Imagine if Hannah Montana was a Marvel superhero. Well, maybe you don’t have to actually imagine it because Disney already has. Between the success of Big City Greens, the hype surrounding the upcoming series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, and the recent revival of Phineas and Ferb, it feels as if Disney’s Television Animation division
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It seems Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Detours show may never see the light of day after all. Read: Interview: Director Stephen Anderson Talks ‘Monsters at Work’, Upcoming Book, and More (Exclusive) Earlier this year, rumors were that Star Wars: Detours, Lucasfilm’s canceled animated series, would finally be releasing on the Disney streaming in time for Star
The Walt Disney Company has announced a brand new anthology of animated short films coming from African filmmakers to Disney+ late next year. Read: REPORT: Disney+ Looking To Ditch The Weekly Episode Model For Some Shows Kizaki Moto: Generation Fire will be a ten-part series of action-packed original films created by artists from Zimbabwe, Uganda,
Just in time for its 20th anniversary, Disney Movie Club has seemingly brought back its long-standing tradition of releasing Disney titles exclusively for members. Read: Disney to Release ‘Fantasia’ on Home Video for the First Time in 10 Years After a gap in exclusive releases since late 2019, Disney Movie Club has announced that two
Just last week it announced that Disney had launched a brand new animation division titled 20th Television Animation. The idea was for all of the animated properties formerly developed at Fox, such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, etc., to continue production under that wheelhouse. However, plans for additional adult series were hinted at
This year’s WonderCon may have been virtual again, but it still maintained the tradition of delivering some pretty big news. At a WonderCon@Home panel for Hulu’s highly anticipated stop-motion animated adult series M.O.D.O.K. Saturday morning, it was revealed that the series would feature some major guest comic book characters and that they would be voiced
First there was Batman. Then there was Spider-Man. Now, there’s…um, Koala Man? According to Variety, that’s the latest show by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland to be picked up by Hulu. Created and produced by Michael Cusack, the series is set to follow a family man (also played by Cusack) who moonlights as Koala
Earlier this month, it was announced that Blue Sky Studios, the animation company under the Fox brand, would be shutting down. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the studio will be dissolved in April. Read: Disney Closing Blue Sky Studios The Fox Studio Behind ‘Ice Age’ and ‘Rio’ As part of this announcement, it was
Like Wreck-It Ralph, this film breaks the mold of traditional Disney fodder and tells a different kind of story. However unlike Wreck-It Ralph, this film is not an original story. Big Hero 6 takes inspiration from a Marvel comic strip from the late 1990s which introduced the characters of Baymax and Hiro. Read: 20 Weeks of
Home on the Range is a simple story about three cows that go on a journey to save their farm. Throughout this journey we get yodeling, burping, and a whole lot of Roseanne Barr. Now you have basically seen the movie. None of those things are particularly enjoyable for me (expect the yodeling, which is
It looks like animation can be used for more than just entertainment! Read: Evan Rachel Wood and Alfred Molina Reprising Their ‘Frozen 2’ Roles For Audiobook ‘Frozen 2: Dangerous Secrets’ In addition to winning multiple awards and achieving global fame, the creators of Frozen can now add solving a long unsolved cold case to their
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, released in 1977, was the first time that this beloved story would hit the big screen in its first feature. However, almost the entire film had already been released over the course of three short films released in 1966, 1968, and 1974, respectively. Though this film was released
Earlier this year we reported that following Raya and the Last Dragon, Walt Disney Animation Studios will be releasing a film titled Encanto, directed by Byron Howard and Jared Bush. Read: Exclusive: Byron Howard and Jared Bush to Direct ‘Encanto’ For Walt Disney Animation Studios We have now learned in-depth details for both leading and
Melody Time is a continuation of Walt’s 7th animated film, Make Mine Music. They are both made up of segments, some being detailed stories and some being images set to music. Like that film, Melody Time follows in the tradition of Fantasia. Walt Disney was interested in keeping that concept alive and though this never
We have some exclusive details on the brand new Night At The Museum film which is being developed for Disney+. The DisInsider has learned that the film will be animated and is tentatively titled Night At The Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again. Casting on the project has commenced and is expected to start production on November
Following the success of Lilo & Stitch, Disney knew they needed to do something with the franchise. This success was uncommon during this era of Disney animation as in the years following the Disney Renaissance, few Disney properties did nearly as well with critics and audiences. Lilo & Stitch was an exception. The endearing character
This week, we watched Tarzan II, which takes place during Tarzan’s childhood, specifically during the “Son of Man” sequence. During that sequence, adventures in Tarzan’s childhood are merely hinted at, but in Tarzan II, a more comprehensive story is told featuring familiar characters such as Terk and Kala as well as some new ones. Tarzan
This week, we watched Mulan II, the sequel to the 1998 film. Though the original film was based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan and her experience masquerading as a man, this film focuses on an original story, with more emphasis on her romance with Li Shang. Much of the voice cast returns for
This week, we watched Atlantis: Milo’s Return, a sequel to Disney’s 41st animated feature, Atlantis: The Lost Empire. That film was released during a period of experimentation within the Walt Disney Animation and marks their first outing into science fiction. Atlantis: The Lost Empire was a film that I never watched a kid, even though I
Gremlins, when most people hear that word, they think of the demon characters from the 1984 film. That popular movie brought the word “gremlin” into wide use in the United States. However, traditional gremlins are quite different from those you see on screen. In fact, Walt Disney had plants to made a film about gremlins
