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By Michael - June 12th, 2010
First, if you haven’t seen it already, go watch the new trailer for Rapunzel.
For years I’ve worried that executives and marketing slobs were ruining Disney animation. Now I’m starting to worry that they already have.
Has the vast studio bureaucracy – ranks upon ranks of Vice Presidents and marketing mavens – really salted [...]
By Michael - February 13th, 2010
Well, I didn’t intend for this week to become the animation apocalypse, but something seems to really be poking the hornets’ nest in Burbank and Emeryville. Snow Queen is back on the shelf, newt is dead, Rapunzel has been ridiculously rebranded as Tangled, and King of the Elves is either in turnaround or abandoned [...]
By Michael - February 12th, 2010
I know that I stumbled upon this possibility last December, but I didn’t think they’d be absurd enough to do it. It’s late-era Eisner all over again. Sure, the title doesn’t matter if the film has the goods on screen, but I had hoped the era of Disney running away from its own shadow [...]
By Michael - February 12th, 2010
What. the. eff. is. going. on. at. Disney?
By Michael - February 3rd, 2010
Last December, we pointed out that on the announcement of the 2010 slate from Walt Disney Pictures, the upcoming animated feature Rapunzel was listed as a “working title.” This squared with a couple of comments I had seen on animation-related blogs; most noticeably, the comments section of the Animation Guild’s blog featured speculation [...]
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Four Decades of Magic

Essays about the first forty years of Walt Disney World, including two pieces by yours truly. Available in print and for Kindle.
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