Hong Kong Disneyland Halloween new TVC more scary than ever !

Hong Kong Disneyland released yesterday the 30 seconds TV commercial for their new Halloween season and you'll see it below. As you've seen in last week previous article the commercials were filmed by Hollywood horror films director Jim Sonzero (Pulse, 2006; Biohazard 5, 2009) and this new 30" TVC is all about the "alien" ship supposedly landing in Tomorrowland during the Halloween season.

As you will see, HKDL Halloween is very far from the Mickey-not-so-scary Halloween party at WDW. Obviously chinese don't mind to have a more horrific Halloween and as i've said before Hong Kong Disneyland is the Disney park which creates each year the most interesting - and, yes, scary, Halloween themes.

I wish that other Disney parks could take some inspiration from HKDL Halloween themes - which, by the way, is the case this year at Disneyland with the Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy that was introduced last year at HKDL 2007 Halloween!



Video: copyright Disney-Hong Kong Disneyland

Venice Film Festival 2009 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement awarded to John Lasseter and Disney-Pixar Directors

Yesterday was a day of glory for Pixar as the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to John Lasseter and Disney-Pixar directors.

Exceptionally in the history of the Venice Film Festival, the award celebrates not only a single filmmaker, but also the contribution of all the directors of Pixar visionary studio.



The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement - assigned by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale following the proposal from the Festival Director, Marco Müller - was presented to John Lasseter at a special ceremony in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at Venice Lido in the presence of Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich.

But everything began with a grand entrance with red carpet and inflatable "Pixar" archs and lot of balloons. On the pictures you will notice Georges Lucas who was there to present the award to John Lasseter and Pixar Film directors.

Why Georges Lucas you ask? Well, it's time to remember that it's him who, a long time ago, created the animation studio which was bought by Steve Jobs and became the incredible Pixar Studio that we know. It is Georges who will present in a few minutes the award to John Lasseter and Pixar directors.















Here are videos shoot on the red carpet. First John Lasseter...




Then Andrew stanton...




Here is Georges Lucas...




Then it was time for some pictures at the photo call...







John also signed some autographs to Pixar fans who were there for this memorable event.



Some of them came with their own painting of Pixar characters.



During the ceremony Georges Lucas did a speech before presenting to John Lasseter and Pixar directors Lee Unkrich, Andrew Stanton,Brad Bird and Pete Docter the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award. in his speech, Georges said "I think Walt would be very proud that these are the guys carrying on the family business".







John Lasseter declared in his acceptance speech: "Our goal has always been simple: to entertain our audience around the world. That’s something the studio has surely achieved so it’s no surprise that the talented team was chosen to receive this "tremendous honor."







After the Golden Lion award ceremony, it was time for a great screening of a few minutes of Toy Story 3 in 3D! Toy Story and Toy Story 2 also have their world premiere in 3D at the Venice Film Festival. Lucky Venitians!







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Video: copyright BiennaleChannel

Tokyo Disney Sea 8th Anniversary : Let's celebrate with great wallpaper pictures !

It's Tokyo Disney sea eighth anniversary and to celebrate this, here is a selection of great pictures - all "official" pictures that where deliver to the press on Opening Day.

All of them are high-res wallpaper images of the most beautiful theme park in the world and from the top you will find pictures of: Mysterious island, Renaissance Fortress and Journey to the center of the earth,, Indiana Jones Adventure and Little Mermaid lagoon, the Arabian coast and the Sindbad attraction - the first version, the American waterfront, the Columbia ship, and Storm Rider at Port Discovery.

Some of the images are vertical, so you may have to re-size to have them horizontal. Don't forget to double-click on the one you like to see it in bigger size.






























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