| Disney In Depth: People Deserving To Be Disney Legends
More than 200 individuals have been awarded the highest honor from The Walt Disney Company. Disney Legends are people whose contributions to the corporation extend from music and animation, to design and acting. The group only inducts a handful of folks every couple of years now. In light of the most recent collection of inductees, such as composer Danny Elfman, soap star Susan Lucci, and artist Andreas Deja, I started to ponder who should be the next set of honorees. Here are six people who deserve to be named Disney Legends.
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| D23 Expo 2015: ‘Toy Story 4’ Will Be A Romantic Film
It was first thought that 2010’s Toy Story 3 would be the end of Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story film franchise, with the characters to live on through animated shorts. Director John Lasseter had explained that there won’t be a Toy Story 4 unless there was a story that was worth telling. But Lasseter’s wife would help with the inspiration for a fourth feature film, and when the Pixar Brain Trust Member Andrew Stanton worked together on the sequel, Stanton came up with a treatment that convinced him that it was worthy to revisit the world of Toy Story. Months after, it was confirmed that Will McCormack and Rashida Jones would develop the treatment to a full script. Now we know more about the film, which has been described as a romantic film with a Pixar touch. Lasseter made an appearance on Friday at the Pixar Animation Panel during Disney’s D23 Expo, where he talked more about the next installment.
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| Honest Trailers: ‘Toy Story’
Never before (and I’ve watched them all) has a Screen Junkies Honest Trailer ever made me think as much as their latest entry, Toy Story. Narrator Jon Bailey makes you feel old in a hurry, reminding the audience that Disney’s first foray into computer animation came out the same year as… Windows 95! Of course, if Toy Story came out today, it would look more like Wall-E, as every kid Andy’s age plays with high-priced tech toys like video games, and cell phone apps, and can play with all their friends while sitting all alone in their rooms. I know. I have an 11-year-old. Watch the Honest Trailer below.
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| ‘Inferno’: Ron Howard Reveals Cast For Third ‘Da Vinci Code’ Movie
Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard has officially revealed the cast for Inferno, the third movie in his Da Vinci Code trilogy based on the books of author Dan Brown. The previous two movies, 2006’s The Da Vinci Code and 2009’s Angels & Demons, starred two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks in the lead, and the actor again reprises his role as Robert Langdon for the trilogy-maker. The second movie was actually Hanks’ first ever live-action sequel, believe it or not (he of course voiced the character Woody in Pixar’s Toy Story animated features and shorts), which naturally makes Inferno his first live-action trilogy. You can see who else Howard has announced for the cast below.
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| Tom Hanks and ‘Cast Away’ Costar Wilson At The NY Rangers Game (Photo)
Tom Hanks was at the New York Rangers hockey game tonight at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, and I don’t know how and I don’t know why, but he had his “friend” and Cast Away co-star Wilson with him. Hanks was captured on camera at the game holding Wilson. Check out the photo here below posted to the Rangers’ official Twitter account tonight. Wilson, you might recall, was the actor’s co-star in the 2000 Robert Zemeckis-directed film, which saw Hanks as Chuck, a FedEx employee stranded for over four years on an uninhabited South Pacific island after surviving a plane crash. Wilson also happens to be a volleyball with a bloodied handprint face on it that was Chuck’s best friend on the island, helping him to maintain as much of his sanity as he could under the dire circumstances. Over the course of the movie, the inanimate Wilson becomes a loveable character.
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