How boys grow up in Disney films
What’s it like to be an orphaned boy in a Disney film these days? November 25, 2015 The Good Dinosaur, the story of an orphaned boy raised in the forest by an orphaned dinosaur. April 15, 2016 The Jungle Book, the story of an orphaned boy raised in the forest by wolves, a panther and […]
Star Wars: The Not-So-Lost Interviews
From 1975 to 1978, Charles Lippincott–the marketing and publicity maestro for the Star Wars Corporation, conducted interviews with the movie’s cast and crew. He would use these to write The Making of Star Wars, a project that he ultimately dropped. Years later, Jonathan Rinzler used the interviews for The Making of Star Wars. Now that […]
X-Wings from Disney/Pixar!
Would you believe a Star Wars mashup with the Cars universe from Disney/Pixar? No? Well, here’s what it would be like: Happy April Fool’s Day from Big Bee Studio. Directed and animated by Brian K. Anderson. BigBeeBKA@gmail.com Twitter @BigBeeStudio VOICE CAST (in order of appearance): Narrator: Scott Fletcher — voice@caraworks.com Red Leader: Brian Ibbott — […]
Mark Hamill in the Magic Kingdom, 2014
In June 2014, Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World received a visitor from a galaxy far far away … or in real life, London, where Star Wars Episode VII was in production. Yes, Mark Hamill attended Star Wars Weekends, participating in a motorcade and being interviewed by voice actor James Arnold Taylor, Ben Kenobi […]
What keeps Star Wars alive?
Today Steve Sansweet posted a blog entry regarding Disney preparing new Star Wars merchandise for its stores. While reading it, this popped out at me: “With the merchandise being developed, it became the job of Jonathan Storey, a 22-year Disney Store veteran, to prepare the Stores and the Cast Members. It was a task that […]
