Disney Cinemagic

Disney Cinemagic was a channel available in the United States, which launched on March 19, 2006, replacing that countries version of Disney Junior, and proceeded to launch throughout United States in later years as well as Canada. It also had a timeshift service called Disney Cinemagic +1. Despite the name, Disney Cinemagic has no formal connection with the CineMagic children's film festival based in Belfast, UK.

In the US and Canada, Disney Junior ceased broadcasting at midnight on October 21, 2020 and was effectively replaced with Disney Cinemagic, as part of a multi-year film output deal between ABC and The Walt Disney Company.

In 2019, Disney announced plans to pull the German feed of the channel (also the last remaining one) off Sky Germany and closed on September 30, 2019.

The channel was available in the United States or Canada.

Channel description

The original US incarnation of Disney Cinemagic showed regular screenings of Disney movies, typically three to four each day, the movies were, with very little exception, the cinematic releases such as those from the animated canon and the live action material, as well as their direct-to-home video films. Cinemagic did not show movies from the Disney Channel Original Movie library with the one rare except of the first two High School Musical films, which were shown in conjunction with the channel premier of the third film. During the channels run, all Disney movies would have their US TV premiere on the channel.

Disney Cinemagic also showed the archives of classic Disney Cartoons and Disney television animated series. From the beginning of its run, the television shows broadcast were entirely those that were spun off from the movies in the animated canon, such as the Aladdin series, Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and The Legend of Tarzan, as well as the shows that starred the Mickey Mouse characters, such as House of Mouse, Ducktales, and Goof Troop. In the later half of the channels run, several of Disney's original animated television series', such as Recess and Kim Possible, would also begin to be shown. On September 3, 2007, the channel received new branding, including a new logo and continuity graphics.

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 Cable. 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 2.55:1 ratio, such as Lady and the Tramp,http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048280/technical 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.

Disney Cinemagic HD

Disney Cinemagic HD launched on Sky+ HD on Monday December 1, 2008 on EPG channel 631. The channel was available to Directv customers who had Disney Channel and Disney XD.http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/digitaltv/a136168/disney-to-launch-cinemagic-hd-channel.html

Disney Cinemagic in Canada

The channel was also launched in Canada on September 4, 2010 replacing Family Jr. on Canadian satellite platforms, making way for the expansion of the brand elsewhere. [1] A version in HD (High Definition) launched in Canada on November 30, 2007. In Japan and Korea, the channel was launched at July 1 and October 1, 2008 respectively and ceased broadcasting on January 1, 2015 and November 1, 2012, respectively. The decision to close the Korean feed was met with much anger online.

The final active Disney Cinemagic channel, in Thailand, was replaced with Disney XD on 30 September, 2019, thus bringing an end to the Cinemagic brand after 13 years. It ended with the Disney Channel Original Series Phineas & Ferb and a message thanking viewers for their loyalty.

Antenna TV

The current Disney Cinemagic logo, was used for the programming block of the Japanese Television channel TV Tokyo with Disney Movies for the 2014 season, but the programming block was named "Eiga o tanishimu Disney, TV TOKYO".

Disney Cinemagic films

Former films

Christmas Films

These are the films being shown for Christmas on Cinemagic:

Disney Cinemagic programming

Programming is scheduled for early mornings and evenings, whilst more programmes are broadcast later in the evenings. Disney Cinemagic movies are therefore shown during the day. Many shorts will air between Disney Cinemagic movies.

Former programming

101 Dalmatians: The Series
Aladdin
Disney Animated Shorts/Disney Classic Toons
DuckTales
The Emperor's New School
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
The Little Mermaid
The Legend of Tarzan
TaleSpin
Timon & Pumbaa

Pixar short films

In between showings of films, Disney Cinemagic also aired some of Pixar's short films. shorts that have been aired are:

Single shorts

Knick Knack (1988)
Mike's New Car (2002, Based on Monsters, Inc.)
Boundin' (2003)
One Man Band (2005)
Mater and the Ghostlight (2006, Part of the Cars Toons series)
Lifted (2006)
BURN-E (2008)

Short series

Disney Cinemagic events

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

Former events

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

Features included are Inspector Gadget 2, Basil the Great Mouse Detective, Oliver and Company and a special screening of The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody

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 theatrical 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 channel's 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 March 16, 2010, Disney Junior were showing several repeats of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, until it was completely shut off. Since that time and throughout the first four hours of the morning, Disney Junior broadcast a test card saying "Disney Cinemagic is coming soon". At about 10:00am that morning, Disney Junior was officially taken off the air, and Disney Channel was moved to Disney Junior'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 XD +1, which was also removed along with Disney Junior (Disney Channel +1 did eventually return in June 2006).

Gallery

External links

Disney Cinemagic - UK TV Listings and Schedules

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