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Disney’s Ongoing Fight To Be Feminist

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Kate Harrold on Disney’s ongoing fight to be feminist… The Disney Princess is an iconic film archetype and one that has been around since Snow White and the Seven Dwarves premiered in 1938 and it doesn’t seem to be a figure fading from our cultural canon anytime soon. With reinvention being a continuous process, the […]

Disney announces Aladdin and The Lion King video game HD remasters

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In a year which has seen both animated classics remade for the big screen (and grossing over a billion dollars apiece in the process), Disney is looking to add a little more nostalgia with the upcoming release of Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and The Lion King. The package will include HD remasters of the classic […]

Disney releases deleted Aladdin song ‘Desert Moon’

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Disney has released a brand new song that was cut from the final theatrical release of Disney’s Aladdin in preparation for the home release of the film coming on 23rd September 2019. The song, titled ‘Desert Moon’, features a duet between Aladdin and Jasmine while they are physically in two different places. Although, the song isn’t […]

Disney’s Aladdin producer explains what Will Smith brought to the role of Genie

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The producer on Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin, Dan Lin, was impressed by Will Smith’s interpretation of the Genie and how it differentiates from Robin Williams’ iconic performance in the animated film. In an interview with ComicBook.com, Lin spoke about the casting of Smith, and he couldn’t have been more pleased with the performance. “I mean, […]

Disney considering a sequel to Aladdin

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Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin, directed by Guy Ritchie, blew past the billion dollar mark this summer despite not being as positively reviewed as the original, therefore it will come as a surprise to no-one that the studio is currently exploring a sequel to the movie. Although there is nothing officially in the works right now, […]

The Lion King helps Disney to new yearly global box office record (with five months still to go)

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It seems there’s not a week goes by that Disney isn’t celebrating some box office milestone or another. Last weekend, Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame dethroned Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of all time, Aladdin hit the magical $1 billion dollar mark a few days later, and now another massive weekend for The Lion King has seen […]

Disney’s Aladdin hits the $1 billion mark at the global box office

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Disney is celebrating another milestone in what is proving to be an enormously successful year for the studio, with the live-action Aladdin adaptation passing the $1 billion dollar mark at the global box office. Given the initial backlash towards the film early in its marketing campaign, and mixed reviews (at best) from critics, Aladdin has […]

Aladdin tops Independence Day to become the biggest movie of Will Smith’s career

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Having reached the $800 million milestone last week, Walt Disney Pictures’ Aladdin has now pushed its global haul to $824.1 million, topping the $817.4 million gross of 1996’s Independence Day to become the biggest box office hit of Will Smith’s career. Smith took to Instagram to express his thanks and gratitude to everyone who’s been […]