Disney Interactive

07.30.10

Disney Interactive Studios is developing Disney Tangled: The Video Game, a story-based adventure game inspired by the world and characters featured in the upcoming 3D animated Disney film Tangled, an action-packed comedy adventure for audiences of all ages. Featuring Rapunzel, a feisty teen with incredibly long magical hair, and Flynn Ryder, a charming rogue, the video game combines humor with an engaging adventure as players embark on a journey to fulfill one of Rapunzel’s lifelong dreams to see the lights she’s admired from her Tower window. Disney Tangled: TheVideo Game will be released for the Wii system and Nintendo DS family of hand-held systems, as well as Windows/PC this fall.

07.28.10

Disney Interactive Studios was on hand with both console versions of the new TRON: Evolution videogames inside Disney Pictures Comic Con 2010 recreation of Flynn’s Arcade, just down the street from the San Diego Convention Center. It was part of the ComiTRON celebration, which marked the end of three years of promotion for the upcoming 3D movie. The new game connects the storyline between the two films. Bruce Boxleitner, who plays TRON, talks about the new TRON: Legacy movie and the videogames in this exclusive interview.

07.20.10

Disney Interactive Studios today announced that the highly-anticipated Disney Epic Mickey video game will be featured at the upcoming Comic Con International show in San Diego. Disney Epic Mickey will be presented in a panel discussion taking place on Saturday, July 24th at 4:30 p.m. at the San Diego Convention Center, Room 9.

07.17.10

Disney has renamed Comic Con 2010, ComiTRON. In addition to an hour-long panel featuring new footage from the 3D Tron Legacy movie, Disney Interactive Studios will be showing new Tron Evolution games and new mobile games both in its booth and off-site at a recreation of Flynn’s arcade.

07.14.10

Disney Interactive Studios has released The Sorcerer’s Apprentice videogame, inspired by the new movie from Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is an action-packed arcade videogame that casts players in the role of Dave, the powerful sorcerer’s apprentice.

07.13.10

After Jerry Bruckheimer’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time raking in over $320 million globally, the producer is back for his second summer blockbuster. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is a modern-day re-imagining of the classic Fantasia short starring Jay Baruchel as Mickey Mouse, essentially. Nicolas Cage plays the sorcerer and Baruchel is his apprentice. Baruchel, who can be heard in Activision’s How to Train Your Dragon videogame, talks about this new role, his love of comic books, and why Uwe Boll should stop making videogame movies in this exclusive interview.

07.05.10

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse raked in $161 million in its first five days in the U.S., earning the seventh-best five-day opening in history behind the Twilight Saga: New Moon’s $164.7 million haul. Eclipse took in almost as much over the holiday weekend as it did in its opening day. The film earned an additional $100 million overseas, bringing its early total to $261 million.

06.28.10

LOS ANGELES – After a very long 11 year wait, Toy Story fans continued to flock to theaters over the second weekend to give the third installment of the Pixar Animation Studios original franchise a blockbuster number one outing. After pulling in a record $110 opening weekend in the United States alone, the movie earned another $59 million this weekend. Its domestic total is now over $226.5 million and its foreign take adds another $100 million to the Disney coffers. That’s great news for Disney Interactive Studios, which has Toy Story 3 games for all platforms in stores and had a large presence for the new games at E3 2010.

06.22.10

At E3 2010, Disney Interactive Studios and Propaganda Games showed off a new Pirates of the Caribbean game. Now, production has commenced on location in Hawaii, the United Kingdom and Los Angeles on Walt Disney Pictures’ and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ sweeping comedy adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago), the fourth entry in the blockbuster franchise which has already reaped $2.7 billion in worldwide box office from the previous three films, and the first to be filmed and presented in Disney Digital 3D.  

06.19.10

EMERYVILLE – The man behind the magic of Pixar Animation Studios’ latest computer-generated blockbuster, Lee Unkrich, also helped Disney Interactive Studios and developer Avalanche Software on the new Toy Story 3 videogame. The game was a big hit at E3 2010 in Los Angeles this past week. Unkrich took some time away from the game controllers to talk about this new collaboration between Pixar and Disney game makers in this exclusive interview.

06.18.10

EMERYVILLE – While movie fans have had to wait 11 years for a new big screen Toy Story adventure, gamers have had an assortment of interactive entertainment featuring Buzz, Woody and pals over the years from Activision. With Toy Story 3, Disney Interactive Studios retained the rights to the franchise and enlisted Avalanche Software to craft the first open world game based on a Disney movie property. John Warner, senior producer of Toy Story at Avalanche Software, talks about this collaboration and the new game in this exclusive interview.

06.07.10

Square Enix, Inc. will showcase KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep at E3 2010 in Los Angeles June 15-17. The new PSP exclusive will ship to North American retailers on September 7, 2010. KINGDOM HEARTS Birth by Sleep brings to life unexplored worlds from everyone’s favorite Disney stories. It’s the latest game in a global franchise that has already topped 14 million units in sales.

03.26.10

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – In this digital age when Disney’s Pixar Studios are only making CGI movies in full Disney 3D and DreamWorks Animation is focused solely on computer-generated 3D films, Walt Disney Pictures has literally gone back to the drawing board with its latest faerie tale adaptation, The Princess and the Frog – out now on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. But the studio is keeping this franchise connected with today’s gaming audience. Disney Interactive Studios has a pair of games out in tandem with the home video release. And rather than regurgitating the on-screen adventure that Tiana and the prince have through the city and outlying bayou of New Orleans, the Wii and Nintendo DS games from Griptonite Games and Amaze serve as sequels to the big screen action.

 

03.14.10

Moviegoers continued to flock to Tim Burton’s 3D take on Alice in Wonderland over the weekend. The movie raked in over $62 million, bringing the global total to over $208.6 million. Alice is now Burton and Johnny Depp’s biggest collaboration ever. Depp plays The Mad Hatter in the new movie adaptation based on Lewis Carrol’s original novel. Burton, who also worked with Disney Interactive Studios on the Wii and NIntendo DS videogame,  took some time at Comic-Con to talk about his first 3D movie in this Reuters interview.