From Deadline.com: Turns out the Walt Disney Company really does own the rights to the Marvel characters created by Stan Lee, at least according to a federal judge today. U.S. District Judge William J. Martinez Thursday granted with prejudice Disney’s motion to dismiss Stan Lee Media’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit superhero copyright suit. In his 11-page order […]
Collider reports that Disney Animation has announced the release dates for eight new Pixar animated features starting in 2016 through 2018. As you look at the list below, you’ll correctly note that the one-time animation powerhouse has created a marketing nightmare by entitling all of their new features “untitled.” And I thought “Cars” as a […]
Pixar’s Merida character from the feature film Brave is officially a Disney Princess, but that created a controversy when Disney debuted a 2D image of the new princess. The Disney princess makeover removed the bow and arrow, tamed her hair and slimmed her figure. She also sports a “come hither” look according to Brenda Chapman, […]
I’m a bit late posting this, but it’s an interesting look at how Disney was able to buy LucasFilm. The lack of micromanaging of Marvel and Pixar by Disney headquarters was the key that allowed George Lucas the peace of mind to turn over control of his empire to Disney. Lucas had paid close attention […]
Faster than Millennium Falcon can do the Kessel Run, the social internet started posting memes about yesterday’s announcement that Disney had purchased Lucas Film and with it the Star Wars franchise. Below are some of the funnier ones I found through Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.
I didn’t see this one coming.From ABC News: The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction valued at $4.05 billion. Lucasfilm is 100 percent owned by Lucasfilm chairman and founder, George Lucas. Under the agreement and based on the closing price […]
Comic Book Resources’s Robot 6 has a good write-up about the latest legal drama surrounding Stan Lee Media who has now sued Disney for $5.5 billion as well as the history of the company’s legal battles. The complaint, filed in federal court in Colorado and first reported by Deadline, has its roots in Marvel’s 1998 […]
The British film archive discovered an episode of “Hungry Hobos” – an animation short by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks dated 1927. It features the Oswald character which is considered by most to be the prototype of Mickey Mouse.Robert Dewar, commercial director of Huntley Film Archives, one of Britain’s biggest independent film libraries, said he […]
Disney/Pixar will be entering submissions into this year’s Annie Awards. Last year, they “withdrew its support” for the annual awards sponsored by the International Animated Film Society to protest the rules and judging procedures. Apparently enough changes were made in the procedures that the animation studio has reversed course.From TheWrap.comAt this year’s awards show, DreamWorks […]
Worth 25 minutes of your time today.Not a too shabby life.
A couple of weeks ago I posted a trailer for Cars 2 and noted, “My stomach knotted up after watching this trailer ? and not in the good way.”IGN has interviewed John Lasseter, Disney and Pixar Chief Creative Officer and director of Cars 2, and asked why the spy theme (among other questions). GN: What […]
Pixar’s feature film “Brave” is slated for next summer release. EW.com has posted the first look at some of the concept art for the project. This is how EW describes the movie:Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen […]
Reuters reports that Robert Zemeckis’ $150 million-budgeted “Mars Needs Moms” opening weekend flop was the last straw in a project to remake The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” and that Disney has pulled its support. The plan was to use 16 Beatles songs in the film, which was to employ motion-capture technology similar to that used in […]
Hector over at The Animation Blog found this video of some early storyboarding of Monsters Inc. 2 that Disney was doing before Pixar was purchased and successfully killed production on the movie.Spoiler – Scully and Mike go back to Boo’s room and find another person in the bed. Is it just me or does the […]
A 1935 animation cel featuring Mickey Mouse in The Band Concert will be auctioned off on February 24-25. The animation art is estimated t be worth over $100,000. It is thought to be the only production setup in existence from the first Mickey cartoon that features Mickey and the entire band.“This cel is, in many […]