Long ago, in New York City during the summer of 1997, Walt Disney Pictures would premiere their 35th animated film, Hercules. The movie would end up with good reviews and would grow in popularity over...
In 1991, cameras started to roll on a new Disney movie called Newsies. Little did any know that this simple project would eventually reach such new heights that Disney decided to take another step with...
In the spring of 1977, Walt Disney Productions would release a film that was made in an unorthodox way. But that’s only half of the story… Beginnings In 1924, author A.A. Milne would publish...
This spring, Disney will release Pixar’s 25th movie, Turning Red. The new story is about a tween girl named Mei who becomes a giant red panda when she feels a strong emotion because of her...
Once upon a time, in the year 1987, Disney was in production of their big animated project, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Then chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and vice president Peter Schneider asked the associate producer of...
In the fall of 2001, after already making their mark in both film and animation history, Pixar would premiere their fourth film, Monsters, Inc., to an eager public. But the story doesn’t stop there. Creation...
In 1939, Walt Disney bought the screen rights to a newly published children’s book by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl. What Walt saw in this simple book was the chance to produce a very...
In the summer of 1951, Walt Disney would at last release his adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic story Alice in Wonderland. Let’s go down the rabbit hole of history and see how this film...
In 1967, Walt Disney Productions purchased the screen rights to an award winning book by Daniel P. Mannix called The Fox and the Hound. However, actual work on it as an animated film didn’t...
In the summer of 1986 and one year after the disastrous release of The Black Cauldron, Walt Disney Pictures would release a new animated film, The Great Mouse Detective. But it’s history is no mystery. Leap...
