D23 Reviews, Interviews & More
D23, named after the year the Walt Disney Company was founded, was started as fan service. For most people, Disney is the films they grew up with and watched with their parents, and watch with their children - or even by themselves - and Disneyland (especially if you don't live in California) is a place to go to once, maybe twice. For the D23 crowd, Walt Disney and its various products are a...
Though The Odd Life of Timothy Green and the nature film Chimpanzee had trailers shown (and Jennifer Garner talked briefly about Green), the majority of attention for Disney's live Actions films at D23 went to The Muppets and John Carter....
Saving the best for last, D23's movie panel concluded with footage from The Avengers, which is still shooting and has two weeks left to go. Though some of the cast was unavailable, Disney brought out Robert Downey Jr., Scarlet Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston and Colbie Smulders to wave at the crowd before they showed the footage twice. Here's...
Though no longer the crown jewel of the Disney stable, the Disney animation department are still working on aniated features (often computer animated) that aren't under the Pixar brand, and some Direct to Video titles. The D23 presentation of films started with talk of the Straight-to-Video spin-off Planes, which features the voice talents of Jon Cryer, with a trailer...
For D23, there were a number of film presentations, but the highlight was much of the Pixar material. On top of the two newly announced titles, their slate through summer of 2014 was discussed, from the upcoming Brave through to those two announced untitled projects. John Lasseter was the tour guide through the animated material, but here's a...
D23 had some high and low points in terms of its film presentations, but one of the clear winners in terms of fan support and interest was the Pixar presentation - which ended with each audience audience being given a cupcake. Two new projects were announced: director Bob Petersen and producer John Walker are working on "The Untitled Pixar film about Dinosaurs," and...
For those hoping for scoops, D23 has not offered that much new information. The big news of the day was that The Muppets will have a Toy Story short in front of it. That short is called "Small Fry" and will feature the voice of Jane Lynch. The day was mostly mellow in terms of big guns (which should be unleashed tomorrow), as it was meant...
D23 was supposed to be Disney's answer to Comic-con, or at least that's what some thought when Disney - for the most part - pulled out of the San Diego event earlier this year. And yet 2011's D23 is surprisingly mellow, geared more toward the superfan than the casual Disney consumer. And in terms of hype, there are no booths set up highlighting upcoming titles like The...
D23 finished up yesterday with Toy Story and Cars, Director John Lasseter heading a presentation for Disney's upcoming animation and Pixar films. Although they mainly rehashed news from the opening day announcements and re-confirmed the casting of Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants, Lasseter also confirmed quite a bit of casting news...
At the Disney D23 event we were lucky enough to speak to one of the producers of the upcoming sequel Tron Legacy. Steven Lisberger directed the first Tron back in 1982, and serves as a writer and producer this second time around. As we mentioned in a previous post, Jeff Bridges will appear in the new film as an older and a younger version of...
Just came out of the Tron Legacy presentation at D23. As you can see from the above photo I had a front row seat for the event. Below are some photos (most of which they premiered at Comic-Con) and some details from an interview/panel with the original writer/director Steven Lisberger who is now the producer on the new film, joined with the new Tron Legacy...
Sadly, there was not too much new information on the Tim Burton front at D23. He talked a little bit about why he was interested in taking on Alice in Wonderland.
He managed to dis Disney to the Chairman's face and in front of a Disney audience by saying that the reason he wanted to make the film is because, "I never saw one... I know you already made one... that...
Not only did Pepe, the Shrimp Muppet come out and sing a song, but he brought the whole gang, Piggy, Kermet and all out for a song on the Mark Twain boat.
First Pepe kicked Dick Cook off the stage by saying "go greenlight something." They then sang a song and with the audience clapping along and at the end, the two muppet critics, Statler and Waldorf came on and asked for "Grumpy to come...
On the second day of the Disney D23 Expo they showed us a presentation of several upcoming Disney projects, from the end of 2009 and on.
I'll be doing a full write up soon, but here is a list of some of the highlights:
Disney goes creepy. Dick Cook, the chairman of Walt Disney announced this morning at a Disney Presentation at D23 that Guillermo del Toro will be leading Disney's new label "Disney Double Dare You" which will be animated films that are "meant to scare" and be filled with "chills and thrills."
The project will be lead by Del Toro and is meant to bring back the...
As I posted earlier, D23 is quite a bit slower than Comic-Con and as a result there was quite a bit of wandering time which was spent on the floor looking at props from the set of "Lost", watching people dance to either Miley Cyrus or The Village People, or talking to trash cans.
Here are some of the videos we have from wandering the floor today...
We've got some more photos from the Alice in Wonderland display at this year's Disney D23 Expo. We previously brought you images of the White and March Hare, as well as the infamous hat of the Mad Hatter. This second batch includes some props from the film used by actors Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter in their roles as The White Queen and The Red...
ScreenCrave has been reporting on the events at this year's Disney D23 Expo and one thing is for sure, it's still got some growing up to do. While we've been keeping you updated on all the developing news regarding the event, there has been one thing that all D23 goers have all been saying, where are all the people? They have a similar set up to events like Comic-Con, in fact walking through...
We've just snagged a few photo's from the display of the upcoming Disney film, The Sorcerer's Apprentice. For the past year all the general public has seen from the movie are set photos and paparazzi images off the internet. The studio has taken their sweet time with putting out anything official from the film. With that in mind, imagine the excitement people will...
A lot of fans are awaiting the release of the Disney adaptation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The studio has put out a few posters promoting the film, but we've come across an amazing costume display set up at the D23 convention. The entire presentation is pretty true to the Middle Eastern background of the story, but the outfits that stars Jake Gyllenhaal...
