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Disney Removes Bonus Features From Rental DVDs
In early March, Fox stripped their rental DVDs of their special features in an attempt to increase DVD sale revenue. Disney will now follow their example by releasing two editions of the same DVD, the rental edition without any features and the retail edition.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsABC Will Join Hulu After All
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Found in: Movies, NewsDisney to show ABC, ESPN videos on YouTube
Recently, we reported that Disney Co. was allegedly in talks with Hulu about offering shows from its ABC network on the NBC Universal/News Corp-owned online-video distributer.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsDisney inches toward a deal with Hulu
The Walt Disney Co. is trying to get a leg up on that newfangled contraption known as teh internetz. The media conglomerate has allegedly restarted talks with Hulu about offering shows from its ABC network on the online video distributor owned by NBC Universal and News Corp.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsFive Reasons Why Phineas and Ferb is the Best Kids Show on TV
Finding Phineas and Ferb tucked among horrific shows like Wizards of Waverly Place and Hannah Montana is a little like finding the savior of humanity in Nazareth: No good thing is supposed to come from Disney television. But there it is, an 11-minute show packed with intersecting plot lines, adventure in suburbia, intrigue and a pet platypus doubling as a super agent. It's the only show that all three kids (ages four, eight and 10) plus both parents actually like (my wife is the lone hold-out on The Simpsons). And here are five reasons why:... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayKeira Knightley declines fourth Pirates movie
It was a faraway beach at sunset. Will Turner lightly kissed Elizabeth Swan's leg and headed out for 10 years of captaining the Flying Dutchman, and audiences of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were left with more questions than answers. What would happen, the crowd wondered (perhaps skeptically, seeing that this was already a sequel to a sequel), in 10 years when the lovers reunited? Over the course of a lonely decade, would the loopy, eye-shadow-smeared embrace of Capt. Jack Sparrow start to look attractive to the husband-deprived Mrs. Turner? We were less worried about young Will; not... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsIn coup, DreamWorks to release movies through Disney
In a major surprise and minor industry scandal, DreamWorks confirmed on Monday that it will now release its movies through Disney, not Universal, as had previously been announced.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsDisney starts best-picture campaign for Wall-E
Never mind that an animated film has never won a best picture Oscar. Never mind that only one, Beauty and the Beast, has ever even been nominated. And never mind, evidently, that the academy created the best animated feature award in 2001 to give the medium the recognition it deserves.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsHathaway and Bonham Carter join Burton's Alice
Fresh off the heels of a critically acclaimed performance in Rachel Getting Married, Anne Hathaway has nabbed a role in Tim Burton's next film, alongside Burton mainstay Johnny Depp.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsHollywood studios to help theaters pay for 3D technology
In a rare collaborative effort for the major Hollywood studios, word from Reuters is that Disney, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Warner Bros. are close to an agreement worth upward of $1 billion to finance the installation of thousands of digital screens at theaters across North America.... read more
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