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101… Damnations?

Hellfire and brimstone are topics not usually associated with Walt Disney Productions.

– Walt Disney Productions, 1981

No, that title is not me being clever and kind of inappropriate. It’s Disney being kind of inappropriate!

I’ve been waiting to show this one to you for a while. This fascinating article appeared in the […]

Heading South

For about a week now I’ve been immersed in the world of 1941 thanks to J.B. Kaufman’s excellent new book South of the Border with Disney: Walt Disney and the Good Neighbor Program 1941-1948. I had hoped to have a full interview ready by today, when the book arrives in stores, but my little […]

Oh Noes! Teh Disney Studios Failz!!1!

There must be some weird sort of Hollywood law of thermodynamics at work today. For each suspect Disney executive that retires, another gets promoted. So it happened that Rich Ross, president of Disney Channels Worldwide, was tapped to replace the fired Dick Cook as head of the Walt Disney Studios.

Let’s be clear. Ross has […]

Blindsided: Disney Studios Head Resigns

Just a week after addressing fans at the D23 Expo, Dick Cook, the chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, has resigned. This comes as something of a shock; Cook has been at Disney for 38 years, starting as a ride operator at Disneyland. According to Nikki Finke, the resignation was less than voluntary; the L.A. […]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Eff you, Zemeckis. You and your dead-eyed, zombie troupe, uncanny valley miasmas.

And shame on Apple Corps, although I’m not surprised.

The original Yellow Submarine isn’t an untouchable classic, but it does have some interesting animation. If Pixar or Disney Feature Animation, or even some ambitious independent studio, was doing this I’d be ecstatic. […]