"disney" Articles & Blogs:
Sexism and Masculinity in Disney Movies
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It’s not only the girls who are screwed up by the Disney movies with their princesses galore and pink sterotypes, it’s the boys who get it too.
Here’s a great video that pulls back the curtain on why these films screw with boys too.
Way to go Sa...[Read on] |
Bryan Burrough Reports that Disney Will Pay the Weinsteins a Settlement of Over $75 Million
| Photograph by Victor Demarchelier. Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough reports that, “after several months of negotiations, Disney quietly agreed to a settlement in which it will pay the Weinstein Company $32.5 million in cash, hand over it...[Read on] |
The Disney Princess Feminist Fail.
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Via Feministe, via Sociological Images. As this commenter notes, where are Mulan, Pocahantas, Giselle and Lauren notes the absence of Tiana, first African American princess who were all also constructed as racist and sexist stereotypes. Disney doesn't ...[Read on] |
Alice in Wonderland – First $200 Million Movie of 2010
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So the first big hit of 2010 is a movie about a girl. Uh oh. Remember yesterday’s post about Degenderizing Disney? Funny thing is Alice in Wonderland over the last two weeks has made $221 million in the US and $221 million overseas is a Disney mov...[Read on] |
Degenderizing Disney
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I find it pretty hysterical that the folks at Disney are freaking out and changing the names of their movies so they don’t alienate boys who won’t come and see a movie with the name princess in the title. Of course they would never freak out if girl...[Read on] |
The Disney Tittie Test: Casting Call Requires "Real Breasts" Only
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Keira Knightly had to wear a bodice so tight to "enhance" her breasts, she could only have it on for 10 minutes at a time without passing out.
Oh, Disney. Via Big Hollywood, we find the company put out a casting call for the newest Pirates of the Carib...[Read on] |
Disney Swears off Princesses
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In a move that should have progressive minded parents across the country and the world cheering, Disney last week said that they would no longer be producing fairy tale movies, and folks that means no more princess movies.
No more big pink dresses, no ...[Read on] |
Where's Cinderella?
| "Me and Caroline (her sister who is 2 and more into Elmo aka "Mel Mo") like Areil best". So I stood there looking at these plastic toys never having seen any of the movies (I wasn't a deprived kid, we just played more than we sat in front of a...[Read on] |
Animators, It's Time for a Female Heroine--No Princesses Please!
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Linda Holmes, over at NPR, writes a moving letter about her fervent hope that Pixar can take it's unparalleled talent and use it to create a true female heroine. An excerpt:
Of the ten movies you've released so far, ten of them have central characters wh...[Read on] |
Ken Dumps Barbie Over Deforestation
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Greenpeace UK recently launched a new campaign against toy companies’ (excessive and unnecessary) packaging which use resources that are destroying Indonesian rainforests, and thereby endangering orangutans, elephants, and tigers. Their target is Ma...[Read on] |
The Princess and the Frog: Old School Awesome
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When I found out Disney had reopened their hand-drawn animation studios and announced plans to do another 2D feature in the tradition of their old classics, I was SUPER excited. So I braved the weekend crowds on Saturday to check out The Princess and the ...[Read on] |
Tangled and the Future of the Fairy Tale
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After the box-office failure of Disney's The Princess and the Frog, rumor was that Disney decided that fairy tales were a thing of the past; according to the LA Times, targeting only the little-girl market just wasn't enough. The studio's latest offering,...[Read on] |
Consuming pop culture while feminist: Disney's The Little Mermaid
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When I was a little girl, I loved Disney's The Little Mermaid. I mean, I loved it. I used to sit in front of the TV screen for hours at a time, rewinding the video as soon as the movie ended, to watch it all over again from the start. I used to - and I ca...[Read on] |
Ranking the 23 Sentences in the Trailer for Disney’s New Movie, Prom
| This week, Disney released the trailer for its new film, Prom, a Lars von Trier–helmed biopic of savage war criminal Wilhelm Schultheiss-Prommersberger. Your VF Daily blogger, who (full disclosure) did not care much for this trailer, has arranged al...[Read on] |
Disney’s Princess Half Marathon
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A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about Endurance Races for women. In compiling a list of races specifically for those with a xx chromosome I can’t believe we overlooked last weekend’s Princess Half Marathon! C’mon. Who can resist a fairytale week...[Read on] |
All aboard for Disney's train tour
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Disney is pulling out all the whistle stops and taking its show on the road with a spectacular immersive and interactive 40-city train tour including a 3D sneak peek of film footage from the upcoming movie "Disney's A Christmas Carol."
Looking for so...[Read on] |
Superheroines can be divas, too
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Lots of comic book fans were stunned earlier this month when Marvel made the unexpected decision to merge with the Walt Disney Company. But earlier in the summer, the comic book company made another unexpected decision–except this one was actually kin...[Read on] |
Tangled and The Black Swan Kick Box Office Butt
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Tangled overtook Harry Potter at the box office this weekend on its second weekend out and is close to making $100 million in just two weeks.
On the one hand its great that a woman centric film (ok, a princess centric film) is doing so great but it wil...[Read on] |
Brands look to parents watching TV with their kids
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Marketers are ready to pounces on moms! More moms are watching children's programing -- with -- their children. And...marketers see an opening.
Nickelodeon, Disney and Time Warner's Cartoon Network are the big beneficiaries, but smal...[Read on] |
The Most Powerful Women in Hollywood
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In conjunction with its Women in Entertainment breakfast, The Hollywood Reporter has published its annual list of the most powerful women in Hollywood. My thoughts are that the list is pretty much the same from last year especially in the top 10 with a c...[Read on] |
The newest Beauty & the Beast is “Beastly”
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Pretty Smart: One of our fave characters is Belle.
Now comes word their will be a live-action, modern retelling of the children’s classic “Beauty and the Beast” told from the Beast’s point of view.
CBS Films has signed actress/singer Vanessa Hud...[Read on] |
Helen Mirren does Prospera for Julie Taymor
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Julie Taymor has taken Shakespeare’s The Tempest and given it a gender redo. USA Today has the first picture of Mirren and she looks great. The film was shot around Hawaii, and Mirren plays a woman who has “her whole life taken away from her because...[Read on] |
The Elle Power List – 2010
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For the second year in a row, Elle Magazine asked Nikki Finke to put together a list of the most powerful women in Hollywood.
Personally, I liked the days when the list was 1-100 and it was straightforward. The list seems to have lost its bite (if it ...[Read on] |
Bad-ass high school students get misogynist songs banned from prom
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Love this.
Twenty songs that refer to women as "hos" and other derogatory names won't be played at the Arcadia High prom Saturday night.
That's because senior Madeline Conrique and fellow members of the Women's Health and Issues Club brokered a deal wit...[Read on] |
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