American Born Chinese (a new Disney+ series, based on the award-winning graphic novel written by Gene Luen Yang) might be showing audiences Disney’s newest princesses and heroes when it premieres on May 24 on the streaming service! In a recent interview, the author of the graphic novel made it clear that American Born Chinese characters need to be made just as big ...

Anticipation is high for this year’s D23 Expo, where Disney celebrities, Disney news, and sneak peeks will most certainly abound for Disney fanatics’ enjoyment. While we will be hard at work covering the live events here on Disney Fanatic for you (as well as on the ground at the Expo in Anaheim, California), we have also been staying on top ...

Calling all performers! Disney TV Studios has just sent out an open casting call that suggests Disney is looking for some new actors in the United States for a Disney series. Cape USA shared the casting call and all of the relevant information on Instagram, as shown in the Instagram post below. There is a specific focus on Asian actors ...

The Annie Awards are a series of prestigious awards in the film industry that honor achievements in animation (for animated feature productions or animated TV Media) and the Marvel Studios movie Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings that premiered earlier this year has just received an Annie Award nomination for the 49th Annie Awards! Walt Disney Animation Studio’s animated feature ...

If you’ve seen ‘Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings‘, or if you’re just about to see it for the first time this Friday on Disney+ Day, then you will most likely notice one particular character who steals the show! Xialing, Shang-Chi’s estranged sister, is a movie-maker’s dream: she’s beautiful, charismatic, sassy, and has incredible combat skills that include the unusual ...

Since Disney+ Day is approaching on Friday November 12th, just two days away, many Marvel or Disney fans are going to be seeing the martial arts superhero movie ‘Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings’ for the very first time. ‘Shang-Chi’ received rave reviews when it premiered in August–but before you settle in for a movie marathon on Friday, let’s investigate ...

Even though the live-action Mulan movie was released by Disney last autumn, the adaptation of the classic Disney film has continued to make an impression on Disney Plus audiences. Liu Yifei, the actress who played Mulan, took to Instagram to celebrate the Disney movie’s newly-won Saturn Award for “Best Action/Adventure Film”, and she celebrated with something that Disney fans or ...

As anyone who’s ever seen a Marvel Studios film can tell you, Marvel’s action heroes are meant to be lean, lithe, muscular, lightweight, agile, and quick on their feet–all at the same time. It’s certainly not easy to maintain the right ‘look’ for the role while also building up the stamina to get through hours of intensive stuntwork (and certain ...

The new Marvel Studios movie “Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings” has a standout member within its cast: Michelle Yeoh. Yeoh has been lauded for her acting abilities, her captivating onscreen presence, and her combat skills many times–but she’s also been praised for her natural beauty and a youthfulness that started the hashtag #MichelleYeohGlow! Part of Yeoh’s lasting physical agility ...

There is a legend that permeates the new Marvel movie “Shang-Chi: Legend of the Ten Rings“, but that legend is not the one that moviegoers should pay attention to: instead, it’s Michelle Yeoh. This cinematic powerhouse and martial arts icon has been leading and performing incredible combat stunts for decades, alongside the likes of Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-Fat, ...