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Mad Men’s Jon Hamm to Star in Disney Sports Drama Movie
According to the The Hollywood Reporter Jon Hamm (Mad Men) has signed on to play sports agent J.B. Bernstein in Disney’s The Million Dollar Arm. The movie tells the story of Bernstein an American sports agent who discovered two teenage cricket players from India by using a reality TV program that he created aimed at finding who could through a baseball the fastest. He then brings the teenagers back to America and they eventually sign with a major league team.
The film is still looking for a director and no release date has been set. Disney has a great track record when it comes to sports related films, Miracle, The Rookie, and Remember the Titans to name a few. I am excited to see how this one develops.
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The ‘Desperate Housewives’ Come Home One Last Time on September 25, 2012
Fans of ABC’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ are in a very bittersweet place right now. Their favorite ladies from Wisteria Lane are finally leaving the airwaves this Sunday night, but fear not fans, it won’t be the last time you see them. Disney announced today that ‘Desperate Housewives: The Complete Eight and Final Season’ will be hitting shelves on August 12, 2012. For fans of the series, this is great news, because they’ll get to relive the final episodes of Susan, Lynette, Bree, and Gabrielle over and over again. I know quite a few people who are sad to see them go, so this will, hopefully, soften the blow of them leaving. Are you sad the show is leaving? Let me know in the comments below. And hit the jump for the full press release.
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES: The Complete Eighth and Final Season
Say goodbye to the ladies of Wisteria Lane with the final climactic season of “Desperate Housewives.” The stakes are at an all-time high as each of the women cope with their guilt in the aftermath of last season’s shocking murder and cover-up.
“Desperate Housewives” stars Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van de Kamp, Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis, Vanessa Williams as Renee Perry, Ricardo Antonio Chavira as Carlos Solis, Doug Savant as Tom Scavo, Charles Mesure as Ben Faulkner and Madison de la Garza as Juanita Solis, with Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young and James Denton as Mike Delfino.
The beloved series’ final season is released in a five-disc DVD set features exciting bonus material including the final goodbye from the original four housewives, bloopers, deleted scenes and more.
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Rating: U.S: TV14 DLSV/Canada: 14A
Suggested Retail Price: $45.99 US; $54.99 Canada
Running Time: 989 minutes (23 episodes)
September 25, 2012
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES: The Complete Collection
In addition to the complete eighth and final season,“Desperate Housewives: The Complete Collection” will be available on the same day. Housed in a collectible replica of Mary Alice’s infamous steamer trunk, the complete collection contains all 179 episodes from all eight seasons on 46-discs, including an exclusive bonus disc with even more cast interviews and behind the scenes from the final season.This set is a must-have for any “Desperate Housewives” fan.
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Once Upon a Time, the Complete First Season, coming to Blu-Ray and DVD August 28, 2012!
Excitement abounds here at Chip & Company as Once Upon a Time, that incredible drama series on ABC, is about to come out on Blu-Ray and DVD August 28th, 2012! This show hit the air on Sunday, October 23, 2011, and had a loyal following from day one! We will be receiving Once Upon a Time and will write up a review about it for all of you, as well as give you insight into all of the incredible additional details that you will be able to experience on the bonus discs.
ONCE UPON A TIME: The Complete First Season
Once upon a time there was an enchanted forest filled with fairytale characters. One day the Evil Queen released a curse which trapped all of them in a horrible place where their happy endings were stolen – our world.
Featuring Ginnifer Goodwin,Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Jared Gilmore, Robert Carlyle and Raphael Sbarge, the complete first season is available on DVD and high definition Blu-rayTM.
The exciting releases include a wealth of bonus material and extras including an exploration of the genesis of this exciting series in “Fairy Tales in the Modern World,” “Welcome to Storybrooke,” cast interviews on childhood memories in “Tell Me A Story,” “Building Character; deleted scenes and bloopers. Additionally, the Blu-rayTM exclusively features “Exploring Tall Tales: True Origins,” an exciting interactive archive of fairytale favorites.
Containing all 22 episodes, you’re in store for approximately 946 Minutes of television if you purchase the season! The suggested retail price for the DVD version is $45.99, while the Blu-Ray price is $79.99.
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Disney Announces ABC News and Univision to Join Forces
Disney has announced that ABC News will be joining Univision to launch news, lifestyle, and information programming aimed at U.S Hispanics. This will come together across multiple platforms. A website and social media content are expected to begin this summer and a television channel is expected to launch sometime in 2013. The network will broadcast in English and according to ABC News coverage will focus on “the issues most relevant for U.S. Hispanics, including the economy, jobs, health care, immigration, education, politics, entertainment, health and wellness and more.”
This will be a partnership between the two networks and they will each own 50 percent of the venture. They will also share both news gathering and production resources. The New York Times reports that this will allow both companies to grow, “Disney, by negotiating a per-subscriber fee for the channel that will support ABC News, and Univision, by expanding into English-speaking media for the first time.”
Disney Legend Alice Davis Will Receive an Honorary Window on Main Street, U.S.A., Tomorrow Morning at Disneyland
Tomorrow morning marks a very special day for Alice Davis: she has earned her place on Main Street with a window. Employed by Walt himself, Davis is known for developing costumes for the theme parks, films, and television programs. She was married to Marc Davis, an Imagineer and one of Disney’s “Nine Old Men” animators.
Davis’ work in Disneyland park ranges from the costumes the children wear on “it’s a small world” to the dirty, raggedy attire worn by the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean. She retired from WED (Walt Disney Enterprises, now known as Walt Disney Imagineering) in 1978 but still consults on film projects, most recently Disney/Pixar’s “Up”.
Davis was named a Disney Legend in 2004. Her window will be right next to her husband’s.
I will be there tomorrow morning (before school!) and I plan to tweet live during the event. You can follow me on Twitter at @ocswaynee to follow along with the event as it happens.
Photo courtesy of Disney Parks Blog.
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