Disney Cinemagic

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 Please help improve this article or section by expanding it.
Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (January 2007)
Disney Cinemagic UK
Launched March 16, 2006
Owned by Disney-ABC Television Group
Audience share 0.1% (0.0% for +1)
(February 2008, [1])
Replaced Toon Disney
Sister channel(s) Disney Channel,
Playhouse Disney
Timeshift service Disney Cinemagic +1
Website www.disneycinemagic.co.uk
Availability
Satellite
Sky Digital Channel 622
Channel 628 (+1)
Cable
Virgin Media Channel 728
UPC Ireland Channel 614
Channel 615 (+1)
IPTV over ADSL
Tiscali TV Channel 330

Disney Cinemagic is the movie service for the Disney Channel in the UK, available through Sky Digital, Tiscali TV and Virgin Media. It launched on March 16th 2006, and replaced the British version of Toon Disney. It has a timeshift service called Disney Cinemagic +1 which is available through Sky Digital and UPC Ireland. Despite the name, Disney Cinemagic has no formal connection with the CineMagic children's film festival based in Belfast, UK.

Contents

[edit] Channel description

Disney Cinemagic shows premieres of Disney movies on Sundays and includes regular screenings of Disney movies, typically three to four each day. Disney Cinemagic also shows the archives Of classic Disney Cartoons, newer Disney Cartoons & shorts as well as animated television series such as Disney's House of Mouse, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and Tarzan.

From its release till November, Disney Cinemagic use to show Channel Branding where a character from a film would blend with reality. There were also Bumpers for what program or film was about to start Now and Later. After Disney Cinemagic ceased these, they would instead mention what was next in their schedule during the end credits of their current programming.

In September 3, 2007 the channel received branding new graphics and as well as a new logo.

Old Disney Cinemagic Logo 2006-2007
Old Disney Cinemagic Logo 2006-2007

[edit] Aspect ratio

Unlike its counterparts, Disney Channel and Playhouse Disney, its movies are sometimes shown in their original aspect ratio though these are usually available only on Sky Digital. Notable exceptions are Tarzan II, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World and Bambi II, which have only been broadcast in fullscreen, and not their proper 16:9 ratio. Films in the 2:35 ratio, such as Lady and the Tramp, are cropped to 16:9, the only exception being The Incredibles. Disney Cinemagic is slowly abandoning this process of showing 16:9 films in their original ratio, favouring prints in pan-and-scan due to the availability of widescreen on digital platforms.

[edit] Disney Cinemagic in Europe

The channel has been also launched in France on September 4, 2007 (including one hour timeshift Disney Cinemagic +1) , replacing Toon Disney on French satellite platform CANALSAT, this probably means that the channel is ready to launch in more countries despite its small audience. [2] A version in HD (High Definition) will launch in France on November 30th, it will be a simulcast of the main channel and will consist of a mixture of original HD content and upconverted 16:9 and 4:3 "SD" (standard definition) content.

[edit] Disney Cinemagic films

[edit] Current films

[edit] Films coming soon

[edit] Former films

[edit] Disney Cinemagic programmes

[edit] Current programming

[edit] Former programming

[edit] Disney Cinemagic events

Disney Cinemagic tend to broadcast certain special events occasionally or part of their regular schedule.


[edit] Former events

Disney Cinemagic brought back the Movie Showdown (after Disney Channel ceased broadcasting years ago) where viewers go to the Vote page on the website and choose one of the two selected films till Saturday at 9am.

"Movies to see before you're Nine", is where Disney Cinemagic shows movies suitable for Under 9s every Sunday at 9am. Movies like Bambi 2, Dumbo, Fox and the Hound and The Aristocats

Emperor's Day: 1st January 2007. Features included were Back to Back runs of Emperor's New School, Emperor's New Groove and Kronk's New Groove

My Friends Gadget, Basil, Tigger & Pooh: 30th June 2007. Features included are Inspector Gadget 2, Basil The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver and Company and a special screening of My Friends Tigger & Pooh

[edit] Pre-release

  • Two Early teasers where first shown for the channel on all three Disney channels starting from September 2005. The first one shown was a slightly altered version of the original theatriatricle teaser trailer for The Incredibles, with the ending tagline, "The Incredibles! Coming Soon!". Later on, during the Autumn/Winter period of that same year, another teaser trailer was shown, featuring a musical montage of the movies set to be shown on the channel, such as Bambi, Brother Bear, Dumbo, Cinderella and The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. This was the first ad to feature the early working title, "Incredible Movies" (To correspond with the channels main movie, The Incredibles). Nobody had any idea what this was supposed to be, as the only thing said near the end of the ad was "Coming soon, to Disney".
  • During early 2006, another ad was shown several times (Again, throughout all three Disney channels), finally being showcased as "Disney Cinemagic". The ad featured Mickey Mouse, dressed in his "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" attire. He walked on to the completely blank white screen, took a magic wand and pressed the center of it with his finger, making magically morph into a TV remote. Mickey presses a button on the remote, and it starts blasting out magic holograms of several Disney characters. The remote starts vibrating uncontrollebly, Mickey tries to regain control of it by randomly mashing different buttons, until finally, all of the holograms disappear. Mickey stands at the corner of the screen, smiling at the audience, while the Disney Cinemagic logo appears in the centre.
  • In the early morning of 16 March 2006, Toon Disney were showing several repeats of Kim Possible, until it was completely shut off. Since that time and throughout the first four hours of the morning, Toon Disney broadcast a test card saying "Disney Cinemagic is coming soon". At about 10:00am that morning, Toon Disney was officially taken off the air, and Disney Channel was moved to Toon Disney's former channel slot, while the newly launched Disney Cinemagic took over Disney Channel's original channel slot. Its timeshift, Cinemagic +1, took the original channel slot of Disney Channel +1, which was also removed along with Toon Disney (Disney Channel +1 did eventually return in June 2006).

[edit] External links

v • d • e
The Walt Disney Company
Board of directors
Susan Arnold  · John Bryson · John S. Chen · Judith Estrin · Robert Iger (President, CEO) · Steve Jobs · Fred Langhammer · Aylwin Lewis · Monica Lozano · Robert Matschullat · John E. Pepper, Jr. (Chairman) · Orin C. Smith
Walt Disney
Studio Entertainment
Other studio holdings
Disney-ABC
Television Group
ABC Network
Cable TV Channels
Radio & TV Distribution
TV Production
Walt Disney
Internet Group
ABC-owned TV
KABC · KFSN · KGO · KTRK · WABC · WJRT · WLS · WPVI · WTVD · WTVG
Radio Stations
KDIS-AM · KDIS-FM · KDIZ · KESN · KKDZ · KMIC · KMIK · KMKI · KMKY · KNIT¹ · KSPN · WDDY · WEAE · WEPN · WFDF · WMKI · WMVP · WQEW · WRDZ-AM · WRDZ-FM · WSDZ · WWCS² · WWMK
Miscellaneous
Assets
¹ = Disney manages and operates this station owned by James Crystal Radio under an LMA.
² = Operated by Birach Broadcasting, controlled by Disney under an LMA.
Annual Revenue: ▲ US $30.8 billion (2004) · Employees: 129,000 · Stock Symbol: NYSE: DIS · Website: corporate.disney.go.com