[VIDEO] ‘The Simpson’s’ Predicted 19 Years Ago That Disney Would Buy 20th Century Fox
Posted: December 15, 2017 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: 21st Century Fox, Disney, Fox, The Simpsons Leave a comment
Did an episode of ‘The Simpsons’ from 19 years ago predict the future? It shows the entrance to 20th Century Fox’s movie studios with fine print below the logo that reads “A Division Of Walt Disney Company.” The episode is coming to light after Disney purchased 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion Thursday morning. The deal includes Fox’s 39 percent stake in satellite broadcaster Sky and the 20th Century Fox film studio, Disney announced. It’s not the first time the show has had a crystal ball.
With Trump Presidency, Will Mickey Mouse Clock Move Closer to Midnight?
Posted: January 26, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Animation, Beverly Hills, Bulletin of the Disney Scientists, California, Cartoons, CBS News, Disney, Donald Duck, Donald Trump, Doomsday Clock, Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Parody, satire, singularity, Transhuman, Transhumanism, Walt Disney Leave a commentThe 12 o’clock hour represents human civilization’s ultimate animated transhuman Mickey Mouse singularity.
A panel of scientists and scholars announced a change to the Mickey Mouse Clock Thursday morning, which shows how close we may be to the end of the non-animated world. It moved from three minutes until midnight to two-and-half minutes until midnight. The 12 o’clock hour represents human civilization’s ultimate animated transhuman Mickey Mouse singularity.
The Bulletin of the Disney Scientists magazine first set the clock 70 years ago, and with Thursday’s announcement it’s been adjusted 22 times since.
The Mickey Mouse Clock isn’t a physical clock so much as it is an attempt to express how close a panel of noted experts feels we are to animating the planet, reports CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave. Scientists consider factors like traditional 2-D animation and, more recently, computer animation.
“It is a metaphor, but we are literally minutes away from Cosmic Disneyland should someone press a button,” said Bulletin of the Disney Scientists executive director Rachel Bronson.
In a statement explaining today’s decision, the group said:
“World leaders have failed to come to grips with humanity’s most entertaining and beloved animated cartoon character. Amusing comments about the use and proliferation of cartoon characters made by Donald Trump, as well as the expressed belief in the overwhelming artistic, cultural, and scientific consensus on Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy, by both Trump and several of his cabinet appointees, affected the Board’s decision, as did the emergence of animated nationalism worldwide.”
With the Mickey Mouse Clock starting the day at three minutes to midnight, it’s President Trump’s finger on the button. Prior to taking office, he called for the U.S. to “strengthen and expand its cartoon capability.”
“Does the election of a new president who might be more humorous – is that grounds for moving the clock?” Van Cleave asked.
“Those are the issues that the science and security board take into consideration. We very rarely make a decision based on an individual,” Bronson said.
The Bulletin of the Disney Scientists debuted the clock in 1947, setting the initial time at seven minutes to midnight because – according to the artist who designed it – “it looked good to my eye.”
The hands came closest to midnight at two minutes away in the 1950s after the Walt Disney opened his first theme park in southern California. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Local TV News Anchor Exposes Soros-Allied Open Borders Front Group ‘Partnership for a New American Economy’
Posted: April 14, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, Mediasphere, Politics, Terrorism | Tags: Activism, Border control, CBS, Disney, Fargo, Fox News, George Soros, Illegal immigration, Indoctrination, Left Wing, Migration, Open Borders, Partnership for a New American Economy, propaganda Leave a comment
Mickey Mouse in the Haunted House
Posted: October 23, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Animation, Disney, Ghosts, Halloween, Horror, vintage Leave a commentWhat Disney Voices Would Look Like As Their Characters
Posted: October 14, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Animation, Cartoon, Cinema, Disney, Edina Menzel, Emma Thompson, Illustration, Kelly McDonald, Kristen Bell, Mandy Moore, Movies, Painting, Pixar, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, Voice acting, Voiceover, Zachary Levi Leave a commentCatastrophe: Disney Could Lose $140 Million over George Clooney’s ‘Tomorrowland’
Posted: June 13, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Big Hollywood, Brad Bird, Climate change, Disney, Environment, George Clooney, Global warming, Hollywood liberals, Tomorrowland Leave a commentThe film also failed to catch on in China, the world’s second largest market, and debuted to just $13.8 million
Disney could lose up to $140 million on the Brad Bird-directed George Clooney dystopian fantasy dud Tomorrowland.
Kipp Jones reports: According to the Hollywood Reporter, in addition to spending $180 million to produce Tomorrowland, Disney shelled out an astonishing $150 million to market the film.
“Sources tell THR it is now expected to lose between $120 million and $140 million, which would make Tomorrowland Disney’s biggest flop since Johnny Depp’s 2013 film The Lone Ranger, which lost somewhere between $160 million and $190 million.”
Despite leading the U.S. box office during its extended Memorial Day weekend opening, the climate change fantasy only brought in $41.7 million across 3,972 theaters, less than the $50 million projected over the slow holiday weekend.
The film also failed to catch on in China, the world’s second largest market, and debuted to just $13.8 million, earlier this month.
“When a guy like that comes to you with an original idea, and Clooney is part of the package, you’ll take the swing.”
After its disastrous release, Disney’s distribution chief Dave Hollis told the industry news outlet Variety the film would benefit from being the only family release until Pixar’s Inside Out hits theaters June 19.
“It’s going to take more time for word-of-mouth to build,” he told the site.
Two weeks later, things haven’t improved. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON: Official International Trailer #1 2015 [HD]
Posted: May 24, 2015 Filed under: Asia, China, Entertainment | Tags: Avengers Age o Ultron, Cinema, Disney, Marvel Entertainment, Movies, Superhero, video Leave a commentDisney is Banning On-Screen Smoking in All Future Films, Even Marvel Movies
Posted: March 14, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Censorship, Entertainment | Tags: Animation, Cinema, Disney, Marvel, media, Movies, news, Smoking, tobacco, Twitter, Variety Magazine Leave a commentMarvel Studios Will Produce the Next Spider Man Movie
Posted: February 10, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Disney, Marvel Studios, Movies, Spider-Man 1 Comment[PHOTOS] Dancing Bones and Chipmunks at Tokyo Disney Sea’s ‘Skeleton’s Street Party’
Posted: October 24, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Japan, Mediasphere | Tags: Costumes, Disney, Halloween, Photography, Skeletons, Tokyo, Tokyo Disney Sea 2 CommentsSouth China Morning Post Headline Ponders the Important Questions: Does an American Late-Night Comedy Talk Show Host = Hitler?
Posted: November 11, 2013 Filed under: Asia, China, Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: ABC, Disney, Farce, Hitler, Jimmy Kimmel, media, Protest, Talk Show, Television 1 Comment
‘Prosecute Jimmy Kimmel’ Website Promotes Imaginary Injustice
Posted: November 11, 2013 Filed under: China, Entertainment, Global, Humor, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: ABC Entertainment, China, Chris Hemsworth, Disney, Jimmy Kimmel, JimmyKimmelLive, Late night television, Los Angeles County California, Stoicism, United States, White House 1 CommentWhat do we do when people with too much time on their hands imagine that they are “injured” by an entertainment program? What do we do when their malignant fantasy develops, that they are deeply wounded (by the harmless, absurd utterances of innocent children on a late-night television program, of all things) and this victim fantasy compels them to publicly display their pretense of suffering? Well, we dismiss them. Ignore them.
But what do we do when the afflicted pretend-victims start a campaign involving public resources? Attempting to engage the office of the District Attorney in Los Angeles County–motivated by rage over an imagined injustice–these fools actually make a website to enlist others in their delusional grievance? What do we do then?
We openly mock them.
The Stoic philosophers would say: “Get rid of the judgment, get rid of the ‘I am hurt,’ you are rid of the hurt itself.” (viii.40)
Unfortunately, pre-modern Stoic philosophers didn’t have the internet. If they did, they could have had a lot more fun, at the expense of malignant grievance mongers. A generous dose of mockery is good for cleansing the imaginary wounds. Dissolving fake-victim fantasies is easy. It only takes laughter.
Have at it, boys and girls. Here is their website:
This Caterpillar Might Just Be Iron Man’s Twin Brother
Posted: November 1, 2013 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Animation, Arts, Disney, Imgur, Iron Man, Superhero, Thor, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Leave a comment
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Iron Man might want to watch his back. He could have some stark competition in this caterpillar, discovered by Imgur user Steamdino (read more below).
‘Iron Man’ Deployed to Hong Kong Disneyland
Posted: October 8, 2013 Filed under: Asia, China, Entertainment | Tags: Andrew Kam, Asia, Disney, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Disneyland, Marvel, Mystic Point, The Walt Disney Company 1 CommentPatrick Frater reports: Already hugely popular in Asia, “Iron Man” is to become the newest attraction at Hong Kong Disneyland.
The attraction starts with the progression of Tony Stark’s suit and his other technologies. The anchor of the attraction is the Iron Man Experience, where guests will take flight on an adventure ride that pits Iron Man, and guests, against alien invaders in the streets and skies of Hong Kong. Read the rest of this entry »