Disney
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With ‘Feast,’ Disney Re-Brands Itself As the New Pixar
Walt Disney Pictures Last week, Disney opened its doors and allowed itself to be overrun by journalists, drawn in by the scent of new films and…
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Pro-Gay? Disney is Pro-Being Yourself
Walt Disney Pictures There are few movies that stay so firmly in the public discourse this long after their release. Even with the boost of awards…
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23 Things We Learned from the ‘Escape from Tomorrow’ Commentary
One of the most surprising films to be released in 2013 was not a massive blockbuster. Instead, it was Escape from Tomorrow, an independent film…
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Disney Confirms ‘The Incredibles 2’ Is Being Written By Brad Bird
Disney/Pixar Get ready to lose your mind and run around your living room a hundred times in a minute. According to Variety, Disney used its…
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What Would It Take To Make ‘Dumbo’ Fly in Real Life?
Typical of early Disney animation, Dumbo isn’t a finely crafted story but rather a film that examines greater ideas in a touching emotional context. It…
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Would the Animals in Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Ever Interact in Real Life?
As much as I love the classic early Disney animated films, the 2D animation revival of the 80s and 90s, and the modern 3D computer…
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Trailer: ‘Maleficent’ Looks Like ‘Snow White and the Huntsman 2’
The promise of Maleficent is that it redirects our view on the nasty villain who forced Princess Aurora into an egregiously long nap. Drawing on…
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Saving Mr. Disney: The Conflicting Arts of Adaptation and Brand Management
There’s a scene late in John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks in which author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) barges into Walt Disney’s (Tom Hanks) office,…
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23 Things We Learned from ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Commentary
When it was released twenty years ago, The Nightmare Before Christmas was not an immediate success. However, over the following two decades, it has become…