We are under a month away from Disney’s bi-annual D23 Expo, and one of the most anticipated panels is the movie panel which previews the upcoming projects from Walt Disney Studios, Disney Animation, Pixar, Marvel Studios, and Lucasfilm. So let’s dive into the panels and what we expect could be revealed. Walt Disney Studios Maleficent:
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Longtime voice actress and Disney Legend Russi Taylor has sadly passed away in Glendale, California at the age of 75. Taylor wanted to work for the Walt Disney Company since childhood, and in 1986 she earned a role that defined her career forever, by taking over the voice of Minnie Mouse a role she would
Disney’s live-action Aladdin remake is on its way to a billion dollars at the box office, and you can take the film home this September filled with bonus features. Disney is also re-releasing the 1992 animated classic as well. Both films will be available on VoD starting August 27, and on DVD/Blu-ray/4K on September 10.
As we approach the release of Jon Favreau’s highly-anticipated realistic CGI remake of The Lion King, we’re looking back on the original 1994 movie and how it’s lived up to it’s name, quickly becoming Disney animation royalty after its release. Not only did The Lion King came out right in the middle of the Disney
Just a little over a week since the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney’s live-remake of The Little Mermaid, fans of the original animated film will be pleased to hear that Dark Horse will be releasing a comic retelling based on the film released in 1989. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cecil Castellucci will
Just a few months shy of his 106th birthday, Milton Quon has been reported deceased of natural causes on June 18th. Quon was a Disney Animator who worked on fan-favorite classics such as Fantasia and Dumbo. Quon was a child of Chinese immigrant parents, and along with working for The Walt Disney Studios, he became
San Diego Comic Con is nearly a month away and as is their tradition, Funko has started to unveil their exclusive POPs from the convention, which include a bunch from Marvel and Disney Animation. Below you can find photos of them as well as where you can purchase said POPs: Marvel – Wong (Walgreens), Minn-Erva
A brand new trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ highly-anticipated Frozen 2 has been released. In the trailer, Elsa, Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven journey far beyond the gates of Arendelle in search of answers to their mysterious past. Check out the full trailer below. The films original voice cast Kristen Bell (Anna), Idina Menzel
Things are really starting to get moving for Disney’s biannual D23 Expo. Tickets are selling fast for the August 23-25 event – three-day and Saturday-only passes have already sold out – and we’re finally starting to get some concrete information on what will be going on over the weekend. Earlier today, D23 announced the major
Aladdin continues to have box office steam going into its second week, and despite the release of Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Rocketman hitting theaters, Aladdin still managed to make $43 million at the domestic box office this weekend. Aladdin is already the fifth highest grossing film at the box office globally in 2019.
Of the Disney animated movies of the last 10 years, Wreck-It-Ralph is one of my favorites. Though it came out in 2012, I first saw it last year and fell in love with the world of Litwak’s arcade and the games and the characters. Though I’m not much of a gamer myself, I still understood
After Walt Disney created the Alice cartoons, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse, he did something that no other studio was doing at the time. He decided to use animation to tell a story that was not focused on one primary character, like Betty Boop or Mickey Mouse, to use a couple examples. These
When the new trailer for Mary Poppins Returns was released on Monday, one of the first things that got the attention of viewers was the inclusion of hand drawn animation. In recent years, 2D animation has become somewhat of a novelty in feature films, both in Disney and in other studios. Not since 2011’s Winnie
Winnie the Pooh is one of Disney’s biggest franchises. However, though Walt himself worked on obtaining the rights to A.A. Milne’s beloved stories, he did not live long enough to see the enormous following that has developed to Disney’s version of Winnie the Pooh. Despite this, Walt had a great hand in making the transition
In 1995 (yes 25 years ago), Disney Toons Studios released A Goofy Movie, a theatrical conclusion to the Disney Afternoon Studios series Goof Troop. A Goofy Movie wasn’t a juggernaut or failure at the box office (earning $35 million worldwide) but it was received with mixed reviews from critics. However overtime the film earned cult
This week Disney Animation announced that work on the animated adaptation of the classic Jack and the Beanstalk story, Gigantic, is halting development. Personally, I was excited about a Disney twist on the classic fairytale and have to admit I am a bit disappointment in it’s cancelation. Disney Animation head, Ed Catmull, told the Hollywood
