Movie Make-out

A quick Twitter exchange yesterday afternoon with a fellow Disney buff from California revealed that I missed some pretty important news that came out of the D23 expo that was held last weekend as well as some other Disney-related news, so here’s a quick recap:

• After playing 30 min. of The Princess and the Frog and telling the Sunday attendees that the studios made a mistake when they shunned traditional 2D animation for 3D computer generated fare, Disney/Pixar studio head John Lasseter proceeded to announce that the next Disney animated musical will be based on the story of Rapunzel will star pop star Mandy Moore as the long-haired princess and Zachary Levi (“Chuck”) will be her prince. The movie will be coming out in theaters during the winter holidays in 2010—and it will also be Disney’s first CG animated musical. (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)
• Tron Legacy will be released to simultaneously to regular theaters and IMAX on December 17, 2010—but if there isn’t an IMAX theater near you, don’t worry! The regular theaters will also allow you to view it in Disney’s Digital 3D format. (Source: Variety)
• The title of Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel’s upcoming Muppet movie has been revealed as The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made. Details on the plot are a little conflicting because the movie title references an old idea Muppets creator Jim Henson had where Gonzo blows the production budget on the opening credits and everything else needs to be filmed on the cheap whereas the plot line that Segel is working on concerns the Muppets “putting on a show in the barn” to raise enough money to buy it from a sleazy tycoon who wants the oil underneath it. (Source: /Film.com)

There can’t have been anything else important that I missed, can there?