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LOS ANGELES: Walt Disney Studios Monday unveiled a new film label
that will specifically produce nature documentaries, with one of the
first film projects titled Earth and set for release on Earth Day
2009.
Disneynature will be based in France, and will
work with the world’s top documentary filmmakers to explore
wildlife and nature around the planet, company officials said.
“Our goal is for Disneynature to offer event
films that will appeal to everyone who is captivated by the grandeur
of nature and the wonder of great filmmaking,” said Dick Cook,
Walt Disney Studios chairman.
Jean-Francois Camilleri, who was previously a
senior vice president and general manager for Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures France, will oversee the project.
Among the first films that will be released by
Disneynature will be Earth, by British producer-director Alastair
Fothergill, whose credits include the Planet Earth series for the
BBC and the Discovery Channel.
According to Disney, the film, narrated by
American actor James Earl Jones, will “take us on a tour of our
home planet as we’ve never seen it before.” It is scheduled for
release on Earth Day, which falls on April 22, 2009.
Other film projects in the works under the
Disneynature label include Oceans, The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the
Flamingos, Orangutans: One Minute to Midnight, Big Cats and
Chimpanzee.
-- Xinhua
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