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The Hub Celebrates Turkey Day with the Muppets
Since Disney’s The Muppets movie is on everyone’s radar this holiday season, The Hub has planned a special Thanksgiving marathon featuring Jim Henson’s beloved characters. On November 24, the channel will air three feature films starring Kermit, Miss Piggy and company, beginning at 1 p.m. with Muppet Treasure Island (1996). [...]
YouTube Seals Disney Deal
Disney Interactive and YouTube (part of the Google juggernaut) have announced a collaborative agreement to create co-branded, family-friendly video destinations, Variety reports. The entertainment behemoths will utilize Disney produced content, plus family fare already available on YouTube.com, along with a blend of current Disney Interactive original series, select Disney Channel [...]
‘Pooh,’ ‘Cars 2′ Return to Big Screen at El Capitan
Disney has scheduled a return engagement in Hollywood for two of its summer releases: Winnie the Pooh and Cars 2. The features will begin playing at the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard starting this Friday, Nov. 4, and continuing through Nov. 20. Screenings of Pooh will include the short [...]
Disney-Pixar’s Lasseter Gets Star on the Walk of Fame
Fans can finally walk all over John Lasseter — and he’s thrilled about it. The creative head of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, as well as the director of Toy Story 1 and 2, A Bug’s Life and Cars 1 and 2, received Tuesday a star on the Hollywood [...]
‘Cars 2′ Discs Ready to Roll on Home
Cars 2 crosses the home video finish line this week, bringing the most-recent feature from Pixar home in multiple formats and with plenty of extras. The first Pixar film to be released in the 3D Blu-ray format, Cars 2 (Disney-Pixar, $39.99 Blu-ray-DVD combo pack, $39.99 two-disc DVD, $49.99 five-disc Blu-ray [...]
‘Phineas and Ferb’ Movie Adds ‘Toy Story 3′ Scribe Micheal Arndt
Disney has hired Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt, who wrote Toy Story 3 for Pixar, to polish its script for a movie version of its hit animated series Phineas and Ferb, reports say. Arndt, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay to Little Miss Sunshine, will do a draft of [...]
DreamWorks Animation Extends Globe’s Contract
DreamWorks Animation has extended the employment contract of chief marketing officer Anne Globe. She will continue to have responsibility for all global marketing activity, including corporate brand building, as well as theatrical, TV and ancillary marketing efforts for all of DreamWorks Animation’s properties through Jan. 1, 2014. “Her creativity, dedication [...]
Disney Unveils Images from Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’
When he’s not designing Thanksgiving parade floats or displaying his art at museums, Tim Burton is also directing movies. His 2012 black-and-white feature Frankenweenie is a full-length version of a short he directed in 1984, about a boy who brings his dog back to life, a la Dr. Frankenstein, after [...]
Ollie Johnston: Even ‘Old Men’ Need a Lift!
Those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s became familiar with the smiling, warm fellow who chatted with us over the airwaves every Sunday evening on The Wonderful World of Disney. But as I’m sure everyone knows by now, that avuncular quality was only one facet of [...]
iPad Star Swampy to Star in Disney Web Toon
Watch out Wallygator, there’s a new animated alligator in town! Swampy, the star of Disney’s iPhone and iPad game Where’s My Water will be starring in a 12-episode animated show on Disney.com according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 3-4 minute weekly series will get a sneak peek in December and [...]
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Universal has released the first clip from Illumination’s eagerly anticipated...
