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Disney Racism. Clip of the Day

Disney returns to traditional animation — by adding in racist undertones.

Comic-Con 2008: Disney/Pixar, BOLT & UP

The filmmakers behind two upcoming animated epics, Bolt and UP, present footage. One is funny, cute and about a delusional dog. The other is a Miyazaki-esque portrait of an old man and his flying house. Which one went over better, you think?

A Cinema of Loneliness: How WALL-E Was Ruined By Its Score

Steven Boone explains why WALL-E qualifies as “another brilliant and devastating visual statement on American life dulled and softened by an overbearing orchestral score that says, ‘It’s only a movie, y’all…’”

Weinstein Expose Based on 9/11 Victim’s Records?

An anonymous email says an anonymous author is writing a tell-all on The Weinsteins. At least Tony Ortega took credit for going through Harvey’s trash.

‘Presto’ Suggesto. Clip of the Day

Silly Pixar, trailers are for features. Not cereal.

Miley Cyrus, Underwear Ads and Disney’s Denial-as-Business Model

Why does Disney keep feigning shock when teen sex gets all mixed up in the selling of their products?

Disneynature for Earth Day: Trade Roughag 04/22/08

Disney celebrated Earth Day by announcing Disneynature, a new production shingle exclusively devoted to making documentaries about the environment. Films in the pipeline include Oceans, the lastest from Winged Migration director Jacques Perrin.
Jackie Chan has been recruited by the MPA as the poster boy for a new campaign targeting piracy in China. The action star [...]

Disney Animator Ollie Johnston Dies

The last living illustrator of your childhood memories is gone.

3D 4-Ever: Trade Roughage 04/09/08

Disney unveiled its through-2012 animation slate this week, with projects including “a sequel to Cars [and] an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story,” and a commitment to releasing nothing but digital 3D.
Blair Witch Project star and Beautiful Losers co-director Joshua Leonard will direct Danny Huston and possibly 50 Cent in Spectacular Regret, a [...]

Murder, Talks and Comics: Trade Roughage 04/02/08

April 15 certainties: someone will die, Karina will weep as the IRS cleans out her checking account, and SAG will meet with the AMPTP to begin talks to head off a strike.
Woah! Up until now, the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping trial has been painfully boring, mostly because we already had an inkling that Courtney Love was [...]