HAVE YOU HERD? — Zootopia’s biggest pop star Gazelle will be voiced by Grammy®-winning international superstar Shakira in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Zootopia.” Shakira performs an all-new original song, “Try Everything,” for the film. Directed by Byron Howard (“Tangled”) and Rich Moore (“Wreck-It Ralph”), and produced by Clark Spencer (“Wreck-It Ralph”), “Zootopia” opens nationwide March […]

Walt Disney Pictures will produce its version of “Jack and the Beanstalk,” titled “Gigantic,” John Lasseter announced on Friday at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA! “We hope this will be the definitive version of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk,’ with comedy and deep emotion,” said Nathan Greno, the animated film’s director who also co-directed “Tangled.” […]

While the big studio Comic-Con panels were wowing Fanboy and Fangirl eyes with their big presentations of upcoming blockbusters in Hall H, we took a detour and gave our eyes a rest in favor of our ears… more specifically, The Second Annual Musical Anatomy of a Superhero panel, where we had the chance to sit […]

Awesome news! “The Aquabats! Super Show!” will return next month with the first of three specials featuring awesome adventures on Saturday, December 21 at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT, on the Hub Network. The remaining two specials will be broadcast Saturday, December 28 at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT and Sunday, January 19 […]

For the first time ever and in front of thousands of Disney fans, two of the world’s most celebrated songwriters and composers took the D23 Arena stage on Saturday, August 10, 2013 for a evening filled with beloved Disney songs. Disney Legends Richard Sherman and Alan Menken have won a combined 10 Academy Awards for […]

Amazing news! The Aquabats return to THE HUB to take on their new roles as saviors of the earth! On Saturday, June 1 at 1:00 p.m. ET, “The Aquabats! Super Show!” returns with an all-new episode called “The Return of the Aquabats!” When The Aquabats return from outer space, they are received as heroes who […]

Terrible News Just In: Josh Gad departs ‘The Book of Mormon’ June 6. Tony-nominated actor Josh Gad will depart the Tony-winning production of The Book of Mormon on June 6, according to the actor’s Twitter page. Gad is leaving to star and co-executive produce the new NBC White House comedy 1600 Penn. No announcement has […]

After orchestrating Daft Punk’s score for 2010′s “TRON: Legacy,” Joe Trapanese (who also scored the amazing “The Raid: Redemption”) is taking on the music for Disney XD’s epic animated series “TRON: Uprising.” Trapanese spoke a bit last weekend about his new score for the show. Since the events of the show take place between 1982’s […]

The Roadie with Danny McBride from TenaciousD Tenacious D search for a new roadie when they find one of the most amazing Roadies that has ever toured the roads (Danny McBride). The new album “Rize of the Fenix” is available everywhere May 15.

While most of the entire planet has been spending the last three days geekin’ out over Joss Whedon’s AVENGERS, I’ve still been nursing the awe from the Whedon co-scripted CABIN IN THE WOODS. The Drew Goddard-directed film is a modern masterpiece — one that should be seen as blind as possible going in, and one […]

Christian Jacobs may very well be responsible for bringing the hit series Yo Gabba Gabba! into our lives, but, far before that children’s television sensation transcended the genre and entertained millions of kids of all ages, Jacobs was behind another property that did the same… The Aquabats! have been rocking out while protecting the world […]

Tenacious D is back with a new album, “Rize of the Fenix,” releasing on 5/15 and a new video…

PLAYBILL.com — Producers of the Tony-winning hit The Book of Mormon have announced plans to offer a second free fan performance for the June 6 matinee at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. It marks the second time The Book of Mormon producers and company have thanked the hundreds of fans who wait outside the theatre on […]

This past December, during my third viewing of Trey & Matt & Bobby’s THE BOOK OF MORMON, I had a moment of sadness. It was at the end of the show, during one of its funniest and most crowd-pleasing moments. While the audience applauded, I stood there thinking to myself this could be the last […]

Alan Menken’s music for Disney movies has won him eight Academy Awards, more than any one alive. CBS discusses the composer’s work for movies and theater, including an excerpt of one of three of his upcoming Broadway musicals, “Leap of Faith.”

LOS ANGELES – The Hub TV network, a television network for kids and their families, will premiere the all-new, action-packed series “The Aquabats! Super Show!” from the co-creator of “Yo Gabba Gabba!” on Saturday, March 3 (1 p.m. ET, with encore performances throughout the week). The outrageous new series follows a popular alternative rock band […]

We here at EG have been Danny Elfman fans since way back before his career as a film composer, back in the days when The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo ruled supreme. Since then, we have collected every physical CD release of his work. So we are completely taken back by this late discovery […]

Composer Hans Zimmer announced today he is seeking voices to be used for a worldwide chant in The Dark Knight Rises. Says the Zimmer… “I’m shining the bat-signal up into the sky to call you all! We need to hear your voices! Now and Loud! We are creating the sound of a worldwide chant. Everyone […]

From CNN — “A Los Angeles inventor who photographed Michael Jackson 33 years ago hopes those images will now help launch an electric motor he claims could solve the world’s energy problems. Reginald Garcia will use cash from the sale of 130 unpublished Jackson photos to fund testing of the motor, which he claims generates […]

Long ago, in a time even before the first showing of Captain EO… there was MAGIC JOURNEYS. On October 1, 1982, Magic Journeys premiered as one of the opening-day attractions at the Journey Into Imagination pavilion in Walt Disney World’s EPCOT Center. It was directed by Murray Lerner and featured a song composed by Robert […]