The Disney Thread: For Everything Concerning the House of Mouse

[sixpackshaker]

I'd hate to be the teamster that has to stand under a baby elephant being swung around on a harness...

 

[Sparhawk]

They made Lion King not only work as a musical, but as one of the better regarded ones.

The do Finding Nemo as a musical and large puppet show in Animal Kingdom, I almost can't watch the movie now, I keep expecting songs that aren't there.

 

[PatrThom]

Dumbo isn't one of those properties I see as really working as well in live-action.

Soooooooooo close.

--Patrick

 

[filmfanatic]

Disney has made the cast announcement for their next animated film: Big Hero 6.

http://blogs.disney.com/insider/2014/07/14/big-hero-6-cast-announcement/

 

[Celt Z]

I don't know what kind of deal Disney made with Alan Tudyk, but they're getting some great voice acting out of him in their last few films.

 

[PatrThom]

I noticed the name, too. It just keeps popping up! Started paying attention after I got curious as to who did the Ed Wynn impression for King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph, and he just doesn't seem to be stopping.

--Patrick

 

[Celt Z]

I noticed the name, too. It just keeps popping up! Started paying attention after I got curious as to who did the Ed Wynn impression for King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph, and he just doesn't seem to be stopping.

--Patrick

Because you saw his name associated with it, or because you know Alan Tudyk from his live action work?

 

[Hailey Knight]

I noticed the name, too. It just keeps popping up! Started paying attention after I got curious as to who did the Ed Wynn impression for King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph, and he just doesn't seem to be stopping.

--Patrick

Well, Joss Whedon found a way to stop him.

 

[Celt Z]

Well, Joss Whedon found a way to stop him.

You can only slow Pirate Steve down, not truly stop him.

 

[PatrThom]

Because you saw his name associated with it, or because you know Alan Tudyk from his live action work?

No, I looked up who did the voice, and that was my first interest in the actor.

--Patrick

 

[Ravenpoe]

No, I looked up who did the voice, and that was my first interest in the actor.

--Patrick

You mean you haven't seen... oh wait.

 

[Celt Z]

No, I looked up who did the voice, and that was my first interest in the actor.

--Patrick

Ahhhh... got it. Well, if you like him, as we've indicated above, he's got a pretty well-known body of live action tv and film work. He's a pretty good character actor.

 

[Just Me]

Ahhhh... got it. Well, if you like him, as we've indicated above, he's got a pretty well-known body of live action tv and film work. He's a pretty good character actor.

Tucker & Dale vs Evil
'nuff said

 

[BErt]

My fandom for Alan Tyduk grew as you'd expect through A Knights Tale, Dodgeball, Firefly, Tucker & Dale...so it was a little jarring seeing his character in 42

 

[filmfanatic]

...And now, we have the first trailer for Big Hero 6.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Liking it so far.

Please be more Wreck-It Ralph than Frozen.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Liking it so far.

Please be more Wreck-It Ralph than Frozen.

Let it go.

 

[Hailey Knight]

Let it go.

 

[filmfanatic]

Apparently, a feature film isn't the only thing Disney is doing with the Haunted Mansion. They're also developing an animated special for Disney Channel and Disney XD, with children's author Gris Grimly involved as an executive producer and art director.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=120715

 

[filmfanatic]

More casting news for The Jungle Book: Giancarlo Esposito will voice Akela and Christopher Walken will voice King Louie.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=121139

 

[Gryfter]

More casting news for The Jungle Book: Giancarlo Esposito will voice Akela and Christopher Walken will voice King Louie.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=121139

Can stop imagining Walken singing "I wanna be like you".

 

[Covar]

Can stop imagining Walken singing "I wanna be like you".

Pretty much been going through my head since I saw the announcement.

"Oh. Oobee. Doo. I...wanna be like..you."

 

[CynicismKills]

I hope Walken does MoCap for Louie, but it's only the dance from Weapon of Choice.

 

[Yoshimickster]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHNEWGRAVITYFALLSYESYESYES! Nick Offerman plays a secret government agent(plus for inside jokes), also

Spoiler

GRUNKLE STAN KICKS ZOMBIE ASS SQUEEEEEEEEEE!

Kinda wish my DVR didn't have that annoying habit of recording the end of a show I wasn't watching and cutting off the very end, but obviously it went online probably 20 seconds after it aired so I was able to catch the very end.

 

[Sparhawk]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHNEWGRAVITYFALLSYESYESYES! Nick Offerman plays a secret government agent(plus for inside jokes), also

Spoiler

GRUNKLE STAN KICKS ZOMBIE ASS SQUEEEEEEEEEE!

Kinda wish my DVR didn't have that annoying habit of recording the end of a show I wasn't watching and cutting off the very end, but obviously it went online probably 20 seconds after it aired so I was able to catch the very end.

That's not your dvr doing that, it's the network playing with their timing to try to keep people from changing the channel. Just go into your settings and add a minute or two to the recording of the programs that you want it to record. My TiVo does that fairly easily and I do pad my recordings of shows that I want to make sure that I catch ALL of it.

 

[filmfanatic]

Another addition has been made to the cast of The Jungle Book: Bill Murray as Baloo.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=121361

 

[PatrThom]

That's not your dvr doing that, it's the network playing with their timing to try to keep people from changing the channel.

They're doing it to punish the DVR and Tivo people. When they discovered that everybody was actually time-shifting rather than watching them as they aired, they started advancing/delaying shows by a hair to keep people from being able to record across channels without buying multiple DVRs.

--Patrick

 

[Sparhawk]

They're doing it to punish the DVR and Tivo people. When they discovered that everybody was actually time-shifting rather than watching them as they aired, they started advancing/delaying shows by a hair to keep people from being able to record across channels without buying multiple DVRs.

--Patrick

Technology has already defeated them. 1 TiVo, 6 tuners. I own it.

The shifting of times for shows started long before dvrs were popular. I remember way back in the early 80s that it was being done, basically to keep you from seeing the opening of a show on another network and making it less likely for the average person to not change the channel.

My wife just made me set a season pass to record "Girl Meets World."

 

[Yoshimickster]

Also apparently the first two episodes are on "Watch Disney XD", the second episode is also amazing.

 

[PatrThom]

Technology has already defeated them. 1 TiVo, 6 tuners. I own it.

Still, it amuses me that someone decided that this primitive form of Viewer DRM was necessary to encourage Vendor Lock-In and discourage channel-surfing.

--Patrick

 

[figmentPez]

Can stop imagining Walken singing "I wanna be like you".

Well, it wouldn't be the first time Walken has done a musical...

 

[filmfanatic]

Well, it wouldn't be the first time Walken has done a musical...

He's also going to be in an ABC channel live performance of the musical Peter Pan as Captain Hook later this year.

 

[Just Me]

I cannot stop seeing an image of King Louie saying. "We need more cowbells!"

 

[PatrThom]

I cannot stop seeing an image of King Louie saying. "We need more cowbells!"

And you thought all he was after was the secret of Man's red fire.

--Patrick

 

[Covar]

The shifting of times for shows started long before dvrs were popular. I remember way back in the early 80s that it was being done, basically to keep you from seeing the opening of a show on another network and making it less likely for the average person to not change the channel.

TBS used to schedule everything at X:05 and X:35