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‘Soul’ Directors & Producer Q&A

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This is a new interview piece with director Pete Docter, co-director Kemp Powers and producer Dana Murray – all about their new Disney/Pixar animated feature “Soul”. It debuts December 25th. on Disney+ ————————————— Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson […]
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‘The Right Stuff’: Alright, Alright, Alright Already

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Disney and National Geographic present a new take on “The Right Stuff” for Disney+. It was already a book and a movie, so how ‘bout a miniseries (and one executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio)? Alright, I’ll cut to the chase: why do we need ANOTHER version of this story? I know all about the Mercury […]
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Unique Mickey Mouse Short Turns 25

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Next month marks the 25th anniversary of a unique Walt Disney Animation Studios Mickey Mouse short: “Runaway Brain”. It was released theatrically in August 1995 with the film “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court” (which flat-out bombed). But “RB” was nominated for that year’s Best Animated Short Film Academy Award (losing to “Wallace & Gromit” […]
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‘Hamilton’ Review

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“Hamilton”. The word and the show have defined Broadway for the past five years. But with the lights of the Great White Way dimmed for at least the rest of 2020, Disney and Lin-Manuel Miranda are bringing the stage phenomenon to homes across the nation. Two complete live performances of “Hamilton”, with the original cast, […]
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Movies Helping TV

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So far, CBS and ABC have gone into the vault and dug out some classic Paramount and Disney movies (respectively) to air. The “CBS Sunday Night Movies” series has already done well with “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (5.3 million viewers) and “Forrest Gump” (5.6 million). It will continue throughout the month of May with […]
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TV REVIEW: ‘Prop Culture’ on Disney+

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The new docu-series “Prop Culture” debuts next Friday, May 1st, on Disney+. It’s an 8-episode look at iconic pieces of movie memorabilia from some of the most popular Disney films of all-time, including “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”, “The Chronicles of Narnia”, “TRON” and “Pirates of the Caribbean”. But the first episode of the eight is […]
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