Tag: DISNEY

The latest to implement institutional or industry-wide crackdowns on Twitter, movie industry heavyweights are trying to plug the news leaks that often spring from Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites. The Hollywood Reporter (THR) writes that studios like Disney and Dreamworks are now adding to contracts clauses that would prohibit new hires from leaking news stories before ...

Thanks to those imagineers at Walt Disney World, you no longer have to be an engineer to design a theme park ride, or be a nerd to have fun doing math. A new interactive feature, developed by Disney and military contractor Raytheon, and called Sum of All Thrills, opened yesterday at Disney's Epcot park. Both of the parties involved hope it'll teach kids that engineering and math can be fun and ...

Is Disney trying to put the nail in the coffin of story time? It's not enough that adults have replaced actual paper books with e-readers like the Kindle, now Disney is trying to replace children's books (and parents) with laptops. A new service, called Disney Digital Books, lets kids read what are essentially advertisements for Disney films on a computer screen. There are 500 books from which ...

When news started breaking on Monday morning about Disney's purchase of Marvel, artists, designers, and animators immediately began creating mashups of their favorite cartoon and comic characters. The animation aficionados at Super Punch have thankfully eliminated extensive searching and surfing by assembling an impressive arsenal of mashup creations. The collection features some obvious ...

The 38-year-old Walt Disney World Monorail System suffered its first fatal accident on Sunday when a driver failed to stop and slammed into the back of a stationary train, killing him instantly. The accident occurred at 2 a.m. with 21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg behind the controls, and six passengers on board. All the other passengers escaped unharmed, but Wuennenberg was not so lucky. Disney ...

Put down that import order form Tarantino & Samuel L. Jackson fans, Disney/Miramax has apparently set a date for 'Pulp Fiction' and Jackie Brown, with both coming to Blu-ray August 4. High-Def Digest notes they're tagged special editions, so in lieu of any official information about specs, extra features or price, we still expect only the best for these long awaited flicks. ...

It's 2008 and we've finally achieved the ultimate goal of modern robotics. No, not singularity... better: a cross-promotional marketing deal between the world's leading robots. Meet the Wall-E edition of iRobot's Roomba 530. The special edition Roomba is just like the original 530 only with the addition of that magnificent sticker for a extra ¥5,000 (about $50) premium. 400 units of the ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/movies/Amazon_Video_on_Demand_store_to_take_on_iTunes'; The New York Times is reporting that Amazon is scrapping its Unbox service in favor of a new online TV and movie store called Amazon Video on Demand. Unlike iTunes and Unbox, Amazon's new digital store-front will stream any of 40,000 movies and television programs to customers. According to Bill Carr, ...

Well, would you look at this. Not even a month after we heard that TiVo would be offering on-demand movie rentals from Disney comes word that PC Internet junkies will be able to get their fix this summer, too. Announced today, Disney.com will soon be delivering films from the 'Wonderful World of Disney' to the Web, as it streams out full-length movies gratis for Web viewers. The deal is this: ...

If you haven't been to Disney World in Orlando, Florida in a few years, you might be surprised to see just how huge the thing is these days. Like, really huge -- in fact, it's overwhelmingly large enough to make the longest of family vacations feel woefully inadequate. Trying to even see the highlights over a long weekend will require some serious planning. Thankfully, organizing your trip to ...

We've seen outfits and networks dig deep to figure out how to make ads more attractive (or just watchable, really), but Disney's taking things to an entirely new plateau. The mega-corp is establishing a laboratory in Austin, Texas which will actually test the biometric reactions of up to 4,000 people in order to better understand what types of commercials are most effective. In the controlled ...

Need some irony with your angst-battered diet this morning? Swell, try some of this. Disney and Pixar are set to release their latest animated blockbuster, WALL-E, this summer. The premise of the film finds WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-Class) cleaning up the Earth's trash after rampant, unchecked consumerism made the planet uninhabitable. So how do they promote the film? You got ...

Disney's Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World is, as the name implies, a rather magical place. It's also not a place that is close (or cheap) enough for everyone to attend whenever they want. It was no surprise, then, that when Disney launched an online Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK) back in 2005, kids everywhere wanted to get in on the action. And, just as in real life, said children aren't too ...

Disney is planning on giving the mobile phone market another shot, even though its Disney Mobile service, the result of a deal with Sprint Nextel, failed to garner enough business in the US. This time, though, Disney is taking its wares overseas to Japan and targeting an older audience 00 namely, adult women. Disney stuck a deal with Softbank Mobile, one of the largest mobile service providers in ...

Non-gaming uses for the Nintendo DS are starting to become more widespread. Initially, these alternative functions were made up of non-traditional gameplay, brain and face training and skin care. Then, Wii-nnovations morphed into services such as ordering food and showing replays at Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners. Now, Disney is piloting a program to use the dual-screened device as ...