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What Went Wrong With The Disney+ ‘Lizzie McGuire’ Revival By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 27, 2020 8:17 am EST Lizzie McGuire has a case of Peter Pan syndrome: Disney won’t let her grow up. The Disney+ revival of the beloved early 2000s Disney Channel comedy series Lizzie McGuire was set to debut on the streaming service with star Hilary Duff on board and enthusiastic about exploring her sassy, fourth wall-breaking character as a 30-something New Yorker....

William Hurt’s Thaddeus Ross Returns For ‘Black Widow’ – Could Marvel Be Setting Up Red Hulk? By Jacob Hall/Oct. 1, 2019 12:30 pm EST Once upon a time, it was Big Major News when a character from a superhero movie would appear in another superhero movie. But thanks to the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this kind of cross-pollination is something we’ve come to accept. So yeah, of course William Hurt’s Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross is going to be in the upcoming Black Widow movie....

‘A Quiet Place 3’: John Krasinski Already Has Ideas For A Third Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 11, 2020 3:30 pm EST A Quiet Place Part II hasn’t hit theaters yet, but director John Krasinski revealed that he already has ideas for a A Quiet Place 3 — if it were to happen. The surprise critical and box office success of A Quiet Place in 2018 paved the way for Krasinski’s rising directorial career, and for a new horror franchise if Paramount had its way....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Deleted Scene: Thor Does What No Other Avenger Has On Screen Before By Ethan Anderton/July 21, 2019 12:00 pm EST Avengers: Endgame showed us that in the five years since Thanos snapped his fingers and got rid of half of all the living creatures in the galaxy, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) had really taken a dark turn. Tucked away in Norway in a fishing village dubbed New Asgard, the god of thunder is now an out of shape drunk who has tried to ignore his past and seems intent on never doing anything significant again....

‘Better Call Saul’ Season 5 Trailer: Welcome To Saul Goodman’s World By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 29, 2020 3:00 pm EST Better Call Saul is about to return for its second-to-last season, and that’s worth celebrating. The Breaking Bad prequel/spin-off has turned into one of the best shows on TV right now, and the new season promises to take us further into the ever-changing world of Jimmy McGill, aka Saul Goodman. This new trailer is low on dialogue and big on memorable shots of characters looking either overjoyed or pained....

‘Captain Marvel 2’ Goes Higher, Further, Faster With New Writer, Eyeing New Female Director And 2022 Release Date By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 23, 2020 6:35 am EST Captain Marvel 2 is going higher, further, faster, baby — but with a brand new writer and director. The Captain Marvel writing-directing duo Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck are not returning to helm the sequel, which has officially received the green light from Marvel. Instead, the studio has tapped WandaVision series scribe Megan McDonnell as the new Captain Marvel 2 writer, and is currently on the hunt for a female director as the sequel flies closer to its prospective 2022 release date....

‘Frozen II’ Is Now The Highest-Grossing Animated Movie Of All Time By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 6, 2020 11:30 am EST Disney knew it wouldn’t be dealing with the unknown when it released Frozen II into theaters. The highly anticipated sequel to one of the studio’s biggest hits ever was bound to work its magic over the holiday season. And it did that, and more. Frozen II is now the highest-grossing animated film of all time, with a $1....

‘Green Lantern’ TV Series In The Works At HBO Max, Greg Berlanti To Produce By Jacob Hall/Oct. 29, 2019 4:12 pm EST In brightest day, in blackest night, no streaming subscriber shall escape my sight, let those who worship Disney+, beware my power…on HBO Max! In what feels like Warner Bros.’ first truly big shot across the bow of their competition in the streaming wars, a new Green Lantern television series has been announced for the HBO Max streaming service....

‘Irresistible’ Review: Jon Stewart’s New Political Comedy Is Shockingly Toothless By Josh Spiegel/June 23, 2020 10:00 am EST We’re nearly five years removed from the last time that Jon Stewart hosted The Daily Show, a departure that seemed almost deliberately timed to coincide with the rise of Donald Trump from a loud, know-nothing right-wing presidential candidate to a loud, know-nothing right-wing president. Fans of Stewart’s may have wondered in the last half-decade how he would’ve responded to the even nastier shift in right-wing politics and the D....

‘Land’ Review: Robin Wright Goes Off The Grid In Her Feature Directorial Debut [Sundance 2021] By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 31, 2021 5:00 pm EST “I’m here because I choose to be.” So says Edee (Robin Wright) after she’s been resuscitated from near-death in a secluded cabin tucked away in the Rocky Mountains. As Land begins, we see Edee come to the cabin under somewhat mysterious circumstances: she throws her cell phone in a trash can, and once she’s moved-in she pays someone to come haul her car away so she has no real way to leave without getting lost wandering in all that wilderness....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Review: “On The Wings Of Keeradaks” Is A Letdown In A Number Of Ways By Caroline Cao/March 6, 2020 8:00 am EST The latest episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars kicks off with a lot of action. With the long-lost clone trooper Echo (Dee Bradley Baker) back in their grasp, the clones (also voiced by Baker) and their Jedi General Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) escape the Separatist outpost....

‘Star Wars: The High Republic’ Trailer Kicks Off “Interconnected Mega-Story”; Will Take Place Across Three Phases By Ben Pearson/Jan. 4, 2021 2:00 pm EST It will still be many months until the next Star Wars movie or TV show comes along, but tomorrow, a new era of Star Wars storytelling begins – for those who are willing to engage with it. That’s when Lucasfilm launches Star Wars: The High Republic, a cross-platform publishing initiative featuring stories set centuries before the events of the Skywalker Saga, taking place in the pages of books, comics, magazines, and eventually forming the backdrop for at least one Disney+ show....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Comic Will Include Deleted Scenes From The Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 28, 2020 1:30 pm EST When Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hit theaters, a few essential plot points seemed to be…missing. But don’t worry, there were plenty of Star Wars supplementary materials and books to fill in the gaps. Now a comic book adaptation of The Rise of Skywalker will clear things up even more....

‘The Dragon Prince’ Season 3 Review: Netflix’s Animated Fantasy Series Marches To War By Caroline Cao/Nov. 28, 2019 2:00 pm EST The Dragon Prince is marching toward war. Wonderstorm’s debut CGI-animated fantasy series hatched with promises in season one, paid off in serious sensations in season two, and now it’s wrapping up a chapter with a package of nine episodes. This review contains some spoilers for the new season. Prince Callum (Jack DeSena) and his elven friend Rayla (Paula Burrows) have finally crossed into the magical territory of Xadia to return the baby Dragon Prince, Zym, to the Dragon Queen in hopes of ending warfare between humans and magical beings....

‘The Falcon And The Winter Soldier’ Officially Features Return Of Baron Zemo, First Footage Revealed [Comic-Con 2019] By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2019 5:53 pm EST During the Marvel Studios panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Kevin Feige played the first clip from The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, an upcoming show coming to Disney+ in 2020. Daniel Bruhl is confirmed to return as Baron Zemo, the villain from Captain America: Civil War, and you can read a description of the first footage from the series below....

‘The Imagineering Story’ On Disney+ Is An Often Remarkable History Lesson On Theme Park Design By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 7, 2019 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Disney Discourse, a recurring feature where Josh Spiegel discusses the latest in Disney news. He goes deep on everything from the animated classics to the theme parks to live-action franchises.)The Walt Disney Company loves nothing more than to mythologize itself. Creating and maintaining its legacy is as valuable to the company as making new films, TV shows, theme-park attractions, toys, etc....

‘The Lion King’ Featurette: Watch Donald Glover, Billy Eichner, And Seth Rogen Record “Hakuna Matata” By Ethan Anderton/July 19, 2019 5:00 pm EST The Lion King remake from Walt Disney Pictures is currently sitting with a rotten score of 56% on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this writing, but that’s exactly the score Aladdin earned, and that movie has made $965 million worldwide so far, so I think The Lion King will be just fine....

‘The Third Day’ Delayed Until Fall, But You Can Watch A New Trailer Now By Chris Evangelista/April 3, 2020 5:00 pm EST HBO’s new series The Third Day looks promising, and I was looking forward to seeing it next month. Sadly, I – and everyone else – will have to wait a little longer. The series is the latest bit of entertainment that’s had to shuffle its release due to the coronavirus outbreak, and now won’t be premiering until the fall....

‘The Walking Dead’ Cast Adding Hilarie Burton As Lucille – The Human Being, Not Negan’s Baseball Bat By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 4, 2020 3:30 pm EST Lucille is a familiar name for fans of The Walking Dead – it’s the name Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) gives to his deadly baseball bat. But it was also the name of his dead wife. And now, Lucille – the character, not the bat – has been cast in the series, with Hilarie Burton set to play the part....

‘Uncut Gems’ Star Lakeith Stanfield Shares What He Learned From Adam Sandler And Daniel Craig [Interview] By Steven Prokopy/Jan. 8, 2020 11:00 am EST In the roughly six or seven years since he made his remarkable feature film debut in Short Term 12 as the troubled teen Marcus, Lakeith Stanfield has been one of the hardest-working actors in show business, collaborating with a remarkable string of both well-known filmmakers and relative newcomers in both high-profile films and smaller, indie gems....