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Disney Announces Release Dates of Four Live-Action Fairy Tales, Here’s What They Could Be
Disney Announces Release Dates of Four Live-Action Fairy Tales, Here’s What They Could Be
Disney Announces Release Dates of Four Live-Action Fairy Tales, Here’s What They Could Be
Disney announced a slate of 19 upcoming films with release dates through 2020. In addition to Marvel’s Ant-Man 2, three untitled Marvel movies and the release date for The Incredibles 2, Disney also revealed dates for four new live-action fairy tales. According to Variety, the untitled fairy tales will be released on December 22, 2017, November 2, 2018, March 29, 2019 and November 8, 2019. But what could these untitled movies be?
‘Moana’ Introduces You to the Voice of Disney’s Newest Princess
‘Moana’ Introduces You to the Voice of Disney’s Newest Princess
‘Moana’ Introduces You to the Voice of Disney’s Newest Princess
So far, we only know some basic info about Disney’s next animated musical, Moana — Dwayne Johnson joined the voice cast months ago, and the studio offered a few details during D23, but nothing very substantial, like who exactly is playing the title role of the next Disney princess? A new feature introduces you to Auli’i Cravalho, a young Hawaiian girl who beat out hundreds of hopefuls in Disney’s search for the voice of Moana.
Disney Bans Smoking in Youth-Rated Movies
Disney Bans Smoking in Youth-Rated Movies
Disney Bans Smoking in Youth-Rated Movies
If you’re a fan of Disney baddies like cigar-smoking Bill Sykes from Oliver & Company (and really, who isn’t a fan of Bill Sykes from Oliver & Company?), this news is relevant to your tobacco-stained interests: The Walt Disney Company has banned all depictions of smoking from all of its films from all of its child-oriented labels (including Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm) rated G through PG-13. Via a press release:
15 Things You May Not Have Known About Disney’s ‘Tangled’
15 Things You May Not Have Known About Disney’s ‘Tangled’
15 Things You May Not Have Known About Disney’s ‘Tangled’
If you keep your eyes peeled during Tangled you can catch a glimpse of some other Disney classics. In the background, there are nods to Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast and Frozen, plus other references from classic Disney fairy tales. This is just one of the facts packed into the latest episode of You Think You Know Movies, which lets it hair down with Tangled!
Many Bothans Died to Bring Us These 10 ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Facts
Many Bothans Died to Bring Us These 10 ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Facts
Many Bothans Died to Bring Us These 10 ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Facts
Star Wars Rebels feels the force of a largely unexplored period in Star Wars history, but did you know the Disney XD animated series owes quite a bit to Ralph McQuarrie’s original movie concept art? Or that it needs its own continuity expert on the films? These are just some of the Imperial intelligence to uncover in the eighth episode of ‘You Think You Know TV?,’ which ignites the spark of Disney’s Star Wars Rebels!
Disney Planning TV Channels Centered Around Marvel and ‘Star Wars’
Disney Planning TV Channels Centered Around Marvel and ‘Star Wars’
Disney Planning TV Channels Centered Around Marvel and ‘Star Wars’
Acquiring Lucasfilm and Marvel were just two minor steps in Disney’s grand plan to eventually own everything you love and control your life as Entertainment Overlord Supreme of the Planet Earth. But to be fair, they are a benevolent god. A caring god. A god that wants to make its riches available to you, should you want to indulge yourself. So prepare thyself: TV channels based entire on Marvel and Star Wars content may be coming.
Disney Is Making a Live Action ‘Winnie the Pooh’ Movie
Disney Is Making a Live Action ‘Winnie the Pooh’ Movie
Disney Is Making a Live Action ‘Winnie the Pooh’ Movie
It was inevitable: Disney is making a live action Winnie the Pooh movie because of course Disney would make a live action Winnie the Pooh movie. The studio’s tactic of bringing their animated properties into the live action realm has already paid off with Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent and Cinderella, so why not pay another visit to the Hundred Acre Wood and let a live action Christopher Robin hang out with a CGI Piglet?
‘Star Wars’ Live-Action TV Series Rumored in Development Between Movies
‘Star Wars’ Live-Action TV Series Rumored in Development Between Movies
‘Star Wars’ Live-Action TV Series Rumored in Development Between Movies
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far removed from the notion of a third Star Wars trilogy every getting off the ground, rumors and development of a live-action Star Wars TV series buzzed about in every direction. We’d thought for certain that The Force Awakens, for all its sequels and spinoffs had firmly put that idea to bed, but a new rumor suggests Disney may draft a new Star Wars TV series to shoot in between films.
‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ Gets a New Release Date, Rian Johnson Confirmed to Direct
‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ Gets a New Release Date, Rian Johnson Confirmed to Direct
‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ Gets a New Release Date, Rian Johnson Confirmed to Direct
For months it’s been rumored, now it’s confirmed: Rian Johnson, the writer and director of Brick and Looper is officially the writer and director of Star Wars: Episode VIII. Disney CEO Robert Iger also revealed to company shareholders today that Episode VIII has its official release date: May 26, 2017 — 40 years and a single day after the release of the very first Star Wars back in 1977.
‘Cinderella’ Review: This Old Fairy Tale Still Has Some Magic
‘Cinderella’ Review: This Old Fairy Tale Still Has Some Magic
‘Cinderella’ Review: This Old Fairy Tale Still Has Some Magic
The name “Disney” brings to mind images of fair princesses, charming princes, magical fairy tales, and simple happily ever afters. In recent years, though, Disney has begun rethinking their classic properties, and releasing more thematically complex versions of their famous films. Sleeping Beauty became Maleficent, which turned a wicked witch into a sympathetic anti-hero; a whole mess of fairy tales turned into Into the Woods, where happily ever after preceded a whole bunch of death and tragedy. The ranks of Disney Princesses grew to include women like Merida, the bow-slinging heroine of Brave, and Anna and Else from Frozen, who rescued each other from an prince, rather than the other way around. Every value and concept that Disney had established and reinforced through decades of repetition was seemingly up for reconsideration and revision.
Tim Burton Will Direct Disney’s New Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ Movie
Tim Burton Will Direct Disney’s New Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ Movie
Tim Burton Will Direct Disney’s New Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ Movie
With their new Cinderella just days away, Disney is continuing its streak of turning its animated classics into live-action features with the news, via the Wall Street Journal, that Dumbo is ready to make the transition from animated elephant to ... well, still-animated elephant surrounded by live-action actors. If that idea doesn’t get your ears flapping, maybe this will: the Journal says Tim Burton will be the man who’ll direct the new Dumbo.
10 ‘Big Hero 6’ Facts About Your Favorite Disney Super Friends
10 ‘Big Hero 6’ Facts About Your Favorite Disney Super Friends
10 ‘Big Hero 6’ Facts About Your Favorite Disney Super Friends
If you saw Big Hero 6, you fell in love with Baymax, there's just no way around it. He doesn't just save the day, he’s also lovable and sweet and cuddly. And, that's no accident. Disney animators based a lot of Baymax’s look on a young child. His walk was specifically modeled after a toddler with a full diaper. These are just some of the super duper facts packed into the latest episode of You Think You Know Movies, which returns to Disney and Marvel's Big Hero 6!

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