Month: December 2009 (Page 2 of 4)

‘Toy Story 3’ gets IMAX 3D release

IMAX and Disney today announced that Toy Story 3 will be released to IMAX 3D theatres simultaneously with its wide release on June 18, 2010. Toy Story 3 will be digitally re-mastered with proprietary IMAX DMR (Digital Re-mastering) technology.

“Pixar’s beloved films have changed the way people go to the movies. IMAX is proud to be working with both Pixar and Disney, who like IMAX, strive to transport moviegoers to incredible places that people only dream about visiting,” added Greg Foster, Chairman and President of IMAX Filmed Entertainment. “In IMAX 3D and through the power of Randy Newman’s incomparable music, audiences will be able to see and hear Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the larger than life characters of Toy Story in a whole new way.”

Directed by Lee Unkrich, Toy Story 3 is a story of survival as the toys attempt to escape from the school to which they were donated after Andy left home for college.

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The Simpsons debuted 20 years ago today

The Simpsons first appeared in 1987 as a series of 30-second shorts produced by Groening for the FOX series “The Tracey Ullman Show.” The first of these shorts aired on April 19, 1987, during the third week of primetime broadcasts on FOX. Soon they had their own series, premiering on FOX as a half-hour Christmas special on Dec. 17, 1989 (20 years ago today), and then as a regular series on Jan. 14, 1990.

Aside from the wide range of souvenir items generated by the program, some of the character’s sayings have become part of pop culture history, such as “Don’t have a cow” and “D’oh.” Fun fact: when The Simpsons first went on the air, there were 193 million television sets in U.S. homes — today, the number is more than 300 million.

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R.I.P. Roy Edward Disney

The LA Times reports:

Roy Edward Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney whose commitment to his uncle’s creative spirit prompted him to mount revolts that led to the unseating of two of the company’s chief executives and a revival of the studio’s legendary animation unit, died today. He was 79.

Disney, who had been battling stomach cancer, died at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, according to Clifford A. Miller, a spokesman for Disney’s company Shamrock Holdings.

Read the entire article, which chronicles Mr. Roy Disney’s career, at LATimes.com

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