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  • Disney and Regal Owner Cineworld Reach Theatrical Release Deal

    Disney and Regal Owner Cineworld Reach Theatrical Release Deal

    Disney just signed a deal with Cineworld to guarantee the placement of Disney movies in Regal Cinemas across the country as they reopen.

    The deal also means that Cineworld’s cinemas will be showing Disney’s upcoming Cruella, Black Widow and Jungle Cruise, even despite their day-and-date Disney+ Premier releases. On Thursday, Disney said it will be sticking to a purely theatrical window for some of its upcoming features, including a 45-day period for 20th Century Studios’ Ryan Reynolds-starrer Free Guy (which starts global rollout in early August) and Marvel’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings (which begins in early September). That 45-day window would apply to both the U.S. and the UK, we understand.

    In comparison, Cineworld’s deal with Universal that was reported on Thursday will be for a 17-day exclusive window in theaters in the U.S., after which Universal will have the option to make a film available as a premium video on-demand offering. If a film earns an opening weekend of more than $50 million, the theatrical exclusivity period will be extended to 31 days. In the U.K. however, theatrical exclusivity will be guaranteed for all films for 31 days, with that window extending to 45 days if the film reaches an agreed-upon opening weekend benchmark.

    Cineworld now has deals in place with Disney, Universal and Warner Bros, with which they have 45 days of theatrical exclusivity in Regal locations starting in 2022. The company is also in talks with other studios about their own windowing terms.

    Cineworld’s Regal chain began reopening in April in the U.S., and its UK cinemas will resume operations from next week.

  • The Rock’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ Movie Will Git Disney+ the Same Day as Theaters

    The Rock’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ Movie Will Git Disney+ the Same Day as Theaters

    Disney’s Jungle Cruise will debut in theaters and Disney+ Premier on July 30.

    Disney+ Premier means that the movie will be available for in-home purchase to Disney+ subscribers for $29.99 in those territories which have the streaming service. Previously, it looked like the Jaume Collet-Serra directed movie was destined strictly for theaters.

    “Join my ace Emily Blunt (the female Indiana Jones) and myself on the adventure of a lifetime as our Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ hits theaters and your living rooms on the same day,” Johnson posted on Instagram as you can see below:

    “The most important thing with our movie was to always take care of families around the world by giving you options to watch it,” he continued.

    The Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt movie based on the Disney theme park attraction is a big tentpole and franchise starter for the studio.

  • VIDEO: Johnny Depp Says New Police Bodycam Footage Proves Amber Heard is Lying

    VIDEO: Johnny Depp Says New Police Bodycam Footage Proves Amber Heard is Lying

    New police testimony and bodycam footage ‘proves’ Amber Heard is lying about the fight that ended their 18-month marriage, according to Johnny Depp and his legal team.

    Heard and her allies have given evidence in multiple legal cases saying Depp hurled a phone at her face and trashed their penthouse kitchen during the notorious May 2016 blow out.

    But the actor’s lawyers claim the depictions of damage – including broken candelabras, glass strewn on the floor and red wine sloshed on the walls and carpets – are completely at odds with what police remember. Take a look at the bodycam footage for yourself below:

    Four different LAPD officers visited the stylish, loft-style apartment in downtown Los Angeles within the space of two hours after Heard’s pals mistakenly dialed 911 twice, according to a report from Daily Mail.

    The first two cops have given new depositions within the past month reiterating that they swept the $1.5 million property but didn’t see any injuries, vandalism or evidence of a crime.

    Their body-worn devices reveal a tidy hallway leading to an elegant kitchen and living area adorned with ornaments, fresh flowers, piles of books, numerous candles and candelabras.

    The officers don’t appear to spot anything suspicious, however, and there are no obvious signs of damage, disarray or staining to the floors or carpets in the three and a half minute videos.

  • Walt Disney Studios Releases Second ‘Cruella’ Trailer

    Walt Disney Studios Releases Second ‘Cruella’ Trailer

    Disney has unleashed a new full-length trailer for it’s upcoming Cruella de Vil origin story.

    In the latest trailer, Stone’s Cruella, at first just an aspiring and daring fashion designer named Estella, gets killer advice from Thompson’s Baroness on how to make it in the industry.

    “Let me give you some advice, you can’t care about anyone else,” Baroness is seen telling then-Estella during a fancy meal at the beginning of the trailer. “Everyone else is an obstacle. You care what an obstacles wants or feels, you’re dead. If I care about anyone or thing I might’ve died.” Take a look at the trailer below:

    “You have the talent. Whether you have the killer instinct is the big question,” Baroness says, and Cruella sets out to prove she has just that in the rest of the action-packed trailer that pits the women against each other.

    The film also stars Paul Walter Hauser and Joel Fry as Cruella’s henchmen Horace and Jasper, and Emma Thompson as the Baroness, the head of a fashion house where our budding villainess gets a job. Having been announced in 2013 and cast its leading lady in 2016, the project has had a long journey to the screen, passing between multiple writers before Dana Fox and Tony McNamara wrote the final version of the screenplay.

    The Walt Disney Company releases Cruella on May 28.

  • Disney’s Live-Action Chip ‘N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers Begins Filming

    Disney’s Live-Action Chip ‘N’ Dale: Rescue Rangers Begins Filming

    Filming for Disney’s highly-anticipated Chip ’n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers is underway.

    Combining live-action and animation, the film revives the premise of a pair of chipmunk detectives from the beloved 1989-1990 Disney Channel series.

    In a post to The Lonely Island’s Instagram feed Tuesday, director Akiva Schaffer revealed a photo of a clapperboard with the film’s title and, intriguingly, “Take 5” written on it as you can see below:

    Disney revealed a few details about the project in their Investor Day presentation back in December. Disney unveiled some key plot elements, as well as hinting that some animated characters may use traditional animation, while others will be CGI. They also confirmed that Seth Rogen will make a cameo appearance, though further details are unknown.

    Joining Schaffer is fellow Lonely Island alum Andy Samberg as the voice of Dale, the laid-back, free-spirited co-founder of the titular Rescue Rangers. John Mulaney will voice Chip, Dale’s Hawaiian shirt-wearing counterpart. Think The Odd Couple, but with chipmunks. Samberg and Mulaney previously worked together on Saturday Night Live, as Mulaney used to be a writer on the sketch comedy show during Samberg’s tenure.

    Developed by Tad Stones and Alan Zaslove, the animated Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers TV series premiered on the Disney Channel in 1989 and ran for three seasons. The show follows the iconic Disney chipmunks Chip and Dale as they form the Rescue Rangers detective agency, solving crimes with the assistance of an adventurous, cheese-loving Australian mouse named Monterey Jack, a brilliant inventor mouse named Gadget Hackwrench and Monterey’s faithful housefly sidekick Zipper. Rescue Rangers later became part of the famous 1990s Disney animation lineup known as the Disney Afternoon, along with Darkwing Duck, Talespin and the original DuckTales.

    Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers will be a Disney+ exclusive in the spring of 2022. Check out the on-set photo below.

  • Robert Downey Jr. Says ‘Never Say Never’ About Iron Man Return

    Robert Downey Jr. Says ‘Never Say Never’ About Iron Man Return

    Avenger’s star Robert Downey Jr is open to suiting up for a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Tony Stark\Iron Man.

    Downey concluded an 11-year tenure as the armored Avenger in 2019’s box office-breaking Avengers: Endgame, where Stark sacrifices himself to defeat Thanos (Josh Brolin) and save the ever-expanding Marvel universe. After confirming in a December interview that he was moving on from Marvel, saying he’s “done all [he] could” with the franchise’s flagship character after a “creatively satisfying” reign launched with 2008’s Iron Man, Downey is leaving the door open to step back into the MCU.

    During a recent interview with GQ, Downey, who has was asked how Holland’s new film, Cherry, might affect his career. To which, he said, “Look, Tom won’t be playing Spider-Man when he’s 37. At least I hope not. And when you’re in the MCU, there’s a feeling of all life beginning with it and ending it. But there’s life outside too. I can confirm this. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. It’s funny, I bumped into Keanu [Reeves] the other day, somewhere in Malibu, I think, and he told me he’d just been filming The Matrix again; he’d stepped back into that world that he once occupied. I asked him what it felt like: ‘Like being in Australia.’

    What I am saying is there was a Spider-Man before Tom Holland and there will be a Spider-Man after Tom Holland. That’s facts, Tommo. Sorry.”

    On being asked the much-awaited question about his return to the MCU, he said, “Well, I have alighted, for now. Real-world to save. But never say never.”

    Last year, the Iron Man star did admit he would return to the MCU on one condition.

    Appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience, the comedian host asked the actor: “Is the door to Iron Man totally closed because I don’t believe it is? You guys can go through time now. You’ve already opened up that door.”

    Downey Jr said: “There would have to be a super compelling argument and a series of events that made it obvious… We all have to do what [Marvel Studios boss] Kevin Feige says.”

  • First Trailer for New Mighty Ducks Series Coming to Disney Plus Released

    First Trailer for New Mighty Ducks Series Coming to Disney Plus Released

    Disney has released the first official trailer for “The Mighty Ducks” reboot series coming to Disney Plus.

    Emilio Estevez will be reprising his role as Coach Gordon Bombay in the new series dubbed “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.”

    Disney released the trailer for “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers” Thursday, showing Estevez’s character called on to help a mother and her son start a new hockey team. Take a look at the trailer below:

    It’s been 25 years since the last iteration of the fictional hockey team. Minnesotans have a special place in their heart for the classic movies that were filmed right in the heart of the Twin Cities, and featured local spots like Mickey’s Diner in St. Paul and Band Box Diner in Minneapolis.

    The 10-episode season takes place in 2021 Minnesota and follows 12-year-old Evan Morrow (Brady Noon), who, after being dropped from the team, works with his mother Alex (Lauren Graham), to form their own squad.

    Estevez is an executive producer on the series and Graham is co-executive producer. The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers premieres on Disney+ on Friday, March 26.

  • Marvel Finally Reveals Real ‘Spider-Man 3’ Title

    Marvel Finally Reveals Real ‘Spider-Man 3’ Title

    Marvel has revealed that “Spider-Man: No Way Home” is the offical title for third “Spider-Man” film.

    The revelation comes after Holland and his co-stars set the Internet humming on Tuesday night with their own fake titles for the film, including Spider-Man: Phone Home, Spider-Man: Home Slice and Spider-Man-Homewrecker.

    Stars Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon revealed the title as “Spider-Man: No Way Home” as you can see in the video below posted Wednesday:

    “Spider-Man: No Way Home” also features Benedict Cumberbatch as Marvel mainstay Doctor Strange and is rumored to delve into the multiverse as it will also unite separate generations of Spider-Man films. Alfred Molina, who played Doctor Octopus in Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man 2, will appear. So will Jamie Foxx, playing Electro, the villain he portrayed in 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which starred Andrew Garfield. The new title adds fuel to the multiverse speculation.

    Spider-Man: No Way Home Arrives in theaters on December 17, 2021.

  • Loki Release Date Confirmed For June On Disney+

    Loki Release Date Confirmed For June On Disney+

    Marvel’s upcoming Loki series starring Tom Hiddleston will premiere on June 11, Disney+ has officially revealed.

    Loki features the God of Mischief as he steps out of his brother’s shadow in a new series that takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Hiddleston returns as the title character, joined by Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku and Richard E. Grant. Kate Herron directs Loki, and Michael Waldron is head writer.

    Fans previously got a special inside look at the new series in the exclusive clip below revealed during The Walt Disney Company’s 2020 Investor Day presentation.

    Ahead of the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour, Disney+ unveiled the release date for Marvel Studios’ Loki, along with their slate of spring and summer releases.

    Additionally, Disney Plus announced the rest of its spring and early summer slate as follows: “Big Shot” will premiere April 16; “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” will launch May 4; “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” Season 2 will begin on May 14; “Zenimation” Season 2 will premiere June 11; “The Mysterious Benedict Society” will debut June 25; “Monsters at Work” will begin July 2; “Turner & Hooch” will launch July 16, and “Chip ‘N’ Dale: Park Live” will premiere July 23.

  • Disney+ Adds Content Disclaimer to ‘The Muppet Show’ Episodes

    Disney+ Adds Content Disclaimer to ‘The Muppet Show’ Episodes

    Disney Plus has added a content warning to the beginning of 18 episodes of The Muppet Show, which first aired in 1976 and started streaming on the platform on Friday.

    Disclaimer warnings have previously been added to Disney films such as Aladdin, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats and Dumbo.

    “This programme includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures,” the disclaimer reads. “These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.”

    It’s unstated precisely what Disney considers to be offensive on the show, but some characters depict Native American, Middle Eastern and Asian people.

    And in season five, legendary country singer Johnny Cash is seen performing in front of a Confederate flag.

    Disney’s disclaimer added: “Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.”

    The advisory note comes after several months of revisionism around films and TV programmes which could be considered offensive by the standards of today.