Despite what Best Buy will tell you, physical media, including Blu-rays, is back in style—spurred along by the panic that comes when streamers remove content and a movie or TV show becomes suddenly very inaccessible. While most Disney content is readily available, there are a few difficult-to-snag titles, something the Disney Movie Club has helped … Read more
Photo: Sabina Graves/Gizmodo Walt Disney World’s best and most underrated festival is going on right now at Epcot. Disney Parks’ International Festival of the Arts happens at the start of the year and showcases amazing artists debuting Disney-inspired art—and it’s truly any fandom print collector’s dream destination. This year, artists like Tim Rogerson, Fenway Fan, … Read more
In mid-March during the Oscars, Netflix’s Pinocchio took home the award for Best Animated Feature. During his acceptance speech, co-director Guillermo del Toro said the animation medium was ready to be taken to “the next step,” a statement that was meant to be inspiring after animation was belittled at that very ceremony just minutes prior. … Read more
Image: Walt Disney Pictures The House of Mouse celebrated its centennial in 2023 through monumental film and television releases and Disney Parks experiences, while dealing with real-world repercussions during historic writers and actors’ strikes. And then, of course, there was the whole ongoing skirmish with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Disney100 was one for the books … Read more
Disney CEO Bob Iger—who over the summer described the demands of striking WGA and SAG-AFTRA workers as “not realistic,” then pulled back on that harsh statement by pushing to end the strikes quickly (as backed up by Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav)—has addressed some of his company’s most pressing matters as 2024 approaches. “Even AI Rappers are … Read more
Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), Huyang (David Tennant), and Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) in Star Wars: Ahsoka on Disney+. Image: Lucasfilm No matter what you think about the House of Mouse, the Force, or Marvel’s many assorted heroes and villains, there’s no denying Disney+ has might behind it. According to today’s quarterly report, which you … Read more
Rachel Zegler’s Snow White has been pushed to 2025.Photo: Arturo Holmes (Getty Images) Disney fans have been waiting a long time to see Rachel Zegler take a bite of that forbidden apple, and now they’re going to have to wait much, much longer. Spoilers of the Week April 4-8 The company just announced that Snow … Read more
Image: Disney+ Disney has a new film—Wish, out November 22—that celebrates its 100-year history by dramatizing the fairy-tale dream of “wishing upon a star.” But the company is also dipping into its vast library in honor of this landmark year, including bringing a 4K restoration of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, its first feature-length animated … Read more
Filmmaker David Gordon Green’s Disneyland biopic centering on Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney is currently being held up… for now. We Rode the New Disney Coaster Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind The Exorcist: Believer director told io9 exclusively, “It’s on pause right now. There’s some rights issues.” The film from Green, who … Read more
The 2000s had been a turning level for films. With franchises X-Males and Spider-Man beginning up on the similar time the likes of Star Wars and The Matrix had been winding down, the fashionable Hollywood blockbuster was steadily starting to take form. Whether or not it was the emphasis on visible results or stars (each … Read more