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First of all.. what’s up with that name and titel. TRtwoN? Why not just TRON 2 or TRON II, or even TRON Level 2… Anything is better then using a number in a name or titel. It has been done so often now and to be honest… it just doesn’t work. But that my only remark on the project as I can’t wait to see a well deserved sequel to an underrated Disney masterpiece. Ok, geek boy mode is on, I admit it. I love TRON!

Visitors of the San Diego Comic convention got a real treat when they where invited to watch some TR2N footage. The footage isn’t a trailer or part of the movie. It is a small project to show that making a new movie, with the technology of today, is a good thing.

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…For a price that is!… But it’s for a good cause. If you head over to Ebay you can bid on a greet and meet with Miley Cyrus at the premiere of the new Disney movie BOLT. If you win you will be attending the premiere, arriving by chauffeured car and walk the red carpet to meet Miley for a chat and pictures. The meet will last somewhere between 5 and 10 minutes (only). However it includes a 3 day / 2 night Disneyland Resort visit for the winner( and up to 3 guests) and a five year membership to the official MileyWorld.com fan club.

At this time the highest bid stands at $4150. (for a maximum of 10 minutes). If the price is a little high but still want something personal from Miley you can also bid on some of her personal items and signed pictures. Personally, although all the money goes to a charity, I feel that paying so much money to see a star is a little over the top.

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Sunday saw the premiere of the latest entry to Disney’s High School Musical franchise: the series “High School Musical - Get in the Picture” reality show on ABC. The new series runs Sundays and Mondays and is presented by pop star Nick Lachey (no connection to the HSM franchise so far).

In HSM - GitP thousands of kids from all over the US are competing for their chance to become part of the HSM family. However, it is not a part in the upcoming theatrical feature HSM3 they are competing for but a contract to record two singles with Walt Disney Records and film a music video for one of the singles, with the music video being shown during the end-credits of HSM3.
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Here is a movie one should avoid to watch, like you should avoid to watch any so called parody spoof movies. (Show me 1 good one!); Disaster Movie. Before blowing your money on this one let me explain what you’ll get: Bad jokes, bad acting, bad movie! (and I say this with confidence even before watching the movie). So why mention it her? Just to show you the poster that includes a take on some Disney characters that will be spoofed in the movie. In this one it looks like we will get some High School Musical and Enchanted jokes (and hannah montana, who is included in the terrible trailer). How they relate this (and all other characters on the poster and the trailer) to a disaster movies I don’t know, unless they are just warning you for the disaster this movie will be.

Never judge a book by the cover, but in this case I think I can. My verdict; Avoid at all cost!

Picture via Cinemablend.

Click on the picture to see a fun packed trailer of the next Disney movie “Bolt” about a dog who plays a Super Hero on TV but thinks it’s all real. John Travolta is the voice of Bolt. Also voicing one of the characters is Miley Cyrus (Penny). The trailer looks very promising and fun!

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NASA and Disney want to get schoolchildren interested in science and technology. They signed an agreement where they will explore the possibilities to awaking the interest with the use of Disney/PIXAR’s newest creation WALL-E…

“All of us at Disney are delighted to be working with NASA in their educational and public outreach efforts to teach schoolchildren about space exploration, robot technology, and the universe they live in. WALL-E is one of the most lovable and entertaining characters that Pixar ever has created, and he is the perfect spokes-robot for this program. (SpaceRef.com)

If you don’t mind watching a movie on your PC you might find the following Disney news interesting. Disney will stream full length movies via their website Disney.com.

The movies will be on Disney.com from Monday through Friday after their ABC broadcast the preceding Saturday night as “Wonderful World of Disney” presentations. “Peter Pan” will be the last movie to stream, ending its run August 8. (Yahoo News)

The other movies you’ll be able to see online are “Monsters, Inc.”, “Haunted Mansion”, “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”, “Princess Diaries 2″ and “Freaky Friday”. Personally I will not watch the movies online, I might be a little old school here (although a Semi-PC Geek), the movies, I like to watch them on a TV set. On the other hand, I do think it will be a success to a whole new generation that uses their PC for all media.

It is always interesting to see how some movies get presented in other countries. Trailers, news and poster can vary by country where it is released. The same happened for Wall-E. If you visit io9 website (a great site for the SF fans) you see a great poster used in Russia to advertise the new PIXAR movie. The romantic tone is taking over on this poster.

France is also going on the romantic tour with a special trailer where Wall E is doing his best to show his love for EVE. The trailer is set on the “Love Is In The Air” song and is real fun to watch. Although it looks like EVE has an Evil side,… just have a look at her “eyes”.

4 more Russian Posters can be found at PIXAR.blog, including the US poster so you can compare and choose what is, in your opinion, the best design.

… on May 27, 1933 three little pigs with the help of Walt and his crew made their big, colorful entry on cinema screens around the USA. Yes, today 75 years ago Walt Disney released the technicolour animated short “Three Little Pigs” on the big screen, directed by Burt Gillett. The short not only introduced the Fifer Pig, Fiddler Pig and Practical Pig who went on to star in three additional shorts for Disney (1934, 1936 and 1939), were seen again Who Framed Roger Rabbitt as well as in Disney’s tv show House of Mouse and are even today can still occasionally be met as characters in the Magic Kingdom style parks around the globe.

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Some of you might remember that I pointed out a fun feature on the website brandchannel.com a couple of weeks ago: BrandCameo which keeps track of the brands popping up in the number one movies according to the US box office numbers. “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” having won the crown last week (before ceeding it to Indy 4 this weekend) I wondered, whether there would be any brands to report and checked out the site today. And very much to my surprise there was a brand cameo in the movie - even so it plays most of the time in the fantasy world of Narnia!!

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Everyone ready? In just two minutes the finale of the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest will commence in Belgrad, Serbia. Hundreds of millions of viewers all over Europe and even on tv-sets in Australia and New Zeeland plus countless fans all around the globe watching live online at eurovision.tv will see and hear songs competing for 25 countries (down from an original 43 after two semi finales).

Why am I posting this on a Disney blog? Hey, I just want to point you to some great entertainment! Well, actually there is a Disney connection this year: Germany is represented by the girl band No Angels singing “Disappear” - please no cheap jokes now

Anyway, the girl band casted on the tv show “popstars” had an extended chart success in Germany and several European countries in the 90s and early years of this century before disbanding and then reuniting a year ago (albeit now missing one of the original members). So where is that Disney connection I promised? Keep reading after the break…

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I finally managed to see “Enchanted” in the German version last night. See, here in Germany we dubb all the movies. Whether this is good (young children can enjoy a Disney movie) or bad (if there would be subtitles they would learn English playfully) is up to everyone. I personally do see some problems, especially if they choose a very unique voice to dub a certain actor / part. But hey, that even can be in favor of a character, as a different speaker can also positively influence a performance. Where it does get IMHO very problematic is with songs…

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Mickey Mouse has a big impact on American history, an impact that goes far beyond American boundaries. Just look at the theme parks around the world, the movies playing in thousand theaters and the millions of toys in the shops. Even if you don’t have a Disney holiday, most likely you will still encounter some sort of Disney on your trip (or near your home). You can also ask what cartoon character is the most known in the world; I am pretty confident that Mickey Mouse will make it on the top spot as most well known cartoon character. Mickey (and his friends) are everywhere, even making an impact on our daily lives.

But what about the impact on Mickey Mouse and Disney from the outside? It’s a question that popped up in my head, more specifically the impact of today and in the (near) future! Let’s have a look at some possible theories (I think) that has have impact on the mouse and that might form the future look of Disney. Let’s do so starting with the biggest influence at the moment; PIXAR!

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As reported earlier today the Narnia Chronicles keep Disney rather busy right now with all the promotion going on for the second installment of the series (Prince Caspian), which opened only past weekend, but also with the pre-production for the third movie of the series “The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader”. John Griffin of The Gazette now got the first scoop on the 2010 Narnia movie from Andrew Adamson, director of the first two installments of the series (as well as Dreamwork’s Shrek and Shrek 2 - which the article accidentially credits to Disney <g>)…

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… I am not talking about the singer with the ever changing name (why should I say hail to him?) … I am talking about Prince Caspian, the second installment of the “Chronicle of Narnia” series of Walt Disney Pictures, which premiered in the US and selected international numbers before the weekend. The results? First spot in the movie charts on its opening weekend - but that is only part of the story …

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A short update thanks to the TAG Blog on the current production status of Disney’s first feature length 2D animation film in years to be released on the big screen, The Princess and the Frog: apparently the experimental phase has ended for the movie’s first act and actual animation work is taking place. Accordingly more and more artist are joining the crew.

Disney is doing very well again with a better than expected 22% rise in profit. Especially the movies National Treasure: Book of Secrets and the fairy tale “Enchanted” together with Disney theme park attendance are taking care of the big profits in their last quarter.

Even with the frightening economic situation at the moment, Disney seems unstoppable boosting their profits and making their shareholders happy.

“All of the big media companies are doing fundamentally very well and the market just refuses to acknowledge it,” (Reuters)

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Disney has released the poster for the upcoming third part in the High School Musical series. The success of the previous two movies made it possible to release the third part in the theater. No choice as to go and see it for myself (as my son will drag me into the cinema to see it), but I hoped the franchise would end here. What more can they tell about the group and friends after they left school.

But the success of the series will be used to start another movie with new kids. So I think we are in for High School Musical IV and V and…

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Disney has started a new film label to produce nature documents from world top documentary filmmakers. The label, named DisneyNature, will release movies about the beauty of our planet. On of them called simply “Earth” (April 22, 2009)., a movie that will be produced an directed by the award winning British Alastair Fothergill who already gave us the “Blue Planet” and the “Planet Earth” series. Darth Vader, oeps, I meant James Earl Jones will be the narrator of this new production.

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We are still waiting for the May 16 opening of the second installment of the “Narnia”-series, titled “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” (or even longer for some of us here in Eruope, where at least in Germany the movie won’t open till July!) … but the powers at Disney and Walden (the partner of Disney for this franchise) already proof all the gloom sayers on the internet wrong by announcing, that Disney and Walden are NOT abandoning the franchise!!

While some popular sites already declared the series dead or nearly dead unless the second movie did outstanding business the partners used the Comic Con in New York to announce that filming for the third movie in the series will commence as early as October of this year!

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