Who says animation can’t be sexy? These alternative versions of famous Disney women are pretty interesting. On her website Amy Mebberson shows a couple of digital drawings of Disney princesses in another spotlight. Some creations look better than the other, however the retro pinup look generally works out fine.
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Category: Disney, Entertainment
Sometimes things can go wrong during a musical, as Mrs. Potts from Beauty and The Beast in Walt Disney World experienced at first hand.
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Category: Disney, Entertainment, Amusement Park
The website of Buy N Large, the notorious store from the new Pixar movie Wall-E, is active. The information is extremely broad, shocking and funny. I’m already reading the site for a long time and still haven’t seen everything. The funniest parts are the hidden references to everything that has got something to do with Pixar.
The overall impression however is that Buy N Large Company offers the most disgusting future perspective for mankind. Money is everything and everything is money. Catchphrases like “BNL Family Values - Because the family that pays together, stays together” can be found throughout the website. The company has got an “almost complete” monopoly in the media, the weather, politics and even education. Critics are seen as souls that still need to be won over. In short, the whole world is a mess.
So what can you buy there? Just everything: from a privatised weather system, space travels to a Wend-E (not to be mistaken with a Wendy 
). This magnificent device gathers all your clothes and calculates the specific dirtiness per item. If necessary it washes, dries and irons the clothes, after which it will be nicely folded and put away in the closet.
Wall-E promises to be an interesting movie with relentless criticism on the current consumption society. If you click on “Read More” you will find the (BNL Production) movie poster for “Annual Report 2″ with some nice easter eggs. (Read more…)
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On the Comic Con convention in San Diego Pixar handed out some fantastic postcards with a fifties look from Wall-E. Click ”Read more” for the rest.
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Robert Zemeckis’ new digital 3D movie called A Christmas Carol, is an adaptation of the classic Christmas story by Charles Dickens. In cooperation with Disney, Zemeckis founded the performance capture company ImageMoversDigital. A Christmas Carol will be the first big project for the company and will use the same technique as The Polar Express.
This performance capture technique means that the actors get to wear a funny suit with sensors so every movement can be followed by computers. This way you will get a very realistic animation.
Jim Carrey has signed for the role of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas present, past and future. Bob Hoskins (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) mentioned in an interview that he will play the part of Mr. Fezziwig but this hasn’t been confirmed. Zemeckis had Carrey in mind when he started this project. The other names on his wishlist are Tom Hanks as Bob Cratchit, Christopher Lloyd as Marley’s ghost and Michael J. Fox as Tiny Tim. Whether these actors will take part in the movie depends on financial means.
A Christmas Carol will be released around Christmas 2009. The production team of that other Disney movie The Princess and the frog isn’t so happy with that date. This movie should be released around the same period of time and is expected to be the big Disney comeback with traditional animation. If Disney competes with it’s own Princess and the Frog, the team wonders if the full promotion capacity will be used or if there will be other consequences or plans. (Source Jim Hill)
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Lifted, the new short from Pixar, has appeared on Youtube.
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Enchanted will be one of those magical Disney movies with a mix of live-action and traditional 2D animation.
Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) lives in her fairytale world Andalasia, where magical creatures hop joyfully and musical encounters are usual business. Giselle is happily engaged to prince Edward (James Marsden), but faith strikes when the evil queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) banishes Giselle to the real life city of New York. Lost in this big grey world where nobody spontaneously starts to sing, her only hope is divorce lawyer Robert (Patrick Dempsey aka McDreamy from Grey’s Anatomy). Julie Andrews narrates the story.
Long time Disney composer Alain Menken delivers the soundtrack. The movie will be released on November 21st in the United States and on December 14th in the UK. The trailer looks quite funny and I can’t wait to watch this traditional Disney fairytale. Click ‘read more’ to have a look behind the scenes and the movie poster.
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Yesterday Disneybluray.fr showed the cover of the DVD ‘Pixar short films collection’ on its website. Although there is still no official announcement, it seems like the long-expected collection DVD will soon arrive. Recently Disney had registered the domains Pixarshorts.com and Disneypixarshorts.com and the UK internet store Play already mentions this DVD. The presumptions are that the DVD will be released around Christmas time. We already know what to put on our wish list.
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The Laughingplace says there are rumours about the production of a Toy Story Musical. This show would be performed only on the Disney Cruise ships. I think it’s a strange evolution to see these kind of ‘low profile’ musicals (see Finding Nemo), also considering the fact that there are no songs in Pixar movies.
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