Author: Mr. Daps

The long-awaited rollout of digital cinema could begin this summer. Major Hollywood studios are said to be close to reaching an agreement on a financing plan that would find them footing a multibillion-dollar bill An agreement would mark the end of a contentious 10-year battle between film studios and theater owners, and would usher in…

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Tony Scott is in negotiations to direct the romantic thriller “Deja Vu” for producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the Walt Disney Studios. The screenplay by Terry Rossio and Bill Marsilii centers on an FBI agent who travels back in time to save a woman from a murder and falls in love…

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GUANGZHOU – Hong Kong Disneyland celebrated its second year participating at the Guangzhou International Travel Fair (GITF), where the world famous theme park and resort provided South China

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The quality of mentoring in corporate life is somewhat exaggerated. The late Jerry Nachman, a talented and clever New York news executive who won Peabody, Emmy and Murrow awards, once told me this about his mentors: “I never took a job where there wasn’t still an outline of my predecessor’s body on my office floor.”…

Nearly two weeks after being named Disney’s new chief executive, Robert Iger has made his first significant move to change the way decisions are made at the media conglomerate. The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it is restructuring its corporate Strategic Planning unit to give each of the company’s businesses more authority to make acquisitions…

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For a quarter of a century, Donald Roan Dunagan worked his way up through the ranks in the U.S. Marine Corps. During that time, the Texas native carefully hid his historic role as the model and voice for one of Walt Disney’s most beloved animated characters. “This may sound corny to any reasonably intelligent person,”…

Q: Our two girls, ages 3 and 2, are very well behaved, so my husband and I decided to treat them to a memorable vacation at Disney World. As soon as we got through the gates, the girls became possessed by demons, and it turned out to be the most nightmarish four days we have…

MAYNARD — Downtown Disney will likely be the biggest stage most members of the Maynard band and chorus have ever faced. Thirty other bands will be on hand, competing for the title of best in show. Some of the most recognizable faces — and ears — in entertainment will be in the crowd. It’s enough…

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) – Walt Disney Co. said that it is reorganizing its strategic planning division and that the unit’s chief will step down from the post to become an adviser to Robert Iger, the media and entertainment giant’s newly named chief executive. Disney said Friday that Peter Murphy will no longer be chief strategic…

It’s not as satisfying or artistic as TV’s ”Anne of Green Gables” or the recent adaptation of ”Pollyanna,” but the new Disney miniseries version of ”Little House on the Prairie” is, nonetheless, a fine family drama with a young female protagonist. ”Little House,” of course, was mounted successfully before, as a 1974-83 NBC series produced…

Urban myths abound about how Walt Disney picked Anaheim as the home for Disneyland. The most likely determinant: an economic study he commissioned in the early 1950s. Disney tapped Stanford Research Institute, then part of Stanford University, to find the best spot for an amusement park in Southern California. Based on projected population growth and…

CONCORD, N.H. – A man who was booted from Disneyland for giving unauthorized insider’s tours says he will find his way to back to the Magic Kingdom.Disney blogger Jim Hill, 46, says his expulsion from the Happiest Place on Earth was handled in deft Disney style. “They were being so serious, so Disney, so polite…

LOS ANGELES – Nearly two weeks after being named Disney’s new chief executive, Robert Iger has made his first significant move to change the way decisions are made at the media conglomerate. The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it is restructuring its corporate Strategic Planning unit to give each of the company’s businesses more authority…

By LAURA M. HOLSON LOS ANGELES, March 25 – The Walt Disney Company announced Friday that it was reorganizing its corporate strategic planning division, giving more authority to the company’s individual units. Disassembling the strategic planning division is one of the first acts by Robert A. Iger, the president who will succeed Michael D. Eisner…

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The Mouse Adventure Invitational was INSANE

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The home video arm of the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS – news) on Wednesday said it would release movies in the newly-developed UMD format for Sony Corp (news – web sites).’s (6758.T) PlayStation Portable handheld video game and media device. Buena Vista Home Entertainment said it would release five movies this…

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By Jerry W. Jackson Sentinel Staff Writer To help commemorate the 50th anniversary of Disneyland, Walt Disney World in Orlando has new attractions and new things to do and see that will officially debut on May 5 as part of Walt Disney Co.’s worldwide Happiest Celebration on Earth festivities. They include: In the Magic Kingdom,…

LOS ANGELES The Walt Disney Concert Hall is undergoing a face lift to tone down its shiny, polished steel panels. People have been complaining about the Los Angeles landmark’s mirror-like exterior, which creates an unbearable glare. Those who live in condos across the street have also complained that, on sunny days, reflections from the hall…

By Robert Simonson17 Mar 2005 Lola won’t get what Lola wants. The split of Disney and Miramax, the two companies who intitiated a projected high-profile remake of the musical Damn Yankees, has left the show without a future, according to Entertainment Weekly. Disney and Miramax will part company in September, ending a business marriage that…