They already do a good job themselves of separating the meatrial between adult and kids. This could be a GOOD thing too. With deep pockets from Disney, a great series like Captain Britian and MI13 doesn't have to be canceled before its time. And money might be freed up to try more short run or experimental titles. To guys talking about family friendliness, Disney has a long history of making other things on the side. If they keep Marvel things under "Marvel", they won't necessarily change
out will make from this deal. Unfortunately I don't think Stan will be getting as much as he deserved for creating so many beloved characters & nurturing Marvel through the decades. If they make a live-action film with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, I'm joining al-Qaida. You wouldn't like Donald Duck when he's angry. I don't think this necessarily signals that Marvel will be stuck making "family friendly" films from now on. "Kill Bill" was made by Disney-owned
but rather the pocketbook. into the Catalan language has made the headlines. For the first time, a great film company has refused to collaborate with the programs of normalization of the Catalan language, even though the Catalan government offered to finance the dubbing process. The problem, however, is not new. Nearly forty years [of official persecution of the Catalan language] were enough to create the habit of movie-watching in Spanish. At the end of [Franco's] dictatorship, Catalan-made
face recognition is ?not something we?re currently looking at. A4Vision is funded in part by the Department of Defense and In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital firm for new technologies. Although Disney will not disclose who makes its fingerprint scanners, biometrics experts said the new technology is likely provided by New Mexico-based Lumidigm Inc. Lumidigm also has received funding from the CIA as well as the National Security Agency and Department of Defense, according to founder and CEO
suffice it to say, the word chaos would be very well used. Leaner, meaner, more profitable, more sensible risk–and anyone who is superfluous to that will go. We have seen one major talent agency simply vanish in the past year, another will soon follow, perhaps even two. We have seen capital unavailable, foreign markets collapse, expenses rise at every level, and several distributors closed with more to follow. There is no place, in my view for characters like Gallagher, and some of these
and with Marvel it just got interesting. Games, clothing, action figures, and more with a Disney/Marvel relationship will be amped to the highest. I keep hearing all this is bad and such but think it over Marvel has got a great deal with this merger. Disney just put the whole film and theme park deals on notice. I think in the weeks ahead Disney will unveil the list of what we can see coming from this deal. I expect that through this Disney will air all Marvel films on ABC Family, Disney Channel,
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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