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For nearly 50 years, actor Mark Hamill has been fighting fictional battles. He first came to our attention as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), and he subsequently returned for another five movies in the Star Wars universe. Once he finished his career in a galaxy far, far away, Hamill began a new career as a voice actor. ...

When Bob Iger returned as CEO, it was widely believed that his return would warm the relationship between Disney and China that had soured under his predecessor, former CEO Bob Chapek. A mere two days after Iger’s return, Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water (2023) received permission from the Chinese government to be released in the Communist nation. Avatar even received ...

To err is human; to forgive is divine. We all make mistakes in life. They happen sometimes. But it’s always those mistakes that we make in public that pop into our heads when we can’t sleep at night. Those are the ones that keep us up at night, and we relive them over and over again. Someone at Disney just ...

In the entertainment world, there are just certain untouchable films. Under no circumstances should they ever be remade. It’s an understanding that we all have that these films have reached perfection, and you just don’t mess with perfection. There would be serious problems if anyone tried to remake Citizen Kane (1941). Orsen Welles’ film is nearly perfect. For a first-time ...

Disney customers, who don’t get to see behind the curtain, most likely believe that Disney has steel workers and fabricators sitting backstage, waiting to create whatever ideas pop into the Imagineers’ heads. However, since the opening of Disneyland in 1955, Disney has always relied on outside companies to provide the structure of its rides. The first company that Walt Disney ...

Famed astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson says he always keeps old books in his library. He does it to see what people thought of the world around them in their time. DeGrasse Tyson also likes to see what all these “experts” got wrong in their predictions for the future. At the midway point of season three of The Mandalorian, I’m not quite ready ...

Disney seemed to have given up the fight in the ongoing culture war with Florida governor Ron DeSantis. The governor stripped Walt Disney World of its self-governing power, and CEO Bob Iger said Disney would not fight the new governing board. But now, Disney has decided to throw a punch. Walt Disney World announced that it will host a major ...

Disney World sees a wide range of the human experience. Everything from births to engagements to deaths. And sometimes even engagements that weren’t. Hundreds of people get married every year at Walt Disney World, and even more relationships are also started there. Walt Disney World is truly the happiest place on Earth, but there can also be heartbreak and growth ...

The only constant is change. No matter how much Disney fans complain about loving all the “older” stuff, we always want something new every time we go. That’s the odd irony of being a Disney fan; we love the classics but need change. Just look around Walt Disney World. There is change everywhere. Magic Kingdom has the new Tron Lightcycle/Run ...

Our natural inclination is to believe that every person we see in movies and on television must live a glamorous lifestyle filled with expensive homes and private jets. Especially veteran actors who the audience recognizes from several different projects. Those people must be well off, right? It turns out that the audience’s view of the fabulous lifestyle of a veteran ...