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Live-action The Little Mermaid adaptation gets a new trailer

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A new trailer has arrived online for Blake Harris and Chris Bouchard’s upcoming reimagining of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale The Little Mermaid. The fantasy adventure features a cast that includes William Moseley, Poppy Drayton, Shirley MacLaine, Gina Gershon, and Loreto Peralta; take a look here… “A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they […]

LEGO unveils new City, Disney, Marvel, Ninjago and Star Wars polybags for 2018

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LEGO has released a batch of promotional images for its 2018 polybags which includes a LEGO Robot/Vehicle free build (30499), LEGO City Hot Dog Stand (30356), LEGO City Road Worker (30357), LEGO City Dragster (30358), LEGO Creator Yellow Flyer (30540), LEGO Creator Cute Pug 3 in 1 (30542), LEGO Disney Ariel’s Underwater Symphony (30552), LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Royal Talon Fighter (30450), LEGO […]

LEGO’s 2018 Disney Princess and Frozen sets revealed

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A batch of promotional images have arrived online for LEGO’s upcoming Disney Princess and Frozen 2018 sets which includes Mulan’s Training,  Sleeping Beauty’s Fairytale Castle, Ariel’s Royal Celebration Boat, Cinderella’s Dream Castle, Elsa’s Market Adventure, and two Princess-themed accessory sets; take a look at this official images here… Mulan’s Training (41151) Sleeping Beauty’s Fairytale Castle (41152) […]

Disney eyeing Rob Marshall to direct The Little Mermaid

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As Disney continues to adapt many of its classic animated films, Deadline reports that the studio is eyeing Rob Marshall to direct the live-action The Little Mermaid. Marshall has reportedly been offered the director’s chair and will decide after the holidays. This won’t be the first time Marshall will have worked for Disney if he accepts. He […]

Alan Menken: A Life in Disney

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As Beauty and the Beast shatters box office records worldwide, Sean Wilson looks back at the illustrious Disney career of its celebrated composer Alan Menken… Disney’s in-vogue trend of rebooting their animated classics shows no signs of abating, as their live-action take on 1991 masterpiece Beauty and the Beast waltzes onto screens. Starring Emma Watson […]

Logan deleted scenes, X-Force update, R-rated DC movies, Wonder Woman teaser, live-action Little Mermaid and more – Daily News Roundup

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Rounding up the big news from yesterday… LOGAN DELETED SCENES Doing the interview rounds for Logan, director James Mangold has been discussing a couple of deleted scenes from the X-Men spinoff – one of which namedropped Jean Grey, and the other featuring the ‘Westchester Incident’, which leads to the death of several members of the […]

Lindsay Lohan lobbying to star in a live-action The Little Mermaid

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Everyone loves a good comeback story (exhibit A: that crazy Super Bowl game) so it doesn’t really come as a surprise that once upon a time Hollywood darling Lindsay Lohan is presenting options that would insert her presence back into the limelight. Outside of writing the script for a potential Mean Girls sequel, Lindsay Lohan […]

Exclusive Interview: Moana directors Ron Clements and Jon Musker talk film’s origins, Dwayne Johnson and Disney remakes

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Disney have this weekend continued their unprecedented run of success with their latest animated film, Moana, storming to the top of the US charts with $81.1 million over the five-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Now the film is bound for the UK this Friday and to celebrate the release, Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis sat down […]

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 […]