Tuesday, the Walt Disney Company announced a $1 million cash commitment to the OneOrlando Fund, established by Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer to assist those affected by the tragic events in Orlando. Also, eligible donations from Disney employees will be matched dollar for dollar by Disney Employee Matching Gifts: A Program of The Walt Disney Company…
In 1992 Walt Disney Studios released its first live action musical since Pete’s Dragon’s release in 1977. Newsies starred relatively unknown child actors, Christian Bale (Batman) and David Moscow (Big) and a few well-known adult actors Robert Duvall (The Judge), Ann Margaret (Bye Bye Birdie) and Bill Pullman (Independence Day). The original songs were penned…
A Disney fan has started a Care2 petition urging Disney to #GiveElsaAGirlfriend in the upcoming sequel of the 2013 film Frozen. The Care2 petition captures the support surrounding the viral hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend, which was started by Twitter user Alexis Isabel on April 30. Julie Rodriguez, who who started the petition, writes, “I was a huge Disney princess…
Today, Disney and Marvel Studios answered a call to action from HRC President Chad Griffin, who urged Hollywood to abandon future productions in Georgia if Gov. Deal signs an anti-LGBT bill, H.B. 757, into law. The proposed legislation could weaken local non-discrimination protections and allow businesses to discriminate and deny service to LGBT people, in addition to…
I think I am supposed to be perturbed that Tomorrowland only exists because Disney realized that the theme park attraction of the same name had even greater profit potential as a feature film. But bashing Disney for synergistic money mongering is lazy, mostly because that’s what Disney has always done. Most of the time, they…
The Tampa Tribune has pulled a controversial column that alleged Disney is indoctrinating children with its “pro-gay agenda.” The column, which was highlighted by Media Matters for America, had also drawn criticism from gay rights activists and Florida journalists. Aug. 11, Douglas MacKinnon, who is listed on the since-pulled column as “Tribune staff,” argued that Disney has been engaged in an underhanded effort…
A few times in these pages I’ve criticized the marketing departments of film studios for advertising films as the opposite of what they really are. There was 50/50, a movie about cancer that was sold as a comedy because Seth Rogan is in it and says a few funny things. August: Osage County was marketed…
dvd of the week While I laud Disney for going back to basics with Frozen, for hiring Broadway stars to voice musical roles rather than stunt-casting them with super famous names, and I laud Disney for continuing their mission to give us stories about almost-feminist princesses who need their mothers or sisters more than they…
Walt Disney’s critical and commercial success, Frozen, is coming under fire from right-wing Christianist Kevin Swanson who claims the two-time Academy Award-winning picture is nothing more than agitprop to lure unsuspecting young females into a life of lesbian degeneracy. “Friends, this is evil, just evil,” Swanson said. “I wonder if people are thinking, ‘You know…
