Roy Disney Death

Roy Disney Death: latest news about,Roy Disney Death, walt disney, roy e. disney, roy disney biography, roy disney death, roy e disney, Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney whose powerful behind-the-scenes influence on The Walt Disney Co. led to the departure of former chief Michael Eisner, has died. He was 79.
The company announced that Disney died Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif., after a yearlong bout with stomach cancer.

Company president and chief executive Bob Iger said Disney was much more than a valued 56-year company veteran.
“Roy’s commitment to the art of animation was unparalleled and will always remain his personal legacy and one of his greatest contributions to Disney’s past, present and future,” Iger said in a statement.

Although he generally stayed out of the spotlight, Roy Disney didn’t hesitate to lead a successful campaign in 1984 to oust Walt Disney’s son-in-law after concluding he was leading the company in the wrong direction.

Nearly 20 years later, he launched another successful shareholders revolt, this time against Eisner, the man he’d helped bring in after the previous ouster.

Eisner and his wife issued a statement expressing their sympathies over Disney’s death.

Don Hahn, an executive producer at the Disney movie studio, credited Roy Disney with ushering in a new era after taking over the animation department in 1984. Together, they helped make such blockbusters as “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King.”

“He took it under his wing, was a cheerleader, a coach, therapist,” Hahn said.

John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, also lauded Disney.

“He put his heart and soul into preserving Disney’s legendary past, while helping to move the art of animation into the modern age by embracing new technology,” Lasseter said.

DreamWorks Animation chief and former Disney studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg said Disney’s death would be felt by “everyone who works in the entertainment industry.”

“His passion for the art form of animation was infectious and inspiring,” Katzenberg said in a statement Wednesday.

Born in 1930, Roy Disney had practically grown up with the company. His uncle Walt Disney and his father, Roy O. Disney, had co-founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio seven years before, later renaming it The Walt Disney Co.

While Walt was the company’s creative genius, his brother was the one in charge of the company’s finances.

Starting in the 1950s, the younger Roy Disney worked for years in the family business as an editor, screenwriter and producer. Two short films he worked on were nominated for Academy Awards: the 1959 “Mysteries of the Deep,” which he wrote, was nominated as best live action short, and the 2003 film “Destino,” which he co-produced, was nominated as best animated short.

Despite his heritage, Roy Disney never got the chance to lead the company. But as an investor who grew his Disney stock into a billion-dollar fortune, he had a huge impact on the company’s destiny.

In 1984, dissatisfied with the leadership Walt’s son-in-law Ron Miller was providing, Disney resigned from the company’s board of directors and sought investors to back a bid to install new management. (Miller was the husband of Diane Disney Miller, Roy’s cousin.)

His efforts resulted in the hiring of Eisner and Frank Wells, who led the company as a team until Wells died in 1994.

During that time, Disney rejoined the board and rose to become the company’s vice chairman and chairman of its animation division. He also became a savvy investor over the years, forming Shamrock Holdings with his friend and fellow Disney board member Stanley Gold in 1978.

The fund grew to become a major investor in California real estate, the state of Israel and other entertainment and media companies.

Gold, president of Shamrock Holdings and a friend of Disney for 35 years, described him as steadfastly loyal to his principles and his friends.
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Mickey Mouse 80th Birthday Celebrated Today

latest news about, Mickey Mouse 80th Birthday Celebrated Today, Walt Disney Studios is looked at in many different ways. Disney is a children’s delight, a target for ridicule or satire, a massive annoyance, or all three or more, depending on your outlook. Besides, it is one of the few media giants to owe everything it has to a mouse. Mickey Mouse turns 80 years old today.

The Disney empire would not be where it is today if Mickey Mouse wasn’t born on November 18, 1928. Mickey Mouse debuted on that day, then he and his friends in the Disney universe went on to slowly conquer the entertainment world and the minds of children.

Mickey Mouse famously appeared for the first time in the short Steamboat Willie 80 years ago. Thanks to Mickey paving the way, Disney Studios took off and created its various classic movies, additional animated legends, and theme parks.

Remember The Titans

Remember The Titans, Remember the Titans is an American sports drama, based on a true story, directed by Boaz Yakin and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer for Walt Disney Pictures, released in 2000. The film stars Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone. Remember the Titans centers on the football team of the newly integrated T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia.
Based on a remarkable true story, “Remember The Titans” follows the explosive dramatic events that took place in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971 when African-American football coach Herman Boone (Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington) was hired to guide an integrated but racially polarized high school team, the T.C. Williams Titans. Angry, stubborn and a rigid task master, Boone faces a cool reception from the team’s players as well as an awkward relationship with assistant coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton), a local white coach with seniority and a tradition of winning who was bypassed for the job.

As the two men learn to overcome their ignorance and bigotry and realize that they have much in common and integrity, honor and a strong work ethic. They work together to transform a group of angry unfocused players into a dynamic winning team of responsible young men. In the process, they also unite a divided community and ensure that Virginia will always “Remember the Titans.”

Lion King Broadway

WASHINGTON– The following was released today by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History WHAT: Disney Theatrical Productions will donate objects from the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical, “The Lion King” to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 24

11 a.m.

WHERE: National Museum of American History

14th Street and Madison Drive N.W.

Note: Please use the Mall entrance.

WHO: Dwight Blocker Bowers, curator, National Museum of American History

Thomas Schumacher, president and producer, Disney Theatrical Productions

In a special donation ceremony, Thomas Schumacher will present objects from “The Lion King” — Broadway’s landmark musical event — to the National Museum of American History.

Disney’s Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical “The Lion King,” based on the 1994 Disney animated film, reigns as one of the most popular shows on Broadway and around the world. The show recently passed the 50-million mark in worldwide attendance, becoming the first American musical in history to achieve the feat.

These objects will join a rich collection of artifacts with Broadway origins, including costumes from the Broadway productions of “Rent,” “The King and I,” “Hello, Dolly!,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Cats,” “This Is the Army,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Mame” and” Lorelei.” Currently on view at the museum is “Dumbo the Flying Elephant” from Disneyland’s opening year (1955), and the museum holds Walt Disney’s pencil sketches of “Steamboat Willie,” an early iteration of Mickey Mouse.
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My Date With The President’s Daughter

My Date with the President’s Daughter is a 1998 made-for-TV comedy film produced by Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Walt Disney. It is about a free-spirited 16-year-old daughter of the American president who makes a date with a high school teenager named Duncan, then sneaks away from her Secret Service and has a wild night on the town.

Cast
Actor     Role
Will Friedle     Duncan Fletcher
Elisabeth Harnois     Hallie Richmond
Dabney Coleman     President George Richmond
Mimi Kuzyk     Carol Richmond
Wanda Cannon     Rita Fletcher
Jay Thomas     Charles Fletcher
Chantal Leblanc-Everett     Tracy Fletcher

The film featured the aptly titled song “My Date with the President’s Daughter” by the band The Presidents of the United States of America, describing events similar to those in the plot. Though the film is set in Washington DC, the movie was filmed in Toronto, Ontario.

Plot

Duncan Fletcher is an average teenager in search of a date to his school’s spring dance. While at the mall with his friends, he meets a girl, Hallie, who just happens to be the daughter of the President of the United States, George Richmond.

Duncan, not realizing this, asks her to his school’s dance. She accepts and gives him her address (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) and he replies by telling her he will pick her up at 7:00.

That night, Duncan asks his father if he can borrow the “company car”, a red BMW E34 with his father rejecting. Duncan takes the company car anyway and goes to pick up Hallie, only to realize that he ends up at the White House.

When he enters, Hallie has Duncan meet her father, and Duncan is informed that there are limitations on where they can and cannot go, and that the Secret Service will be with them the entire time. Hallie says that they were just going to dinner and a movie, but at the movie theater, they sneak out and leave the Secret Service without a clue.

Hallie and Duncan go to a movie and they get away with pretending to makeout. The go to a store called f/x and get new clothes. He uses his dads credit card and spends $730.16. After they go shopping, Duncan lets Hallie drive.

They encounter many obstacles throughout the night; Duncan’s father’s car gets stolen, confrontations at a dance club and a tavern, having a fight with each other, and then defending themselves from a local bully. Hallie’s and Duncan’s fathers are out looking for them throughout the city but ended up being arrested. They both manage to come home safe, but unhappy as they realize of how much they like each other after their first kiss.

At the end of the film, even though they never make it to the dance, Duncan is satisfied about the outcome of the date. President Richmond comes to Duncan’s school to thank him for taking such good care of his daughter and allow Duncan to continue of seeing Hallie as well as establishing a friendship with Duncan’s family.

Duncan’s dad gets a promotion after his employer is overjoyed of being able to meet and play golf with the The President. Hallie and Duncan are able to pursue a real relationship and happily goes on a second date. The camera zooms to reveal multiple SUVs and helicopters following them.
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