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Ranking Disney’s Live-Action Remakes from Worst to Best

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Liam Hoofe ranks all of Disney’s live-action remakes from worst to best… Last Friday, Disney released their latest remake of an animated classic, with Tim Burton attempting to bring Dumbo into the real world. The movie has been met with mixed reviews but will no doubt clean up at the box office, with Disney realising […]

Fantastic Beasts 2 details, Power Rangers spoilers, Leia update and more – Daily News Roundup

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FANTASTIC BEASTS RETURN After scoring a pretty good monster hit last year with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it was revealed yesterday that its sequel will start production in August 2017 for release the following year. No extra cast have been confirmed, but we know this is the second in a five part series […]

Disney reportedly fails to reach a deal with Will Smith for Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo

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Last month it was reported that Tom Hanks (Sully) and Will Smith (Suicide Squad) had entered talks with Disney about portraying the human leads in the studio’s live-action Dumbo remake from director Tim Burton. Well, according to Star Magazine, Disney has failed to reach a deal with Smith, who has now dropped out of negotiations […]

All upcoming live-action Disney remakes

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Luke Owen looks to the future of Disney’s live-action output… Following the announcement of a live-action version of The Lion King [read my thoughts on that here], I thought we should collate together all the information we have on Disney’s other upcoming live-action adaptations. To date, there are a whopping seventeen of these in development, but all […]

Second Opinion – Dumbo (2019)

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Dumbo, 2019. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Finley Hobbins, Nico Parker, Sandy Martin, Joseph Gatt, Deobia Oparei, Roshan Seth, Lars Eidinger, Zenaida Alcalde, Douglas Reith, Phil Zimmerman, Miguel Muñoz Segura, Sharon Rooney, Michael Buffer, and Alan Arkin. SYNOPSIS: A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to […]

2019 has proven that Disney is going to win the Franchise War (if it hasn’t already)

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Anghus Houvouras on Disney and ‘the franchise war’…  When it comes to long term strategies, Disney has orchestrated a masterful game of chess. Like a master playing multiple games moving from board to board using a variety of techniques to back every other Hollywood studio into a corner. A few years ago it became clear […]

Dumbo opens below expectations with $116 million at the global box office

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Tim Burton’s second live-action Disney remake opened in theaters around the world this weekend, but it looks as though his take on the beloved 1941 film Dumbo is not going to reach anywhere near the heights of his 2010 Alice in Wonderland adaptation. Dumbo topped the domestic box office with $45 million, knocking Jordan Peele’s […]

Movie Review – Dumbo (2019)

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Dumbo, 2019. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Eva Green, Danny DeVito, Nico Parker, Alan Arkin, Finley Hobbins, Joseph Gatt, DeObia Oparei, Roshan Seth, Sharon Rooney,  and Douglas Reith. SYNOPSIS: A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new […]

Movie Review – Dumbo (2019)

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Dumbo, 2019. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Finley Hobbins, Nico Parker, Sandy Martin, Joseph Gatt, Deobia Oparei, Roshan Seth, Lars Eidinger, Zenaida Alcalde, Douglas Reith, Phil Zimmerman, Miguel Muñoz Segura, Sharon Rooney, Michael Buffer, and Alan Arkin. SYNOPSIS: A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to […]