Tag: Disney
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...
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...
More Disney layoffs: ESPN sheds hundreds
Disney continues its road to profitability by cutting staff, this time at ESPN, where as many as 400 people lost their jobs in a...
Disney rejects Tony Stark alcoholism storyline from Iron Man 3
It seems Disney has wimped out from using the famous "Demon in a Bottle" storyline in Iron Man 3. A few scenes in Iron Man 2 suggested that Tony Stark's partying was a little out of control, but the hero can't take a fall this time out.
On the Scene: WonderCon Hasn’t Lost Its Mojo
The biggest topic of discussion leading up to WonderCon has been the location. Most WonderCon goers have been very disappointed by the move to...
Don Rosa on retiring from making comics
Indie and Disney master Don Rosa has posted online the final chapter of a bio intended for a collected edition of his works. after it was rejected by Disney. Rosa explains his decision to retire from drawing comics last year as the result of both the psychological effects years of working, his failing eyesight, and some ongoing difficulties with how Disney deals with it's comics licenses. It's an entertaining read -- especially for ow his early years intersected with those of his hero, Disney artist supreme Carl Barks, but it's also not hard to see why Disney may not have been thrilled to publish it.
Have some Mary Blair Peter Pan concept art
In honor of the release of the 60th Anniversary edition of Peter Pan, here's a brief Disney supplied sildeshow highlighting some of the concept art by the great Mary Blair.
Disney/Star Wars Mashup Sampling
Here's a quick evening sampling of #DisneyStarWars mashups from around the worldwide web-0-sphere...
There's a new Disney Princess in town...
Oh, R2...
A gentleman named Matthew Main...
Dark Horse React to Disney’s Acquisition of Lucasfilm
Newsarama have published a statement from Dark Horse President Mike Richardson regarding Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm. This move obviously raises questions about Dark Horse,...
Disney Buy Lucasfilm; Announce New Star Wars Film
This may be delirium setting in, but it seems that Disney have acquired Lucasfilm today for the princely sum of $4.05 billion. This means...
Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion
Details are still emerging, but Disney chairman Bob Iger has just announced Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion. It was a cash-and-stock deal...
Ike Perlmutter profiled…from a distance
A few details of Ike Perlmutter's moves within the Disney hierarchy leak out in thisprofile in the LA Times, by brave writer Dawn C. Chmielewski who gets, naturally, zero cooperation from Disney, Marvel, or Perlmutter. Ike is of course Marvel's legendarily cheap—and successful—CEO, who has begun to make his influence felt inside the Magic Kingdom, as shown by the rumors of some epic battles that Chmielewski's uncovered:









