Magic beyond the Moors: Disney’s Maleficent stories transform love and take on Shakespeare I spent my weekend in the Moors. Well, I spent Saturday and Sunday soaking up all the Maleficent series has to offer (so far!), thanks to the Disney films, Holly Black’s Heart of… Read More »How Disney’s Maleficent stories transform love and take on Shakespeare
One of the marvelous aspects of streaming on demand services is that, given some promotion and decent word of mouth, documentary films have an equal chance to shine with the fictional movies and shows. Disney+ just announced an expanded roster of documentaries that will be… Read More »Disney+ Expands Menu of Documentary content, including Don Hahn’s Howard Ashman story
This week while the rest of the world helped drive Disney’s The Lion King to a kingly $543.6 million global total at the box office, I watched the movie in a 4DX theater, courtesy a pair of complimentary media tickets. I wasn’t alone, the theater… Read More »Disney’s The Lion King in 4DX Review
Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” continued to rule the box office toy box for its second weekend in a row. It brought in $58 million domestically (only a 52% drop from opening weekend) and $81M overseas as air conditioning offered a nice respite from a summer… Read More »Toy Story 4 box office – a strong week 2
The Walt Disney Studios has expanded to include the recent acquisition of the Fox film studios. With many more movies in production, this has required not unexpected changes to previously announced dates for films and a number of major additions. The new calendar has movies… Read More »Disney shuffles its movie release calendar in wake of Fox acquisition
Did you like the first official trailer for The Lion King? Disney’s photo-real computer animated adaption the 1994 movie promise to shake up Hollywood with its technological advancements tied to one of the studios’ richest stories. As Disney likes to do with its upcoming movies, it… Read More »Disney’s The Lion King — new photos and inside info in EW
How can a street rat like Aladdin, charming though he may be, meet and befriend a Princess? With the help of a magical Genie of course. Together they take on the evil Jafar and live to take a vacation to Disneyland. That’s the story as… Read More »Disney’s “Aladdin” trailer takes us to a whole new world
Meet Steve. He’s one of the stars of Disneynature’s all-new feature film “Penguins” a touching story about overcoming the odds set against a beautiful but harsh environment. The story follows a plucky Adélie penguin, the afore mentioned Steve, who joins millions of fellow males in… Read More »Disneynature’s latest ‘Penguins’ opens today with an important mission