Miyazaki's Future w/ Disney

An anonymous reader sent us an interesting little article about Miyazaki and Disney. Disney of course owns the rights to distribute his films (like to pick a gigantic example Princess Mononoke) to worldwide audiences. Apparently lackluster profits from Mononoke may jeopradize future Miyazaki titles release in the US, which would be terribly unfortunate considering that in the end, the DVD release of Mononoke was absolutely wonderful (although its a somewhat dark film for Mouse) This is all tied to Spirited Away, his latest film which is apparently doing great things at the Japanese Box Office.

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Disney just another big, evil corporation

[phillymjs]

Back in the 70's when I was a kid, there was at least a hint left of the 'we just want to make kids happy, and if we make money doing it, that's cool' vibe from them. No more. Nowadays, Disney is just another evil megacorporation who cranks out unentertaining, ultra-merchandisable dreck with a "G" rating (face it, they are more like 90-minute commercials for the toys in the Disney Store than they are movies now), would pry the pennies off a dead man's eyes if it would add to their profits, and is quick to fire off the lawyers in any direction where there is a little guy to be squashed for painting Donald Duck on the side of his daycare center or otherwise depriving the mother ship of a dollar of profit.

~Philly