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Lasseter updates the world on TOY STORY 3, SONG OF THE SOUTH on DVD (?) and THE FROG PRINCESS!!

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. John Lasseter recently met with shareholders and cemented some interesting tidbits on Disney's upcoming slate. TOY STORY 3... nothing really new here, but he confirmed a 2010 release, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE's Michael Arndt is scripting and both Tom Hanks and Tim Allen are confirmed to return.

THE FROG PRINCESS is where most of the news hit. It'll be a traditionally hand-drawn Disney flick set in New Orleans, with the "very first African-American Disney Princess," a soul-singing alligator and Randy Newman doing the music.

Another interesting tidbit is that Robert Iger, who was strongly against releasing SONG OF THE SOUTH on DVD this time last year (for fear of a negative reaction) says he's now been persuaded to consider it again... Good. The movie's fantastic and anybody who has really seen it knows the message is strongly in favor of living in peace with people of any skin color. The hero of the movie is Uncle Remus and the closest things to villains in the flick are the ignorant parents!

Plus, it's a little bullshit that Disney will still sell CDs with SONG OF THE SOUTH music on it, make money off of it that way, but no... they're profiteering if they release the actual movie?

Of course Iger reconsidering a release doesn't mean jack or shit, but there's a little hope now.


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by GravyAkira
Mar 9th, 2007
02:49:31 AM
I wish I could get excited for Toy Story 3
by Boondock Devil
Mar 9th, 2007
02:56:33 AM
hope its the last sequel
by goku_z
Mar 9th, 2007
03:07:24 AM
Toy Story 3 - beginning of the end
by Laserbrain
Mar 9th, 2007
03:09:54 AM
booooooh, give Alan Menken back!
by Evil Hobbit
Mar 9th, 2007
03:34:58 AM
Lasseter, I have a TOY STORY 3 pitch for you
by Monkey_King
Mar 9th, 2007
03:44:30 AM
Quint, come on
by BadMrWonka
Mar 9th, 2007
03:57:41 AM
"very first African-American Disney Princess"
by Amy Chasing
Mar 9th, 2007
04:01:57 AM
Here here, Amy Chasing
by Boondock Devil
Mar 9th, 2007
04:12:21 AM
Randy fucking Newman
by Not The Messiah
Mar 9th, 2007
04:15:19 AM
how is an alligator African-American?
by Rupee88
Mar 9th, 2007
04:19:09 AM
Everytime I hear Newman I think Family Guy
by Boondock Devil
Mar 9th, 2007
04:40:30 AM
Song of the South...
by cornponious
Mar 9th, 2007
05:28:50 AM
Well, Amy Chasing, Obviously Quint does...
by SwampyFox
Mar 9th, 2007
05:30:57 AM
Br'er Bear, Br'er Fox, and Br'er Rabbit!
by theBigE
Mar 9th, 2007
05:31:08 AM
Totally Disagree, Wonka...
by TheRealMoriarty
Mar 9th, 2007
05:36:04 AM
The Funny this about Song of the South is...
by Toby Wan
Mar 9th, 2007
06:07:17 AM
Opening line of Song of the South
by Trazadone
Mar 9th, 2007
06:29:12 AM
Re: rupee88 "African American Alligator"
by Ingeld
Mar 9th, 2007
06:56:32 AM
WB handled racist cartoons well on DVD
by Dwarf Sidious
Mar 9th, 2007
06:56:55 AM
People, PLEASE
by Mister Man
Mar 9th, 2007
06:58:54 AM
Swampy Fox, how about Princess Jasmine?
by finky089
Mar 9th, 2007
07:27:55 AM
Song of the South SHOULD be released
by finky089
Mar 9th, 2007
07:33:20 AM
Song of the South SHOULD be released
by finky089
Mar 9th, 2007
07:34:10 AM
"Red headed lady reachin' for an apple...
by zacdilone
Mar 9th, 2007
08:45:31 AM
I have Song of the South on VHS
by zacdilone
Mar 9th, 2007
08:46:25 AM
"very first African-American Disney Princess" ...
by howstone
Mar 9th, 2007
09:26:00 AM
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, Zip-a-Dee-Day..."
by BrandonGK
Mar 9th, 2007
10:08:48 AM
Come on
by Durendal
Mar 9th, 2007
10:26:35 AM
WDW
by ptindy
Mar 9th, 2007
10:44:46 AM
You guys are right, but ...
by holyguacamole
Mar 9th, 2007
10:45:41 AM
Not just Jasmine, but Pocahontas
by Osmosis Jones
Mar 9th, 2007
11:09:21 AM
Love Song of the South, but don't say it's not racist.
by JimFromTheFuture
Mar 9th, 2007
11:21:07 AM
Disney should've released SOTS a long time ago.
by morGoth
Mar 9th, 2007
11:34:41 AM
But it's really not very good.
by CatVutt
Mar 9th, 2007
12:59:38 PM
Uh...'sensitivity'...
by CatVutt
Mar 9th, 2007
01:01:49 PM
"Just entertainment." Just racist.
by JimFromTheFuture
Mar 9th, 2007
01:13:57 PM
Toy Story 3 : Toys On A Road Trip
by spidermanfreak20
Mar 9th, 2007
01:36:28 PM
Disney should just let Criterion put it out.
by Harry Weinstein
Mar 9th, 2007
01:40:20 PM
If we pretend it never happened, it will go away.....
by Caruso72
Mar 9th, 2007
02:25:32 PM
Fuck Randy Newman
by jarjarmessiah
Mar 9th, 2007
02:25:51 PM
Reconstruction
by Mister Man
Mar 9th, 2007
02:57:12 PM
one last thing...
by JimFromTheFuture
Mar 9th, 2007
03:00:48 PM
Ythe 1st black princess've to be a motherfucking frog!
by iamnicksaicnsn
Mar 9th, 2007
03:46:50 PM
Jim...methinks yer too far in the future {[:^)
by morGoth
Mar 9th, 2007
03:52:37 PM
Huh?
by morGoth
Mar 9th, 2007
04:18:49 PM
oops
by JimFromTheFuture
Mar 9th, 2007
05:23:50 PM
Jim
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Mar 9th, 2007
05:43:35 PM
Mori, I know the film
by BadMrWonka
Mar 9th, 2007
06:28:27 PM
TOY STORY 3 = THIS YEAR'S LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE!!!
by Err
Mar 9th, 2007
06:48:44 PM
Where the hell is my Monsters Inc sequel
by MrJJonz
Mar 9th, 2007
07:44:07 PM
Just as "Huckleberry Finn" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
by Bronx Cheer
Mar 9th, 2007
08:17:53 PM
A black Disney Princess. Will she be from the ghetto??
by performingmonkey
Mar 9th, 2007
08:37:51 PM
Chef-'You ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?'
by performingmonkey
Mar 9th, 2007
08:53:45 PM
"We're living ins a country
by JimFromTheFuture
Mar 9th, 2007
10:20:18 PM
"Niggardly" means "stingy"
by Bronx Cheer
Mar 9th, 2007
11:10:50 PM
I agree, anchorite. He was spineless for backing
by Bronx Cheer
Mar 9th, 2007
11:38:24 PM
Children and SOTS
by superbu
Mar 10th, 2007
12:12:49 AM
Censorship is worse than racisim.....
by Jobacca
Mar 10th, 2007
01:11:03 AM
Jobacca, great point. The Academy should have been
by Bronx Cheer
Mar 10th, 2007
07:47:34 AM
Jobacca, great point. The Academy should have been
by Bronx Cheer
Mar 10th, 2007
08:01:38 AM
Nazi Supermen are our superiors
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Mar 10th, 2007
08:57:41 AM
Well said, Moriarty.
by TheRealRatigan
Mar 10th, 2007
01:08:52 PM
Wonka: "...but man, they sho is happy!"
by TheRealRatigan
Mar 10th, 2007
01:24:54 PM
you gotta be kidding
by BadMrWonka
Mar 10th, 2007
04:01:53 PM
"Unconscious"....
by Mister Man
Mar 10th, 2007
06:12:42 PM
COSMPIC POWERS
by Bronx Cheer
Mar 10th, 2007
06:29:22 PM
Song of The South, me and my dad.
by AllPowerfulWizardOfOz
Mar 10th, 2007
08:07:19 PM
mister man
by BadMrWonka
Mar 10th, 2007
08:13:52 PM
Can I nominate JimFromTheFuture for the AICN Mark Twain
by Alonzo Mosely
Mar 10th, 2007
08:23:09 PM
Wonka
by Mister Man
Mar 10th, 2007
10:59:42 PM
Shouldn't the contentious issue about Frog Princess
by half vader
Mar 11th, 2007
04:37:13 AM
misterman
by BadMrWonka
Mar 11th, 2007
07:59:01 AM
also
by BadMrWonka
Mar 11th, 2007
07:59:51 AM
also (take 2)
by BadMrWonka
Mar 11th, 2007
08:00:50 AM
song of the saahf
by council estate scumbag
Mar 13th, 2007
01:41:00 PM
Jobacca
by council estate scumbag
Mar 13th, 2007
01:45:14 PM

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