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By Michael - December 21st, 2007  
Just a brief post to remind everyone that Walt Disney Pictures releases National Treasure: Book of Secrets today on 3,832 screens nationwide (the film is currently lighting up Rotten Tomatoes with a 35% freshness rating). The upside of all this is that before each screening will be shown the first fruits of Disney’s brand spanking new shorts division, How To Hook Up Your Home Theater. The Goofy-starring short and the shorts program as a whole have been discussed here in a previous post. The advance word on the short is uniformly fantastic – check it out if you can handle a little Nicholas Cage action.
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By Michael - December 19th, 2007 WDW Magic has posted an image from the Disney-MGM Studios showing that the park’s logo has been removed from the gateway leading to the courtyard in front of the Animation building. This is, of course, in preparation for the park’s January transition to “Disney’s Hollywood Studios”. Despite my antipathy for this park, I can’t help being a little sad.
When I was in Florida last week I wanted to swing by the Studios and pick up some last-chance merchandise with the Disney-MGM logo on it. Sadly, all the shirts I could find had the Power Rangers or something equally ridiculous on them so that wound up being a wash. Still, I wish I had picked up something.
Note: This post would have featured the delightfully ironic and hilarious title “End of an Error” save for the fact that I’m not sold on the name change itself, and the fact that they’re just changing the name instead of bulldozing half the park and starting over. So I’ll have to save the fruits of my rapier wit for some other day…
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By Michael - December 18th, 2007 Pixar has released a new, exclusive trailer on MySpace (you know how the kids today love the MySpace) and it’s … well … see for yourself. This film is going to be absolutely ginormous. It might also drive me to conniptions from having to wait to see it. Anyway, take a look…
UPDATE: Watch the trailer in higher definition at Rotten Tomatoes.
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By Michael - December 15th, 2007 Well, we’re back from the World so regular posting should recommence soon. Sorry for the media blackout; it was a hectic week leading up to departure and there was no time for blogging once there. It was an interesting trip, though, so we have lots to talk about. Time to get to work…
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By Michael - December 4th, 2007 Up
June 12th, 2009 – dir. Pete Docter
 This unconventional tale from the director of Monsters, Inc. is the story of a 70 year old man (inspired, it’s been said, by Disney animation legend Joe Grant) who teams up with an inexperienced wilderness ranger to fight “beasts and villains.” Whatever you say, Pete!
The following description appeared in a Time Magazine article in June 2007:
Pete Docter, the Pixar lifer who made Monsters, Inc., and co-director Bob Peterson are preparing this “coming-of-old-age story” about a seventysomething guy who lives in a house that “looks like your grandparents’ house smelled.” He befriends a clueless young Wilderness Ranger and gets into lots of alter kocker altercations. Says Pixar: “Our hero travels the globe, fights beasts and villains and eats dinner at 3:30 in the afternoon.”
Crew: Pete Docter – Director, Bob Peterson – Co-Director, Ronnie Del Carmen – Screenplay
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