It’s not often triplets find a suitable family costume so when one mom saw Pixar’s Brave featured three brothers, she knew it was only a matter of time before she’d dress her boys up. On her blog Three at Once she says she spent a month making their costumes for a Halloween trip to Disneyland. “The whole night the boys loved the attention they were getting for their costumes and it was nice to have them dressed as Disney characters,” she says. “All night they insisted on saying hi to all of the little girls dressed as Merida saying ‘it’s our sister.’”

(Three at Once via /Film)

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When I say “Game of Thrones has cast a bear,” I don’t mean one of the Mormont ladies from Bear Island, which is where my brain went when I read the headline “‘Game of Thrones’ add 5th country, casts bear” on EW.com. Hey, I’m looking forward to the Bear Island women. They’re awesome.

I love movies. I love animals. (Some animals. I have a frog phobia. Don’t ask.) So it goes without saying that I love Old Red Jalopy‘s animal-themed spoof posters of Oscar-nominated films, originally posted on Next Movie.

Zero Dark Birdie. Dingo Unchained. Lynxin. I’d watch ‘em. Wouldn’t you?

Alicia Keys went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Did she perform one of her biggest hits? No. She performed the theme to the 1980s animated television show, Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears. And she did it as Alicia Keys.

(via HyperVocal)

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I’m not making assumptions. I was simply told that by the executive at Disney Animation with the cold blue eyes who sat behind his desk. It was 1987. They were getting some flack because they didn’t have enough women in creative positions–especially their story department – their current count: 0.
“We need a woman. And you’re the right price.” His exact words – I kid you not. — Brenda Chapman, speaking of her first job in the animation industry, fresh out of school, in the Disney story department.

Jezebel’s right when they say that another way to put this would be that Chapman was the first in a very long time to not be passed over as a hiring prospect because she was a woman. But it’s just as sad that she was removed from her brainchild because she refused to stray from her vision of a mystical action drama starring women and replaced by a better connected guy with less feature length film experience willing to make it “more marketable” by upping the comedy.

(Brenda Chapman’s Blog via Jezebel.)

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Dum Spiro – HD (ESMA 2012) from Dum Spiro on Vimeo.

A gladiator on a quest to deliver a message has to get past a pair of bears first in this short film from students at French animation school ESMA Montpelier. It’s Looney Tunes-esque slapstick with the added benefit of the poor soldier being chased by a wooden helicopter equipped with squirrel grenades, which is the sort of thing you don’t see nearly enough of in old-school Saturday morning cartoons.

(via: Short of the Week)

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I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you’re not playing World of Warcraft right now. Perhaps you are like me, at work on the morning of a new expansion, bombarded by posts of gameplay, news about how some extreme leveler has reached the new cap of 90, and just itching to get your red-headed dwarf feet on a new continent with plenty of fun new things for your pet bear to chew on.

To stave off madness, lets watch some panda videos, which, incidentally, are how I imagine the Pandaren starting zones look right now.

If you’ve been reading us long enough, you should be familiar with the fact that Hollywood considers an action movie with a female lead to be hobbled by the gender of its main character, doomed to do poorly at the box office because lacks the ability (somehow) to attract a male viewership. Movies with female leads are considered to be at such a disadvantage that they can be incredibly difficult to get greenlit, making it even more difficult find examples that disprove this widely accepted rule. Before this weekend, Brave was expected to open at $65 million if it was lucky, despite the fact that the last twelve Pixar movies have opened at the top of the box office.

The numbers are in, and Brave netted nearly $68 million this weekend, beating the pants off of every other movie in the top ten by a factor of at least three. But that’s not all.

Brave is almost here guys, just a little while longer. Kelly Macdonald is voicing our new heroine Merida, and it’s fitting, for Pixar’s first princess, I think, that Macdonald is pretty unfamiliar with the rest of the Disney princess characters.

(via The Hollywood Reporter.)

Disney Pixar has released a 48-second clip from Brave, showing Merida’s father Fergus regaling the tale of a confrontation with a bear. Apparently, he has regaled this story many, many, may times. It’s a lesson — every kind of family has had to hear the same family stories every year of their lives.

(via Nerd Bastards)

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