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The Scottish Dr. Who actress Karen Gillan might be most recognizable for her roles in Dr. Who, The Bubble, and two Jumanji movies opposite Dwayne Johnson, but many Marvel fans have been seeing the famously good-natured actress and director onscreen without knowing it in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Gillan plays the blue and semi-robotic sister of Gamora (Zoe Saldana’s character), and the Scottish ...

Yoga, meditation, self-care, and wellness are all the rage these days — and Walt Disney Company Cast Members have joined in to embrace the trend! For International Yoga Day on June 21, 2022, the Cast Members from Disneyland Paris united for one very large yoga class at the Main Street and Central Plaza within Disneyland Paris Resort. They were also ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a writer, I do my best to be, above all else, observant, and recently I have noticed something that most of Disney’s new films, television, and even Park experiences have in common: they are made for us, the childless millennials and/or “Disney adults.” Encanto was made for us. Lightyear was made for us. Turning Red was made for us. Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue ...

Once upon a time, the existing Mineral King section of today’s Sequoia National Park today was slated to become the site of the Walt Disney Company’s next big venture. Disney had already been vastly successful with its revolutionary Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, and had additional plans in the works for establishing a larger, similarly minded East Coast follow-up. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...