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ESPN looking to Olympics coverage

ESPN is expected to bid for rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics.
NBC, which as the rights to the Olympics through 2012, has made certain that ESPN gets little in the way of coverage of the sports event.
With Disney owned ESPN’s growing popularity and increased revenues, it is expected that it will challenge NBC’s lock [...]

Voice of Tinker Bell fired by Disney denies

Disney is denying claims that they fired Brittany Murphy who was slated to be the voice of Tinker Bell.
A Disney spokesman stated that the change was due to a schedule conflict which resulted after John Lasseter joined the company and changed the date of the project.
Mae Whitman has been hired as Murphy’s replacement.

Pirates of the Caribbean 3: Movie Poster

I’m not sure if this is real or a photoshoped fake but it’s pretty cool. I like the Jack Sparrow style beard on the skull. POTC 3 is going to rock.

Richards on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean 3:

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Richards on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean 3:
At World’s End. For those that don’t know, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones has been cast to play Jack Sparrow’s dad.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

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In Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End the player will get to play both Dead Mans Chest and At Worlds End. Playable characters are Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swan and many of the other characters for a short while such as Barbosa or Mr Gibbs.
Ill start off with the character [...]

Pixar News

I spent the day at Comic-Con in beautiful downtown San Diego. It was an overwhelming experience. I walked by the likes of Lou Feragno and Stan Lee, and just missed Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith and the cast of Heroes. In the geek world it doesn’t get any better.
The one thing that [...]

Virgin Megastores Sold

Looks like they are NOT facing the same fate as the Tower stores. So, you will still have them as an option for buying your Disney media.

First Animatronic Puppet in Film

Andrew over at Puppetvision makes a very good point. Many people put The Dark Crystal (1982)(perhaps The Empire Strikes Back(1980)) as the first use of an animatronic puppet in film. But turns out it was probably another very innovative film — Mary Poppins. Walt was always looking forward an used animatronics in many of his [...]

Blu-Ray vs. HD Update

People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching “Spider-Man 3″ in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will only be available in the Blu-ray DVD format. Likewise, people with Blu-ray players won’t be able to enjoy the action-thriller “The Bourne Ultimatum,” which [...]


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