The movie -
Check out
http://www.animated-movies.net/HomeOnTheRange.html for about as much coverage as I've found on this on-again, off-again movie. This production has been killed more times than a actor at the 'Indiana Jones Stunt Show' and has basically lived on because it's simply too expensive now just to write off.
Just remember a simple rule:
Lilo and
Nemo were made far away from Burbank -
Atlantis and
Treasure were made close to Burbank.
Sweatin' Bullets was made across the street from Eisner's office.
Also remember that Disney's relationship with Rosanne was destroyed this summer over her quickly canned "reality show" and the never aired 'Home Godess' fiasco that was to have been a major part of ABC and ABC Family. One wonders how willing she'll be to push this film (that is if that haven't redone her voice as well).
Jim Hill -
Disney is a massive corporation with lots of people that see on a fraction of what's going on. A corporation changes its mind all the time (within minutes usually - witness 'Soaring Over Budget Cuts' coming soon to Epcot). What was true when some told Jim Hill about could have already been cancelled or changed a thousand times before it ever appears.
Typically the "everything he says is wrong" line is used to dismiss what people don't what to hear.
That being said, I have noticed that since Mr. Hill has begun trying to make money off his website he's looking more and more at only the bright side of life and downplaying everything else. His article about
Home is an example.
The writer of the e-mail that is the basis of the article just happened to be waiting to pick up their childern when a women just happened to stop by their car and just happened to offer the tipster free tickets to a special screening. And magically, it's the very same movie the tipster happened to (a direct quote) "First, let me say I have been following the stories about "Home on the Range" for the past two years and I heard all the discussions concerning the voice talents and story line changes. "
This person
happened to
randomly get a
golden ticket to a movie that
no one else had really heard of yet that
they had been following for
two years?!
The tipster must have been very kind to the Movie Fairies.