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Stitch (Disney)
Stitch, also known as Experiment 626 (pronounced "six-two-six"), is a fictional character from The Walt Disney Company, Disney's Lilo & Stitch (franchise), ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise. A genetic engineering, genetically engineered extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life-form, he is the more prominent of the franchise's two Title character, title protagonists, the other being his human adopter and best friend Lilo Pelekai. Stitch was created by ''Lilo & Stitch'' co-writer and co-director Chris Sanders, who also voices him in almost all media that he appears in, primarily in Western-produced works. Benjamin Diskin, Ben Diskin voices the character in the English versions of the Asian-produced television spin-offs ''Stitch!'' and ''Stitch & Ai''. Development in animation Sanders originally created the character in 1981 for a children's book pitch which never came to light and developed a treatment for an animated feature starring the character. The idea for the chara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilo & Stitch (franchise)
''Lilo & Stitch'' or ''Stitch'' (marketed as ''Disney Stitch'') is an American media franchise created by The Walt Disney Company, Disney. The Lilo & Stitch, first installment was written and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, and released in 2002. The combined critical and commercial success of the original film, which was a rarity for Walt Disney Animation Studios, the company's feature animation studio during the studio's post-Disney Renaissance, Renaissance downturn in the early 2000s, led to three direct-to-video and television sequel feature films, The Origin of Stitch, a short film, three animated television series, Lilo & Stitch (2025 film), a live-action/CGI feature film adaptation, several video games, theme park attractions, comics, literature, and various merchandise. As of 2024, the franchise became one of Disney's top ten best-selling franchises, with retail sales reaching $2.6 billion and overall revenue (including the box offices of the two theatrical fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, as an animation studio, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it later operated under the names Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before adopting its current name in 1986. In 1928, Disney established itself as a leader in the animation industry with the short film ''Steamboat Willie.'' The film used synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon. After becoming a success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and theme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation sector, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disneyland Adventures
Disneyland is a theme park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It was the first theme park opened by the Walt Disney Company and the only one designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, and opened on July 17, 1955. Disney initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit; however, he soon realized that the proposed site was too small for the ideas that he had. After hiring the Stanford Research Institute to perform a feasibility study determining an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a site near Anaheim in 1953. The park was designed by a creative team hand-picked by Walt from internal and outside talent. They founded WED Enterprises, the precursor to today's Walt Disney Imagineering. Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a special televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17, 1955. Since its opening, Disneyland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigo
InterGlobe Aviation Limited (d/b/a IndiGo), is an India, Indian airline headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It is the largest List of airlines of India, airline in India by passengers carried and fleet size, with a 64.1% domestic market share as of April 2025. It is the List of largest airlines in Asia, second largest Asian airline, and one of the Largest airlines in the world#Passengers carried, largest in the world in terms of passengers carried, with more than 118 million passengers carried in 2025. , IndiGo operates over 2,200 daily flights to 125 destinations – 91 domestic and 34 international. It operates cargo services under its subsidiary, IndiGo CarGo. Its primary hub is at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi. The airline was established as a private company by Rahul Bhatia of InterGlobe Enterprises—an List of largest companies in India, Indian multinational conglomerate based in Gurugram— and Rakesh Gangwal in 2005. It took delivery of its firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulture (website)
''Vulture'' is an American entertainment news website. It is the standalone pop culture section of ''New York'' magazine. Its tagline is "Devouring Culture". History ''Vulture'' debuted in April 2007 as an entertainment blog on nymag.com, the website of ''New York Magazine''. Melissa Maerz and Dan Kois were the founding editors. The initial focus was television and film news, especially recaps of recent television episodes. Over time, it expanded to publish news and criticism in other areas of high and low culture, such as music, books, comedy, and podcasts. In the process of spinning off from ''New York Magazine'', ''Vulture'' website was redesigned in 2010 from a blog format to look more like a "full-fledged" online magazine. ''Vulture'' subsequently moved to an independent URL/ domain (Vulture.com) in February 2012. The first Vulture Festival, an annual two-day event featuring celebrities from various pop culture fields, took place in New York City in 2014. ''Vulture'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Test Screening
A test screening, or test audience, is a preview screening of a film or television series before its general release to gauge audience reaction. Preview audiences are selected from a cross-section of the population and are usually asked to complete a questionnaire or provide feedback in some form. Harold Lloyd is credited with inventing the concept, having used it as early as 1928. Test screenings evolved from these early examples into a systematic practice. According to research from Kevin Goetz's book "Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love" (2021), by the 1970s, studios formalized the process as they invested more heavily in marketing and distribution strategies. Today, approximately 90 percent of widely released studio films undergo test screenings, with the average movie being tested three times. Test screenings have been recommended for starting filmmakers "even if a film festival is fast approaching". Notable examples and outcomes of test screenings In 2004, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dramatic Structure
Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and sometimes specifically referring to the ordering of the plot: the narrative series of events, though this can vary based on culture. In a play or work of theatre especially, this can be called dramatic structure, which is presented in audiovisual form. Story structure can vary by culture and by location. The following is an overview of various story structures and components that might be considered. Definition Story is a sequence of events, which can be true or fictitious, that appear in prose, verse or script, designed to amuse or inform an audience. Story structure is a way to organize the story's elements into a recognizable sequence. It has been shown to influence how the brain organizes information. Story structures can vary culture to culture and throughout history. The same named story stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Schumacher
Thomas Schumacher (born December 5, 1957) is a film and theatrical producer. He is the current president of Disney Theatrical Group, the theatrical production arm of The Walt Disney Company. Life and career Schumacher studied theatre at UCLA. In 1987 he was associate director of the Los Angeles Festival of Arts, presenting the American premiere of Cirque du Soleil and the English-language premiere of Peter Brook's '' The Mahabharata''. Previously, he spent five years on staff at the Mark Taper Forum, served as a line producer on the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival, and served as assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Ballet. He then joined the Disney company in 1988, producing the animated film, '' The Rescuers Down Under'', which was released in 1990. With '' The Lion King'' under consideration for the next Broadway adaptation, Eisner ceded Disney Theatrical Productions to theatre-rooted Disney Animation president Peter Schneider and Schumacher, at their request, making th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that produces animated feature films and short films for the Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon, ''Steamboat Willie'' (1928). Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney after the closure of Laugh-O-Gram Studio, it is the List of animation studios, longest-running animation studio in the world. It is currently organized as a division of Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios and is headquartered at the Roy E. Disney Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. Since its foundation, the studio has produced List of Walt Disney Animation Studios films, 63 feature films, from ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937), which is also the first hand dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protagonist
A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a story contains a subplot, or is a narrative made up of several stories, then each subplot may have its own protagonist. The protagonist is the character whose fate is most closely followed by the reader or audience, and who is opposed by the antagonist. The antagonist provides obstacles and complications and creates conflicts that test the protagonist, revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist's character, and having the protagonist develop as a result. A particularly noble, virtuous, or accomplished protagonist is commonly called a ''hero,'' though the terms are not synonyms. Etymology The term ''protagonist'' comes , combined of (, 'first') and (, 'actor, competitor'), which stems from (, 'contest') via (, 'I conten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
