Walt Disney and Paramount have reached an agreement for the future of the Indiana Jones franchise, giving Disney control over the very successful “Indiana Jones” franchise for all future films. However, Paramount will still retain rights to the first four films. In addition, Paramount “will receive a financial participation on any future films that are produced and release”  as released in a statement from the studios.

This deal seemingly paves the way for a new installment in the franchise, although no official news about a fifth installment in the adventure film series has been announced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

source:Hollywood Reporter

Disney’s “Frozen” Sets Thanksgiving Opening Record!

Disney’s Frozen, opening Wednesday, scored the top Thanksgiving debut of all time with a five-day gross of $93 million, eclipsing the $80.1 million five-day launch of Pixar’s Toy Story 2 in 1999. It also scored the top opening for a Disney Animation Studios title, besting the $68.7 million grossed by Tangled over Thanksgiving in 2010. For the three-day weekend, Frozen took in $74.5 million.
The film bested the previous Thanksgiving record holder, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” which earned $57.5 million in 2001 over a three-day period.

The wise words in Frozen are that “Only an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart.”

Frozen is indeed proof that the Disney we loved is, indeed, back…and back to melting hearts.

Loosely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen, “Frozen” is the 53rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It appears from early reviews the magic is back in the House of Mouse! Frozen is destined to join the Studio’s string of brilliant family friendly animated musicals that dominated the box office n the late ’80s and ’90s—The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin.

What the critics are saying…

Forbes – ‘Frozen’ Is Disney’s Triumphant Reaffirmation Of Its Cultural Legacy

ScreenCrush wrote that the songs in the movie are performed like Broadway show-stoppers and although there is a love triangle in the story, it is secondary to the primary goal of reuniting the two sisters.

IGN: Disney’s Best Animated Musical Since ‘Beauty and the Beast’  Read the full review 

Variety: ” Disney’s 53rd in-house animated feature and one of its most classical, with a Hans Christian Andersen pedigree, a full-fledged show tune score and little of the ironic humor that has become the lingua franca of most contemporary toons.

 New York Post

Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Snow Queen,” “Frozen” is a great big snowy pleasure with an emotionally gripping core, brilliant Broadway-style songs and a crafty plot. Its first and third acts are better than the jokey middle, but this is the rare example of a Walt Disney Animation Studios effort that reaches as deep as a Pixar film.

 Watch the Official Disney “Frozen” Trailer!  

 

The evil Maleficent is getting a MAC makeup line!

Disney has already signed up the Hollywood superstar, Angelina Jolie, and now it’s also signed up make-up superstar MAC Cosmetics  (Makeup Artist Cosmetics) to collaborate on a makeup line to coincide with the  new Walt Disney  Sleeping Beauty movie’s May 2014 release.

The Maleficent inspired line will be an 11 piece collection containing nail polish, face makeup, eye shadows and lip stick.

 

 

Disney’s Marvel and Netflix  joining forces to develop  a historic four series epic plus a mini-series event based on renowned marvel characters.

The landmark deal brings marvel’s flawed heroes led by “Daredevil,” to the world’s leading Internet TV Network in 2015

Press Release:

Burbank, Calif. – Nov 7, 2013—The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) and Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) today announced an unprecedented deal for Marvel TV to bring multiple original series of live-action adventures of four of Marvel’s most popular characters exclusively to the world’s leading Internet TV Network beginning in 2015. This pioneering agreement calls for Marvel to develop four serialized programs leading to a mini-series programming event.

Led by a series focused on “Daredevil,” followed by “Jessica Jones,” “Iron Fist” and “Luke Cage,” the epic will unfold over multiple years of original programming, taking Netflix members deep into the gritty world of heroes and villains of Hell’s Kitchen, New York. Netflix has committed to a minimum of four, thirteen episodes series and a culminating Marvel’s “The Defenders” mini-series event that reimagines a dream team of self-sacrificing, heroic characters.

Produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Television Studios, this groundbreaking deal is Marvel’s most ambitious foray yet into live-action TV storytelling.

“This deal is unparalleled in its scope and size, and reinforces our commitment to deliver Marvel’s brand, content and characters across all platforms of storytelling. Netflix offers an incredible platform for the kind of rich storytelling that is Marvel’s specialty,” said Alan Fine, President of Marvel Entertainment. “This serialized epic expands the narrative possibilities of on-demand television and gives fans the flexibility to immerse themselves how and when they want in what’s sure to be a thrilling and engaging adventure.”

“Marvel’s movies, such as ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Marvel’s The Avengers,’ are huge favorites on our service around the world. Like Disney, Marvel is a known and loved brand that travels,” said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos. “With ‘House of Cards’ and our other original series, we have pioneered new approaches to storytelling and to global distribution and we’re thrilled to be working with Disney and Marvel to take our brand of television to new levels with a creative project of this magnitude.”

This new original TV deal follows last year’s landmark movie distribution deal through which, beginning with 2016 theatrically released feature films, Netflix will be the exclusive U.S. subscription television service for first-run, live-action and animated movies from the Walt Disney Studios, including titles from Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Disneynature and Lucasfilm. Netflix members can currently enjoy a wide range of Disney, ABC TV and Disney Channel films and shows across the 41 countries where Netflix operates.

 

 

Source: Marvel.com