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James Earl Jones? Robin Williams? Or how about Jessica Lange bringing some of that awesome American Horror Story evil to the cast with a female Lex Luthor/Martha Stewart type? Shared Universe? With the Disney/Pixar/Marvel connection there's no harm in a name-drop here or there, right? Can't Mr Incredible mention a certain Gamma irradiated Doctor? A random S.H.I.E.L.D[...]

Coming from Jim Zub and Felipe Andre, in association with Disney Kingdoms and Walt Disney Imagineers, comes a new Marvel comic based on the Figment character from Walt Disney theme parks. If the tune is not in your head, here it comes… One Little Spark… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlV6LwQw_18[/youtube] And here's the rather decipherable teaser…       [...]

Tuomas Holopainen, of Nightwish has completed a solo album based on "The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck" by Don Rosa, created with Rosa's co-operation

By Brandon Rucker We all knew it was inevitable even before the ink dried on the contract that turned over ownership of LucasFilm (and subsidiaries) to Disney, the House of Mouse that also owns Marvel Entertainment/Studios/Comics from a previous acquisition some four-plus years ago Naturally, I feel bad for Dark Horse Comics the publisher, as this kind of blow in[...]

I love Disney's line of "Dream Portraits" featuring movie stars reenacting classic Disney cartoons and the latest, above, featuring Jessica Chastain as Princess Merida from Brave, is perfect. And here's a quick making-of video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC-I0IRxplE[/youtube] Does anyone have a tally of which characters they still haven't done yet? It seems like they're running out of Princesses[...]

Over on his blog the artist for the hit series Batman '66, Ruben Procopio shared a look back at his work at Disney and an idea of just how long Frozen was in the works. With Frozen out in the theaters I wanted to share one of the projects I worked on at Disney Feature animation about 10[...]

First Star Wars, and now Disney has finalized a deal to buy marketing and distribution rights to George Lucas' other lucrative Harrison Ford franchise from Paramount as well. Disney already owned the production rights since they came with their purchase of Lucasfilm last year, but now with marketing and distribution in house as well, the process[...]

CinemaBlend.com reports that a screening of Disney's Frozen in Florida took a very non-family friendly turn when a clip from a pornographic film (or possible the extended trailer for Nymphomaniac as MoshNews.co.uk speculates) was used as "filler" to cover the technical difficulties the theater was having at the start of the film[...]

With the fact that a lot of the big budget movies hitting the theaters are based on comic books, I know that both Hollywood and investors are watching what the publishing arms of Disney and Warner Brothers are doing very closely these days… but this report from The Motley Fool looks at the over-abundance of reboots and[...]

Coming from Marvel in January, Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird, a five part comic by Brandon Seifert and Karl Moline, all based on the never-constructed Museum of the Weird addition to the Haunted Mansion, and with Disney Imagineers When their parents are kidnapped, teens Maxwell and Melody are thrust into a thrilling race through the[...]

In any case, Playbill reports Disney has, for now, taken the first step in announcing its plans to transfer the beloved film to the stage. The stage version will be based on both William Goldman's original novel (which is even better than the movie, in my opinion – especially Fezzik's increased presence) and his own adapted[...]

Disney Publishing Worldwide has acquired a book based on the Chinese zodiac written by Stan Lee with Stuart Moore, featuring illustrations by Andie Tong. ZODIAC follows Steven Lee, a young Chinese-American teen who is drawn into a mysterious conspiracy surrounding twelve mystical pools of energy and a power-hungry secret organization When he and other randomly chosen teens[...]

IRON MOUSE The Iron Man Experience comes to Disneyland Hong Kong. Upon entering the ride vehicle our guests will be able to take flight with Iron Man on an epic adventure that not surprisingly pits Iron Man, and our guests, against the forces of evil This adventure will take place in the streets and skies of Hong[...]

The first Marvel/Disney Kingdoms comic book, Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird will be published in January by Marvel, written by Brandon Seifert and Karl Moline adapting stories from their theme parks and resorts Inside The Magic has the scoop, and the first cover from Mike del Mundo. Beginning in January 2014, "Seekers of the Weird"[...]

Two years ago, we reported that Batman editor Janelle Asselin had quit DC Comics to work for Disney in their Disney Magazines outfit. Sadly, this week, that came to an end, as a number of Disney staffers were laid off. This may have been a precursor. Saving Agents of SHIELD for tomorrow when I am perhaps in a[...]

He worked stints at Nelvana (Rock and Rule), Filmation (Pinocchio and The Emperor Of The Night, Bravestarr), Hanna-Barbera (Godzilla, The Smurfs, Addams Family), Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), DIC (Sonic the Hedgehog, Camp Candy), Disney (Fox and the Hound, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas), Warner Bros (Quest for Camelot, Batman, Taz-Mania), Jim Henson (Muppet Babies),[...]

Marvel Comics (And now Disney) has been settled according to Reuters. This has been quite the legal battle starting with Friedrich's claim of ownership of Ghost Rider and the initial outcome not only being in Marvel's favor but demanding the artist pay $17,000 for selling prints of the character at conventions That decision was overturned by the second circuit court[...]

The judgment against Stan Lee Media in their court case Disney over the ownership of Marvel's characters, seeking five billion dollars in payment, courtesy of Deadline.com, is reproduced below. With Judge Martinez saying "this Court holds that Plaintiff is precluded from re-litigating the issue of its ownership of copyrights based on the 1998 Agreement, which issue[...]

1 for $29.99 from Fantagraphics, following up on their Carl Barks library volumes continuing with Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Trail Of The Unicorn" (Vol 6) It looks like the publisher is putting the entire Don Rosa Duck Adventure strips back into print, from 1987 to date And knowing Fantagraphics respect for creator relations, and Don Rosa's[...]

When Disney bought Marvel, there was much speculation that the Italian comic market, one of the few in which Disney actually published comic books themselves, may see Disney publishing more titles and pulling the licences from Panini, who had the Marvel rights. Instead, what occurred was mostly masterful inaction Until this week… When the opposite of[...]

mission to bring in the son of a super-villain, but when he's revealed to have a world-bending weapon, they realize keeping their mission a secret may be a fatal mistake! Don't miss the next amazing episode of MARVEL'S AVENGERS ASSEMBLE this Sunday at 12p/11c inside Marvel Universe on Disney XD.       [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pflvaHnivXY[/youtube] Oh they had some fun with[...]

So while the cat was away, the rumour monger played. D23 Expo, the Disney convention kicks off this week at Anaheim, California And apparently it's all going a bit Star Wars theme for the theme parks. According to one chatty source, attendees can expect announcements that the Disneyland PeopleMover in Anaheim will  return, converted to a Star[...]

Space Mountain is Disney Comics' first original graphic novel. It uses some of the attractions found in the the Disney Theme Parks, most notably Space Mountain, which can be found in the Discoveryland and Tomorrowland sections of the Parks throughout the world (hence the one-time working title of "Tomorrowland" which lead to an early Bleeding Cool[...]

And it comes from Marvel. Filed in September 25th 2006, the year before ComiXology existed, the patent was finally  issued on October 30th 2012, with the inventor named as Peter Olson, assigned to Disney Inc The patent is for a digital program designed for; displaying the sequence of illustrative scenes in a specified order and to access[...]

Jessy Williams writes for Bleeding Cool Disney want to introduce you to Planes' cast of characters, starting with El Chupacabra. Taking his name from the legendary creature, allegedly seen regularly as it sucks the blood of cattle in Mexico, he obviously aims to strike fear into the hearts of his opponents. Don't worry, though, this El Chupacabra is[...]

Not sure if the videos from Patrick Willems and the gang from Bleeding Cool's "Afterwards They Will Explode" have ever deserved that title quite so much

Disney sent over the first footage from the animated Marvel movie Big Hero 6 along with this blurb: From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Big Hero 6, an action comedy adventure about brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San[...]

Not so far away during a summer just 2 years from now: Disney's Alan Horn made it very clear at Cinema Con in Las Vegas this afternoon: the studio will be releasing one Star Wars film every summer from 2015 onwards. Most-Read Comic Stories Wednesday: The Real WTF Moment In Today's Wonder Woman #19  This is the gatefold cover to Wonder Woman #19,[...]

Still more Star Wars news: An IMDB user posted what appear to be several pages from a TV show’s “bible,” or perhaps just a pitch document. These give some

Hell, even the major publisher THQ went under recently, causing several developers to shut down as a result. So it is to my deeper disappointment that Disney have announced that they are closing the game developer LucasArts A representative told Game Informer: After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an[...]