Disney Archive

  • Toy Story 3 clearly quite popular, has $109 million opening weekend

    Toy Story 3 clearly quite popular, has $109 million opening weekend

    It's safe to say that Toy Story is still Pixar's biggest, most beloved franchise. The third movie, which Biggs inexplicably reviewed the other day—should I review the new Roots album here?— took home some $109 million at the weekend. That's Pixar's biggest opening weekend ever. The other big, animated feature of the year, Shrek Forever After, only took home $71 million its first weekend.

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  • Winnie The Pooh, Stitch, Alien: Super-cute digital photo frames

    Winnie The Pooh, Stitch, Alien: Super-cute digital photo frames

    Tokyo-based gadget maker Greenhouse announced [JP] three super-cute, Disney-themed digital photo frames today, the GH-DF35TV. Buyers can choose between three characters: Winnie The Pooh, Stitch or Little Green Man (one of those green, three-eyed aliens from Toy Story 1 and 2).

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  • Sony Japan announces Disney-themed Walkmans

    Sony Japan announces Disney-themed Walkmans

    In September last year, Sony rolled out the S Series Walkman, portable audio and video players, which are supposed to compete with the iPod Nano. And today, Sony in Japan announced [JP] a branded version of those Walkmans, namely the "Disney Character S Series Walkman". To be more exact, Sony introduced nine Disney-themed Walkmans, a special case and a Mickey Mouse stand.

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  • Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles

    Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles

    Tron Legacy is nerds wet dream come true. The movie will hopefully invoke the same sort of futuristic imagination as the original. You've watched the trailer, right? Well, anyway, to gear up for the premiere, Disney has skin a couple of its monorails to look like the light cycles. Kind of meta future meets future moment, eh?

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  • Kenko-Tokina’s super-cute Mickey Mouse camera

    Kenko-Tokina’s super-cute Mickey Mouse camera

    Tokyo-based Kenko-Tokina, normally known for its camera accessories, has announced a cute Disney-themed digital camera [JP] for the Japanese market today. Spec-wise, this 8MP point-and-shoot camera isn't anything special, but that's what you'd expect from a camera whose case shows Mickey Mouse giving Minnie a bucket of hearts.

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  • Life goes behind-the-scenes of the 1954 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

    Life goes behind-the-scenes of the 1954 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

    This photoset is a fantastic use of 10 minutes of your time. Life apparently spent some time on the scenes of Disney’s 1954 classic and the photos have just been posted for your viewing pleasure. They are fantastic. Jump over to the site to see for yourself. [Time via Boing-Boing]

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  • December 17: Tron Legacy in IMAX 3D

    December 17: Tron Legacy in IMAX 3D

    When in doubt, make a sequel. When in doubt in the year 2009, tack on 3D. That's the mentality of Hollywood these days—“remakes” are another in thing—and it looks like will be in theaters on December 17, 2010Tron: Legacy . Considering my only knowledge of Tron comes from that one Simpsons episode, I'm not going to pretend to be excited. But maybe some of you are!

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  • Breaking: Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment For $4 Billion

    Breaking: Disney To Acquire Marvel Entertainment For $4 Billion

    The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash transaction, the companies announced today. Under the terms of the agreement and based on last week's closing price of Disney, Marvel shareholders would receive a total of $30 per share in cash plus approximately 0.745 Disney shares for each Marvel share they own. Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28, the transaction value is $50 per Marvel share or approximately $4 billion. Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its more than 5,000 Marvel characters, including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, Captain America, Fantastic Four and Thor. (News breaking, more coming)

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  • First look at the Mad Hatter from the Alice in Wonderland videogame

    First look at the Mad Hatter from the Alice in Wonderland videogame

    It’s not much is it? It’s hard to say if the videogame will be any good considering the fact that it will only be available on the Wii, DS and PC. I’m still waiting for updates on American McGee’s sequel to Alice.

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  • Toy Story, Cars, and Prince of Persia LEGO Minifigs are coming soon

    Toy Story, Cars, and Prince of Persia LEGO Minifigs are coming soon

    If we feature something LEGO here on CrunchGear, you can be sure that it’s worth your time and these Toy Story LEGO Minifigs are the coolest thing I have seen all day. Apparently Disney and LEGO hooked up back in February - who knew? - and this is the first of what is sure to [...]

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  • Disney announces multi-platform Alice in Wonderland video game

    Disney announces multi-platform Alice in Wonderland video game

    Disney Interactive Studios announced today that French dev Etranges Libellules has begun development of videogame adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s beloved Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to complement Tim Burton’s upcoming film, Alice in Wonderland. The Wii, DS and PC title take place a few years after both stories in Underland and [...]

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  • Disney Japan to launch movies on microSD cards in November

    Disney Japan to launch movies on microSD cards in November

    Well, this is certainly a novel idea that I hope studios in the US will adopt. Disney Japan announced today that it would begin shipping microSD cards chock-full of Disney movie goodness with the DVDs themselves. Panasonic will provide Disney Japan with the pint-sized memory cards when the DVD/microSD combos ship in November for 4935 [...]

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