Word: disneyism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think I hate the little midget." --From unpublished notes for Disney chairman Michael Eisner's 1998 autobiography, Work in Progress...
...media, '90s sense of the word. Multiple brides fly through the air at a rather astonishing pace, a full-sized carriage careens dangerously across the set, gallons of fog are blown onto the stage, and the audience is treated to a rare display of indoor pyrotechnics. So in short, Disney meets The Boston Ballet...
Imagine (which is in partnership with Disney's Touchstone Television) is also nurturing unknown talent. After seeing The Script Doctor, a short film made for just $150 by the Fields brothers, a Cleveland, Ohio, threesome who worked in their father's wedding-video business, the company hired them to develop Student Affairs. And New York independent filmmaker Noah Baumbach, 29, got a telephone call from Imagine inviting him to pitch TV ideas similar to his chatty, cerebral film comedies (one, Kicking and Screaming, was about a group of guys who graduate from college but won't leave). Baumbach came...
...LADIES, EITHER Disney recently asked Elton John and Tim Rice to update Aida, the opera about an Egyptian's doomed love for an Ethiopian slave. They did more than just lighten the tone. While Verdi has Egyptians making garlands for soldiers, John and Rice have the Spice Girls singing about panties...
What to Look For Directed by The Simpsons and King of the Hill alum Brad Bird and featuring the vocal talents of Jennifer Aniston and Harry Connick Jr., this isn't your standard Disney fare. With some of the best non-Disney animation to date and a solid screenplay blessed by Ted Hughes before his death, this movie will appeal to adults and kids alike. Internet snoops have reported religious experiences during test screenings, meaning The Iron Giant could be the first truly epic animated film. Hopefully, Warner Bros. Will see its (rumored) potential and beef up its almost...