Boston-bred actor Chris Evans is best known for playing one of the leading Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but the successful actor has recently headed into space for a different reason — and he has just given D23 (the Official Disney Fan Club) the scoop on his new astronaut-focused film, revealing his inner Disney fanatic in the process! The Knives ...
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Chris Evans Says No To Captain America’s Return
Disney fans recently faced some disappointment upon learning that Dame Julie Andrews was saying no to a third Princess Diaries movie, and the disappointment continues for any Marvel fans who were partial to Steve Rogers! The Marvel superhero played by Bostonian actor Chris Evans has been replaced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by a new Captain America (played by Anthony Mackie ...
Read More »‘Lightyear’ Loses to ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’
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 ...
Read More »‘New’ Buzz Lightyear Spotted at Tomorrowland Meet and Greet
Buzz Lightyear was spotted in Tomorrowland, but he looked a little different. In celebration of the theatrical release of Disney/Pixar’s latest feature film, Lightyear, it appears that Disney Parks decided to update the Space Ranger’s presence in Disneyland Park to the movie, replacing the “masked” toy character with a face character. A video posted to Instagram by @disney_hype_beast_80 shows the Space ...
Read More »OpEd: Disney was Right to not Cast Tim Allen as Buzz in ‘Lightyear’
Over the past few days, it seems that social media is still up in arms about the casting choice for Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear. Tim Allen, the legendary actor/comedian, brought everybody’s favorite Space Ranger, Buzz Lightyear, to life in Pixar’s first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and he has been the voice of Buzz in all subsequent movie appearances. That is, until now. For ...
Read More »Disney/Pixar Accept Bans, Reject Nations’ Requests to Remove Gay Scenes from ‘Lightyear’
We are now two days away from the theatrical launch of Disney/Pixar’s latest feature-length film, Lightyear, and it does not bode well for the Computer Animation Studios’ first return to theaters since before the pandemic. After early reviews praised the Sci-Fi adventure, unfriendly international reception has started to come to light, prompting full bans and ratings for “adult-only” movies. Several months ...
Read More »Fans Celebrate ‘Lightyear’ Star’s Birthday
Boston-born actor Chris Evans is best known by Marvel and Disney fans for his role as Captain America (aka Steve Rogers) in the Captain America movies and the Avengers movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since his last movie as Steve Rogers and Captain America, the actor has not done much with Disney or Marvel — but now Chris Evans is back in ...
Read More »Early Reviews Praise Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’
In just seven days, Pixar fans will return to the movie theaters for the first time since the release of Onward. Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear is an action-pact adventure set to tell the origin story of the hero behind the toy first discovered in Andy’s room almost 30 years ago. The early reviews are starting to come in, and they appear to be setting high ...
Read More »Despite Quality Assurance, ‘Straight to Disney+’ Deems Movies Not Good Enough for Theaters
To stream or not to stream? That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to project a new motion picture on the silver screen or to take arms against a potential flop and by a means save face? Satiric poetry aside, Disney’s leadership continues to keep straight-to-streaming an equal distribution option for its feature films to the traditional theatrical release, and ...
Read More »Disney Announces Cameos, Partnership with Ferrari for Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’
It would not be a stretch to say that Disney and Pixar have a way of adding some significant celebrity cameos into their animated feature films, and it appears that the upcoming science-fiction adventure Lightyear will be no different. On Wednesday, May 25, Disney and Pixar announced that they were partnering with Scuderia Ferrari to bring two special cameos to Lightyear‘s ...
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