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In a world that's already jammed with Once Upon a Time, Mirror, Mirror, and Snow White and the Huntsman, is there room for another Snow White in the world? Disney is hoping there is, although they're willing to sweeten the pot with Hanna star Saoirse Ronan and martial arts. More »
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What would The Hunger Games look like if Disney got its big white mitts on the franchise? How would all of the kiddie blood look if it had been line-animated? More »
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Still having a hard time getting a handle on this whole half-naked Mars movie starring Taylor Kitsch and green Avatar people? No problem. Disney has literally spelled out the entire plot of its "planetary romance" John Carter, for everybody who's struggling with the concept. More »
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The John Carter movie has a tough act to follow — we're used to seeing tons of amazingly thrilling art by masters like Frank Frazetta, showing weird creatures and heroic vistas. Now at last, there's some concept art from the movie that lives up to our dreams of Barsoom. More »
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We've seen plenty of clever and quirky artwork centered on Disney's stable of princesses, but what about their other halves? The Disney princes finally get their due, taking center stage on the covers of familiar magazines. More »
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We've seen the X-Men receive the club kid treatment. Now artist Viria13 has given the Disney Princess pantheon new duds (presumably in the spirit of a certain internet meme). More »
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One thing Disney's epic alien war flick John Carter has going for it is composer Michael Giacchino. We dare you not to tear up listening to these three tracks from Giacchino's latest movie score. You can't help but think of his past work on Star Trek's USS Kelvin scene, or the many weepy-eyed Lost moments. More »
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Some of you may remember Danger Girl artist J. Scott Campbell's first round of fairy tale princesses, which depicted Cinderella and Snow White as heroines who were allergic to every textile invented. For his new 2012 Fairy Tale Fantasies calendar, Scott Campbell— whose style can only be described as "uranium-enriched cheesecake" — has now drawn a slew of princesses who have been horribly cursed by the Décolletage Hobgoblin. More »
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Disney's top marketing executive, MT Carney, has quit — right in the middle of the big publicity build-up for the lavish adventure movie John Carter. And meanwhile, there are tons of reports that Carter's budget has skyrocketed way higher than expected. This all adds up to one thing: Could John Carter be a Mars-sized bomb? More »
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In just two months from today, we finally get to see the most famous "sword and planet" saga, John Carter of Mars, brought to life by Wall-E's Andrew Stanton. But Disney has been trying to make a John Carter movie for 25 years — and some of these versions could have been pretty horrendous. Legendary Disney historian Jim Korkis details all of the John Carters that never happened. More »
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Disney movies are most people's first encounter with the fantasy film genre. While the fantasy worlds of Disney are based on old fairy tales, they often introduce lots of weird twists of their own. Including a healthy serving of WTF. More »
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If fantasy artist Frank Frazetta had ever worked for Disney, perhaps we would have seen Mickey Mouse on a distant sand and sandals world plagued by ferocious monsters. This Frazetta-inspired painting gives us a glimpse of the Micky fantasy adventure that never was, but ignores one important question: What would Minnie be wearing? More »
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Ever wonder what Calvin and Hobbes would look like as adults? One particularly inspired vision pits Christopher Robin and his friendly bear against our favorite comic-strip characters, in an eternal battle between good and evil. Take a look at the evil Dr. Christopher Robin and his nefarious Pooh creature, versus the grown-up spy duo of Agent Cal and Agent Hobbes. More »
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December brings along the hiatus of several current cartoon series (I miss you, Young Justice & Star Wars: The Clone Wars), but we can always look to the past (and particularly the 1980s cartoon explosion) for some amazing holiday specials. More »
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One of the main stars of Disney's John Carter is the land of Barsoom, the fantasy version of Mars from Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous novels. Director Andrew Stanton brought this amazing world to life using Utah and a lot of greenscreen — but it also took a lot of visualization. More »
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What could be better than a steampunk Ursula with metal tentacles to carry her about? A steampunk Cruella de Vil, that's what! Check out this wonderful collection of Disney villains and heroes, steampunk-style. More »
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What if your favorite Disney Princesses sang about the heavy-metal merits of Rammstein and neck tatts, instead of little towns and quiet villages? They'd probably look a lot like these fine ladies right here. Behold your favorite fairytale princess reinvented as a Metallica roadie. More »
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Walt Disney may not actually be frozen underneath Disneyland, but that hasn't stopped a group of Brazilian animators from creating this creepy short film just in time for Walt Disney's 110th birthday (which was yesterday). In D. On Ice, the animation mogul returns to the present day, only to find himself at the whims of a singing corporate stooge. Me, I'd just wish Disney would make more propaganda films about giant omelettes nowadays. More »
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Now that the Mars Science Laboratory has begun its journey, let's step back and remember those depictions of Martian living from years gone by. According to certain past dreamers, Mars is occasionally occupied by nefarious sentient automobiles. More »
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Given that Thanksgiving has the reputation for being a day of Herculean food consumption, here's a rather strange World War II propaganda cartoon that visualizes such gustatory excess. In the 1942 short "Food Will Win The War," an overexcited narrator begins yelling about how bridges of butter, flour blizzards, and Brogdingnagian obese children will destroy the German army. Wars are won and lost on tubers the size of the Rock of Gibraltar. The statistics get crazy at 1:40. More »
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Bootleg toys can be all sorts of amazing, but this solar-powered jiggle novelty really deserves a Bootleg Toy of The Year Award (In The Field of Perversion of Source Material). I've heard dark rumors that they hold that ceremony annually in the back room of the nation's most successful Dollar Tree retail store. More »
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Today via Twitter, Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich introduced Pixar fans to Hong Kong fashion label Bossini's Toy Story-themed clothing line. As this lookbook demonstrates, it's some zany albeit oddly heart-warming couture. If you want to dress like a plastic cowboy with the voice of a Bosom Buddy, you'll have to be vigilant. "I'm told they'll only be in Disney Stores in the U.S., and that they'll likely be hard to find," notes Unkrich. Hat tip to Precious Roy!

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We've seen how gorgeous the dilapidated Wonderland amusement park in China can be when spruced up with good photography, but what does it look like when you're actually trekking out there? Turns out it's overrun with cornfields, children scampering in the shadows, and stray dogs. The folks over at Stuck In Customs made a video log of their journey out there. Definitely not the happiest place on Earth. More »
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The new Dreamworks Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots is about a cat and a hat and is really kind of meritless, unless you're a member of fursuit fandom who can only appreciate Salma Hayek when she's a sultry tabby. More »
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The first ever images from Tim Burton's black and white stop-motion movie are out, and they're already looking like a pair of Burton classics. Take a look at a boy and his reanimated undead dog, based off the short that got Burton canned from Disney when he was just starting out. More »
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Graphic designer Jirka Vinse Jonatan Väätäinen has taken it upon himself to transform almost every cartoon Disney princess into flesh-and-blood humans. Or — in the case of Ursula — a flesh-and-blood mollusk sapien. More »
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Here are two photos seemingly ripped out of the scrapbook of the Overlook Hotel's amorous canine monster. These two photos of enthusiastic Disney fans were taken in Serbia sometime in the 1930s. More »
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Before there was mocap, Disney would often film whole scenes with actors to guide animators while creating long scenes. This fascinating look at Disney's Alice and Wonderland shows off the voice actors themselves, Ed Wynn and Jerry Colonna, at the Mad Hatter's tea party. Even more amazingly, this model footage was later used for the film's audio. Watch the side-by-side video. More »
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Disney gave us all a little G-rated True Blood action with a touch of Teen Wolf in the mix, in an upcoming episode of Phineas and Ferb. Guests voice actors Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin and the Teen Wolf himself, Michael J Fox, stopped by to give you a sneak peek from the fake vampire film, The Curse of Candace! More »
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Want to see some great comic book art for free? Want a cheap date? If you are in the Washington, D.C. area between now and March, the Library of Congress will be holding an exhibition of comic book art entitled Timely and Timeless, showing off some of the best of the library's 128,000 pieces of comic artwork. More »
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Audiences were depressed that they couldn't join Avatar's society of azure Snagglepusses. Trust James Cameron to be a crazy-eyed visionary and give the masses what they want. More »
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Disneyland's It's A Small World ride was never the paragon of normal, what with its chirpy dead-eyed puppets and hypnotically communitarian mantra. But Chinese theme parks take the sing-songy boat ride to new frontiers of uncomfortable. More »
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Behold the reason the internet was created. To match up Disney music with surprisingly appropriate movies about mutants stopping the The Cuban Missile Crisis. We give you the Disney/X-Men mash-up set to the tune of Mulan's "I'll Make a Man Out of You" sung by Donny Osmond. More »
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Could Sin City 2 finally happen? Is the world ready for another hyper-sexual, ultra-violent female exploitation flick from the fap rolodex that is Frank Miller's mind? Well... maybe with The Departed's writer penning it, yeah. More »
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Ever wondered where Gaston and Ursula the Sea Witch went after they died? Why, they almost certainly went to Walt Disney's cartoon Hell, as depicted in the 1929 Silly Symphonies short "Hell's Bells." More »
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This weekend at D23 Pixar showed off tons of concept art from their monster prequel Monsters University. Mike and Sulley go to college! See what the gruesome duo looked like before they were hot-shot scarers at Monsters Inc. More »
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Disney has punched out dozens of educational shorts throughout the years, and not all of them conform to that clean-cut, animal-sidekick-and-singing-princess salubriousness audiences have come to expect from the studio. Here are some of the Mouse House's odder forays into edutainment.

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Watch the brand new footage from Disney's Tron: Uprising television series, which follows Beck (voiced by Elijah Wood), the program who leads the uprising on The Grid. The whole thing takes place right before the film Tron: Legacy. More »
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Have you ever heard the strange story of Disney's legendary haunting, the Hatbox Ghost? The creature made his first appearance in the Haunted Mansion ride, and then disappeared — forever! Until now... someone has recorded his existence, many moons ago! More »
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