D23 Expo Red Carpet Arrivals

D23 Expo 2013 red-carpet arrivals, featuring Disney execs, filmmakers, special guests and stars from Disney’s slate of upcoming live action and animated films. Who and When: Friday: Dane Cook (“Disney’s Planes”), Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell (“Frozen”), plus Bob Iger and John Lasseter and more to be announced.  Saturday: Jason

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D23 Expo Will Kick off with CEO Bob Iger

D23 Expo 2013 will celebrate its grand opening with a welcome from Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger followed by the first of two arena presentations hosted by The Walt Disney Studios at the Anaheim Convention Center. On Friday, August 9, The Walt Disney Studios will surprise and delight fans

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First Look – Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks

Two-time Academy Award®–winner Emma Thompson and fellow double Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks topline Disney’s “Saving Mr. Banks,” inspired by the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney’s classic “Mary Poppins” made it to the screen. When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary

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Walt Disney Studios Announces Disney release schedule updates

The Walt Disney Studios has announced a number of Disney release schedule updates. Here is some additional information regarding these projects. SAVING MR. BANKS (Disney) Now opens 12/13/13 limited. The previously announced 12/20/13 wide playdate is unchanged. Inspired by true events, SAVING MR. BANKS is the extraordinary, untold story of how Disney’s classic MARY POPPINS made it

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Saving Mr. Banks Begins Production In Los Angeles

Disney began production today on “Saving Mr. Banks,” the account of Walt Disney’s twenty-year pursuit of the film rights to P.L. Travers’ popular novel, Mary Poppins, and the testy partnership the upbeat filmmaker develops with the uptight author during the project’s pre-production in 1961. Two-time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks (“Philadelphia,”

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Tom Hanks in Talks to Play Walt Disney

According to Variety, Tom Hanks is in talks to play Walt Disney in the movie “Saving Mr. Banks”. Emma Thompson is reportedly in negotiations to play Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers.  John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is set to direct. The film will be based on the true story

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