Contribute to Our Research
|
By Michael - February 16th, 2010 Rick Heinrichs and Tim Burton with some of the characters from “Vincent” (Disney)
With Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland approaching theaters, it’s good to remember where it all started for Burton – right at the Disney Studios in the early 1980s, alongside a number of talented but underutilized young animators.
The above picture, which shows […]
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 depending […]
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 was […]
By Michael - February 12th, 2010 What. the. eff. is. going. on. at. Disney?
Related Posts…Hmm…Tangled Up In GreenMama Said There’d Be Days Like This…And Yeah, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb
By Michael - February 10th, 2010 Well, the bodies sure are stacking up.
First, King of the Elves gets whacked. The computer-animated fantasy based on a short story by Philip K. Dick would have been released in 2012.
Then, in all the marketing-driven panic following Princess and the Frog‘s lukewarm box office, Disney shelves the long-anticipated and traditionally animated The Snow […]
|
The Progress City Primer
From the Progress City archives comes this collection of 33 tall tales and true from Disney history. Available in paperback, hardback, and ebook formats.
|
Recent Comments