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  • ‘Moana’ Star Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, family all test positive for COVID-19

    ‘Moana’ Star Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, family all test positive for COVID-19

    Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, star of Disney’s Moana, and his family have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the star revealed Wednesday.

    Johnson says that he and his wife, and his two daughters tested positive for COVID-19 and have been battling the virus for the past two to three weeks.

    Now Disney’s upcoming Jungle Cruise star and one of the most popular entertainers on earth is urging fans to wear a mask and protect each other from this disease as you can see in the Instagram post below:

    “I wish it was only me who tested positive, but it wasn’t, it was my entire family,” the star said in an Instagram video Wednesday.

    “I wanted to give you guys a little helpful update on things that have been going on on my end for the past two-and-a-half to three weeks now. So the update is this: my wife Lauren as well as my two baby girls and myself, we have all tested positive for COVID-19,” Johnson began his video message.

    “I could tell you that this has been one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure as a family, and for me, too, personally as well,” he continued. “And I’ve gone through some doozies in the past.”

  • New ‘Hocus Pocus’ Cookie Dough from Toll House Will Put a Spell on You

    New ‘Hocus Pocus’ Cookie Dough from Toll House Will Put a Spell on You

    With Halloween right around the corner its time to start streaming Hocus Pocus on a loop and to help celebrate, Nestle Toll House has released some Sanderson Sister’s inspired cookies that will have you running “Amok Amok Amok!”

    You can now find ready-to-bake Hocus Pocus cookie dough in your grocer’s freezer in 14-oz. packages. Inside is oatmeal peanut butter cookie dough with chocolate morsels and candy-coated gems.

    The gems come in three colors—orange, purple, and yellow—in an apparent nod to the immortal Sanderson sisters: Winifred, Sarah, and Mary as you can see in the post below:

    Each package comes with enough dough to make 20 cookies, and each cookie has only 90 calories. So not only is there enough dough to last you through repeat viewings but also you don’t have to feel guilty by the time you finish the whole package.

  • Whoopi Goldberg Urges Disney to Build Wakanda Theme Park to Honor Chadwick Boseman

    Whoopi Goldberg Urges Disney to Build Wakanda Theme Park to Honor Chadwick Boseman

    “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg is calling on Disney to build a Wakanda theme park in honor of the late actor Chadwick Boseman.

    The actor’s 4-year battle with colon cancer ended Friday, his family said in a statement. Boseman portrayed King T’Challa in the Marvel blockbuster superhero movie “Black Panther.”

    On Sunday, “The View” co-host posted on Twitter to call on Disney to not build “another Frozen land BUT what we could use is Wakonda,” as you can see in the post below:

    “Dear People in charge of building NEW experiences Disney Land and World we don’t really need another Frozen land BUT what we could use is Wakonda,” she tweeted. “Please Disneyworld Disneyland PLEASE build in Chadwick Boseman’s name WAKONDA (Sic).”

    Last year, Disney announced that the “Avengers” Campus would open in 2022 at Disney California Adventure park.

    While Disney hasn’t mentioned anything about a Wakanda theme park, visitors at the “Avengers” park will find “heroic encounters throughout the campus, including Black Widow, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Super Heroes from Wakanda and Asgard, and Iron Man.”

  • ‘Mulan’ Releasing for Free to All Disney Plus Subscribers in December

    ‘Mulan’ Releasing for Free to All Disney Plus Subscribers in December

    Starting in December, Mulan will become available to all Disney+ subscribers, just three months after its theatrical and Premier Access streaming release.

    The movie will be their first Premier Access release. It will cost Disney+ subscribers $29.99 to watch the movie unlimited times starting September 4. But if you wait another three months, subscribers will be able to stream Mulan for free as part of the regular service starting December 4.

    Disney hasn’t been shouting the news about when Mulan will be free to stream on Disney+ from the rooftops for sure by any means, but news ended up on an international advert for Mulan as you can see below:

    Like every big theatrical release in 2020, Mulan faced delays due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The film had its premiere on March 9, 2020, and was originally set to have its wide release on March 27. However, with social distancing guidelines in place and the closure of movie theaters around the world, the film was delayed. First to July 2020 and then again to August, before Disney removed it from their release schedule altogether. Disney then announced Mulan would be available for purchase on Disney+.

    The animated version of Mulan is based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan and follows a young woman in China who poses as a man in order to take her father’s place in the war against the Huns.

    Yifei Liu plays the character Mulan in the live-action movie, which will follow the same story as the original movie, but this time it’s rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and is fashioned as a more realistic telling than the animated musical.

  • New ‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie in the Works at Disney

    New ‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie in the Works at Disney

    Disney is once again materializing a new “Haunted Mansion” live-action movie, based on its Disneyland theme park ride.

    After trying to bring the famous attraction to the box office back in 2003, and other attempts at a reboot being put in development, the studio has found another good spirit to bring the 999 haunts back to the big screen.

    Director Guillermo del Toro was attached to a reboot of the property in 2010, even going so far as to co-write the script before the project was abandoned. 

    Screenwriter Katie Dippold has been tapped to pen the project. No stranger to ghosts on the screen, Dippold previously collaborated with Paul Feig on the 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters.

    Disney previously adapted The Haunted Mansion into a feature film back in 2003, the same year that they released another theme park attraction based movie in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, but with little success. Eddie Murphy starred in the film which incorporated characters and even direct quotations from the Disneyland ride.

    Disney used the ride as inspiration for its 2003 horror comedy “The Haunted Mansion” with Eddie Murphy portraying a workaholic realtor who buys a mansion that turns out to be haunted. The movie, directed by Rob Minkoff, grossed $182 million worldwide on a $90 million budget.

    The film is being spearheaded by producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich and their Rideback production banner. Lin and Eirich previously saw success with Disney with the live-action reboot of the Aladdin remake which went on to gross over a billion dollars at the worldwide box office and kick start yet another new franchise for the House of Mouse.

  • BREAKING: Chadwick Boseman, Star of ‘Black Panther,’ Dies at 43

    BREAKING: Chadwick Boseman, Star of ‘Black Panther,’ Dies at 43

    Chadwick Boseman, known for his role as Marvel’s noble Black Panther, died at his Los Angeles home Friday at age 43.

    The actor has been battling colon cancer since 2016, and died at home with his family and wife by his side, according to a statement posted on his Twitter account.

    “A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you so many of the films you have come to love so much,” his publicist, Nicki Fioravante, said in a statement.

    “A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much,” the statement said. “From ‘Marshall’ to ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ August Wilson’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy.”

    Boseman was best known for his role as T’Challa, or the Black Panther, king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda in the 2018 Marvel superhero movie “Black Panther.”

    The film was a cultural touchstone — the first major superhero movie with an African protagonist; the first to star a majority Black cast; and in Ryan Coogler, the first to employ a Black writer and director.

  • Disney’s Bob Iger Blasts CDC’s Updated COVID-19 Guidelines

    Disney’s Bob Iger Blasts CDC’s Updated COVID-19 Guidelines

    Many people have raised concerns after The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a reversal in its guidance about COVID-19 testing including Disney Chairman Bob Iger.

    Iger took to Twitter on Wednesday night to call the shift in guidelines “horrifying”.

    “This is more than disappointing,” Iger wrote. “It is horrifying,” as you can see below:

    After weeks of encouraging those who may have been exposed to the coronavirus but are not showing symptoms to get tested, the CDC announced on Wednesday that new guidelines suggest that asymptomatic people may not need to be tested at all.

  • NEW Build-a-Bear Scar Plush Now Available

    NEW Build-a-Bear Scar Plush Now Available

    It’s hard to top the popularity of the Baby Yoda Build-a-Bear, but now they have released a new Scar plush that will that will have you “quiver with fear.”

    This Scar stuffed animal features his signature bright eyes, jet black mane and the Disney The Lion King logo on his paw pad.

    Scar also comes with his “Be Prepared” song sound chip included so you can plot and sing along when you press his paw! Take a look below:

    NEW! Disney The Lion King Scar is wickedly cute as an online exclusive collector’s item. Scar also comes with his “Be…

    Posted by Build-A-Bear Workshop on Friday, August 14, 2020

    The online exclusive can be purchased for $43 and can be bought fully stuffed or unstuffed and you can take it into the store and stuff it.

    The conniving Scar makes a wickedly fun addition to any fan’s collection.

  • Disney Launches New Costume Line for Fans Who Use Wheelchairs

    Disney Launches New Costume Line for Fans Who Use Wheelchairs

    Disney unveiled a line of adaptive costumes for those who use wheelchairs.

    The costumes are designed with stretch fabric that opens in back for easier dressing, longer lengths for wheelchair-friendly wear and flap opening on the front center with self-stick fabric closure to accommodate tube access.

    The wheelchair cover sets fit most wheelchairs and come with supportive plastic piping pieces for added stability and long self-stick fabric strips to help keep the pieces in place. Take a closer look below:

    Included in this collection are two wheelchair covers and three costumes.

    The adaptive costumes are now available on shopDisney.com to order. The wraps are available for pre-order. Both wraps and costumes will be coming to certain Disney Parks in the future.

  • Free Giveaway Now Available in Disney Magic Kingdoms App

    Free Giveaway Now Available in Disney Magic Kingdoms App

    For one week starting today, anyone who launches their Disney Magic Kingdoms app will receive FREE in-game food concessions that can be added to your Park!

    Disney Magic Kingdoms – a fun mobile game where players can build their own Disney Park by collecting and adding Disney, Pixar and Star Wars characters, attractions, decorations and concessions – wants to celebrate some of their favorite food concessions with all of you from home!

    It’s hard to deny that one of the highlights of visiting any Disney Park is the delicious food you can snack on. Take a look below at these yummy gifts you can claim just by opening your game.

    If you don’t already have Disney Magic Kingdoms on your phone or tablet, click here to install it today!