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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Has Dubious Subtext

March 25, 2010
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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Has Dubious Subtext

I’m a Viking historical reenactor in what’s left of my offline life, and last week my group and I provided promotional color for a sneak preview of the new Disney animated flick, How to Train Your Dragon. We posed for pictures, gave away stickers and temporary tattoos to the children, and terrified people with our impassioned denunciations of horned helmets (in case nobody told you, they’re totally inauthentic). This was the big IMAX theater out at the Minnesota Zoo, in Apple Valley. The theater people couldn’t have been nicer, and we got in to see the film for free (I marched past the ticket takers brandishing my sword, crying, “THIS is my ticket!”). How did I like the movie? Well, it’s complicated. 

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For the Hollywood Left, ‘Heterosexism’ Is the New Racism

March 25, 2010
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For the Hollywood Left, ‘Heterosexism’ Is the New Racism

“Heterosexism” is becoming the term of choice among Leftists dominating the Entertainment Industrial Complex. The Writers Guild of America gave its imprimatur to a group of Leftist True Believers at a panel titled “Flipping the Script: Beyond Homophobia in Black Hollywood.” “Homophobia,” however, doesn’t properly capture the “institutional bias that affects jobs and advancement,” according to Jasmine Love, a writer on “Moesha,” “The Division,” and “The District.” Apparently “heterosexism” hasn’t hurt her advancement, but logic is not the strong point of this movement. Examining the list of panelists leads reinforces the idea that Leftists in Hollywood would rather score ideological points than tell good stories. Here are the people condemning the lack of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered characters on the large and small screens. Moderator: Sheryl Lee Ralph, one of Broadway’s original “Dream Girls” Quincy LeNear (writer-producer-director, The DL Chronicles) Deondray Gossett (writer-producer-director, The DL Chronicles) Maurice Jamal  (writer-producer-director, Chappelle’s Show) Tim McNeal (vice president, talent development and diversity, Disney/ABC Television) Tajamika Paxton (GLAAD director of entertainment media) Wilson Cruz, a bisexual teenager on My So-Called Life and a recurring character on the gay-themed cable series Noah’s Arc How, exactly, has being black and homosexual damaged

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Thousands Gather at Comic Con

March 15, 2010
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Thousands Gather at Comic Con

Between eight and ten thousand sequential art, science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts gathered within Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center to celebrate the comic book and pop culture this past weekend. The fans came, some in costumes, seeking personal sketches and autographs from the gathered artists. Artists and writers came to meet their fans and to network with publishers in order to advance existing careers or establish new ones. In contrast to San Diego’s massive event, which draws over 10 times the number gathered in Seattle, the Emerald City Comic Con (EC3) caters far more to the sequential art form that inspired the convention. The San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) has become a multimedia extravaganza drawing stars and directors from Hollywood to preview what they hope will the next blockbuster or the next television ratings hit. At SDCC booths for production companies like Fox and Warners Bros, share floor space with television studios, toy companies, and, yes, even comic publishers. Moreover, a single event hall In San Diego, where fans will spend an entire day watching trailers and movie clip previews, can accommodate nearly all those gathered in Seattle. SDCC is a massive cultural event where panelists are escorted in and

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Disney’s ‘Christmas Carol’ Disappoints at Box Office, Carrey Slams Capitalism

November 9, 2009
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Disney’s ‘Christmas Carol’ Disappoints at Box Office, Carrey Slams Capitalism

The new adaptation of A Christmas Carol from Disney and director Robert Zemeckis opened unexpectedly weakly at the North American box office. Lead actor Jim Carrey’s comments slamming market capitalism probably didn’t help, S. T. Karnick notes.

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Homosexual Pope-Haters; ‘Narnia’ Problems; Indian Anti-Media Frenzy

December 24, 2008
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Homosexual Pope-Haters; ‘Narnia’ Problems; Indian Anti-Media Frenzy

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Movie Audiences Remain Enchanted by Charming Disney Fantasy

December 3, 2007
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Movie Audiences Remain Enchanted by Charming Disney Fantasy

Disney’s Enchanted, which generated the second-biggest Thanksgiving opening weekend ever a couple of weeks ago, remains number one at the U.S. box office for the second weekend in a row. The film brought in $17 million, double the amount of the second place finisher, the African-American comedy This Christmas. The success of both these films seems to reflect audiences’ weariness of the sort of depressing films Hollywood has been releasing in recent months and the increasingly dark and grim conent of most network TV fiction series this year.

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Disney Suppressing “Path to 9/11″ DVD for Political Reasons?

September 24, 2007
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Disney Suppressing “Path to 9/11″ DVD for Political Reasons?

The Hollywood actress known in print as Anna Nimouse notes today on National Review Online that the excellent ABC-TV miniseries The Path to 9/11, which gathered huge audiences on when it aired over two nights last September, has yet to be released on DVD, and no plans have been announced to do so. It was slated for release in January of this year, then delayed until June, and since that date passed Disney/ABC has neither released the film nor said anything about it. Nimouse concludes that Disney is holding off on the release in deference to Hillary Clinton, whose husband Bill Clinton does not come off very well in the film. Neither does George W. Bush, as I noted in my critiques of the film, but Laura Bush isn’t running for president. Nimouse writes, Incredibly, the Clinton gang, with Bob Iger, might be the reason there is no scheduled release of the DVD of this fantastically successful show. Is Bill Clinton in bed with a mouse? (Sorry…) More importantly, is the mouse afraid for its broadcast license?

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“Ratatouille” Leads Pack, Deservedly

July 2, 2007
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“Ratatouille” Leads Pack, Deservedly

The Disney/Pixar movie Ratatouille led in box office take over the weekend but opened weaker than expected. The animated film took in $47.2 million in its first three days, handily outdrawing Live Free or Die Hard at $33.2 million, but that still constituted one of the weakest openings for a Disney/Pixar film.   Ratatouille is still expected to be very successful at the box office over time, in that its early numbers were held down by the fact that it opened only two days after the hotly anticipated Bruce Willis action film and just before today’s nationwide release of Transformers. The previous weekend’s winner, Evan Almighty, slipped to third with a disappointing $15.1 million. Its weak performance may give Hollywood execs an excuse to avoid financing films with a strong appeal to Christians.

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“Meet the Robinsons” Returns to Disney’s Glory Days

April 18, 2007
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“Meet the Robinsons” Returns to Disney’s Glory Days

The latest animated movie, Meet the Robinsons, released by Disney, marks a return to the Disney studio’s wholesome past. That is meant as a compliment.

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