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The Walt Disney Corporation’s Games division is apparently signaling that it’s open licensing its characters and settings to a broader group of game developers.
In a conversation with IGN’s Rebekah Valentine, Disney SVP of Walt Disney Games Sean Shoptaw & VP of Disney & Pixar Games Luigi Priore dropped some tantalizing comments both about unannounced upcoming titles, but also what kinds of developers the company is open to partnering with in the coming years.
Their comments seem to indicate the company is actively interested in fielding pitches from indie developers to make games using its characters, alongside larger triple-A licensors like Ubisoft and Electronic Arts.
Disney’s got quite a track record of rewriting history, literature and myth with rainbows, butterflies and musically gifted woodland creatures. They’ve taken Grimm’s wicked stepsisters and instead of hacking off their toes to fit a silver slipper, they’ve given one stepsister a sequel in which she finds herself a nice baker boy and the other a back story. The Little Mermaid, instead of dissolving into mist and spray, marries the prince, and lives happily ever after in his kingdom by the sea. Disney’s Hercules becomes a god when he puts the life of another above his own where the mythological Heracles becomes a god when he begs to be set on fire to end the pain of being tangled in a poisoned shirt. Although these Disney tales have their happily ever after, other Disney films have taken a darker turn. Although there are plenty more, here are ten such dark Disney moments.
10 Animated Films That The World Inexplicably Forgot
Others aren’t so lucky.
For every
Beauty and the Beast, there’s a
Once Upon a Forest. And with traditionally animated films at the brink of extinction, it’s nice to know that there are still a few unexplored ones to enjoy or critique.
Featured photo credit: Paramount Pictures
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1989
Before we knew Nemo as an adorable clownfish, there was Little Nemo, the boy who dreams of adventure and gets more than he bargained for. He’s whisked away to Slumberland, a world of kings and flying ships, where an inky darkness lurks beneath the razzle-dazzle.
Billie Hayes, Memorable Witch on âH.R. Pufnstuf,â Dies at 96
Ms. Hayes had quite a cackle, and it served her well in a number of witchy roles, beginning in 1969 on a short-lived but much remembered TV series.
The actress Billie Hayes in her best-known role, as Witchiepoo on the 1969 children’s television series “H.R. Pufnstuf.”Credit.Everett Collection
May 13, 2021
Billie Hayes, who rode a memorable cackle to kiddie-TV fame, playing a witch named Witchiepoo in the short-lived but much remembered 1969 series âH.R. Pufnstuf,â died on April 29 in Los Angeles. She was 96.
News of her death was posted on her website.