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June of 2009

 

Rate Its a Doghouse Halloween Baddog - Video

Original at ffwd.com external link    Thu, Jun 18

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Copyrights go to Warner Bros, Fox, Hanna-Barbera, Touchstone/Disney, and General Mills, for sound clips and non doghouse character "costumes" Also ... ffwd.com

Rate Bullock, Reynolds find chemistry in 'Proposal'

Original at Arab Times external link    Wed, Jun 17

 Kuwait The Walt Disney/Touchstone release hits theaters Friday . Peter Chiarelli's script borrows a page or two from “The Devil Wears Prada” in the opening scenes, as Margaret's fearsome reputation precedes her among her frantic office staff. ...

Rate Kinnear, Preston join Cyrus in 'Song'

Original at Variety external link    Tue, Jun 16

 CA 8 under the Touchstone Pictures label. Sparks is penning the script based on his own book, which he wrote specifically to turn into a star vehicle for the "Hannah Montana" star. Book will be published this fall. Disney-based partners Adam Shankman and ...

Rate HuffingtonPost.com The Bachelorette: Marry Me Monday at Your Own Peril

Original at news.yahoo.com external link    Tue, Jun 16

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TVGrapevine.com  CA ABC and Touchstone have teemed up (or rather, been teemed up by their parent company, Disney) to bring us an unprecedented event: Marry Me Monday. During the commercial breaks, real people will have the opportunity to propose to their girlfriends on ...

Rate The Weekend Warrior: June 19 - 21

Original at Comingsoon.net external link    Tue, Jun 16

The Proposal (Disney/Touchstone Pictures) is Bullock's first comedy since the sequel Miss Congeniality 2 in 2005, which failed to find the success of its predecessor. Bullock has never had a movie open over $20 million but these are different times, ...

Rate Confessions of a Shopaholic

Original at FlickDirect external link    Mon, Jun 15

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 FL During the winter "dead movie months", Jerry Brucheimer and Touchstone pictures released a little publicized film, entitled Confessions of a Shopaholic. Now on June 23, 2009, Walt Disney Home Entertainment releases the Blu-ray to homes across the ...

Rate Disney Goes the Rare Sneak-Preview Route With a Romantic Comedy ...

Original at New York Times Blogs external link    Mon, Jun 15

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Tampabay.com  NY Yet Walt Disney Pictures, via its Touchstone label, held sneak screenings for “The Proposal” in 817 theaters on Saturday. The comedy, starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, played to 88 percent capacity in those theaters, according to Disney, ...

Rate Its a Doghouse halloween baddog

Original at vimeo.com external link    Mon, Jun 15

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Copyrights go to Warner Bros, Fox, Hanna-Barbera, Touchstone/Disney, and General Mills, for sound clips and non doghouse character "costumes" Also ... vimeo.com

Rate The Bachelorette: Marry Me Monday at Your Own Peril

Original at Huffington Post external link    Sun, Jun 14

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Examiner.com  NY ABC and Touchstone have teemed up (or rather, been teemed up by their parent company, Disney) to bring us an unprecedented event: Marry Me Monday. During the commercial breaks, real people will have the opportunity to propose to their girlfriends on ...

Rate Interview With Author/Screenwriter Steve Alten

Original at Screen Rant external link    Sun, Jun 14

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 UT The book has almost come to the big screen twice, first in 1997 when Disney's Touchstone Pictures had the film option but let it expire, then again in 2004 when Guillermo del Toro and New Line were ready with Jan de Bont attached to direct. ...

Rate REMINDER & GUEST UPDATE: FREE GRACE screening TOMORROW!

Original at FANGORIA external link    Wed, Jun 10

REMINDER & GUEST UPDATE: FREE GRACE screening TOMORROW! In 2003, Coffee & Donuts was bought by Walt Disney Studios/Touchstone Television and developed as a sit-com for UPN with Green writing the pilot. ... and more »

Rate my week at the movies: 'The Taking of Pelham 123,' 'The Proposal'

Original at Flick Filosopher external link    Mon, Jun 8

 NY The Proposal (opens in the US on June 19, and in the UK on July 22) is a Touchstone film, which means Disney, which means -- because I'm on Disney's shitlist at the moment -- that I'm not even gonna bother asking them for a screening. ...

Rate The World's Most Beloved Fairy Returns in an All-New Magical Adventure - PR Newswire

Original at sev.prnewswire.com external link    Mon, Jun 8

PR Newswire (press release), NY Walt Disney Studios Worldwide Home Entertainment is the marketing, sales and distribution company for Walt Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax, and Buena Vista DVDs and Blu-rays. Disney Fairies is rooted in Disney's rich heritage of ...

May of 2009

 

Rate BLU-RAY NEWS: Disney Summer of Blu features Lost 1 and 2, Miracle ...

Original at Eclipse Magazine external link    Wed, May 27    1 related articles

 CA Cool off in August with the comedic splash of The Waterboy, the zany Adam Sandler comedy available for the first time on Blu-ray hi-def August 4th from Touchstone Pictures Home Entertainment. This hilarious tale of a misfit waterboy who becomes the ...

Rate Disney May Shut Down Miramax (DIS)

Original at The Business Insider external link    Mon, May 18

 NY Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook said it doesn't plan to sell Miramax, but given that DreamWorks will soon start producing titles for Disney's Touchstone pictures live-action division, there might not be room for more crowd-pleasing fare from ...

Rate Hollywood Assistants Get Sneak Peek at The Proposal

Original at Comingsoon.net external link    Fri, May 8

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Hollywood assistants from top talent agencies like CAA and ICM came out in large numbers last night to see an advance screening of Touchstone Pictures' The Proposal, which stars Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds hosted the "guy's night out" ...

Rate Vindictive Movie Studio Threatens To Make 'Coyote Ugly' Sequel - The Onion

Original at theonion.com external link    Fri, May 8

Zaiff said that not only would Touchstone do everything in its power to make the sequel the most repellant, soulless, pandering film ever released, but that all of the resources of the studio, as well as those of its parent company Walt Disney, ...

Rate Disney Plans Content Subscription Service

Original at PC Magazine external link    Wed, May 6

In July 2006, Disney said it would produce and distribute about 10 Disney live-action and animated films a year and two to three Touchstone films a year, from 14 to 18 films evenly divided between its Disney and its mature Touchstone label. ...

Rate Disney looks beyond traditional studio model

Original at Reuters UK external link    Tue, May 5

 UK In July 2006, Disney said it would produce and distribute about 10 Disney live-action and animated films a year and two to three Touchstone films a year, from 14 to 18 films evenly divided between its Disney and its mature Touchstone label. Continued. ...

Rate The Best Stock to Own

Original at Motley Fool external link    Fri, May 1

 - James Early, James Early Like Kraft, Walt Disney (Nasdaq: DIS) has an enormous portfolio of highly recognizable brands. In addition to the obvious Mickey Mouse names, Disney also owns high value properties like ABC/ESPN, Touchstone Pictures, and Internet properties like ...

Year 2009

 

Rate Does Pixar care about Disney shareholders?

Original at BloggingStocks external link    Tue, Apr 7

Iger came to the conclusion that Disney-branded family flicks tend to do better in the marketplace than, say, Touchstone-branded features that might not be so family-oriented. As a result, Iger felt it could be more economically ideal to reduce the ...

Rate Teens protest smoking in youth movies

Original at News 10 Now external link    Sat, Mar 28

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 NY Reality Check Leader} "There's Disney movies and 60% of them, because Disney also owns Touchstone and Miramax, 60% of these movies contain smoking, and you think of Disney as a kids thing. And there's little kids out there that see smoking in movies, ...

Rate Rumor Pairs Hulu, Disney In New Partnership

Original at WebProNews external link    Fri, Mar 27

 KY The Walt Disney Company actually owns television channels ABC and ESPN. Plus, on the movie side of things, there's Pixar Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and Miramax Films. So Hulu stands to receive quite a few interesting ...

Rate Confessions of a Shopaholic about an incorrigible spender: Isla Fisher

Original at Hindustan Times external link    Thu, Mar 19

 India Distributed worldwide by Touchstone Pictures (The Walt Disney Company), the screenplay of the film is based on two novels from Sophie Kinsella's best-selling 'Shopaholic' series - 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' and 'Shopaholic Takes Manhattan'. ...

Rate Tripods TV series lands on DVD as movie marches ahead

Original at Coventry Telegraph external link    Tue, Mar 17

 UK Disney's Touchstone Pictures picked up the feature film rights to Christopher's sci-fi books back in 1997, with the aim of a franchise. In 2000, Darren Lemke came on board to adapt the trilogy, then Terry Hayes, before Australian-born director Gregor ...

Rate Disney agrees Indian IPTV deal

Original at Rapid tv external link    Tue, Mar 10

The new Disney deal gives icontrol subscribers content from Walt Disney Pictures as well as Disney-owned offshoots Disney/Pixar, Miramax and Touchstone Pictures. The deal kicked off with content including including Oscar-winner Wall-E in addition to ...

Rate Escape to Witch Mountain - Walt Disney Family Classics

Original at DVD Talk external link    Mon, Mar 9

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Disney Sci-Fi" (2:45) is a baffling techno music video montage of their sci-fi catalogue, with a couple Touchstone pictures thrown in for good measure. "1975 Disney Studio Album" (3:30) is similar, but of course features their projects and ...

Rate Diego Lerner Named President, Disney in Europe, Middle East And Africa

Original at Animation World Network external link    Tue, Mar 3

 CA Previously, Lerner was president, The Walt Disney Studios, Latin America, responsible for the distribution of all films released by Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone and Miramax, as well as the sale and distribution of all home entertainment formats. ...

Rate ABC earns $72m from sale of Oscar night advertising time

Original at Emirates Business 24 external link    Mon, Mar 2

 United Arab Emirates Two of the top advertisers, Hyundai and Sprint Nextel, were first time advertisers, along with other newbies Bristol-Myers Squibb, Disney Touchstone Pictures, Hoover, Paramount Pictures and Maytag. ABC also increased its own exposure at the Oscar night ...

Rate ABC raked in $72 million off 26 minutes of Oscar ads - FinancialWeek

Original at financialweek.com external link    Fri, Feb 27

Other newbies in the broadcast were Sprint Nextel, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Disney Touchstone Pictures, Hoover, Paramount Pictures and Maytag. The Oscars allowed movie advertising for the first time this year. ABC itself had six minutes and 20 seconds of ...

Rate LA Confidential's Curtis Hanson Directing Gemini Man

Original at First Showing external link    Fri, Feb 13

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Total Film  CO Anyway, Hanson's next project will be the action thriller Gemini Man that has been in development at Touchstone / Disney for a long time. The script, written by David Benioff (25th Hour, Troy, X-Men Origins: Wolverine), is about aa brilliant, ...

Rate A bomb of a movie for a Hogwarthian

Original at thenational.ae external link    Wed, Feb 11

 United Arab Emirates Under the new deal, Disney will handle the distribution and marketing for at least six live-action films a year for DreamWorks. The first of the movies, which will be released under the Touchstone Pictures banner, will hit cinemas in 2010. ...

Rate Disney in distribution pact with Reliance Big-Spielberg

Original at Economic Times external link    Tue, Feb 10

 India - The first film to be released under the Touchstone Pictures banner is scheduled to hit the theatres in 2010, a Disney release said here today. ...

Rate Why Disney wants DreamWorks

Original at CNNMoney.com external link    Mon, Feb 9

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But in doing so, Iger and Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook also decided to refocus the company around the Disney brand - ergo, family entertainment - while significantly cutting the output and investment in films under the company's Touchstone and ...

Rate DreamWorks in Talks to Move to Disney

Original at New York Times external link    Fri, Feb 6

 NY - The studio’s Touchstone label has been a disaster of late, with the films “Miracle at St. Anna” and “Swing Vote” ignored in the marketplace. ...

Rate Rising from the ashes

Original at Malaysia Star external link    Fri, Jan 23

 Malaysia Going through the Great Depression and at least eight other recessions and tough times, Disney now has various companies such as Miramax Films, Pixar Animation Studios and Touchstone Pictures under its belt. As for Internet giant Google Inc, ...

Rate Capsule reviews of new DVD releases

Original at San Luis Obispo Tribune external link    Fri, Jan 16

 CA - SWING VOTE 3 stars (Touchstone/Disney, '08) $29.99. 120 mins. The presidential election comes down to one vote - the ballot of a beer-drinking, unemployed, ...

Rate Media Room

Original at Washington Times external link    Thu, Jan 8

 DC - Swing Vote (Touchstone/Disney, $34.99 for Blu-ray, $29.99 for DVD) - There's good schmaltz and bad schmaltz, and "Swing Vote" falls firmly into the latter ...

Rate Wild speculation: Disney to buy EA in 2009 - Joystiq

Original at Joystiq external link    Thu, Jan 8

You forgot Touchstone and ABC as well! 2.5 hearts vote down vote up Report. (The Award-Winning) dark_inchworm: Jan 8th 2009: 9:25AM. Funny, in an alternate timeline where Take-Two is gobbled up after all, Disney could be the one to ...

Rate Save Disney Shows News » Blog Archive » Article: Bob Iger rocks Disney

Original at Save Disney Shows external link    Wed, Jan 7

One consequence of the renewed Disney focus is that the company slashed production of films under the Touchstone and Miramax studio names. And one risk is that Iger has limited growth by becoming over-reliant on family-oriented fare, ...

Rate Tucson Weekly : Cinema : Now Showing at Home

Original at Tucson Weekly external link    Wed, Jan 7

Touchstone/Disney Movie D+ Special Features C+ DVD Geek Factor 3 (out of 10). Kevin Costner is in aw-shucks mode for this insipid tale about a presidential election coming down to one vote. Surely inspired by the 2000 presidential ...

Rate ABC Special Searches for 'Ugly Americans'; Anti-immigrant Bigotry ...

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Wed, Jan 7

We can no more avoid Disney Corp than avoid a grocery store. But, given the opportunity, if you have a choice, choose a Disney competitor, a different movie from Touchstone or Miramax, a different vacation destination, skip the Disney ...

Rate CES PR: New Blu-ray titles from Disney, including combo packs ...

Original at SatelliteGuys.US external link    Tue, Jan 6

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, a recognized leader in the home entertainment industry, is the marketing, sales and distribution company for Walt Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax and Buena Vista product which ...

Rate MediumAtLarge.net: Disney at NYCC

Original at MediumAtLarge.net external link    Tue, Jan 6

By Lance Fensterman Join director Pete Docter as he presents a look at Disney*Pixar's new animated film, UP, which opens on May 29 and will be available in select theaters in Disney Digital 3-D. SURROGATES (Touchstone Pictures) Touchstone Pictures presents ...

Rate Rent Disney Movies using Xbox Live

Original at Forever Geek external link    Sat, Jan 3

By Tiago Disney’s partners are also included in the new offer, so movies from Miramax and Touchstone Pictures are included. The neutral point goes for the price, which uses MP (Microsoft Points) as the currency. High definition movies are priced ...

Rate makelio: Updated: Who Rules America?

Original at makelio external link    Fri, Dec 26

By ΜΑΚΕΛΑΡΗΣ As for feature films, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group includes Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, and Caravan Pictures. Disney also owns Miramax Films, run by the Jewish Weinstein brothers, ...

Rate The Nightmare Before Christmas

Original at Syracuse New Times external link    Wed, Dec 17

 NY - Dec 17, 2008 Interestingly, Disney’s subsidiary Touchstone Pictures featured its logo during the 1993 release because of the PG rating, but now the familliar Disney ...

Rate Blu-ray Review: Lost: The Complete Fourth Season

Original at PopCultureShock external link    Mon, Dec 15

By David Brothers Studio: Touchstone/Disney Rating: PG SRP: $96.99 (Blu-ray). FEATURE: A+ I’ma Lost fan. I screwed up mid-way through season 4 and missed a few episodes. The lack of a TiVo meant that I had to stop watching, so about half of this disc was ...

Rate Activism Opportunity - Target: Disney

Original at latinopoliticsblog.com external link    Thu, Dec 4

By webmaster Not buying Disney licensed products, which are all made in China by the way. Not watching Disney films at theaters, or renting or buying their DVDs. That means films by Touchstone, Miramax, and Buena Vista. Stop watching ABC News, ...

Rate Review: Swing Vote Runs on a Cluttered Platform - Film.com

Original at Film.com external link    Tue, Dec 2

Review: Swing Vote Runs on a Cluttered Platform. This Costner film ends up swinging all over the place! Kevin Costner in Touchstone/Disney's 'Swing Vote' - Touchstone/Disney. Related Content. Stories. DVD: Mr. Costner Selections ...

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