Set at the end of the workday at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California, Once Upon a Studio begins with Disney Legend Burny Mattinson—The Walt Disney Company's longest-serving employee of 70 years, who passed away in 2023—being the last person to walk out the door.
Who are the two people at the beginning of Once Upon a Studio?
Trivia. This short was released the same year Burny Mattinson (who made a speaking appearance with Renika Williams at the beginning) passed away and was dedicated in his memory.
Who is the old man at the beginning of Disney 100?
Plot. On the day Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California turns 100, employees from the studio leave at the end of their work day. An intern converses with Burny Mattinson about the studio turning 100 years old, with Mattinson wishing the walls could talk.
In this deleted scene of ''Once Upon a Studio'',Cogsworth is being greeted by the Dalmatian Puppies. Mushu trying to wake up all of the animals for the group photo.
Mushu was seen as trivialising the Chinese culture
USC Professor Stanley Ronsen also told The Hollywood Report that the character was seen as a trivialisation of the culture in China. “Mushu was very popular in the US, but the Chinese hated it,” he said. “This kind of miniature dragon trivialised their culture.”
Though the director shared that Mushu was removed to allow Mulan to better enhance her relationships with her fellow soldiers, his absence may have also been more about not offending viewers, who found Mushu to be insensitive in the 1998 animated feature.
Conversation. Merida might probably not appear in 'Once Upon A Studio' since she is the only Disney Princess to come from Pixar, rather than Disney Animation.
Roger Rabbit was not included because technically he wasn't animated by Disney but by a Richard Williams' splinter unit in England. (Later Roger Rabbit shorts were animated by that Florida outpost.) Some character models, like from Disney's 2000 film “Dinosaur,” had to be rebuilt from scratch.
Characters like Tadashi from Big Hero 6, the rest of the Sugar Rush Racers from Wreck It Ralph, rest of the Robinson Family, and Star from Wish didn't appear in the short.
The Disney 100 Celebration, which celebrates 100 years of the Walt Disney Company, kicked off in January at Disneyland Resort. With special decor, merchandise, entertainment and more, here's everything we know about the Disney 100 Celebration at Disney World!
Would Wish had done better if Disney had attached the Once Upon A Studio short? Disney was originally going to attach the short Once Upon A Studio to Wish at the same time as release, but that idea got scrapped and ended up airing on cable and Disney+ in October instead as October is Disney's 100th anniversary.
Maleficent has a cameo appearance in the short film Once Upon a Studio (2023), as part of the Walt Disney Animation Studios characters who gather to take a group photo. Maleficent appears during the end credits of the 2023 film Wish.
And it all came together without any artificial intelligence involved. Directors Dan Abraham and Trent Correy were seeking a way to honor the studio's legacy. “Once Upon a Studio” takes place at the end of a work day at Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank.
The group is joined by Princess Jasmine from “Aladdin,” Alma and Isabela Madrigal from “Encanto,” Rivera from 'Wreck-It Ralph,” Daisy Duck, Officer Clawhauser from “Zootopia,” and Koda and Kenai from “Brother Bear.” But then they hear a guitar playing “When You Wish Upon a Star.”
Roger is framed for the murder of a famous Hollywood producer of cartoon props and gags and owner of Toontown, Marvin Acme, and he seeks out Valiant to help clear his name.
To celebrate a century of iconic storytelling and entertainment, directors Dan Abraham and Trent Correy released the nine-minute short film “Once Upon a Studio” following approximately eight months of idea discussions in their free time.
Eddie Murphy in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - The '80s were Murphy's golden years, but his first self-admitted misstep was passing on the role of Eddie Valiant in Robert Zemeckis's groundbreaking caper film. Claiming he thought the film would be a disaster, Murphy now "feels like an idiot" every time he sees it.
Young MacGuffin was to be the suitor that Merida chooses in the initial version of the film (hence his name), but this idea was later changed. In the final version, it's explicitly stated that Merida does not want to marry at all, and ultimately remains single by the end of the film.
It can be presumed that he followed her because, as the Will-o'-the-Wisps can lead anyone to their fate, Mor'du (having encountered the wisps before as a human) might have wanted to kill Merida as she is the one following the wisps, or even deeper, she could be his key to setting himself free of his curse.
However, the film's creators claimed that Young MacGuffin was going to be Merida's love interest (and Merida seemed to express an interest in him during the presentation of the suitors) before ultimately deciding that Merida should stay single.
A clause in Eddie Murphy's contract for doing Shrek 2 (2004) forbade him from reprising the role of Mushu in this film, therefore having his other voice actor Mark Moseley (a man best known for filling in for Murphy's characters like Mushu and Donkey in their TV and Video Game appearances) fill in for this film.
China blocked the release of Disney's animated “Mulan” for eight months in the late 1990s after the company backed Martin Scorsese's “Kundun,” a film seen as sympathetic to the Dalai Lama. The animated “Mulan” bombed in China as a result.
The issue was that Mulan was partially filmed in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, in close proximity to detention camps for Uighur Muslims, and Disney gave credit to “publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee” among other entities.
