Archive for October, 2008
« Previous EntriesRenovations to bring Disney World’s Hall of Presidents into 21st century
Friday, October 31st, 2008Barack Obama or John McCain — here’s one more issue for voters to consider: Which one would they rather listen to at Walt Disney World in the Magic Kingdom’s Hall of Presidents show? One of them will get to address visitors each day in the theme park once the animatronic attraction undergoes a renovation.
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Disney Interactive Studios Releases New Game Show-Style Trivia Video Game
Friday, October 31st, 2008Disney Interactive Studios today announced the release of a new video game, Disney TH!NK Fast. With its TV game show format, Disney TH!NK Fast provides fans of all ages with the ultimate fastest-finger challenge. Players will use their quick wits and agility to answer both general knowledge and Disney-themed questions. Filled with beloved Disney characters, […]
Disney gurus mix movies, electronics to create new toys
Friday, October 31st, 2008You can’t get any more inside Disney than this. On the walls of a hush-hush conference room deep inside the Disney Consumer Products headquarters are sketches of toys-to-be for a year from now, the start of the 2009 holiday season. A team of eight Disney big thinkers gathers to brainstorm about toys that mix technology […]
New Disney Fine Art: Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas Limited Edition
Friday, October 31st, 2008Sanders Art Studio.com in Ogden, Utah is pleased to announcea New Disney Fine Artlimited editionfeaturingTim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmascharactersby Artist Jim Salvati. This exciting newgiclee features Jack Skellington and Sally in Halloween Town preparing to meet.
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Disney Little Einsteins Characters Join National PSA Campaign
Friday, October 31st, 2008Americans for the Arts, The NAMM Foundation and the Ad Council announced today an additional phase to their national public service advertising (PSA) campaign, entitled “The Arts. Ask for More.” designed to promote the benefits of arts education for children. Created in collaboration with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, the new television PSAs help inspire […]
Disney Hoping ‘Tinker Bell’ Spreads Fairy Dust on Sales
Friday, October 31st, 2008As the Walt Disney Company prepares to report earnings, and with analysts increasingly worried that a collapse in consumer spending will hammer the entertainment behemoth, executives are focusing attention on what they say could be a valuable new franchise. The company is trying to turn its fledgling Disney Fairies business into a franchise on the […]
Disney’s Mooney sees gains in holiday season
Friday, October 31st, 2008Andy Mooney, chairman of Walt Disney Co’s Consumer Products division, said on Thursday he expects the company’s market share to grow despite a challenging holiday season for retailers. “I’m actually pretty optimistic about the holiday season in the sense that… parents are going to buy toys for their kids come this holiday,” Mooney told Reuters […]
Disney considering job cuts
Friday, October 31st, 2008Walt Disney Co executives have been meeting this week to prepare belt-tightening measures that could include job cuts, the Los Angeles Times said, citing people familiar with the discussions. The sources told the paper that staff reductions were being contemplated companywide. Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks, asked senior staff to recommend possible cuts […]
High School Musical 3 “Blooper Reel”!
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Disney has released a one minute clip of bloopers from the filming of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
Pirates of the Caribbean Online Celebrates One Year
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Disney Online today announced the one-year anniversary of Pirates of the Caribbean Online ( www.PiratesOnline.com), an immersive massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), which allows players to fully experience the untamed and action-packed Pirate world captured in the popular film franchise. Pirates of the Caribbean Online provides ever-changing, open-ended adventures with thousands of other players in […]
Disney wants to teach your children English
Thursday, October 30th, 2008The world’s biggest children’s entertainment company now also wants to play a part in educating your children too — and to be more specific, to teach them how to speak proper English. When we found an ad in the taxi we were in yesterday drawing our attention to DisneyEnglish.com, we thought this was some fake […]
Jonas Bros. Depart Disney…for the moment
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Another hot Disney Channel act is poised to make a bigscreen splash — at 20th Century Fox. Fox has locked the Jonas Brothers to make their feature starring debut in “Walter the Farting Dog.” Based on a bestselling series of books by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, the film is being adapted by Alec Sokolow […]
High School Musical’s most likely to succeed
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Less than three years ago, Zac Efron was an unknown. Vanessa Hudgens had two movie roles to her credit. Ashley Tisdale was recognised only for a supporting role on The Suite Life of Zach & Cody. But with one Disney Channel TV movie, these three stars became household names and the faces of entertainment’s hottest […]
Disney’s Sprouse twins happy at sea with ‘Life on Deck’
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Dylan and Cole Sprouse sent Disney’s ratings soaring when their new spinoff, “The Suite Life on Deck,” debuted in September. This new life on the high seas sits with the brothers just fine. “Life on Deck” is an offshoot of the twins’ former show, “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody,” in which the boys […]
Disney workers clean up
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008More than 200 Walt Disney World employees volunteered to remove debris Oct. 25 from Lake Fran in Orlando’s MetroWest area. The workers removed 3,560 pounds of trash from the lake. Most of the litter washed into the lake with storm water from nearby streets. The volunteers were involved in a community-wide cleanup event that was […]
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