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Until recently, the same reaction would have greeted anybody with a notion of resurrecting the nearly moribund art of animation. Feature films as lavishly animated as Walt Disney classics like Fantasia and Pinocchio? That sort of craftsmanship seemed as antiquated as hand-stitched lace curtains. Cartoon shorts before the main feature in movie theaters? Too expensive -- and anyway, they would only slow down the parade of customers filing in and out of the multiplex. Animation in prime time? Went out with The Flintstones...
...million and still going strong. It stands a good chance of becoming the first film since Blazing Saddles in 1974 to win the year's box-office race without having been released in the summer or Christmas seasons. "It's out of date," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios, "this idea that there are 12 golden weeks of summer and two golden weeks of winter. We are now a 52-weeks- a-year business...
Steven Spielberg wants to be Walt Disney. Jay Stein wants to get even with the Walt Disney Co. So the movie director, who in the past decade has created a boutique industry of family films in the grand old Disney tradition, and the president of MCA's recreation division, who believes his idea for a movie- studio theme park was filched by Disney Chairman Michael Eisner a decade ago, were just the fellows to devise Universal Studios Florida in Orlando, ten miles up the road from omnipotent Walt Disney World...
...Walt Disney Co. ((is)) soliciting paid product placements in a new film, "Mr. Destiny." Companies such as Campbell Soup Co., Nabisco Brands and Kraft General Foods Group are believed to have been contacted . . . The cost structure, as outlined in letters to marketers, is $20,000 for a visual, $40,000 for a brand name mention with the visual and $60,000 for an actor to use the product...
Well, not really. Actually, it's been just 27 games, going back to the mid-80s. And, as long as it may seem to members of the Walt Frazier fan club, that's not as long as most other sport curses. Just ask any Cubs...