enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, interactive media and consumer products. Disney is a Dow 30 company with revenues of nearly $38 billion in its most recent fiscal year. is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a library of over 5,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in licensing, entertainment (via Marvel Studios
Pixar didn't produce Bolt. John Lasseter (Pixar head honcho) did however replace the director. After the abomination of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I really think anyone "worried" about Disney dumbing down Marvel IP is barking up the wrong tree - Marvel/Fox was doing a far better (worse?) job of it already. Not if DC loses the copyright battle. Superman could wind up as a Disney property too. @25, Bolt isn't a Pixar movie. It was, however, the first Disney feature produced under the oversight
office. Marvel would never allow the dumbing down of its brand give them credit. I'd actually go see Iron Man and the Seven Dwarfs. As I understand it, Disney bought Pixar. That's the way the story goes, but where the rubber hits the road it's just Disney's marketing and distribution helping Pixar's production. That is, Disney's role in Pixar's world is decidedly non-Disney, and Pixar has assumed the role of a creative force that previously was the domain only of Disney itself. That aspect
factory. Creativity goes in and gets ground into blandwurst. The world has officially freaking ended. Disney is definitley going to hell for this one. If I see one pair of Mickey Mouse ears anywhere near one of my comics, someone is losing their head. bignumone, you are as lame as lame gets. The movies are nowhere near the comic books. This is not a good idea. This could be potentially worse then the Comics Code Association that decimated the industry for over 20 years. All of the Marvel
makes people mad. This is the case here. A played out idea, badly executed and with little substance. I’ve noticed several comments about how there are “No Hispanic Princesses”…seems like almost everyone has forgotten “Gargoyles. Yup, the old kids tv series. Elisa may be a cop instead of a princess, but she is still the toughest, coolest, most ass-kicking female character that Disney ever created. She was my favorite character when I was growing up, because she
an underling. But I do happen to come from a power family that has led me from a young teenager visiting Lew and Edie Wasserman, to an older teen who told Mike Ovitz to ‘F Off’ to finally a grownup who usually hears some really interesting things at the family table that always end up coming true. I have to step in on Gallagher’s behalf–the guy is nothing but a professional, and a decent human being to boot. He gets a ton of pressure both internally and externally, and
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of visitors entering the country. But surprisingly, after the Sept. 11 attacks the federal government sought out Disney?s advice in intelligence, security and biometrics, a tool that teaches computers to recognize and identify individuals based on their unique characteristics. The federal government may have wanted Disney's expertise because Walt Disney World is responsible for the nation's largest single commercial application of biometrics, said Jim Wayman, director of the National Biometric
the calm cool and collected, evil genius type. He's maniacal and treacherous, with everything all planned out (until it goes wrong). Jafar takes different forms: a vizier, and old man, to a sultan, to a sorcerer, to a cobra, to a genie. This is about the scariest villain of them all. He has no humor to him whatsoever. We often see the villains in their hideout with a sidekick and a lot of humor. Not so with this guy. We don't know why he does what he does; we don't know his motive. We only