After two years on Broadway, Disney’s Broadway rendition of The Little Mermaid is, um, skating off broadway, heelies, butt-tails and all. While sales haven’t slowed yet, Disney is closing the show down to try to avoid the slowdown that their shows usually experience coming into September – after everyone goes back to school, but before [...]
Where Wall•E fans were prompted to feel defensive of their love of the personality-filled robot and his Apple-like companion, fans of Up are in good company. Since its release on May 26, Up has received almost exclusively positive reviews. RottenTomatoes (RT) lists only a few rotten reviews on their site, so Up achieves a 98% [...]
Opening day for a movie branded a “children’s film” by our culture is quite a sight to behold. There were lots of kids with not near as many parents, a couple of toddlers and at least one baby (who cried in the middle of the movie but wasn’t taken outside). We settled in and crossed [...]
Toy companies and Wall Street are all up in a tizzy right now over Pixar’s upcoming film Up. I’ve seen article after article down-talking the new film, which at first was receiving a lot of positive buzz. It has only been in the last few days that the real reason behind the turn toward the [...]
Another week, another linkspam. Some interesting things came up this week. I’m assuming the Hannah Montana movie just came out because I know I got inundated by Miley Cyrus news. Anyway, here’s what’s happened this week that’s interesting. Layoffs at Disney Parks Disney Eliminates About 1,900 Jobs at Its Domestic Theme Parks Disney Says 1,900 [...]
Here’s another linkspam! I’d have more interesting things to write about but all of my free time is going to the Cleveland International Film Festival until next week. (I would claim to be sad about this but I am so not! Come check it out if you’re in the area!) Hong Kong Disneyland Expansion Hong [...]
After having seen Wall-E twice while it was in theaters (once on opening night and once at a drive-in), I could hardly wait for it to come out on DVD so that not only could I watch the lovable little robot whenever I wanted, but I could also explore what I expected to be a [...]
Back in July (was it really that long ago?), I posted the trailer for Bolt. Not being a fan of either Miley Cyrus or John Travolta, I was slightly skeptical about the movie. It didn’t look like it was going to be a must-see or must-have classic from Disney. The only part of the trailer that [...]
One of the trailers (which really shouldn’t be called trailers anymore, since they rarely trail the film) before Wall-E was one for a new Disney movie: Bolt. At first, I was skeptical, because first of all, John Travolta and Miley Cyrus. That doesn’t really spell to be a fantastic movie. Then, a super dog? Really? [...]
Johnathan and I braved late night and possible teeny-boppers to see Wall-E at the midnight release last night. Once upon a time, we would have had no problem with the midnight showing, even with work following the next day. Our schedules being what they are, though, it was a bit rough managing to stay up [...]