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Roy E. Disney Passes Away at 79

16 December 2009 12:14 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Roy E. Disney passes away at age 79 Roy Edward Disney, son of Disney Studios co-founder Roy O. Disney, and nephew of Walt Disney, passed away today (12/16/09) at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, California, following a year-long battle with stomach cancer. He was 79 years old. Disney was a successful businessman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and award-winning sailor, who played a key role in the revitalization of The Walt Disney Company and Disney's animation legacy. He was associated with the Company over a 56-year period, and from 1984 - 2003, served as vice chairman of the Company's board of directors, and chairman of the Studio's Animation Department. In recent years, he held the title of director emeritus and consultant for the Company. As head of Disney Animation, Disney helped to guide the Studio to a new golden age of animation with an unprecedented string of artistic and box office successes that included The Little Mermaid, »

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'Morning Light' - Great DVD clips added.

5 September 2009 4:13 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Check out eight clips from "Morning Light" on DVD. The film stars Chris Branning, Graham Brant-Zawadzki, Charlie Enright, Chris Clark, Robbie Kane, Jesse Fielding and Steve Manson. Paul Crowder and Mark Monroe direct. Fifteen young sailors... six months of intense training... one chance at the brass ring. This documentary tells the story of a group of intrepid and determined young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life's first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the Transpac, the most revered of open-ocean sailing competitions, the crew of "Morning Light" matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2300 mile showdown against top professionals »

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Morning Light - Blu-ray Review - Clips Added!

3 July 2009 5:53 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

An all-together ho-hum experience considering the coolness of the subject matter, .Morning Light. is Roy E. Disney.s attempt to document the open-sea race, Transpac, a harrowing 2,500 race from California to Hawaii. Expertly captured, the problem lies with its reality television-like approach. Roy E. Disney has sailed the Transpac over fifteen times now clearly in love with both sailing and the challenges this long journey presents. But instead of documenting himself, he and producer Leslie DeMeuse decide to rope in a younger audience by selecting a group of 15 candidates whom only 11 will be chosen for the race through a series of training vignettes. These fifteen kids (three females and one black guy although they »

- Frankie Dees

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[DVD Review] Morning Light

18 June 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

The process of determining which sports will translate into great films has no real rhyme or reason. If you thought that only fast-paced sports like soccer or football could be made into sports (Goal!, Any Given Sunday), then you’d have a hard time explaining all the successful films based on baseball or golf (Field of Dreams, Caddyshack). What sports films of the past have taught us is that even films about running (Chariots of Fire) can be superb with the proper balance of plot, character and wit. Well, Disney certainly loves the promise that holds and has started cranking out sports movies as fast as possible. Up until this point however, most of them (Iron Will, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Remember the Titans) have been narrative based. For Morning Light Disney went ahead and made a Reality TV formatted film about sailing and, well, the results are mixed. »

- Lex Walker

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2009 | 2008

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