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New Disney animatronics breathe convincing life into its 2D characters
No matter your opinion on the current state of its animated movies, Disney is proving that it can still knock animatronics out of the park. This week, the entertainment giant gave us another early look at the new audio-animatronics being prepared for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure — a retheming of the iconic (and controversial) Splash Mountain
April 7, 2024
Disney shares release dates for Toy Story 5, The Mandalorian & Grogu, and more
While 2024 is shaping up to be a relatively quiet year for Disney’s biggest franchises at the box office, the same can’t be said about 2025 or 2026. On Friday, The Walt Disney Company pulled back the curtain on a bunch of release dates for its upcoming blockbusters, including the latest entries in the Star
April 5, 2024
Fubo sues Fox, Disney, and Warner Bros. to block their combined sports streaming app
Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s surprise partnership to create a sports streaming platform hasn’t sat well with the TV streaming service Fubo. Today, Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit against the three companies following what it calls “a years-long campaign to block Fubo’s innovative sports-first streaming business” at consumers’ expense.Fubo CEO David Gandler said that
February 20, 2024
New on Disney+ Canada: January 2024
Disney has revealed the full list of movies and shows hitting its Disney+ service in Canada in January. Highlights include the Hawkeye spin-off Echo, a National Geographic documentary inspired by Pixar’s A Bug’s Life and new episodes of Bluey. It should be noted that Echo is the first Marvel Studios series on Disney+ to garner a TV-MA rating, which means it’s
December 20, 2023
Walt Disney remaking a version of Space Mountain
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December 17, 2023
Disney at 100: How Relentless Innovation Created the First Modern Media Company, From ‘Snow White’ to Disneyland to Pixar
In 1937, Walt Disney was desperate to find a way to make “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,”the first feature-length animated movie ever made, actually feel like a feature-length movie. He’d been doing his best to ignore the naysayers who christened the very idea of the film as “Disney’s folly.” But they did trigger a
October 11, 2023
Disney+’s Percy Jackson Show Gets a Release Date and Teaser
August 18, 2023
Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri and Walker Scobell in Percy Jackson.Image: Disney+These days, it seems like Disney+ has been deleting more shows than it’s adding. But yes, it is still adding them, and one of the biggest coming later this year is Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Based on the hit book series by Rick
Disney Is Serving a Pickle Milkshake at Its Food & Wine Festival Right Now
The pickle milkshake might be too ambitious, even for Disney. The annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival kicks off today at Disney World in Florida. With a menu that highlights flavors from all over the world, most Disney guests are delighted by the offerings. But menu item might be the exception to the rule.
July 27, 2023
What’s New on Disney+ in July 2023
Screenshot: Bluey Season 3 trailer/Disney+ (Fair Use)A few weeks ago, one of Lifehacker’s regular freelancer contributors pitched us an idea for a parenting story: Streaming shows to watch when you’re sick of the kids watching Bluey over and over. Reader, I rejected this pitch, because Bluey is possibly the best show for kids and parents
June 17, 2023
Disney+ Yanks Content as It Raises Prices
News @jdannychadwick May 14, 2023, 12:34 pm EDT | 1 min read Justin Duino / Review Geek On the heels of announcing a big price hike for Disney+, Disney has revealed its plans to remove certain content from the streaming platform and scale back new shows in production in a realignment of the company’s streaming
May 14, 2023