BURBANK, Calif. and SHANGHAI, Nov. 22 -- The Walt Disney Company in China today announced the start of production on its third local co-production project in just two years, "Disney High School Musical: China." Working with local partners Sha...
BURBANK, Calif. and SHANGHAI, Nov. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Walt Disney Company in China today announced the start of production on its third local co-production project in just two years, "Disney High School Musical: China." Working with local partners Shanghai Media Group (SMG) and Huayi Brothers Media Corporation, the movie is planned for cinematic release in summer 2010.
Tyra Banks sent three girls and their moms to Walt Disney World this week. It was the first visit to the Orlando theme park for the children. The supermodel popped in last night to celebrate when the children attended a...
According to Eugene Register-Guard , the University of Oregon students who produced and appear in this video are in trouble. No, not for making a crap video. The marketing arm of the UO athletic department asked the students to take it down earlier this week because the Duck mascot appears repeatedly in it, and the rights to the mascot are a copyright of the Walt Disney Co. -- an agreement between...
Again . The main evidence for Walt's racial insensitivity ... is "Song of the South," his 1946 combination of live action and animation based on the Southern folk tales of Joel Chandler Harris, known as Uncle Remus, which, though set in the Reconstruction era, makes the black former slaves seem dependent upon and excessively grateful to their former owners. From any modern racial perspective,...
Saturday evening is a great time for a golden age short story post, and this all-ages classic is provided courtesy of Don "Zu-Gogo" Falkos. I've selected this six-pager from a file of Dell's long-running Four Color series. "Old MacDonald Duck" is written and illustrated by Jack Hannah and was originally published in Four Color #13 (Walt Disney's The Reluctant Dragon) in 1941. Enjoy!...
The XX will be performing tonight at the Henry Fonda Music Box | Photo by Terryfy via the XX's Myspace Our Pick: Friendly Fires, The XX, Holly Miranda @ Henry Fonda Music Box Tonight Maine-bred folk singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne will be continuing a three-night stint at the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown with LAist favorite, Illinois-based alternative country singer-songwriter Lissie . As mentioned...
Abigail Disney, niece of entertainment legend Walt Disney, will visit Utica today for a private 1:30 p.m. screening of her award-winning documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.”
In July of 1955, Disney opened its first theme park in Anaheim, California. In 1971, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida, promising to be even bigger and better than its predecessor. In 1983, Disney Hong Kong became a huge success, even though the weather wasn’t as nice in this new, foreign market. Following the [...]
Robert Niles tells newsrooms what they need to do to stay relevant in his Online Journalism Review piece, Walt Disney vs. the news industry: How bad management is killing newspapers and their websites. The audience doesn't care about saving newsroom jobs or keeping journalists in journalism. Nor should it. The people ...
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- On Saturday, November 14, 2009, the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group re-opened the "Courtyard Café" for the first time since Hurricane Katrina as part of a four month partnership with the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA.) The opening coincides with the "Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio" exhibition showing at NOMA...
As part of ABC Family’s annual 25 Days Of Christmas programming, the network is set to host Walt Disney Pictures Presents Pixar Short Films, a collection of 20 of the company’s computer animated cartoons airing together as a two-hour event for the first time on television. A press release and information on all films in [...]
To say that Orlando has a little bit of drawing power could be seen as a bit of an understatement. In fact, Orlando is one of the world's best known resort destinations and has millions of visitors every year. Everyone the major tourist draws that have made Orlando as famous as it is. Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and the like have supplied the Orlando area with an economy that hard to match....