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No Comments 29 March 2010

Check out this fan made trailer for the original Tron movie done in the style of Saul Bass.

You’ll recognize the style if you grew up in the 70s or watch classic movies.

Tron vs. Saul Bass from Hexagonall on Vimeo.

Coloring The Kingdom

No Comments 15 February 2010

Behind the breakthrough magic of Walt Disney’s first animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and his other 30s and 40s classics—Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi—toiled as many as 100 young women, the inkers and painters, working from dawn to dusk on thousands of cels that brought his dreams to life. The author recaptures their white-gloved esprit de corps, and a golden age of Disney that would be disrupted by strike, World War II, and, eventually, the Xerox machine.

Read the full Vanity Fair Article here.

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Disney in-jokes enhance the “The Princess & The Frog”

No Comments 14 December 2009

Jim Hill Media reveals several hidden treasure that the Walt Disney Animation Studios put in to encourage folks to go back and see “The Princess & the Frog.”

Did you know …

That – as the film’s title sequence is getting underway while Dr. John is singing “Down in New Orleans” – you can clearly see the carpet from “Aladdin” being shaken out by someone who’s standing on a wrought-iron balcony.
That – as Mama Odie is quickly digging through a pile of magical objects during “Dig a Little Deeper” – the lamp from “Aladdin” gets tossed to one side.
That – during this movie’s Mardi Gras sequence – one of the floats in that parade features a figurehead that is clearly modeled after King Triton from “The Little Mermaid.”

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The first official poster and image below which you can click to enlarge has been released for Tron Legacy, which isn’t due until until NEXT December. Nothing like a year long tease for something that looks really good.
From HeyUGuys!:

Movie Still:

Official poster:

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TRON LEGACY Guys To Remake THE BLACK HOLE

No Comments 01 December 2009

According to Hollywood Reporter, Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey are remaking this story about a research vessel that finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole. Scribe Travis Beacham who penned the CLASH OF THE TITANS remake is in charge of the screenplay for the new BLACK HOLE.

No word yet if the plot will stay the same but they promise that Maximilian (the evil red robot) would return.