While the first trailer for The Lion King proved to be a huge success for Disney, becoming the Mouse House’s most-watched trailer ever with 225 million views in its first 24 hours, one person who remains apprehensive about Jon Favreau’s remake is Linda Woolverton, screenwriter on the original 1994 animated movie.“I don’t know how The Lion […]
Is Disney failing at creating original live action movies?
George Chrysostomou on Disney’s original live-action movies…The House of Mouse is one of the biggest content producers in the world. With its combination of theme parks, TV shows, toys, shops and soon to be released streaming service, Disney is ahead of much of the competition in regards to being a cultural cornerstone of our society. […]
Hasbro unveils the Disney Princess Comics Collection sets
This Fall, Hasbro is set to debut a whole new world of Disney collectibles with the Disney Princess Comics Collection line, a series of posable dolls based upon the Disney Princess comic strip series from Joe Books.The folks at Hasbro were kind enough to send us along two of these magical sets – the ‘Magic […]
Video Games Openly Star Gay Characters, It’s Your Turn Hollywood
Robert Kojder calls for more sexual diversification in Hollywood… During Sony’s E3 2018 showcase, Naughty Dog unveiled new footage of The Last of Us Part II (for those not in the know, it is arguably the single biggest upcoming release on the horizon next to Red Dead Redemption 2), but Internet forums aren’t discussing how intense […]
Global box office hits record $39.92 billion in 2017
Deadline is reporting that the global box office set a new record in 2017, with a final tally of $39.92 billion – a 6% increase over 2016 – which includes $11.12 billion from North America (down 2.3% on 2016’s $11.4 billion) and a record $28.8 billion from international markets. By close of play on the […]
The Highest Grossing Movies of 2017
Luke Owen explores the highest grossing movies of 2017…Another movie year has come to a close, and what a year it has been. We’ve had five movies from the Marvel and DC movie universes, another entry into Star Wars cannon, and several horror films break into the mainstream media and earn huge money at the […]
Disney win the US box office crown for second year in a row
Largely thanks to the cinematic behemoths that were Beauty and the Beast ($504m) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($423m and counting), Disney has once again won the race to be crowned the domestic box office champions with $2.27 billion in the studio account.At the time of writing, Disney held a 21.3% market share, ahead of Warner […]
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was originally going to set up a Gaston spinoff
In the wake of the box office success of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which grossed $1.264 billion earlier this year, Disney executive Sean Bailey revealed that while a sequel had been ruled out, the studio would be exploring “possible spinoff and prequel scenarios”.Well, it seems the original plan was for the live-action movie to […]
LEGO unveils new Marvel and Disney 2018 Duplo sets
As LEGO continues to roll out promotional images for its 2018 sets, we now have something for the little ‘uns with a look at official promotional images for three Duplo sets in the Marvel Super Hero Adventures Spider-Man & Hulk Adventures (10876) and Disney’s Belle’s Tea Party (10877) from Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel’s Tower (10878) […]
Idris Elba auditioned to play Gaston in Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast
As it turns out, even Idris Elba still gets turned down for parts every so often. In a recent interview with People to promote his latest film, Hany Abu-Assad’s survival thriller The Mountain Between Us, the actor revealed that despite auditioning for this year’s live-action Beauty and the Beast remake, Disney decided to go in […]
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