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Yoda Makes His Debut In Star Wars Rebels
IGN has run a clip this morning from Disney's new animated series Star Wars Rebels In this new clip we get Frank Oz voicing the first appearance of Yoda in the series The episode, Path Of The Jedi, airs January 4th. [Source: IGN] IGN has run a clip this morning from Disney's new animated series Star[...]
Stan Lee Media Loses Appeal For Marvel Characters
But the 10th Circuit ruled on Tuesday that Disney is the owner of the Marvel Universe and not Stan Lee Media This follows the 9th Circuit ruling that Stan Lee had never assigned the rights to even minor characters to the upstart company. The basis for SLM's lawsuits is a claim that during the period of[...]
Why Big Hero 6 Makes For Perfect Holiday Viewing
By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu There initially were questions about the wisdom of following the megahit Frozen with an adaptation of a Marvel comic by Walt Disney Animation Studios But the mash-up of sorts is a tale full of heart, memorable characters and it proves to be a brilliant idea It also is the perfect movie to[...]
Latest Trailer For Live-Action Cinderella
Disney has released a new international trailer for its live-action Cinderella The film stars Cate Blanchett, Lily James, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Sophie McShera, Derek Jacobi and Helena Bonham-Carter. Cinderella will be in theaters March 13th. [youtube]http://youtu.be/lgCfewTc-_c[/youtube] Disney has released a new international trailer for its live-action Cinderella[...]
Star Wars Rebels To Premiere Season 2 At Star Wars Celebration
Star Wars Rebels, the new animated series from Disney will debut its second season at Star Wars Celebration 2015 in Anaheim, California this coming up April 16-19, 2015. That's right; fans attending Star Wars Celebration will witness the global debut of Season Two's first episode (following an encore showing of Season One's two-part finale), and Dave Filoni (executive producer,[...]
New Trailer For Disney / Pixar's Inside Out
The latest film from Disney / Pixar has gotten a new trailer The film is from director Pete Docter who brought us Monsters, Inc and Up. Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco[...]
Action Figure Showdown: Which Video Game Toy Series Is Right For You?
By Jared Cornelius Walking around the video game section in your local shops you may have noticed an explosion of tiny plastic figurines.  It's almost impossible to ignore at this point as most retail chains have an entire aisle dedicated to these things.  Well if you didn't know they belong to the increasingly popular, "Toys-To-Life" genre of gaming that's now gotten its hooks[...]
Star Wars And Marvel Worlds Could Turn Up In Kingdom Hearts 3
Mixing Final Fantasy and Disney into a game that tries to tell a semi-earnest story is so insane That is why even I have my eye on Kingdom Hearts 3 I was in the room when the game was announced at E3 2013 and it was electrifying. On that front, in an interview with Kotaku UK,[...]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer Has Been Released (UPDATE)
This is the first of many films planned by Disney since buying the property It's directed by J.J Abrams and stars John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker. Star Wars: The Force Awakens hits theaters on December[...]
Stan Lee Talks About His Cameo In Big Hero 6
Though the latest Disney animated film, Big Hero 6, was only based on a Marvel comic, they were able to keep one Marvel movie tradition alive… the Stan Lee cameo In this video Lee talks about getting a chance to be animated into a Disney film. Though the latest Disney animated film, Big Hero 6,[...]
Ian Brill Takes On Joe Books Over Darkwing Duck Collection
In the announcement of this collection it said to be "painstakingly rewritten" to "bring it in step with the classic Disney Afternoon series." We believe that this will not be the book that readers enjoyed when the series was originally published We do not feel it is right to rewrite comics for a reprint collection[...]
Everything Wrong With Maleficent
Cinema Sins has done their thing with the latest Disney film adapting themselves from animation to live-action, Maleficent It takes them 13 minutes to cover all of the perceived sins in the film… which means there are a lot of them. [youtube]http://youtu.be/svaLPBwDLCY[/youtube] Cinema Sins has done their thing with the latest Disney film adapting themselves from[...]
First Trailer For Disney's Live-Action Cinderella
Disney's has released a trailer for their next live-action adaptation of the classic animated fairy tales, Cinderella Here we see Lily James as Ella and Cate Blanchett as the Evil Step Mother Robb Stark himself, Richard Madden plays the Prince and Helena Bonham Carter is the Fairy God Mother. Cinderella will be in theaters March 13,[...]
Joe Books Publishes Phineas & Ferb – And 101 Dalmations For February
Joe Books continues to solicit massive Disney collections for minimal prices Such as a 376 page cinestory adaptation of Disney's 101 Dalmations animation, and a 354 page collection of Phineas & Ferb comics, for $15 each, both for February, joining Frozen, Princesses and the like… at that page count , that price and that popular[...]
Maleficent Gets An Honest Trailer
This week the Screen Junkies whipped up an Honest Trailer for one of Disney's big movies of the year… no not a Marvel movie… but rather the Angelina Jolie lead film Maleficent The film made over $240 million domestically and ranked fifth for the year… yet these guys think it may not have been that[...]
New Disney Animated Movie Isn't What The Internet Thought
The Internet has been buzzing for sometime that Disney was going to announce Frozen 2 for the planed released date of January 23rd for a new animated film The Internet was wrong. The film now in that slot is called Strange Magic, a new release from Lucasfilm Strange Magic was inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's[...]
I Think Dick Cook May Have Trouble With His DC Trademark Application
This is the visual for the trademark application under the name DC DICK COOK STUDIOS. Dick Cook is a former Chairman of Disney Studios, leaving the company at the time they bought Marvel, then the longest standing Disney employee amongst its executives after working for Disney since 1970 as a steam train operator at Disneyland in[...]
John Lasseter To Direct Toy Story 4… And It's Only The Beginning
Direct from Disney…. Nearly two decades after Pixar Animation Studios created the world's first computer-animated feature film with "Toy Story," it revealed plans for Disney•Pixar's "Toy Story 4," an adventure that returns audiences to the world of the studio's signature characters. John Lasseter, director of the original "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2," will direct the film,[...]
Into The Woods Trailer Released By Disney
Disney has released the trailer for their upcoming musical Into The Woods The film stars Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick and James Cordon. "Into the Woods" is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the[...]
Big Hero 6 To Have After Credit Scene And Marvel Easter Eggs
Disney's latest animated feature, Big Hero 6, is inspired by a Marvel Comic of the same name but it is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe… but that didn't stop the directors form treating it like one In an interview recently, Don Hall and Chris Williams revealed that the movie will have an after[...]
Disney Loses Film Rights To John Carter
said that they have regained the rights to the John Carter franchise and are looking for a new partner to develop films based on the eleven Mars novels by Burroughs. Disney of course was the studio who most recently controlled the rights and made a feature film starring Taylor Kitsch The film bombed and it reportedly[...]
Anthony Horowitz Writing A Victorian Superhero Film For Disney
He told Afternoon Edition on BBC Five Live radio station this afternoon that he has finished the first draft of a screenplay fr Disney, describing it as "a Victorian sort-of superhero film based on various characters out of different sorts of books there." Sounds… extraordinary. And the next Tintin film is also "bubbling along…" Thanks to Martin Conaghan for the tip.     Thanks[...]
Joe Books To Collect All Of Boom! Studios' Darkwing Duck
In January, Joe Books is publishing over 400 pages of Darkwing Duck comic books, as originally published by Boom! Studios, in one volume for $19.99. The Disney's Darkwing Duck: Definitely Dangerous Edition is listed as (W) Aaron Sparrow, Pickup (A/CA) James Silvani Mild-mannered Drake Mallard leads a pretty average life, relaxing at home, helping his daughter Goslynn with[...]
Disney's Frozen Graphic Novel Gets Over 100,000 Preorders
We reported that Joe Books had the rights to create a graphic novel based on Disney's blockbuster, Frozen. In fact it's technically known as a Cinebook, panels created directly from the frames of a movie, then lettered and composed like a comic An adaptation couldn't be more direct. It's also over 300 pages long and sells for[...]