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Julie Andrews Reflects on Fame

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Dame Julie Andrews is a beloved icon in the worlds of stage, music, and film — but the award-winning soprano, Academy Award-winning actress, and children’s book author revealed recently that she sometimes has to contend with preconceived notions of her just like younger celebrities do! The My Fairy Lady star is well known for her first big role in Mary ...

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Show Creators Team Up to Criticize Disney’s Censorship Team

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The creator of the Disney Channel show Gravity Falls (a show that ran from 2012 to 2016 and followed siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines as they embarked on supernatural adventures with their great-uncle, “Grunkle Stan Pines”, in a strange town) recently shared a long list of strange revisions and edits that he was told to make when writing the show. The revisions ...

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‘Camp Rock’ Celebrates 14th Anniversary

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The 73rd Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock premiered in 2008, and now Camp Rock is actually 14 years old (i.e. around the age of its lead characters) as of June 20! Many Disney Channel fans will say that Camp Rock is one of the most iconic Disney Channel Original Movies, beaten perhaps only by the High School Musical series and a few other notable standalone ...

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You Will Now Need a Visa to Visit This Disney Park

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Good news, Disney Fanatics! The dreams of visiting Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea can once again come true! The bad news: you will probably need to get a Visa, and for Americans, the line to get one is very long. As of June 10, Japan is once again open to travelers from the United States of America and 97 other ...

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UPDATE: Val Kilmer Is Not Returning For ‘Willow’ Remake

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Fans of the cult-favorite 1988 movie Willow (a unique fantasy adventure) will be disappointed to learn that — after some miscommunication implied that Madmartigan actor Val Kilmer was returning for the new Disney+ remake — the Top Gun actor is not actually coming back for the upcoming Disney+ Willow show after all. Val Kilmer played the disgraced swordsman and knight named Madmartigan ...

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PHOTOS: Look in on the Only Disney World Park Still Closed

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There is still one Park at the Walt Disney World Resort that remains shuttered: Blizzard Beach. For the past several months, Disney World’s second water Park has been closed for intense refurbishment, although the specifics of those refurbishment efforts have remained unclear. Aerial footage shared on Twitter by @bioreconstruct gives a glimpse into what is going on around Summit Plummet. ...

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Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway Reunite After ‘Princess Diaries’

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Dame Julie Andrews might have said no to a third Princess Diaries movie since the first two movies’ director Garry Marshall passed away, but the friendship between the iconic actress and her co-star Anne Hathaway is apparently still going strong! During the American Film Institute’s awards ceremony honoring the Mary Poppins star with an AFI Life Achievement Award, Anne Hathaway was vocal ...

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‘Lightyear’ Loses to ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’

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Audiences are all abuzz about the new Pixar Animation Studios movie Lightyear — but apparently, they are more enraptured with dinosaurs than astronauts! The new Lightyear film has just premiered in theaters on June 17, but Jurassic World: Dominion still has the new film beat even though it premiered back on June 10. Disney and Marvel have lost several records they held in recent ...

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Julie Andrews Says No to ‘Princess Diaries 3’

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Dame Julie Andrews is best known by Disney fans for her role as the elegant queen of Genovia in the Princess Diaries films. Plans for a third movie in the series have gone back and forth for years, but the My Fairy Lady star (who has been described as “charming”, “gracious”, and “a little bit cheeky”) has just confirmed that Princess Diaries 3 ...

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Photos: Disney’s ‘Spirit of Aloha’ Dinner Theater Destroyed

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The Walt Disney World Resort has officially said its last ‘aloha’ to the iconic ‘Spirit of Aloha’ dinner show at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort. After enjoying a decades-long run, the show/luau was shuttered with the rest of the central Florida Resort due to covid concerns and never reopened. Earlier this year, we at Disney Fanatic shared the news that the ...

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