John Lasseter News

John Lasseter, prepresenting at the large Disney Animation / Pixar presentation this morning, confirmed that Mandy Moore (not Kristen Chenowith as rumored) will voice Rapunzel in the upcoming Disney animated film.

The ultimate Disney fan experience is connecting guests with The Walt Disney Company in exciting new ways, from September 10-13, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center just across the street from Disneyland! Guests will enjoy exhibits, screenings, presentations and interactive experiences from every part of The Walt Disney Company.

Robert Rehme, an Executives Branch governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was elected Tuesday night (8/18) as president of the Academy Foundation, the educational and cultural arm of the Academy.

Tom Sherak was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tuesday night (8/18) by the organization's Board of Governors.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that Edward Zwick has prevailed in the run-off for the open Directors Branch seat on the 2009-2010 Board of Governors; this will be his first term on the Board. Zwick will join Martha Coolidge and Curtis Hanson as the third governor representing the branch.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that the annual branch elections of governors of the organization have returned nine incumbents to the board as well as four new governors and one who returns to the Academy's governing body after a year off.

Filmmakers Gregory V. Sherman and Jeffrey C. Sherman explore the brothers' peripatetic childhoods, marriages, early careers and close personal and professional relationship with pioneering filmmaker and studio chief Walt Disney to create a unique portrait of these two extremely gifted but very different artists.

'the boys: the sherman brothers' story' is an intimate journey through the lives of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the astoundingly prolific, Academy Award-winning songwriting team that defined family musical entertainment for five decades. The feature-length documentary, conceived, produced and directed by two of the songwriters' sons, takes audiences behind the scenes of the Hollywood magic factory and offers a rare glimpse of a unique creative process at work. It also explores a deep and longstanding rift that has kept the brothers personally estranged throughout much of their unparalleled professional partnership. BroadwayWorld is pleased to bring you some images from the film.

The deadline for U.S. student filmmakers to submit their films for consideration in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 36th Student Academy Awards is Wednesday, April 1. The Student Academy Awards is a national annual competition designed to recognize and encourage promising new filmmakers.

The deadline for U.S. student filmmakers to submit their films for consideration in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 36th Student Academy Awards is Wednesday, April 1. The Student Academy Awards is a national annual competition designed to recognize and encourage promising new filmmakers.

WALL-E has won the Oscar for Best Animated Film, we've got Andrew Stanton's Oscar Acceptance Speech.

Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre offers the perfect holiday entertainment package for moviegoers of all ages with its special engagement of Walt Disney Pictures' latest animated comedy-adventure, Bolt, presented in dazzling Disney Digital 3-D , from November 21st through January 4th.

'Sleeping Beauty,' one of the most spectacular, stylish, and unique films in the history of Disney animation, has undergone a total digital restoration of its picture and soundtrack in advance of the October 7th release of its 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition on Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD, and will have an exclusive digital wide-screen engagement at Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre from August 29th through September 18th.

Disney's John Lasseter annouced today at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood news about the upcoming animated musical film THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. After jazz legend Dr. John performed a song from the film, Lasseter anounced that daytime queen Oprah Winfrey had joined the cast as Eudora, the mother to Princess Tiana (voiced by Anika Noni Rose).

'Sleeping Beauty,' one of the most spectacular, stylish, and unique films in the history of Disney animation, has undergone a total digital restoration of its picture and soundtrack in advance of the October 7th release of its 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition on Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD, and will have an exclusive digital wide-screen engagement at Hollywood's legendary El Capitan Theatre from August 29th through September 18th.

The Orlando Sentinel reports: 'Disney executives announced a multimillion-dollar musical version of Toy Story [to] debut in April aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship.'

Anika Noni Rose has signed on to provide the voice of the title character in the upcoming Disney animated feature The Frog Princess.

In a new animated fairy tale, the Walt Disney Company will make history by introducing its first black princess in a movie, according to CNN.com.