This year at the 2010 Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas (June 8 – 10), Disney Consumer Products will focus on a breadth of licensing initiatives that are poised to deliver incremental growth propelling its core franchises Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Disney Princess, Disney Fairies, Disney∙Pixar’s Cars and Toy
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Pixar’s Newt Movie is Cancelled
The word from the Pixar Blog is that Disney/Pixar is pulling the plug on the very interesting Newt Movie. Earlier this evening I received an email response from Walt Disney Company archivist Dave Smith (or a representative) informing me that Pixar’s Newt “has been cancelled”. This confirms the rumors that
John Lasseter is getting in the Cars 2 drivers seat
It would appear that Cars 2 is hitting a few roadblocks. The interwebs is buzzing this morning with news of John Lasseter having to slide over to address story issues with the upcoming Pixar film. So as of right now John is in the co director chair. There is no
‘Cars 2’ Pushed Back To December 2011
Disney has announced that “Cars 2” will be moving off of its June 24th 2011 release date all the way back to December 2011. No official reason was given for the shift. Disney is also supposed to be releasing the animated film “The Bear and the Bow” in December of
First image from Pixar’s Cars 2 revealed?
The movie Cars 2 is slated for release in Summer 2011, and that means that Hollywood CGI types are busy sketching, rendering and compositing. Production artwork (seen above) found in Disney’s annual report, has Lightning McQueen running in Japan ahead of what we’d imagine is a Formula 1 car. The
Cars sequel not the same without Paul Newman (Doc)
You can forgive some people for figuring Paul Newman would be around forever — including the people at Pixar. Before Newman’s death in Sept. 2008, his character of Doc Hudson in the movie Cars apparently was set to feature prominently in the sequel (only the second sequel the company has
