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This past Wednesday, Disney’s long-awaited trailer for Cruella debuted and the fans went wild for it. The trailer for the live-action film based on the popular Disney villain drew over 71 million views in the first 24 hours. According to Deadline, the viewership for the trailer beat 24 hour figures for two other Disney live-action
We are very excited to announce the winner of The DisInsider’s Ultimate Disneyland Resort Tournament of Rides. After six weeks of voting in six rounds, 51 head to head matchups, and 170,144 votes, the winner of the tournamet is: Pirates of the Caribbean. The result of the Championship Round was Pirates of the Caribbean 56%
Luke Evans is becoming a Disney go-to. The actor appeared as the villainious Gaston in 2017’s billion dollar hit Beauty and the Beast remake. Evans will return to the play the character for follow-up series on Disney+ and was recently tapped to play the Coachman in the studios’ upcoming Pinocchio remake. Evans recently spoke with
Now take this with a very small grain of salt; Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men) has reportedly been cast in the upcoming reboot of the Fantastic Four. However, this comes from The Daily Mail, which isn’t one of the best sources. READ: The Punisher And Jessica Jones Finally Revert Back To Marvel Studios There’s no solid confirmation
Evangeline Lilly, who portrays The Wasp, has confirmed through her Instagram that production on the third Ant-Man film will be starting production this summer. READ: ‘Survive’ Star Laurel Marsden Joins ‘Ms. Marvel’ This confirms Murphy’s Multiverse’s scoop, which was reported last year. The film was originally supposed to start production in early 2021 but fell
Kessel Run Transmissions has just dropped exclusive news that Aladdin star Mena Massoud will be playing Star Wars character Ezra Bridger in live-action. Read: Rosario Dawson’s Deal to Play Ahsoka Tano Reportedly Has Her Appearing in Multiple Series In a video that aired on their YouTube channel, the hosts of Kessel Run Transmissions, Noah Outlaw
With Ms. Marvel currently filming, Marvel has cast Laurel Marsden (Survive) as Zoe Zimmer, a friend/rival to Kamala Khan. READ: The Punisher And Jessica Jones Finally Revert Back To Marvel Studios For those unfamiliar with the character, she is the “popular” girl at Kamala’s high school. She dated star athlete, Josh Richardson, who eventually takes
Deadline has reported that ten new cast members have joined the upcoming remake of Cheaper by the Dozen for Disney+. Read: Mystery Adventure Series ‘Secrets of Sulphur Springs’ to Debut on Disney+ Next Week The actors new to the project include Journee Brown, Kyle Rogers, Andre Robinson, Caylee Blosenski, Aryan Simhaldri, Leo A. Perry, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Christian Cote, Sebastian Cote and Luke Prael. These cast
If anyone knows how to throw a party, it’s the Walt Disney Company. And that’s exactly what they intend to do. Jeremy Schoolfield, Managing Editor, Walt Disney World Resort Public Relations announced on the Disney Parks Blog that “The World’s Most Magical Celebration” will begin on October 1st, 2021. He stated that the celebration will
A brand-new sneak peek at Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon reveals the new original song, “Lead the Way,” written and performed by Grammy-nominated artist and songwriter, Jhené Aiko. Oscar-nominated, Emmy and Grammy-winning composer James Newton-Howard (News of the World, A Hidden Life, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald) created the original score.
The riveting tale of mystery, suspense, and time travel for kids and families, Secrets of Sulphur Springs, will premiere with five episodes on Friday, Feb. 26, on Disney+ with new episodes available to stream each Friday in March through April 9. Since its Disney Channel premiere, Secrets of Sulphur Springs has reached 3.5 million total viewers (P2+),
The live-action rights to The Punisher and Jessica Jones have finally reverted back into Marvel Studios’ hands. There isn’t any solid confirmation as to what their plans are for the characters; however, they were some of the most popular characters so Marvel will definitely use them in some regard. READ: Danny Elfman to Score ‘Doctor
In a press release sent this morning, Disney has announced an upcoming documentary series titled Choir that will be heading to Disney+. Read: Exclusive: ‘Futurama’ is Coming to Disney+ UK/IRE Inspired by the story of the Detroit Youth Choir, the series will run for six episodes and follow their rise to fame during the fourteen
We’re just a few days away from the global launch of Star, the sixth brand tile on Disney+, which will feature new content, including 24, Lost, and The X-Files. Due to previous deals, the content differs depending on the country or region. If you check-out our complete list of content coming to Star on Disney+
For Disney’s 52nd animated film from the canon, we have the final traditionally animated- and quickly forgotten- Winnie the Pooh. This follow up to The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a cute little film that was sandwiched between Tangled and Wreck-It-Ralph, two Disney films that have proved to be much more popular. Despite the efforts of Disney to
There’s an elemental power to stories of children befriending some kind of nonhumancreature. Whether it’s a homesick alien, towering robot, or sentient UFO, these storiescause the main characters to find their humanity while dealing with somethingotherworldly. It’s a tried-and-true trope, one that is often trotted out with varyingdegrees of effectiveness, and the latest example is
Longtime composer and Disney Legend, Danny Elfman is returning the Marvel Cinematic Universe and will collaborate with director Sam Raimi on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Elfman confirmed the news in a recent interview with Inverse. Here what the composer had to say: “I am starting to do bits of pre-work for Doctor Strange
Disney followed up The Princess and the Frog with another princess movie, the first of its kind to be completely CG: Tangled. The studios’ 50th animated film follows in the tradition of the princess movies of the 1990’s, even bringing back Alan Menken to write new songs for the film. Featuring a top notch voice cast including
For fans who have longed for a follow-up to the 1993 stop-motion animation film The Nightmare Before Christmas are in luck. According to io9, author Shea Ernshaw (The Wicked Deep) has been tapped to write a new YA novel that will be centered on Jack Skellington’s love interest Sally and will be set after the
The Walt Disney Company has released the trailer, and two posters for its all-new live-action villain origin film Cruella. Read: Arian Moayed Joins ‘Spider-Man 3’ Academy Award winner Emma Stone (La La Land) stars in the film about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious – and notoriously fashionable – villains, the
Welcome back to The Ultimate Disneyland Resort Tournament of Rides, where we try and figure out what ride is the undisputed fan favorite at the Disneyland Resort. We have just opened up voting for the final round, the Championship Matchup. Voting will take place Wednesday Feburary 18th, between Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean, with
While the Covid-19 pandemic saw the closure of every Disney theme park and resort worldwide, Hong Kong Disneyland has the unique distinction of being closed, reopened, closed a second time, reopened a second time, closed a third time, and, just today it was announced that on February 19th the park will reopen for the third
It’s been less than a week since Gina Carano was fired from The Mandalorian; however it feels like a lot longer with all of the news that has developed as a result of the fallout. Just yesterday it was revealed that Hasbro would no longer be producing action figures for the actress’ character Cara Dune,
Arian Moayed (Succession) has reportedly joined the growing cast of Sony and Marvel Studios’ untitled third Spider-Man film, Murphy’s Multiverse has learned. Per the site, it is unknown who Moayed is playing but does state he is a detective. Read: Marvel Studios’ ‘Assembled’ Coming to Disney+ March 12 Tom Holland returns as Peter Parker aka
The Mandalorian had a behind the scenes documentary series titled Gallery. Now, the hit Marvel Studios series, WandaVision will be getting one of its own as well. Today, Marvel Studios announced that Assembled, a new documentary series of specials, that will go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the MCU. The first
With so much other Star Wars content being developed for both Disney+ and the big screen, Rian Johnson’s formerly announced original trilogy had kind of become an afterthought for fans. Truthfully, after Disney Investor Day it looked like the films weren’t going to happen at all. However, in a yet to be released exclusive interview
Disney+ may be exceeding all their expectations with their subscriber counts, but it should be noted, Netflix is still the king of streamers. Well, thanks to a new report, that could change in the next few years. According to an analyst at Digital TV Research, the rapidly growing Disney streamer will reach more subscribers than
Entertainment Weekly has reported that a new short from Walt Disney Animation Studios will premiere theatrically with their upcoming film Raya and the Last Dragon. Read: Director Carlos López Estrada Talks ‘Raya and the Last Dragon,’ His New Animated Film and Live-Action ‘Robin Hood’ Being the first theatrical short from the studio in five years,
The first five rounds of the Ultimate Disneyland Resort Tournament of Rides were a huge success. Over one month we collected over 168,000 votes, a massive number of Disney fans making their voices heard. We are about to announce the winners of round five, but first, do not forget that voting for Round 6, the Championship
We are less than three weeks away from the release of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ newest original film, Raya and the Last Dragon. One of the film’s directors, Carlos López Estrada shared what it was like being part of this new project. Here is what López Estrada had to say while speaking with the LA
*Update* The Illuminerdi has followed up on this report, letting us know that Hall was indeed approached for this role but has passed. Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3, The BFG) has reportedly signed on to star in Disney’s long-in-development live-action adaptation of Peter Pan, Peter Pan & Wendy. According to our friends at The Illuminerdi,
As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to expand, so does its roster of characters. While just yesterday it was announced that Zawe Ashton would be joining the cast of Captain Marvel 2, today we have word that another upcoming project is looking to cast two more mystery roles. According to the website POC Culture, Marvel
Jubilation “Jubilee” Lee has been a fan-favourite Marvel character ever since her debut in issue 244 of The Uncanny X-Men in 1989. Jubilee is a Mutant who can release firework-like energy from her body (typically her hands). Since her debut, she has been a mainstay in the Marvel universe and like most popular Marvel characters,
Six episodes in, and the internet continues to be buzzing over Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series, WandaVision. Now, thanks to Forbes via Parrot Analytics, the series has become the number one television series worldwide. Parrot Analytics is an audience attention measurement system that captures an audience behavior dataset by sifting through social media, fan ratings, and
