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I don't know anything about Minecraft, but I was delighted to learn of this complete, detailed Minecraft Disneyland. "Mouskegamer" started the project five years ago with two friends, but others have taken up the mantle since 2023. Here is a video walkthrough of Minecraft Disneyland. — Read the rest The post An incredibly detailed Minecraft version of Disneyland appeared first on Boing Boing.

Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec (Citadel) have been tapped to script a live-action Space Mountain movie for Disney, Deadline can confirm. While details as to the plot of the film are under wraps, it’s based on the theme park attraction first introduced to Disneyland on January 15, 1975. Jonathan Eirich will produce for Rideback, alongside […]

The city of Anaheim, California, just announced that its City Council voted to approve a Disney project called Disneyland Forward, giving Disney zoning approval to transform parking lots across the street from and near its existing theme parks into new theme park, hotel, and entertainment and retail areas. — Read the rest The post Anaheim City Council votes to approve Disney's 10-year, $2 billion...

Director Barry Jenkins appeared at his first CinemaCon on Thursday to show off a trailer from Mufasa: The Lion King.   How did an arthouse director and Moonlight Oscar winner take on a four-quadrant movie? He wondered about that himself for a minute, he said, but he told the crowd that he’s seen the original […]

Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy wanted to show spoiler-free footage at CinemaCon on Thursday, and perhaps it is, but, boy was it hysterical. In the nine minutes shown of the Marvel tentpole, Ryan Reynolds is adjusting to normal life, content to aim for the middle, because you never miss. He sasses his way around […]

Fanboys will have to wait until San Diego Comic Con to see footage from Marvel Studios’ 2025 release Captain America: Brave New World, but exhibitors do not. On Thursday during Disney’s closing CinemaCon session, the studio showed off the new Anthony Mackie movie that picks up after the events of the 2021 Disney+ series The […]

In keeping with CinemaCon tradition, Disney this afternoon treated attendees to the first 35 minutes of its latest Pixar movie; this year being Inside Out 2. The sequel to the 2015 pic brings viewers back into the mind of the now-teenage Riley (Kensington Tallman) as her emotions try to keep up with her new feelings. […]

“I’m going to swim the English Channel,” Daisy Ridley’s Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle tells her father in the first trailer from Disney’s movie Young Woman in the Sea. “I wasn’t asking!” she tells him. “Now, please pass the bread.” “The thing that you love the most terrifies me,” says Trudy’s mom (Jeanette Hain). On Thursday, the […]

The legal and cultural cage match between Gina Carano and the Walt Disney Company over the Mouse House deep-sixing the former MMA star from The Mandalorian in 2021 just saw more blood spilled. “Disney has confirmed what has been known all along, they will fire you if you say anything they disagree with, even if […]

Beau Willimon (Andor) has been tapped to co-write Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi (working title) alongside the film’s director James Mangold, Deadline can confirm. First announced at last year’s Star Wars Celebration in London, the project will take place 25,000 years before any Star Wars story we’ve seen before, honing in on the origins […]

A former ABC director of development is taking the network, parent company Disney and John Ridley to court for gender, racial and economic discrimination, claiming they firing her when she complained about the alleged situation. In a nine-claim complaint filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read the filing here), Asta Jonasson says she was […]

A New York judge decided today that Jonathan Majors will still be sentenced next week on his assault and harassment conviction. Judge Michael Gaffey has denied the defense motion to set aside the verdicts and strip the guilty results against the Creed III actor that a jury delivered on December 18 last year. With this last […]

Activist Disney investor Blackwells Capital is suing the media giant over what it sees as an inappropriately cozy relationship with another shareholder, ValueAct Capital. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Delaware Chancery Court (read it here), Blackwells lays out concerns about whether ValueAct has been paid to take a pro-Disney position in a brewing proxy […]

Harvey Guillén, who voices Gabo in Disney’s Wish, is giving his take on the studio’s inclusivity efforts on their animated films. Looking back at the 100 years since Walt Disney Animation Studios was created, the actor said the studio was going in the “right direction.” “I think they’re making strides in the right direction,” Guillén […]

In two open letters to shareholders of the Walt Disney Company, grandchildren of Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney came out in support of CEO Bob Iger and current management, which is being assailed by two investment firms trying to change the makeup of the company’s board. “From Mickey and Minnie, to Snow […]

On June 6, a huge expansion to DisneySea, one of the two Disney theme parks in Tokyo, will open. It's called Fantasy Springs, and at over $2 billion, it's the most expensive expansion to any existing theme park ever. Even before this expansion, DisneySea has often been called the best theme park in the world. — Read the rest The post Fantasy Springs: New...

Disney on Thursday unveiled the first still from Tron: Ares, the third film in the Tron sci-fi franchise, which went into production in Vancouver in January. Check out the pic below. Starring Jared Leto, the film follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Effective immediately, Walt Disney’s President of Motion Picture Studios Sean Bailey, who turned the company’s animation vault into a multibillion-dollar live-action movie business, is departing after 15 years on the lot. Searchlight co-president David Greenbaum will take on a newly created role. He’ll be president of Disney Live action and president of 20th Century […]

Disney has reached a licensing deal with Sony under which the latter’s home entertainment division will handle all Disney releases on DVD and Blu-ray as well as all physical media production. It’s the latest sign of the decline of the physical disc trade. Netflix last fall unplugged its foundational disc-by-mail service and revenue from disc […]

UPDATED with Disney letter to shareholders. In a letter to shareholders Wednesday, the Walt Disney Co. said it is better off “with Bob Iger at the helm” and without board representatives from activist firms like Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management. “Delivering ambitious growth plans requires leadership with a deep understanding of the company’s current strengths […]

Disney touted its latest financials, a dividend hike and projects around sports, Fortnite and Taylor Swift as it urged stockholders to elect its board candidates at the upcoming annual meeting — not directors nominated by activist investors that it says will gum up the works as management  “successfully executes a strategic transformation of the company.”  […]

One mega big piece of information that Disney CEO Bob Iger forgot to mention in his announcement of Moana 2 earlier this week was whether Dwayne Johnson was coming back to reprise his iconic role as the demigod Maui. Deadline has learned that the action star in fact is in talks, and it’s looking good. […]

Taylor Swift and Disney are back in business together, bigger than ever. Mouse House CEO Bob Iger just revealed on the company’s latest earnings call that the superstar’s box office hit Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie will be debuting on Disney+ on March 15. For Swifties who put stock in timing, the announcement comes […]

The Walt Disney Co. has come out in defense of its “highly qualified board and clear strategy” for growth and share price gains as activist investment firm Trian Capital issued its latest attacks on the company. The company also disclosed the date of its annual shareholder meeting, which could see bigger sparks fly over the […]