They make it look so easy.
They sing. They dance. They recite their lines and hit their marks, even as hydraulic lifts rise up and down within inches of their feet and the boat occasionally sways ever so slightly to and fro, making for sometimes unsteady underpinnings.
And one lucky performer gets to do all this while wearing a 55-pound, Swarovski crystal-studded Cinderella gown.
On the Disney Magic’s eight-night Bahamian cruises out of New York next year, a talented cast of 30 singers and dancers will take part in four different stage productions in front of packed houses in the grand Walt Disney Theatre. Read More...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Limited Broadway Run for Disney’s ‘Newsies’
In a break from its traditionally lavish approach to Broadway, Disney Theatrical Productions announced plans on Tuesday to mount a low-budget, three-month run of its new show “Newsies the Musical” in New York this spring, limiting its financial risk after two costly flops.
This new entry for the Broadway season, which so far has a thin lineup of original musicals, is a fast move by a company that usually prepares productions years in advance. Disney is known for planning and spending many millions of dollars on Broadway musicals, like its current hits “The Lion King” and “Mary Poppins,” and on major advertising campaigns aimed at laying the groundwork for long runs in New York and future national and international tours. Read More...
This new entry for the Broadway season, which so far has a thin lineup of original musicals, is a fast move by a company that usually prepares productions years in advance. Disney is known for planning and spending many millions of dollars on Broadway musicals, like its current hits “The Lion King” and “Mary Poppins,” and on major advertising campaigns aimed at laying the groundwork for long runs in New York and future national and international tours. Read More...
Apple Names Levinson Chairman, Disney’s Bob Iger to Board
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. beefed up its board by appointing Art Levinson as chairman, filling a vacancy left by the death of Steve Jobs, and adding Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger as a director.
Levinson, on Apple’s board since 2000, becomes non- executive chairman, the Cupertino, California-based company said yesterday in a statement.
Adding Iger may cement ties to Disney, on whose board Jobs had a seat, and may ensure that Apple retains access to the entertainment company’s TV shows and movies, said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos. Levinson’s appointment lets Tim Cook concentrate on being CEO without the added responsibility of being chairman, he said. Read More...
Levinson, on Apple’s board since 2000, becomes non- executive chairman, the Cupertino, California-based company said yesterday in a statement.
Adding Iger may cement ties to Disney, on whose board Jobs had a seat, and may ensure that Apple retains access to the entertainment company’s TV shows and movies, said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos. Levinson’s appointment lets Tim Cook concentrate on being CEO without the added responsibility of being chairman, he said. Read More...
Monday, November 14, 2011
Disney's John Carter adaptation goes back to the future of film
With suited-up actors playing 12-foot Martians in locations based on Earth's natural sights, this is a triumph for old-style film-making that could make its competitors look prehistoric
Every time I write about John Carter, I find myself wanting to sell it to you. Usually, writing this blog requires a careful suppression of my naturally benevolent attitude towards fantasy fare in the knowledge that most of these movies don't end up being half as great as we expect them to be. But Disney's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars books is such a preposterous proposition – the opener to a mega-budget franchise, directed by a first-time live-action film-maker, set on a Mars that doesn't remotely resemble the real red planet and based on a series of books from a weird outdated genre which hardly anyone has read – that I can't help rooting for it. Read More...
Every time I write about John Carter, I find myself wanting to sell it to you. Usually, writing this blog requires a careful suppression of my naturally benevolent attitude towards fantasy fare in the knowledge that most of these movies don't end up being half as great as we expect them to be. But Disney's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars books is such a preposterous proposition – the opener to a mega-budget franchise, directed by a first-time live-action film-maker, set on a Mars that doesn't remotely resemble the real red planet and based on a series of books from a weird outdated genre which hardly anyone has read – that I can't help rooting for it. Read More...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Disney Adds More Streaming
Rivals Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. unveiled separate deals with Walt Disney Co. to offer ABC and Disney Channel shows over the Internet.
The deals are the latest efforts by the streaming-video providers to build their libraries and attract subscribers. For content owners like Disney, the new deals are part of a gold rush as they look to cash in on what they see as a new marketplace for selling older TV shows and movies, even as other revenue sources like DVDs recede.
Amazon's subscription-based, unlimited streaming service has closed in on Netflix of late, adding more than 11,000 titles from companies such as CBS Corp. since February. Read More...
The deals are the latest efforts by the streaming-video providers to build their libraries and attract subscribers. For content owners like Disney, the new deals are part of a gold rush as they look to cash in on what they see as a new marketplace for selling older TV shows and movies, even as other revenue sources like DVDs recede.
Amazon's subscription-based, unlimited streaming service has closed in on Netflix of late, adding more than 11,000 titles from companies such as CBS Corp. since February. Read More...
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