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Disney to premiere new Mickey Mouse shorts on TV
The Walt Disney Co. means a lot of things these days: Marvel superheroes, "Star Wars" and Pixar among them, but the company is going back to basics for its latest Disney Channel series, titled simply, "Mickey Mouse." The new series will feature short...
Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Disney Channel (tv network)
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Jon Stewart slams Disney's makeover of 'Brave' heroine Merida
Count Jon Stewart among the many thousands of parents and moviegoers unimpressed by Disney’s controversial makeover of “Brave” heroine Merida. In case you missed it, last weekend Merida was officially inducted into Disney’s...
Tags: Brave (movie), Cinderella (fictional character)
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Netflix adds Disney Junior and Disney XD shows
Netflix has reached an agreement with the Disney/ABC Television group to become the only subscription streaming service to offer the popular children's shows "Jake and the Never Land Pirates" and the animated "Tron: Uprising." The multiyear licensing...
Tags: Star Wars (movie), Lucasfilm Ltd., Netflix Inc.
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Disney withdraws trademark filing for 'Dia de los Muertos'
If the dead could speak, they probably wouldn't have been heard over the burst of virtual shouting and howling Walt Disney Co. drew for attempting to trademark "Dia de los Muertos" -- a bid it has since dropped. The company filed 10 applications with...
Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Grateful Dead (music group), Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Netflix takes Disney pay-TV rights from Starz
Netflix has acquired the exclusive U.S. rights to movies from Walt Disney Studios films, beginning in 2016, in a three-year deal that catapults the Internet video-on-demand service into direct competition with pay-TV giants such as HBO and Showtime. The...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Ben Fritz, Dumbo (movie), Joe Flint, Entertainment
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Disney to close its online movie service
Disney is shutting down its Disney Movies Online service, which failed to catch on with users. The site let consumers buy or rent digital versions of Disney and Pixar films and watch the movies on their computers. It was designed to ease the family...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Entertainment, Online Media Industry, Movies
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Rich Moore's 'Wreck-It Ralph' is an homage to blocky video games
When animation director Rich Moore was growing up in Oxnard, he spent so much time in video arcades that his parents worried that their young son was wasting his time. “They would always tell me that I should be concentrating on the real world,&...
Tags: Andrew Stanton, Gaming, Entertainment, Animation (genre), Wall-E (movie)
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Tim Burton reanimates his past in 'Frankenweenie'
When Tim Burton was an eager young animator and filmmaker working at Disney Studios in the early 1980s, he made an inventive live-action short film inspired by his childhood in Burbank and the love of a family dog. That 1984 short, “Frankenweenie,&...
Tags: Daniel Stern, Entertainment, Martin Short, Animation (genre), The Nightmare Before Christmas (movie)
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Digital media trailblazer and ex-Disney exec Bob Lambert dies
Bob Lambert, a widely respected entertainment industry executive who played a pivotal role in the advent of computer animation, died of undisclosed causes Friday at his home in Glendale, his family announced Monday night. He was 55. Lambert served as...
Tags: The Walt Disney Co., Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment, Animation (genre)
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Disney: Help wanted for high-risk, low-reward job as chairman
Wanted: Experienced executive who can turn around an unstable film studio and manage the egos of some of Hollywood's biggest power players including Pixar animation guru John Lasseter, DreamWorks partners Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider, mega-...
Tags: Wanted (movie), Los Angeles Times, DreamWorks Animation, Steven Spielberg, Entertainment
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Thoughts from the Bull Pen: Predictions for the coming year
Gone today, here tomorrow. Yes, that's right, it's the end of the year. While most news organizations come up with some kind of a "look back" at 2010 (do we really want to read the same news again?), or a top 10 list (usually made up of movies that you...Tags: Carson, Crime, Law and Justice, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Television, Entertainment
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