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 […]
Disney Junior has announced that it has ordered a second season of the animated series “T.O.T.S.”. The first series will debut on Friday June 14th (9:00 A.M. EDT/PDT)—on Disney Channel and DisneyNOW. The comedy follows the adventures of best friends Pip and Freddy, a tenacious penguin and a kind-hearted flamingo, who are the only non-stork […]
Disney announced its second quarter results today, which has seen its Direct To Consumer division, which includes Disney+, have its operating costs climb up to a $393 million loss, which is up from last quarters $188 million. Though the revenues for the quarter increased 15% to $955 million. The increase in operating loss was due […]
During Disney latest quarterly financial results, it was announced that the box office smash hit, Avengers: Endgame, will be available exclusively on Disney+ on December 11th, roughly a month after Disney+ launches. “We’re very pleased with our Q2 results and thrilled with the record-breaking success of Avengers: Endgame, which is now the second-highest grossing film […]
Disney is currently filming the new High School Musical: The Musical series for the new streaming platform, Disney+. According to a report from Deadline, Oliver Goldstick, who is the the showrunner for the series, will be departing after the first phase of production. The reason for the departure is down to creative differences and Oliver […]
One of the unannounced Disney+ exclusive series, Sulphur Springs, is reported by Deadline, to no longer be a Disney+ exclusive, following some changes on the project, which will now be a Disney Channel series. The project was originally described as a supernatural drama for younger audiences, a “Stranger Things” like series, which is about a […]
Disney have unveiled its upcoming slate following the recent acquisition of the Fox film studios, which include many changes to previously dated films and a number of major additions. After kicking off with the record-setting success of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, The Walt Disney Studios’ 2019 summer slate includes Disney’s Aladdin on May 24, Fox’s Dark […]
Disney have officially revealed that the new live action movie based on the classic 101 Dalmatians villain, Cruella de Vil, will be released on December 23rd 2020. The movie will be called Cruella and stars Emma Stone in the lead role, which is set before the events of 101 Dalmatians. It will be directed by […]
Now that the 21st Century Fox Deal has been completed, Disney have announced details on their new schedule for movie releases, which have seen many Fox Marvel titles removed from the schedule. Gambit had been scheduled for a release on March 13th 2020, but is now been removed with two other untitled Fox movies in […]
Disney has announced that it has delayed the live action movie, Artemis Fowl, from its original release date of August 9th 2019 to May 29th 2020. Directed by Kenneth Branagh and based on the beloved book by Eoin Colfer, ARTEMIS FOWL follows 12-year-old genius Artemis Fowl, a descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds, as […]