Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

A Christmas Carol is an animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Brief Plot for A Christmas Carol :

On Christmas Eve in Victorian England, Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter and miserly old moneylender, holds everything that embodies the joys and spirit of Christmas in contempt, refusing to visit his cheerful nephew Fred's Christmas dinner party with his family, and forcing his underpaid employee Bob Cratchit to beg to take the day off for his own family. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who had died seven years prior on Christmas Eve and is now forced to spend his afterlife carrying heavy chains forged from his own greedy ways. Marley warns Scrooge that he will suffer an even worse fate if he doesn't repent, and foretells that he will be haunted by three spirits that will help guide him.

Disney begins taking bookings for new Dream cruise ship

Disney Cruise Line today begins accepting bookings for the Disney Dream, the massive new ocean liner scheduled to begin sailing in January 2011.

The 4,000-passenger ship — about 1,300 more than Disney’s existing Magic and Wonder cruise ships — will make three- and four-night sailings out of Port Canaveral to The Bahamas beginning Jan. 26, 2011. It will offer some five-night sailings during the summer and around Christmas and New Year’s.

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Disney offers free annual passes to Disneyland, Disney World in new DVC Castle to Castle promotion

To commemorate the opening of Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, the Disney Vacation Club's new Castle to Castle promotion offers DVC members who purchase 100 vacation points at Disneyland's newest hotel four complimentary annual passes to the Disney Parks.

The Castle to Castle promotion gives DVC members the chance to enjoy the best of both worlds, Disney style. Current DVC members who purchase 100 vacation points at The Villas at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel will receive two annual passes to Disneyland and two annual passes to Walt Disney World.

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Disney to expand Fantasyland at Walt Disney World

Mickey Mouse's house and his Toon Town world will make way next year for a vastly larger Fantasyland, in the biggest-ever expansion of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, Walt Disney Co said on Saturday.

The Fantasyland expansion, whose price tag was not disclosed, will open in two stages in 2012 and 2013 and builds on the popularity of the Disney Princess and Fairies franchises, which have topped $4 billion in global retail sales.

Disney theme parks Chairman Jay Rasulo said the Fantasyland project, which breaks ground next year, will be paid for from funds designated for the theme park division's annual capital expenditures.

Plans call for four Disney Princess characters -- Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" and Ariel from "The Little Mermaid" -- to be featured in "fantasy lands" where park visitors engage in dancing, storytelling or a birthday party with costumed characters from the films.

The expansion includes two new dining spots -- Gascon's Tavern and the 552-seat Beast's Castle. A new underwater ride based on "The Little Mermaid, will be built both in the Florida Fantasyland and at the ongoing expansion of California Adventure in Disneyland.
The second phase of the Fantasyland expansion will be an oversized world based on the fairy world of Pixie Hollow from "Peter Pan," but no other details were available because the attraction was still in early development stages, Rasulo said.

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Disney is aiming for a fairytale start in Russia

With a heritage in film and television that is as American as apple pie, Walt Disney is, at first glance, an unusual candidate to make a Russian language movie aimed at Russian cinema-goers.
Yet Disney releases Book of Masters , its first Russian film, this week as it ramps up its interest in one of the world's fastest growing cinema markets.
Based on a Russian fairy tale and produced in Russia using local talent, the film is the latest step in Disney's broad push into local language production.
Bob Iger, Disney's chief executive, says local production strengthens Disney's bond with international audiences, which crave stories that are relevant to them. "There is great interest and pride in local culture," he says. "We are convinced that even though technology is breaking down borders between countries and cultures, we're not seeing homogeneity of cultures."
Hollywood studios used to view the international market differently. They could generate substantial takings internationally from their US-made movies merely by adding a local language track.

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Disney Comics (3)

This time , I would like to post some more disney comics. Disney comics are really enjoyable and funny. It can also give people some relax and pleasure time. Enjoy reading ..

Wayne Allwine Voice of Mickey Mouse Dies

Allwine got the role in 1976. He was only the third person -- Walt Disney was the first -- to voice the character. 'It's really not about me; it's about Mickey, and Mickey is Walt's,' he once said.

Wayne Allwine, a Walt Disney Studios voice-over artist who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for more than three decades, has died. He was 62.

Allwine, an Emmy Award-winning former sound effects editor and foley artist, died of complications of diabetes early Monday morning at UCLA Medical Center, said his voice-over artist wife, Russi Taylor.

“Wayne was my hero," Taylor, who began voicing Minnie in 1986, told The Times on Wednesday. “He really loved doing Mickey Mouse and was very proud that he did it 32 years."

Since Mickey Mouse first hit movie theaters in the cartoon short “Steamboat Willie" in 1928, only three people have supplied the iconic cartoon character's distinctive falsetto: Walt Disney himself, Jimmy Macdonald and Allwine.

Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert A. Iger described a “profound sense of loss and sadness throughout our company" over the death of the man who gave voice to Disney's most beloved character.


“Wayne's great talent, deep compassion, kindness and gentle way, all of which shone brightly through his alter ego, will be greatly missed," Iger said in a statement.

Roy E. Disney, Walt's nephew, director emeritus of the Walt Disney Co., said in a statement: “Wayne not only gave voice to the character of Mickey but gave him a heart and soul as well."


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