The hat building is lovely in November, with the fall foliage on Riverside Drive in full force.
Storywork and production on Pooh are moving along. As a staffer told me:
"We had our third screening of Winnie the Pooh with John Lasseter, and the picture's in good shape. John loves the characters. In fact, some sequences go to workbook next week and animation will be starting up. There's already been some test animation in color.
"This picture has just zipped along. We took dialogue out of the Milne books, the storyboard artists added some of their own, then the directors Don Hall and Steve Anderson polished it. We didn't have an outside writer on it, just the board artists and the directors. I think the whole picture will be done by next summer ..."
The stereo conversion of Beauty and the Beast is coming to a close. A couple of people down on the first floor said that there's one more week to go and then they're done.
Originally B and B was supposed to come out on Valentine's Day, but now it's set up for a twentieth anniversary release.
"The 3-D conversion came out well, I think. We got the characters rounded and shaded. They don't look like cardboard cutouts in a ViewMaster ..."
I suppose we'll get to see for ourselves in 2001. Meanwhile, Disney and IM Digital would like to have the surviving Beatles participate in its Yellow Submarine remake:
... In an interview with MTV News, [Robert] Zemeckis indicated that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have been approached to participate in the film, although he did not say in what capacity ...
The Mouse charges ahead on many fronts.
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" We didn't have an outside writer on it, just the board artists and the directors.
Was the WGA informed of this? Will these talented individuals get writing credit? How foolish of me to ask!
Still, I wish them the best and hope the film turns out great!
Technically, if they're drawing boards, can they get in trouble for stepping on WGA toes?
(honest question, sorry if its been asked before)
Are they going to just call it Winnie the Pooh or is there going to be a subtitle maybe?
Hopefully?
The writing on the Disney Winnie The Pooh projects is, and always has been, under Local 839's jurisdiction.
oh god no! don't step on the wga's toes! no!
well, technically, A.A. Milne is an outside writer... that is, an actual writer was involved. In fact, a writer created the property. So please, can we quit denigrating the writers? "Winnie the Pooh" wouldn't be lining our pockets if one particular writer hadn't though up the bear of little brain in the first place.
It's been mentioned above, but the WGA has no jurisdiction over animated features under IA/TAG contracts.
The WGA, to my knowledge, has made no move to organize Pixar of Blue Sky Studios, even though the WGAw has a deal with Fox for prime time animated shows.
You would have to ask the WGA why this is. I have no idea.
I'm glad they fit a fart joke in the commercials for "The Frog Princess". I won't be as upset when it is a dismal failure at the box office.
"I'm glad they fit a fart joke in the commercials for "The Frog Princess". I won't be as upset when it is a dismal failure at the box office."
whoever wrote this is a dismal failure of a human being.
>> In fact, a writer created the property.
No one is denigrating writers. They are denigrating the WGA, who negotiates for people involved in a bizarre back-and-forth ritual of scripting the ideas of Hollywood producers and studio heads in a process that tries to disguise itself as 'writing'.
Yes, the property was created by a writer once upon a time when people read, and when writers were accountable for every word on the page that had their name attached to it. Ninety-nine times out of one-hundred, this is no longer the case, however much the WGA would like to kid the rest of LA that it still is the case. And this is especially the case in animation, where being an 'artist' is quickly becoming as extinct, no thanks to the demands of a process that JUST DOESN'T WORK!
Want to be a writer? - write a book! There's a novel idea.
The WGA, to my knowledge, has made no move to organize Pixar or Blue Sky Studios
Are you sure? I remember when I worked at Blue Sky, the story department complained endlessly that they couldnt change the story at their whim, because it had to be done through the proper, WGA channels. (the reason Scrat is an actual Blue Sky creation is because he doesnt speak, and therefore didnt need to be "written"...)
But thats all what I overheard, so it could be bogus.
Explains why Scrat is the most successful thing in the entire franchise.
This news is fine and all that, but where is the news on the long-delayed Rapunzel????
This news is fine and all that, but where is the news on the long-delayed Rapunzel????
Wow, that's a lot of exclamation points!!!! You must REAAALLLY wanna know!!!!
Steve reports what's going on with "Rapunzel" almost weekly. The posts are easy to find by scrolling back to the ones about "The Hat Building"/Mouse House etc.
But if that's too much trouble for the Disney fan(atic)s:
It's coming out next year. They are in animation now. They will continue being in story til about 2 months before the release date, as with all films.
What else do you need to know?
Rapunzel: They just started animation a week ago. Latest screening went really well.
Aww damnit. Beat me by one whole minute.
Anybody know if Glen Keane will be working on this picture after he is done with Rapunzel?
Wouldn't think so. Both Rapunzel and Pooh are being animated simultaneously, with completions expected close to the same time.
Aww, thats too bad. I have heard that Glen is chomping at the bit to do handrawn animation again. Besides, I like it when all the great WDAS animators (Keane, Deja, Henn, Goldberg, etc)are woking on the same project.
Eric Goldberg was heavily involved with supervising animation in "The Princess and the Frog," and will have a large hand in "Winnie the Pooh."
Actually, Eric's hands are normal-sized.
Anonymous said: "I'm glad they fit a fart joke in the commercials for "The Frog Princess". I won't be as upset when it is a dismal failure at the box office."
If you'd actually seen the scene you'd know that it wasn't a fart joke. The firefly has his tail light go out and he says excuse me and turns it till it comes on. That's not a fart joke. So if you're wanting to to complain that they're mimicking DreamWorks... you're going to have to keep dreaming.
Sorry.
I think most of us know it isnt a fart joke in the film, but why do marketers insist on turning it into a fart joke for the trailer? Same goes for Prince Naveen's transformation scene...
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