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Star Wars at Disney Parks

Shamelessly snitched from the Montreal Gazette– CPL

EMBARK ON AN EPIC SPACE JOURNEY

Florida and California Disney parks to add expansive, immersive Star Wars-themed lands featuring new rides, games and more

Montreal Gazette  MARK DANIELL

It won’t be long before ANAHEIM, CALIF. Star Wars fans will be transported to a galaxy far, far away. At theme parks in California and Florida, Disney is putting the finishing touches on two expansive and immersive lands dedicated to the popular sci-fi franchise.

PHOTOS: DISNEY PARKS/LUCASFILMThe Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction is part of the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge land set to open this year at Disney’s California and Florida parks.

For adults who grew up with George Lucas’s original trilogy and his prequel series, it’s an opportunity to recapture the imaginary world of space heroes and villains. For kids coming of age alongside a new slate of films that began in 2015 with Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, they’ll get a chance to step inside a universe that’s been wholly re-imagined since Disney acquired the franchise in 2012 from Lucasfilm. “We’re being really ambitious with what we do with Star Wars,” said Scott Trowbridge, creative executive of Disney Imagineering, speaking recently at a media preview for Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland in California.

A new 5.7-hectare (14-acre) land is set to open May 31 in California, followed by an exact replica Aug. 29 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Fla. Both attractions will feature two new rides — the jaw-dropping Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run and the epically long Rise of the Resistance.

“It’s an amazing stepping off point for new Star Wars stories,” Trowbridge said. “It’s kind of like a remote frontier planet, somewhere on the edge of wild space.” Galaxy’s Edge will introduce visitors to a new planet, Batuu, and the village of Black Spire Outpost. There, they’ll be able to interact with its inhabitants, eat unique foods, try blue milk (first seen in Episode IV — A New Hope), shop for one-of-a-kind items and craft their very own lightsabers and droids. Nothing that’s for sale will be found anywhere else.

The opening of Galaxy’s Edge is one of the most anticipated events for Star Wars fans this year. It also continues a recent Disney tradition, which has seen recent popular movies brought to life. In 2017, a land set inside the world of James Cameron’s Avatar opened at Animal Kingdom in Orlando. Last year, an expansion themed on Toy Story debuted at Hollywood Studios. “For me, it’s come full circle,” said Doug Chiang, who has worked at Lucasfilm for more than 20 years. “We’re translating the world of cinema into a real location.”

The park features full-sized versions of TIE Fighters, Landspeeders, gigantic AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) walkers, Poe Dameron’s X-Wing Fighter, taxidermy Wampas, animatronics, a Star Destroyer hangar and an intricately detailed Millennium Falcon (look closely and you’ll see blast marks from its previous battles), which reveals itself in grand fashion as you make your way into the land.

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Disney/Pixar worked with Mexican consultants on Coco

Shamelessly lifted from File 770:

SEEKING AUTHENTICITY. The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna, in “How Pixar’s ‘Coco’ became a huge box-office hit”, looks at the ways that Disney/Pixar worked with Mexican consultants on Coco, which not only solved cultural sensitivity problems, but made for a better story.

The company was about two years into the making of “Coco” when it committed a significant PR blunder. For its marketing, Disney in 2013 applied to trademark “Día de los Muertos” — the Mexican holiday the movie centers on — sparking a backlash from prominent Latino voices.

Mexican American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz (“La Cucaracha”) helped give image to the outcry. Alcaraz, who had tweeted that trying to brand the holiday came across as “awful and crass,” created the Mickey Mouse-spoofing cartoon “Muerto Mouse,” with the caption: “It’s coming to trademark your cultura.”
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According to Jason Katz, the story supervisor on “Coco,” the backlash to the Southern California parent company’s trademark attempt was tough to take in the Bay Area, where Pixar’s Emeryville studio is located.

“Working at Pixar, you’re in a little bit of a bubble. We’re removed from the machine to a certain extent,” Katz told The Post’s Comic Riffs while in Washington. “[We were] trying to be as genuine and authentic as you can. It wasn’t something we were expecting. We were all just disappointed and sad.”

The incident, though, led to a realization. “We needed to make sure that even though we were reaching out to folks, we needed to make this movie differently than any other movie we’d made…”

 

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Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

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Congratulation to Steven, Yves, Isis, Keith who each won a double pass to the advance screening of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Watch for an email from MonSFFA with your code to download your passes.

©2017 Disney

 

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In theatres May 26, 2017

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790809/

 

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Disney & Princess Leia

Two interesting controversies arising from Carrie Fisher’s death. The first, how to deal with her absence in the next Star Wars movies, the second, the petition to have Princess Leia made an official Disney princess. 

Arguments for an against the use of CGI are interesting. A precedent was set with the use of a CGIed Peter Cushing.  Negotiations will have to be opened with her estate (her daughter?). The insurance payout (50M from Lloyds of London) will come in handy.

I do, personally, have a problem with Leia being made a Disney princess. She does not belong with those pathetic females.  

From Montreal Gazette:
 Carrie Fisher’s unexpected death has left a gaping hole in the Star Wars universe. But it has also left a huge question mark as to how the creative team behind Episode IX (which is due in 2019) will address her General Leia character in the saga’s final instalment.

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Fisher, who died Dec. 27 four days after going into cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles, had filmed her scenes for Episode VIII, but had not yet begun work on Episode IX.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, insiders have revealed that there were several sequences involving her character, including a reunion with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and a confrontation with her evil son Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), set for Episode VIII and IX.

Episode IX is not scheduled to begin filming until early next year, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) is set to meet with Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy to address Leia’s fate.

Disney, which owns the Star Wars franchise, reportedly took out a US$50 million insurance policy from Lloyd’s of London in the event that Fisher was unable to fulfil her three-film deal, but if they were to digitally recreate Leia, the company will need to renegotiate a contract with the star’s estate.

CGI effects in Rogue One helped resurrect Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin in several key scenes, as well as a younger Leia in the film’s closing shot, but would audiences accept a fully CG version of the character in Episode IX?

When Philip Seymour Hoffman died before completing his work on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, director Francis Lawrence opted to change the script rather than use CGI.

The ending, in which Hoffman’s Head Gamemaker was supposed to console Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen, was rewritten to include Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch Abernathy.

Trevorrow, who is writing Episode IX with Derek Connolly, still has time to rework the storyline to accommodate Leia’s absence.

But after seeing Cushing’s likeness in Rogue One, we’re betting Disney will resurrect Fisher’s iconic character for one or two moments.

Meanwhile, Fisher fans have started a Change.org petition online asking Disney to crown Leia as an official Disney Princess.

“After the tragic lose of Carrie Fisher, we feel that it is only fitting for Disney to do away with the rule that an official Disney princess must be animated,” the petition addressing Disney CEO Bob Iger reads.

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Trailer for Beauty and the Beast

An adaptation of the classic fairy-tale about a monstrous prince and a young woman who fall in love.

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Director: Bill Condon

Writers: Evan Spiliotopoulos (screenplay), Stephen Chbosky (screenplay)

Stars: Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans