Tag: Disney
The Beat’s Annual Guide to Winning the Osca® Pool: Best Animated Shorts 2014
Once again, Hollywood confabulates and celebrates the best of motion picture arts and sciences March 2, at the 86th Academy Awards. Among the many awards will be two showcasing the best in animation: Animated...
Five days of Valentines Day Cards: Snow White’s touchy situation
I'm sure no one ever had an impure thought about THIS vintage Disney Valentine, No sir!
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Sizing up Marvel’s Star Wars franchise
We all knew that the Star Wars comics franchise would go to Marvel eventually, but no one seems enthused about the idea. Maybe that's because, as Graeme McMillan points out, every time Disney pulls...
Webcomic alert: Boys’ Night
Go read this quick before it gets taken down: Boys' Night by artist PB Quatch and Hollywood tyro screenwriter Max Landis.
24 Hours of Halloween Special: The Gargoyles Halloween Comics (1996)
A very special never before seen masterpiece of a comic from 1996 written by ...THE BEAT!!!
THOR’s alien world to hit Disneyland on Friday
It seems that the Marvel Heroes are gradually sneaking their way into the Disney theme parks—at least in California, where the spectacular Marvel booth displays at San Diego Comic-Con have been ported over into...
Disney launches toyetic shonen Avengers cartoon in Japan
The main reason Disney acquired Marvel was to finally break open the boy market bank, and their simple plan worked pretty well. They're even conquering Japan, it was just announced, with "the first Japanese Marvel animated television series targeted at boys." It's called Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. "Disk" wars, eh That sound highly, highly toyetic.
Asgard is Promised to Open at Disneyland in November
As spotted by good ol' Kevin Melrose over at Robot 6, it appears that Disney are lining up for another Avenger appearance at Disneyland, to tie in with the upcoming Thor film.
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Marvel and Disney are getting weird
D23, Disney's own proprietary fan access, media blowout event is coming this weekend. It's Disney's own little Comic-Con and they typically save some big announcements for it. It's only held every other year, and...
Licensing world round-up: Princesses are king but Avengers are for boys
As we mentioned in the previous post, the Licensing Show's wrapping up today and there are always some lists and announcements and other observations that are very germane to where our world is going....
Disney announces two mystery Marvel films for ’16 and ’17
While some of us reading this will be chewing gruel in a rest home by then, Disney has just announced two as-yet-unnamed Marvel films for the future:
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We’ve also announced dates for two...
Disney and Marvel Team Up to Create a Big Hero 6 Movie
With Disney owning Marvel and all their characters, it was expected that they'd eventually set their film-makers to work on a Marvel Universe project - however, I doubt anybody would have expected that project...