VIDEO: New “Maleficent” Featurette and Clip Now Available

WDWNT on June 29, 2014

The Walt Disney Studios has released a new featurette and clip for the upcoming live-action film Maleficent, which releases May 30, 2014.

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See the Light & Dark featurette below:

View the Finger Prick clip here:

Maleficent,stars Angelina Jolie and tells the untold back story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the classic Sleeping Beauty that drove her to curse the baby, Aurora, only to later realize that the child may hold the key to peace in the land.

Maleficent releases on May 30, 2014.

VIDEO: New Realm For “Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved” Revealed

WDWNT on June 29, 2014

Disney Interactive and Harmonix today revealed the newest realm, The Capsule, from Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved.Featuring Elton John’s Rocket Man and Peter Gabriel’s In Your Eyes as playable song, The Capsule is set in a modular space station orbiting around Earth.

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The Capsule is the first realm of  Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved to be set in space, and will introduce a new sensory experience for users that extends the vision and legacy of the original Fantasia film. At the center of The Capsule lives a lone astronaut monkey who is cut off from all forms of communication. What begins as a claustrophobic, deactivated space station, transforms into a fully-powered, living machine as players perform In Your Eyes and Rocket Man. Previously announced realms The Hollow and The Haven have taken place in forest environments.

Check out a video demonstration of The Capsule:

 

Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved is a breakthrough musical motion video game inspired by Disney’s classic animated film Fantasia, and will be available for Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and Kinect for Xbox 360 in fall 2014. Featuring over 30 tracks – including contemporary hits, classic rock, classical music, and more – Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved transports players to a breathtaking world where music and magic combine to transform extraordinary interactive landscapes in entirely new and creative ways.

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 Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved will be available in Fall 2014.

VIDEO: New Clips From Disneynature’s “Bears” Available

WDWNT on May 12, 2014

The Walt Disney Studio has released two new clips from the upcoming Disneynature film Bears, which releases on April 18, 2014.

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Check out the two new clips below:

“Digging Up Clams”

“First Steps”

Bears is the fifth theatrical release for Disneynature, which is the first new Disney-branded film label from The Walt Disney Studios in more than 60 years. The label was launched in April 2008 to bring the world’s top nature filmmakers together to capture a variety of wildlife subjects and stories.

Disneynature’s Bears, a new True Life Adventure, is an epic story of breathtaking scale that showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two young cubs are taught life’s most important lessons. Set against a backdrop teeming with life, their journey begins as winter comes to an end and the bears emerge from hibernation to face the bitter cold. Bears captures the fast-moving action and suspense of life in one of the planet’s last great wildernesses—Alaska!

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Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, and narrated by John C. Reilly, Bears arrives in theaters April 18, 2014, to celebrate Earth Day.

VIDEO: New “Maleficent” Featurette Released

WDWNT on May 12, 2014

The Walt Disney Studios has released a new featurette from the upcoming live-action film Maleficent, which releases May 30, 2014.

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Check out the featurette, titled “The Legacy” that explores the filmmaker’s and Angelina Jolie’s approach to creating the back story of Maleficent:

Maleficent stars Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville and is directed by Robert Stromberg,

VIDEO: Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” Trailer Now Available

WDWNT on May 12, 2014

The Walt Disney Studios today released the first trailer for the upcoming film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which will be released October 10, 2014.

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Check out the trailer:

Based on the book written by Judith Viorst and published in 1972, Disney’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day follows the exploits of 11-year-old Alexander (Ed Oxenbould) as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life—a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him. He soon learns that he’s not alone when his mom (Jennifer Garner), dad (Steve Carell), brother (Dylan Minnette) and sister (Kerris Dorsey) all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Anyone who says there is no such thing as a bad day just hasn’t had one.

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is directed by Miguel Arteta from a screenplay by Rob Lieber. The film hits theaters nationwide Oct. 10, 2014.

VIDEO: New “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” TV Spot Available

WDWNT on March 31, 2014

A new, 60-second TV spot for Marvel’s upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, entitled “Defend”, has just been made available.The new film releases on April 4, 2014.

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Check it out below:

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp and Hayley Atwell, with Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier releases on April 4, 2014

VIDEO: New “Planes: Fire & Rescue” Trailer Released

WDWNT on February 18, 2014

The new “Courage” trailer for Disney’s Planes: Fire & Rescue was released this week.

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Check out the trailer here:

Planes: Fire & Rescue is a new comedy-adventure about second chances, featuring a dynamic crew of elite firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting historic Piston Peak National Park from raging wildfire. When world famous air racer Dusty learns that his engine is damaged and he may never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of aerial firefighting. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his courageous team, including spirited super scooper Dipper, heavy-lift helicopter Windlifter, ex-military transport Cabbie and a lively bunch of brave all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers. Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire and Dusty learns what it takes to become a true hero.

Directed by Bobs Gannaway (Secret of the Wings), Planes: Fire & Rescue hits theaters in 3D on July 18, 2014.