On June 21st, 2011, three days before the American box office debut of Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2, Disney will release Cars 2: The Video Game on all five major game consoles: XBox 360, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS.
Cars 2: The Video Game, screenshot from Disney.go.com
Cars 2: The Video Game will allow players to become one of twenty different characters and explore dozens of locations from the Cars 2 universe as they train to become a super spy agent of C.H.R.O.M.E. (Command Headquarters for Recon Operations and Motorized Espionage). While the original Cars video game focused on players winning 50 races in the Piston Cup, the gameplay in Cars 2 has been expanded so that players can take on dangerous missions, become the fastest racecar in the world, and use spy skills in action-packed combat racing.
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Fifteen years ago when Radio Disney first debuted, Selena Gomez was in preschool, Justin Bieber was in diapers, and Willow Smith hadn’t even been born. Back then there were no iPods, iPhones, or iTunes, and streaming music online and through mobile applications was inconceivable. In the late ’90s, the Dallas-based network and its affiliates played the latest hits from fresh-faced former Mickey Mouse Club stars Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera, as well as pop sensations the Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, and Hanson.
Now that Radio Disney is celebrating its 15th birthday, the technology and celebrities may have changed, but Radio Disney’s core mission to promote Disney-approved performers and properties through kid-friendly, contemporary mass market music remains the same.
Selena Gomez, Ernie D, and Jake Whetter kick off Radio Disney's 15th Birthday celebration (DISNEY CHANNEL/RICK ROWELL)
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In the wake of the overwhelming critical and financial success of Toy Story 3 (which scored two Oscars at the 2011 Academy Awards), the once sequel-adverse Pixar Studios is looking pretty sequel-snuggly. Pixar’s Cars 2 will hit theaters this summer on June 24th, and rumors have circled about other sequels in the works, including The Incredibles 2. Fans of The Incredibles will be disappointed that Pixar has yet to go public with the fate of the heroic Parr family, but a 2012 release has been secured for a sequel of an equally beloved, soon-to-be franchise: Monsters, Inc. 2, set to debut on November 2nd, exactly eleven years after the original hit theaters.
Logo for Pixar's recently announced Monsters University (2012), sequel to Monsters, Inc. (2001)
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Twenty-four days into its release, Disney’s latest film, the sci-fi animated feature Mars Needs Moms, is barely hanging on to 10th place at the box office after another meager domestic haul of $2.3 million. The film’s domestic $6.9 million opening weekend was a major disappointment for Disney’s Buena Vista, and with a current international box office tally of only $34.35 million, it is unlikely Mars Needs Moms will recuperate much more of its estimated $175 million production and marketing budget.
Screenshot from Disney's Mars Needs Moms (2011)
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When I saw Tangled in the theater last December, I thought it was the most charming, romantic, and entertaining (non-Pixar) Disney animated film since Beauty and the Beast (1991). Disney’s 50th animated feature is such a delight that I was simultaneously grinning broadly and blinking back tears for most of the 100 minute duration.
Promotional image for the DVD release of Disney's Tangled, image from Disney.go.com
And now, four months after its box office debut, Tangled is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on March 29th! Tangled-lovers with multiple home systems can even buy a 4-disc combo pack with the film on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, and as a digital copy (a steal at only $29.99 on Amazon). Members of the Disney Movie Rewards club are also eligible for a free* Tangled bracelet with their purchase of the film between March 29th and June 30th, while supplies last.
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