the world’s largest licensed character franchise: Mickey Mouse.” “That effort, said consumer products chairman Andy Mooney, could include classic footage of an animated Mickey mashed up with contemporary Disney properties, with the resulting creations running on the Disney Channel. “Through extensive research with kids, we found they actually love the original Mickey Mouse property,” Mooney said. Yeah, mashing classic Mickey cartoons into Hannah Montana is exactly what kids want. Hoo-boy! 87 Comments » posted in Disney
May 31, 2009 12:30 am
I guess this is slightly O.T. as the film referenced here is a live action short. I was at a horror movie convention in Burbank yesterday (Monsterpalooza ‘09) and found this piece (above) in a box of cheap lobby cards. I couldn’t take my eyes off it, nor could I couldn’t stop laughing at it. This has to be the worst Disney poster/ad art/promotional painting I’ve ever seen! It looks like a Bruce McCall-National Lampoon spoof – but it’s the real thing. It’s so stupid looking, so God-awful, even the logo/typeface is so boring; I can’t believe they thought this would be an effective come-on to a film, even a short. I bought it for $2. Is this the worst poster Walt Disney’s name was associated with? I don’t mean worst film… I mean, of all the films Walt produced in his lifetime, was this the lamest movie poster to bear (no pun intended) his name? If not, do you have a better candidate? UPDATE: Kevin Kidney posted a follow up on his blog, with a full image of the original painting used in this poster. 38 Comments » posted in Disney
May 29, 2009 12:00 pm
Pixar’s UP opens today. I gave you my opinion last week – what is yours? Please comment below only if you’ve seen the film. 145 Comments » posted in Disney, Feature Film
May 29, 2009 9:33 am
Attached to today’s release of Up is the teaser trailer for Toy Story 3. I love how they squeezed the entire cast (and their voices) into it. UPDATE: We’ve refreshed the link. If it doesn’t work, go see it today with UP and give us your comments. (Thanks, Iain Robbins) 31 Comments » posted in Disney
May 26, 2009 11:00 am
Animator Hans Perk (whose wonderful Disney-centric blog is an essential read) has just posted a very rare find: a 1932 Disney party invitation to celebrate the switch in studio distribution from Columbia Pictures to United Artists. Hans points out that the invite is written by “Mickey” himself and suggests to current writers for the Mouse that “This is how Mickey should talk.” I agree. Check it out on A. Film L.A.. |
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