I’m not… entirely sure that the team who wrote, animated, and produced “McMystery At McDuck McManor” realize how truly bizarre this episode is. (Colleen Evanson, who penned the script to one of the show’s weaker outputs, helms this one as well.) DuckTales, in any incarnation–comic series, old TV show, new TV show–is…
As a clear indicator of just how much investors want streaming to continue on as a viable content consumption option, Netflix’s stock value has spent the week steadily growing and growing until it crossed an important milestone today by briefly becoming more valuable than Disney—the same Disney that owns all of the…
The DuckTales crew is off to Scotland - or the Ducks’ Universe equivalent of it - for a country club golf outing that suddenly becomes a ghoulish, high-stakes, back-nine-of-death competition in “The Missing Links of Moorshire.” DuckTales have had some pretty outlandish episodes during both it’s past and present runs,…
I don’t think it’s much of a coincidence Frank Angones, the writer of today’s script, tweeted such an emotional sentiment prior to the debut of “Beware The B.U.D.D.Y. System,” an episode that is almost too much indebted to nostalgia. It brings back Gyro and Lil’ Bulb, but it also introduces Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera…
DuckTales is back! Again! After a six-months hiatus, Disney is pushing a new slate of shows and episodes this summer, re-jiggering its entire approach as this show now airs on Disney Channel proper. (I have a theory as to why.) Still, it’s good to be back in the Duck-verse, even if this ‘verse is perhaps a bit…
In just a few weeks, Solo: A Star Wars Story will be making its way into theaters. That means that, among other things, we’ll soon be hearing from an incredibly vocal minority who believe that the fact that they are not going to see this movie is somehow interesting or noteworthy. Unfortunately, dear readers, we…
Mergers: They’re the spice of life, as long as that spice is the thing that gradually chokes off all other flavors and forces you to select from an increasingly small list of consolidated options drained of distinction and homogenized under a unifying corporate mandate. The stuff entertainment dreams are made of!
Solo: A Star Wars Story is due out May 25, after a somewhat rocky production that saw directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller replaced by Ron Howard over creative differences with Lucasfilm, the removal of Michael K. Williams’ character, and reports that Alden Ehrenreich, the star of the spin-off, needed an on-set…
Donnie Yen, the international martial-arts superstar who was introduced to an even wider audience with his role as blind monk Chirrut Imwe in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has taken another high-profile role for Disney. This time, Yen will be working for the Mouse House proper, in the live-action remake of the…
Things are getting dark inside the Disney vault, the joy has left the Magical Kingdom, and all your favorite characters are wallowing in existential dread. At least, that’s the impression you would get looking at the official Disney Twitter account, which recently tweeted and then deleted a meme featuring a clip from Pinocchio and a…
First they came for your Ghostbusters, and you railed against the ruining of your childhood. Now they come for your High Fidelity to lay waste to your 20s: Deadline reports that Disney is adapting Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel (and, by extension, its 2000 film adaptation) into a gender-swapped TV show that’s an…
Now that Star Wars: The Last Jedi has brought an end to the Skywalker saga, Mark Hamill has time to watch all the upcoming Lucasfilm projects, including, but not limited to, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Episode IX. And let’s not forget about all the spin-offs, including films by Game Of Thrones creators David…
In addition to his credits as a director (and as a tiny, wizened Jedi), Frank Oz also holds a firm position as an elder statesman of the Muppet universe. As the guy who introduced the world to Fozzie Bear and Miss Piggy, among others, people tend to pay attention when Oz weighs in on the beloved characters (even if he…
Fulfilling our shared desire to skip out on our current world, in favor of one where the only thing we have to worry about is a giant purple alien coming down from space to kill us all, Disney has announced it’s expanding its plans to supplement its global theme park empire with “lands” based around its various Marvel…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney and director Charlie Bean have just shared a kiss over a plate of romantic spaghetti and announced a “live-action” remake of Lady And The Tramp. This will be a Jungle Book-style “hybrid” of live-action and computer graphics, implying that the eponymous dogs will be digital…
In Matt Groening’s old Life In Hell comic strip, he refers to high school as “the second-deepest pit in hell.” The deepest pit, he clarifies, is junior high school. This feels true; the confusion and awkwardness of the transition from tween to teen is at least as potent as the transition from teen to adult. Yet there…
I don’t think I’m alone in recognizing that this fourth and final season of Star Wars Rebels was its best yet. Instead of a handful of standalone episodes and mini-arcs, all of which had their moments of greatness intermixed with moments of sheer mediocrity (and outright awfulness), this fourth season opted for more…
Han Solo is a roguish charmer, but when we first meet him in Star Wars he also happens to be a rather infamous thief. Unfortunately, it looks like Disney may have taken a little too much inspiration from Han himself when designing the posters for his spin-off movie Solo: A Star Wars Story, as a French artist named…
Apparently, Disney’s decision to bump the release of Avengers: Infinity War up a week was the result of one of those twisted “Monkey’s Paw” wishes, as the company has also just announced that its live-action Mulan remake is going to be significantly delayed. That comes from Deadline, which says Mulan is being moved to…
In 2016, we reported that Disney was developing a “sequel-reboot” of Joe Johnston’s cult classic comic book adaptation The Rocketeer, with the plan being to introduce a new female Rocketeer to take the place of the original jetpack-having hero played by Billy Campbell in 1991 original. As far as we know, there haven’t…
