Disney and Comcast have just announced that Disney will assume full operational control of Hulu, effective immediately, in return for Disney and Comcast entering into a “put/call” agreement regarding NBCUniversal’s 33% ownership interest in Hulu. Under the put/call agreement, as early as January 2024, Comcast can require Disney to buy NBCUniversal’s interest in Hulu and […]
Disney has revealed the first teaser trailer for the upcoming live action movie, “Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil”. Which will be coming to cinemas on October 18th and it will be coming next year to Disney+. “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” is a fantasy adventure that picks up several years after “Maleficent,” in which audiences learned of […]
Last year, it was reported that Disney were working on new version of their classic movie, “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” for their upcoming streaming service. Today, more details have been revealed by /Film, who are reporting that Frozen star, Josh Gad will be playing the lead role of Nick Szalinski. This new film is […]
A few years ago at the 2017 D23 Expo, a new documentary film called “Howard”, was revealed and told the untold story of Howard Ashman, the brilliant lyricist behind Disney classics like ALADDIN, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE LITTLE MERMAID and creator of musicals including LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, whose unparalleled career and vibrant life […]
Marvel Actor Anthony Mackie recently spoke with IMDB about the end scene in Avengers: Endgame and how it helps set up his upcoming Disney+ series with Facon and Winter Soldier. That scene sees Captain America Steve Rogers passing the “Shield” to Falcon. This scene sets up the events of the upcoming Disney+ exclusive series, Falcon […]
Pixar have released official descriptions for three new SparkShorts, which will be coming to Disney+ later this year. The new shorts include Wind, Float and Loop. “The SparkShorts program is designed to discover new storytellers, explore new storytelling techniques, and experiment with new production workflows. These films are unlike anything we’ve ever done at Pixar, […]
The Disney Channel has announced that BUNK’D will be returning on Thursday June 20th at 8pm (EDT) on Disney Channel and DisneyNOW. In the fourth season premiere of the hit summer camp comedy “BUNK’D,” former counselor Lou Hockhauser takes the mantle as camp director as she and her veteran campers, Destiny, Finn and Matteo, welcome […]
National Geographic has announced a new series called Queens, which is an epic, six-part natural history docuseries that follows six powerful sisterhoods within the animal kingdom where females rule. The all-women visionaries behind the series draw on their female intuitions to shine a fresh light on the natural world, revealing unique feminine behaviors in six […]
Pixar’s David Larry has revealed a new poster for the upcoming SparkShorts, “Loop”, which will be coming soon to Disney+. “Loop” is directed by Erica Milsom and has been produced by Michael Warch and Kirsty C. “Loop”, follows a non-verbal, autistic girl and a chatty boy who are partnered together on a canoeing trip. To […]
National Geographic has announced its latest documentary project, Cousteau. Two-time Academy Award-nominated and two-time Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (“The Farm, Angola USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) will direct and produce the feature biopic about the world’s most famous ocean explorer, Jacques Cousteau, with Academy Award winner Dan Cogan (“Icarus”) as producer. Academy Award winner Evan […]
Rob Simonsen has been revealed to be scoring the new Disney+ exclusive movie, Stargirl. The movie will be directed by Julia Hart, who previously worked together on the film, Fast Color. Other movies scored by Rob Simonsen include Love, Simon, Nerve, Foxcatcher, The Upside, (500) Days of Summer and The Spectacular Now. Stargirl is based on Jerry Spinelli’s […]
Disney have announced that actress, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, who appears in the acclaimed Disney Channel series “Andi Mack,” has won the lead role in the original movie “Secret Society of Second Born Royals,” a contemporary princess story for Disney+, the upcoming streaming service. The movie will begin production this month in Toronto. “We are big fans […]
Back at last months Investor’s Day event, a number of classic Fox movies and series were announced to be coming to Disney+ in the future, including titles such as Avatar, The Sound Of Music and Home Alone 3 (not sure why they picked that one!). At the time, Disney had only just finalized the deal […]
Recently it came to light that Netflix still holds the rights to the “Pay 2” window for Disney movies released between between 2016 and 2018 including Infinity War, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Coco, but these wouldn’t become available to Netflix until after 2025. During Disney’s quarterly results investors call, CEO Bob Iger was […]
During the Disney Quarterly Results Investors Call, CEO Bob Iger was asked if Disney had been able to negotiate with third-part distributors to get back rights to content for Disney+, CEO Bob Iger replied: We did some deals, Marci, to get some of the content back that had been licensed to third parties. We continue […]