Giant Steps...

The Hat Building shuffles the future a bit...

A couple of films have shifted their schedules since we last exclusively broke the news announcing the line-up for Walt Disney Animation Studios 2014 - 2018 back in July.  Those of you that read our report will remember that "Moana" was to be late 2018 following the last release of "Giants" in 2016.

Well, that has been confirmed.

Giants and Moana have official dates.  This isn't because of any trouble the productions have, only that Giants has progressed to a point where it has earned an earlier slot.  There was a time when Moana was thought to be put ahead of Giants, but the goal is to advance projects as their status changes.  Slots open up and slots get moved around.  Think of this as solidifying of tentative plans.

Ron and John's film is steadily moving along, but it's taking its own sweet time, and the powers that be have decided to give it more time for the story and structure to settle.  In film, particularly in animation, anything can happen and schedules can still change as well as films can be canceled, but as of right now this is the order:

The full line-up of Mouse/Lamp films (sans DisneyToons films):


Frozen (11/27/13)
The Good Dinosaur (5/30/14)
Big Hero 6 (11/7/14)
Inside Out (6/19/15)
Finding Dory (11/25/15)
Zootopia (3/4/16)
Untitled Pixar Film (6/17/16)
Giants (11/23/16)
Untitled Pixar Film (6/16/17)

Untitled Pixar Film (11/22/17)

Moana (3/9/18)


Again, life is fluid and animation is the very definition of that statement.  Films are in flux until they are finished, and then they're either glorified or excused.  But it's a good time for Disney animation.

For the company and its suits, the animators and fans...

Validating Tales...

Another piece of the Disney Animation falls into place...

Those of you that read last month's post "Clear Road Ahead" where we exclusively revealed the upcoming slate of WDAS for the next five years.  Other sites link to our post, but strangely disappeared within a day.  now, the guys over at Bleeding Cool have posted a lot more detail about a project we told you about.

I can verify that much of what they report is true according to Bothans.  The project began when Nathan Greno pitched the idea to Lasseter around the time he was working on co-directing "Zootopia" with Byron Howard.  The creatives decided that they were both capable of directing on their own on differing projects.

Check out their article for the details.  I had promised my Bothans to not reveal too much, but now that it's out there it's fair game.  It'll be a great film if it makes it out based on what I've seen.

I wish I could say the same for Dean Wellins' project...