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Comic-Con PREVIEWS Exclusives include The Mandalorian, TMNT, Star Trek, Godzilla, TRON and more

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San Diego Comic-Con may have been cancelled this year but Diamond Comic Distributors has revealed that a range of PREVIEWS exclusive collectibles will be rolling out in extremely limited quantities in local comic book stores throughout the second half of the year. Check out a selection here, including a Mandalorian 1:6 scale bust from the […]

Muppets Now coming to Disney+ in July

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Disney+ has announced that Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the rest of gang are coming to the streaming service this July with Muppets Now, a six-episode original series from The Muppets Studio. Here’s the official description: In Muppets Now, Scooter rushes to make his delivery deadlines and upload the brand-new Muppet series for streaming. […]

The Ten Best Musical Films of the 2010s

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Tom Beasley taps his toes and sings along merrily with ten of the best movie musicals of the decade… The musical is one of the most unusual genres in Hollywood. In the early days of the “talkies”, much of the studio system ran on these movies. They were the oxygen keeping the film business afloat. […]

The Muppets Disney+ series with Josh Gad has been scrapped

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Although the project was never officially announced, Disney+ has decided to scrap the upcoming The Muppets comedy series, Muppets Live Another Day, as creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis (Once Upon a Time) and Josh Gad (Frozen) have walked away from the project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the trio left the series as a […]

Frank Oz says that Disney is mishandling The Muppets

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During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, legendary puppeteer Frank Oz has criticised Disney for its handling of The Muppets, stating that he believes the Mouse House should have sought advice from himself and other veteran Muppet performers. “As much as Disney loves The Muppets and wants the best for The Muppets — and they truly believe they can […]

Muppets reboot coming to Disney’s streaming service

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While the last Muppets show did not fare well and was cancelled after only one season ABC, Disney has not given up on Kermit and the gang. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney will reboot The Muppets for its upcoming streaming service. The previous Muppets series aired on ABC in 2015 and was in the vein of 30 Rock and The Office, showing […]

The ABC’s of Death: Does the network’s cull spell trouble for Marvel?

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In one of the biggest TV culls of recent memory, ABC today cut a veritable swathe through some of its most well known and long-running material, cancelling a raft of shows with a built-in pedigree and audience. Castle is one of the most prominent, a Steven J. Cannell-esque procedural detective show that has seen the […]

Is Star Wars: The Force Awakens just fan-fiction on a big budget?

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Luke Owen asks an important question… J.J. Abrams has been praised by critics lucky enough to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens early (including yours truly), but there is something that has been hanging over the film for some time now. When Disney announced that they were releasing a new series of movies based in the Star Wars […]

Kermit and Missy Piggy announce their split

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We don’t really cover celebrities’ private lives, gossip and other such nonsense here at Flickering Myth, but when the news is this earth-shattering… Having been an item for the best part of forty years, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy have announced their split, just weeks before the (former) couple return to the small screen […]