Movies & Entertainment
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Jun- 2023 -4 June
Disney Taking $1.5 Billion Write-Down After Disney+ Failures
In 2019, The Walt Disney Company jumped into the streaming game and launched its very own streaming platform — Disney+. Disney+ was the ultimate streaming spot for fans of not only classic Disney movies and television shows, but also for all things Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars. In addition to content made by Walt Disney Animation, Disney created a new area of the company to create shows made
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4 June
Disney Confirms ‘Hocus Pocus 3’!
Just over 30 years ago, Disney released the Halloween movie Hocus Pocus. The film starred Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker as the wicked Sanderson sisters. Winifred Sanderson, Mary Sanderson, and Sarah Sanderson return from the dead to Salem, Massachusetts, after 300 years and attempt to steal the lives of Salem's children, so they can live forever. The film was not an immediat
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4 June
Bruce Willis’s Family Bids Farewell to Splash Mountain, Welcomes Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Post Dementia Announcement
A Disney vacation is one that all families around the world love. Being able to enjoy the wonderful rides and attractions on offer, like Haunted Mansion or Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, is one that any family, no matter what cultural background or identity, loves the chance to have. Many times celebrities have been spotted at the Disney Parks, also enjoying the entertainment on offer. Previously,
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4 June
Iger Was So Angry About ‘Lightyear’ He Fired the Execs Behind It
When you make one of the most disappointing movies of the year, heads are bound to roll. But before this week, Pixar Studios was mostly spared from Disney CEO Bob Iger's 7,500 job cuts across the Walt Disney Company. Most of those cuts came from the television and movie departments at Disney. But now, the cuts have come to Pixar for the first time in a decade, and they mainly targeted the team beh
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3 June
Who is Ariel’s Sister, Indira from ‘The Little Mermaid’?
Disney’s The Little Mermaid has been winning hearts ever since its release. Featuring actress Halle Bailey in the lead role of Princess Ariel, the movie faced many controversies prior to its official theatrical debut due to the casting of Halle Bailey herself, among other changes Disney made to the film (like adding consent to the lyrics of a beloved song, to name a few). While many are still upse
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3 June
Disney World Solves ‘Two Mermaids, One Park’ Problem
One of the biggest questions that have occupied Disney Fanatics' minds since the premiere of the new live-action Little Mermaid movie — besides, of course, whether or not this new “Scuttlebutt” rap is as bad as everyone says that it is — has been how the Disney Parks are planning to operate with two very different versions of Ariel the little mermaid swanning through Charac
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2 June
‘The Little Mermaid’ Called Out For “Borderline Dangerous” Erasure of Slavery
On May 26, Disney released its newest live-action remake, The Little Mermaid. The film starred Halle Bailey as the titular mermaid, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Awkwafina as Scuttle, Javier Bardem as King Triton, Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. From the moment Bailey's casting was announced, the remake was a controversial one. Halle Bailey is a young, talented black
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2 June
“I’m Certainly Not Princess Material”: The Story Behind the Real-Life Princess Tiana
Princess Tiana is top of mind with Splash Mountain taking its final plunge. Although construction walls marked with the jazz-playing alligator Louis and friends slinging soulful songs (or so we imagine) around Disney's new attraction, there's more work to do on developing the whimsical world of the Bayou. The wheels are turning for Imagineers, looping in award-winning artists PJ Morton and Terence
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2 June
Jodi Benson Surprises Halle Bailey With Generous Gesture
Warning: there are spoilers ahead for the new Little Mermaid film! Even though the story of Ariel the little mermaid mainly takes place “under the sea,” Halle Bailey does spend some time on dry land while playing Ariel in the new live-action reimagining of the 1989 animated classic The Little Mermaid. During said time on “dry land,” Halle Bailey meets someone unexpected whi
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2 June
Imagineer Personally Mourns Splash Mountain
It's no secret that many Disney Fanatics have made quite a fuss about the permanent closure of the Splash Mountain ride in Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Disneyland Park. Whether they've been selling containers of water for thousands of dollars with claims that it's water from the classic ride's two locations, frantically collecting Br'er Rabbit memorabilia, very foolishly drinking the theme par
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