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…
Gather ’round, all, for it’s time to announce the cancellation of another ambitious-sounding Guillermo Del Toro film project, which is how you know it’s one of the days of the week that ends with “-day.”
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Sam Mendes began his film career tackling all-caps serious dramas like American Beauty and Revolutionary Road, but has swerved to franchise blockbusters as of late with the Bond movies Skyfall and Spectre. Now Disney might enlist him to helm its live-action remake of Pinocchio: according to Variety, Mendes is in…
According to Collider, one of the many projects Guillermo Del Toro has found himself attached to over the years has picked up a new writer. Patrick McHale, creator of Cartoon Network’s acclaimed Over The Garden Wall, has reportedly teamed up with Del Toro to help write his long-in-the-works Pinocchio movie. The Hellboy…
Over the course of nearly 80 years, many notable tunesmiths have contributed songs to Walt Disney animated films, including the Sherman Brothers (The Jungle Book), Alan Menken and Howard Ashman (The Little Mermaid), and Elton John and Tim Rice (The Lion King). That adds up to hours upon hours of original music, and …
You may remember moments like these from your own childhood, or you may have already inadvertently passed some on to the next generation. You settle in on a rainy Saturday for an afternoon of classic, conceivably benign children’s entertainment. Suddenly you are struck by an unexpected moment that startles you so…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be the first film in the long-running space opera franchise to be produced under the aegis of the powerful and much-feared Walt Disney Company, an organization so mighty as to put the mere Galactic Empire to shame. How will the House Of Mouse affect the beloved sci-fi franchise? A…
Grown ass adults tend to have selective memories about their childhoods. We might remember some off-hand comment our friend made and some details about a cartoon we liked, but we don’t necessarily remember the stuff we didn’t understand or just didn’t deem important enough to care about. That’s why it’s always…
Continuing the welcome, somewhat confusing trend of handing over big-budget children’s movies to indie and arthouse directors (see: David Lowery’s upcoming Pete’s Dragon, Alex Ross Perry writing Winnie The Pooh, and Sofia Coppola’s brief involvement with The Little Mermaid), Warner Bros. has announced that its…
In an Avengers: Age Of Ultron trailer, the robot villain compares the Avengers to puppets, too tangled up in the strings of their conceptions of morality to make the big changes they might otherwise be capable of as heroes. The rest of the trailer offers glimpses of the destruction Ultron (James Spader) can unleash…
As reported by Deadline, Disney is developing a new version of Pinocchio with the help of About A Boy and Dan In Real Life writer Peter Hedges. However, unlike the Pinocchio movie that Disney released in 1940, this won’t be a cartoon. Instead, it will follow in the footsteps of—deep breath—Cinderella, Maleficent, The…
Lying is one of those skills that our culture paradoxically both admires and reviles. There’s a reason we lionize TV characters like Frank Underwood and Walter White, who manipulate the truth effortlessly with almost every sentence that slips from between their lips: Lying is cool. Sure, the consequences of the act…