Archive for the ‘Princess and The Frog News Bits’ Category

(Left to right) Stephanie Frederic, Marlon West, Rob Edwards, Shanda Williams, Bruce Smith and Marshall Toomey. Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) -- Local school children and employees met and mingled with the African American animators and screenwriter who worked on Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" during a Black History Month program held recently at Coca Cola headquarters in Atlanta.

What's this the Los Angeles Times tells us -- that Disney is actually down on princess movie themes after a less-than-stellar box office performance from "The Princess and the Frog"?

Tony winner Anika Noni Rose, whose Disney film “The Princess and the Frog” was a triple Oscar nominee March 7, is the focus of a FlipCam video detailing her Oscar-day transformation from sleepy-eyed actress to red-carpet glamour queen, or as she puts it, from “more of an Al Sharpton to a modern-day Nona Hendryx.”

The Princess and The Frog - As soon as Disney releases the most awaiting movie, The Princess and The Frog many little girls will want to have thematic bedding sets, costumes, gifts and birthday parties. But what is story of The Princess and The Frog about?

With 'The Princess and the Frog' coming up short at the box office, the studio retools its next animated feature to lose the girly taint. Now it's called 'Tangled,' with a swashbuckling male lead. With 'The Princess and the Frog' coming up short at the box office, the studio retools its next animated feature to lose the girly taint. Now it's called 'Tangled,' with a swashbuckling male lead.

With 'The Princess and the Frog' coming up short at the box office, the studio retools its next animated feature to lose the girly taint. Now it's called 'Tangled,' with a swashbuckling male lead. Disney is wringing the pink out of its princess movies.

AT LEAST 50 LITTLE GIRLS HAVE GOTTEN SALMONELLA FROM KISSING FROGS AFTER GOING TO SEE "THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG"

It may not be as legendary as the other Disney princess flicks, but The Princess and the Frog is a solid animated film with genuinely entertaining moments.

T Bone Burnett won the Oscar for Crazy Heart tonight. T Bone Burnett won for the Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) with Ryan Bingham. Also nominated in the category were Almost There from The Princess and the Frog Music and Lyric by Randy Newman; Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog Music [...]

“Up” already was one of the year’s biggest hits, earning almost $300 million in domestic ticket sales, dwarfing its competitors: “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Coraline,” “The Princess and the Frog” and “The Secret of Kells.” The Pixar golden streak continued with the animation award for this tale of an old man and boy who find themselves on an airborne South American adventure.