Today Friends of the Earth issued the first-ever Cruise Ship Environmental Report Card, an assessment of the environmental and human health footprint of cruise lines and ships operating in the United States. Millions of Americans take cruise vacations every year. Travelers may not realize that taking a cruise is more
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and IMAX Corporation today announced that Tron: Legacy, the intense, high-tech 3D adventure starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde, will be released to IMAX(R) theatres in IMAX(R) 3D simultaneously with the film’s wide release on December 17, 2010. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Tron:
Virgin Media has signed what it is describing as its first three-screen deal through a new cross platform agreement with Disney. The deal includes the recently launched Disney XD channel, TV on demand content including HD programming, as well as rights for a wide range of Disney shows to be
Will be cool to see this new side of Disney. The Walt Disney Studios, in collaboration with acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,†“The Hobbitâ€), is launching a new production label called Disney Double Dare You, to create new animated films full of chills and thrills for audiences of
The 1980s-era Star Tours attractions at Disneyland in California and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida will get a complete overhaul by 2011, Disney announced today. In the new 3-D version of the venerable simulator ride, visitors board a Starspeeder and join a high-speed pod race through the desert canyons of
By 2013, Disney World will transform Fantasyland into a magical fairy tale forest with new and upgraded rides, character meet-and-greet areas and a themed restaurant, Disney announced today. The centerpiece of the expansion, the largest in Magic Kingdom history, will be a new Little Mermaid dark ride that will take
The Disney Cruise Line has a problem. They have a lot of loyal repeat customers, but their offerings are thin when it comes to different ports of call. This will be solved in 2011 when the Disney Dream arrives in Florida to bring the fleet up to three ships. That
The Tomorrowland Transit Authority reopened today at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. The TTA, as it is called by many, had been closed for several months. The TTA was closed because work is being done on Space Mountain. Space Mountain will be closed until November 22, 2009. They did freshen
Former James Bond star Timothy Dalton is to voice a character in Toy Story 3 – a hedgehog toy named Mr Pricklepants. There will also be a Bond-style secret agent character in the upcoming Cars 2 – an Aston Martin named Finn McMissile. The announcements were made by Disney/Pixar chief
All-new episodes of Disney Pixar’s “Cars Toons,” an animated short series directed by Academy Award-winner John Lasseter with Rob Gibbs co-directing and starring Lightning McQueen’s rusty friend Mater, will debut beginning FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 on Disney Channel, Disney XD and ABC Family. They are titled “Unidentified Flying Mater,” “Monster Truck
Disney has struck a deal with Viz Media to bring the anime series “Naruto Shippuden” to the Disney XD network beginning next month. “Shippuden” is the sequel to the popular Japanese import and picks up with the ninja lead characters now in their teens. The original “Naruto” series has been
Disney announced today that it has begun production on the first Pooh feature film in decades, due for release in spring 2011. Writers have gone back to the original AA Milne books and, specifically, five unfilmed Pooh stories to be knitted together for the new film. John Lasseter, Disney-Pixar’s chief
Click the picture for the jump to their facebook page and more information. From 1984 to 1994, a perfect storm of people and circumstances changed the face of animation forever. By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between
