The Disney thread

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"Yo ho, yo ho, a PC ride for me." Several years after altering a scene in the Pirates Of The Caribbean attraction so pirates are no longer chasing women but rather the women are chasing the pirates for stealing food, Disney has once again caved to the MeToo protesters and the "politically correct" crowd.

Disneyland's Pirates Of The Caribbean bride auction redo: people either hate it or love it
Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, Jun 14 2018

"Take a wench for a bride," read the banner above the auction block. Front and center was a buxom redhead, clearly the Mercado’s prime merchandise. Dressed in crimson and bound with rope to several more female abductees, she winked at prospective buyers as other prisoners cried into dainty hankies over their fate.

"Shift yer cargo, dearie. Show 'em yer larboard side!” the grizzled auctioneer commanded an abductee as the animatronic vixen lifted her skirt to show some leg, just as she had hundreds of times a day, thousands of times a year, since Pirates Of The Caribbean’s grand opening at Disneyland in 1967.

But last week came a change in the script. After closing April 23 for renovations, the iconic ride reopened June 8. Gone is the bride auction and with it, the idea of female subjugation as a punchline. The redhead has been recast as the wily wisecracking Redd, the Disney attraction’s first female pirate. With a bottle of rum in one hand and two pistols tucked in her skirt belt, now she's the one heckling the auctioneer as he solicits bids on "hearty hens, every one an egg layer."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...614-story.html

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The head of the Anaheim Chamber Of Commerce says forcing Disney and other big employers to pay higher wages will lead to "the loss of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue." The union members who want more money don't want to acknowledge that possibility.

Initiative to give Disneyland workers a 'living wage' qualifies for the ballot in Anaheim

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...614-story.html

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Until this weekend, the animated film with the highest opening-weekend domestic gross -- $135,000,000 -- was 2016's Finding Dory (which actually had nothing to do with finding Dory but rather was about Dory finding her parents). The estimated opening-weekend gross for The Incredibles 2: $180,000,000. I think it's safe to assume there will be an Incredibles 3.

Incredibles 2 crushes animation box office record

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/17/medi...ice/index.html

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In 1997, hundreds of children suffered seizures or migraine headaches while watching strobe-like scenes in Pokémon. In 2018, strobe-like scenes in The Incredibles 2 could cause the same problems, so.......

Theaters add strobe light warnings to Incredibles 2 after viral Twitter thread

https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/in...ng-1202848920/

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Everybody in the industry knew who would be replacing John Lasseter at Disney/Pixar. Today the news was made official:

Disney Animation and Pixar name two animation veterans to replace John Lasseter
Los Angeles Times, Jun 18 2018 1:35 PM

The Walt Disney Company today named two respected animation directors to lead Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, following the departure of top creative executive John Lasseter. Jennifer Lee, who co-directed the blockbuster Frozen for Disney Animation, and Pete Docter, the mind behind Pixar’s Inside Out and Up, will become chief creative officers of their respective studios. They will report to Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after Disney said Lasseter, who served as chief creative officer of both units, would leave the company at the end of the year. Lasseter’s departure follows an extended leave of absence in response to allegations that he engaged in inappropriate workplace behavior.

http://www.latimes.com/business/holl...619-story.html

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It was like a poker game. Disney bet $52.4 billion. Comcast said, "We'll see you and we'll raise the bet to $65 billion." Disney responded, "We'll see you and raise the bet to $71.3 billion." Comcast folded and Disney won the game.

Disney buys 21st Century Fox for $71.3 billion

http://theweek.com/speedreads/780191...ox-713-billion

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The Walt Disney Company can't pay its theme park employees a decent wage but they can spend gazillions of dollars buying Pixar, Marvel, ABC, ESPN, Playdom, Saban Entertainment, Lucasfilm, the Muppets and 21st Century Fox. Go figure!

Disney's bid for 21st Century Fox approved by Department of Justice

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/disneys...nt-of-justice/

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Disneytoon Studios began in 1990 as Disney Movie Toons. Their first production was DuckTales The Movie: Treasure Of The Lost Lamp in 1990 -- and now it seems the "Uncle Scrooges" at Disney no longer want to spend any money on the studio.

Disney shuts down Disneytoon Studios
The Hollywood Reporter, Jun 29 2018 10:37 AM

Disney is shutting down Disneytoon Studios, the animation house behind the Planes theatrical movies and many direct-to-video releases. It is unclear if there will be layoffs. The Glendale-based Disneytoon Studios focused on spinoffs and sequels of Disney's hand-drawn animated films, with titles including Bambi II, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch and Cinderella 3: A Twist In Time. More recently, Disneytoon was producing CG features in their Fairies franchise, beginning with 2008's Tinker Bell. The last feature Disneytoon produced was 2014's direct-to-video release Tinker Bell & The Legend Of The NeverBeast.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...tudios-1124168

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What a great idea -- people will now have something fun to do while they spend three hours waiting in line for Space Mountain or Pirates Of The Caribbean.

New Play Disney Parks app lets you play interactive games while waiting in line at Disneyland and Walt Disney World

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-...629-story.html

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Today Disney's The Incredibles 2 becomes the 12th film, and first animated film, to gross at least $500,000,000 in North America. Disney's Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the biggest of the 12, grossed $937,000,000 domestic and $2,068,000,000 worldwide.

The Incredibles 2 becomes first animated film to gross $500 million domestic

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...Ictk?ocid=AMZN