Archive for August 12th, 2008
Disney ramps up new technologies
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Disney is ramping up its quest for innovative technologies, while Pixar is keen to keep traditional studio thinking out of its innovation process. Those were the messages Monday from Pixar and Disney Animation prexy Ed Catmull at Siggraph, the world’s largest computer graphics conference, which runs this week at the L.A. Convention Center.
Catmull, the featured […]
Olympics at Epcot’s China, too
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008If last night’s/this morning’s aquatic classic with Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones and Jason Lezak didn’t give you Olympic fever, you may never catch it. But there’s time to bedeck yourself in official Beijing Olympic wear at (where else?) China pavilion at Epcot.
At the exit of the China film, I’m told by Disney, are […]
Disney to try to purchase Seaworld?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Merlin Entertainments, which owns Madame Tussauds, Alton Towers, and the London Eye, will have to compete with the biggest theme park business in the world - Disney - in the race to take over the £1.5bn SeaWorld business in Florida. SeaWorld and dozens of sister theme parks across America are being put up for sale […]
