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  • New Incredibles 2 Trailer Walks Away With The Gold After Olympics Sneak Peek

    New Incredibles 2 Trailer Walks Away With The Gold After Olympics Sneak Peek

    The newest trailer for Disney-Pixar’s Incredibles 2 trailer was finally released last night during the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Games.

    Everyone’s favorite family of superheroes are back in Incredibles 2, but this time Helen is in the spotlight, leaving Bob at home with Violet and Dash to navigate the day-to-day heroics of “normal” life. It’s a tough transition for everyone, made tougher by the fact that the family is still unaware of baby Jack-Jack’s emerging superpowers.

    When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone must find a way to work together again — which is easier said than done, even when they’re all Incredible. Check out the incredible trailer below.

    Craig T. Nelson voiced Mr. Incredible/Bob Parr in the original film, with Holly Hunter as his wife Helen Parr/Elastigirl and Samuel L. Jackson as Mr. Incredible’s best friend Lucius Best/Frozone. Sarah Vowell voiced the Incredible’s’ daughter Violet, who can create force fields and turn invisible, with Spencer Fox as Dash, who possesses superspeed. Brad Bird also voiced as fan favorite Edna Mode, costume designer of the Supers.

    The long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s The Incredibles is due out in theaters June 15th, 2018.

  • Catch a Sneak Peek of Disney’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ at Disney Parks

    Catch a Sneak Peek of Disney’s ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ at Disney Parks

    The opening of Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, is just weeks away from and now guests at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure park have the exciting opportunity to experience a special sneak peek of the film.

    For a limited time, guests visiting Disney’s Hollywood Studios are invited to the Walt Disney Presents theater to be a warrior and enjoy clips from the upcoming film. Guests visiting Disney California Adventure park can stop by Sunset Showcase Theater, where the sneak peek will be presented in 3D with stunning in-theater special effects. A unique display of costumes designed by Oscar nominee Paco Delgado and featured in the film will accompany the sneak peek in Sunset Showcase Theater.

    Prior to experiencing the sneak peek in the park, enjoy this exclusive glimpse at the film featuring never-before-seen footage. Check out the video below!

    From visionary director Ava DuVernay comes Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” based on Madeleine L’Engle’s timeless classic which takes audience across dimensions of time and space, examining the nature of darkness versus light and, ultimately, the triumph of love. Through one girl’s transformative journey led by three celestial guides, we discover that strength comes from embracing one’s individuality and that the best way to triumph over fear is to travel by one’s own light.

    Be sure to experience this adventure-packed sneak peek for a limited time through March 16 at Disney California Adventure park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios and be sure to catch Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time” when it hits theaters on March 9.

  • Marvel Studios Kicks Off The Marvel Cinematic Universe 10-Year Anniversary Celebration

    Marvel Studios Kicks Off The Marvel Cinematic Universe 10-Year Anniversary Celebration

    Marvel Studios kicked off its year-long Marvel Cinematic Universe 10-Year anniversary celebration Wednesday with an iconic class photo featuring talent and filmmakers from over the last ten years.

    On the set of Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” a group of more than 80 actors and filmmakers all came together to memorialize the last ten years with a photo and to celebrate the accomplishments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

    An impressive group of Super Hero talent and filmmakers from the past 10 years of MCU was assembled, including everyone from Robert Downey Jr. to Samuel L. Jackson and from Kevin Feige to Stan Le.

    Take a look below at a video from the photo shoot. Even the super stars were fanboying over the massive amount of celebrities.

    Commemorating the anniversary, Marvel plans to offer up exclusive consumer products and collectibles, in-theater events and more in the coming months leading to Avengers: Infinity War. The Marvel 10-Year Sweepstakes will take place across social media and last for five weeks, from February 8 to March 15. Each week of the sweepstakes features a different Marvel Cinematic Universe film. Fans can post a photo of themselves on Twitter or Instagram and/or tweet their favorite personal memory from the film of the week using the film hashtag and #Marvel10YearSweepstakes to be entered for a chance to win.

    Each week, a drawing will take place and a winner will be selected. The weekly winner will receive the Ultimate Marvel Fan prize package, including Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” set visit; Marvel Studios visit and tour; tickets to Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” premiere; all transportation and lodging; and more. Full prize details, information on how to enter and official sweepstakes rules can be found at: www.marvel.com/10YearSweepstakes

    Marvel Studios’ 10th anniversary begins with the release of “Avengers: Infinity War” and covers an impressive decade of Marvel Studios’ blockbusters released from 2008 through the “Avengers” untitled film in 2019. In celebration of the anniversary, fans can expect exclusive consumer products and collectibles, along with in-theater events and much more in the coming months.

    Marvel Studios’ unprecedented success over the last ten years is reflected in its cumulative box-office receipts of over $13.5 billion worldwide. Legions of fans—both old and new—have enjoyed the live-action exploits of favorite Marvel Super Heroes in films that express the unique vision and creativity of the filmmakers, and deliver spectacle and thrilling action with relatable characters.

  • Marvel’s First ‘Venom’ Trailer Released and Leaves Fans Wanting More

    Marvel’s First ‘Venom’ Trailer Released and Leaves Fans Wanting More

    The first teaser trailer has been released by Sony Pictures for Marvel’s upcoming superhero spinoff series Venom. The trailer doesn’t actually show Venom which left many fans wanting to see more.

    Marvel’s new superhero spinoff series stars Tom Hardy who plays a reporter named Eddie Brock as well as Venom, an “alien symbiote” stuck in a human body. Brock’s body is possessed by the symbiote which gives him Spider-Man-like powers.

    The first trailer doesn’t give much in the way of plot details and offers only vague hints about the anti-hero’s origin story. Hardy spends most of the For most of the trailer Hardy is in a hospital lying on his back and we see some flashbacks that suggest he was an accident following a high-speed motorcycle chase.

    “Everyone’s got their thing,” a voiceover says. “Maybe it’s a break-up, a death, an accident. Whatever it is, you used to be one thing, now you’re something else. We all have our own problems, our own issues, our own demons.”

    Venom marks the very beginning of “Sony’s Marvel Universe,” and they have insisted that film will take place in the same setting as 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, which takes place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Then again, Marvel has insisted that Venom is not a part of the MCU. Confusing, but it leaves the door open for Marvel to include Venom at some point if it suits them.

    Venom is set for wide release on October 5, 2018.

  • “Kim Possible” Is Getting a Live-Action Movie

    “Kim Possible” Is Getting a Live-Action Movie

    So for those of you wondering “What’s the sitch” with Kim Possible, you be excited to learn that Disney Channel is making a live-action version of award-winning Disney Channel animated series.

    Disney announced Wednesday that casting has begun for the movie which is being penned by Kim Possible creators Mark McCorkle and Robert Schooley.

    For those who don’t know, Kim Possible is a cheerleader and she saves the world, even on school nights. With her sidekick, Ron Stoppable and his naked mole rat Rufus they go through normal teenage life while saving the world.

    The original series which ran for 87 episodes was launched in 2002.  In 2003 it was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding animated program and it also inspired two animated Disney Channel movies.

    “Mark and Bob created an enduring character and kids all over the world found a friend in her, an average girl who just happens to spend her off-school hours thwarting evil villains,” said Adam Bonnett, executive VP of original programming at Disney Channels Worldwide, in a statement. “Although Kim Possible ‘can do anything,’ kids and tweens found that this animated redhead was just like them. As we embark on the fun challenge of making Kim and Ron fully dimensional, I’m thrilled to be working again with Mark and Bob and to welcome the addition of a dynamic creative team—Josh, Zanne, Adam and Zach—into a world where anything is indeed possible.”

    It’s executive produced by McCorkle, Schooley, and Zanne Devine, and co-directed and co-produced by Adam B. Stein and Zach Lipovsky.

    This comes as Disney’s film studio continues to find success with live-action adaptations of beloved animated classics, including last year’s Beauty and the Beast and the upcoming Mulan.

  • Game of Thrones Creators Tapped To Create New Series of Star Wars Films

    Game of Thrones Creators Tapped To Create New Series of Star Wars Films

    Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss set to write and produce a new “Star Wars” series of films, Disney announced on Tuesday. The creative duo is going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away.

    With Star Wars: Episode IX set to cap the trilogy of trilogies and Game of Thrones approaches its 2019 conclusion, the timing is right for both parties. While no one has ruled out future films continuing the main Star Wars storyline in the future, it’s clear that Disney and Lucasfilm plan on taking the franchise into a multitude of new territories.

    These new films will be separate from both the episodic Skywalker saga and the recently-announced trilogy being developed by Rian Johnson, writer-director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

    “David and Dan are some of the best storytellers working today,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm. “Their command of complex characters, depth of story and richness of mythology will break new ground and boldly push Star Wars in ways I find incredibly exciting.”

    “In the summer of 1977 we traveled to a galaxy far, far away, and we’ve been dreaming of it ever since,” Benioff and Weiss said in a joint statement. “We are honored by the opportunity, a little terrified by the responsibility, and so excited to get started as soon as the final season of Game of Thrones is complete.”

    Disney acquired Lucasfilm for more than $4 billion in 2012. From that moment the studio has been exploring every avenue to expand the famous far way galaxy to get the largest return on their investment. They immediately delved into a new trilogy that brings together familiar characters with new ones. The studio also started standalone spinoff films such as Rogue One and the upcoming Solo, a peek at Han Solo’s younger days.

    Lucasfilm and Disney did not give release dates for the new films but joked that there “have (thankfully) been no sightings of White Walkers around Lucasfilm.”

  • Breaking: Full Han Solo Trailer Debuts On Good Morning America

    Breaking: Full Han Solo Trailer Debuts On Good Morning America

    After last nights sneak peek teaser for “Solo: A Star Wars Story” airing during Super Bowl LII, fans have been eagerly awaiting the full trailer.  This morning their patience paid off and the full Solo trailer was shown on Good Morning America on ABC.

    Check out the full trailer below:

    In the two-minute trailer — we first meet Han Solo, the “Star Wars” icon — long before he met Luke and Leia or became a hesitant hero fighting the Empire.

    “I’ve been running scams on the street since I was 10,” Alden Ehrenreich, who plays the young Solo, says in the clip. “I was kicked out of the flight academy for having a mind of my own.”

    The film follows the young Han Solo and Chewbacca’s adventures before joining the Rebellion, including their encounters with Lando Calrissian.

    The full trailer also shows a few other characters for the first time including; Donald Glover’s young Lando Calrissian and Emilia Clarke’s Qi’Ra.

    “I might be the only person who knows what you really are,” Clarke’s character tells Solo, the clip hinting that they might be friends or have had some kind of previous relationship.

    Solo: A Star Wars Story opens May 25, 2018. Written by Lawrence and Jon Kasdan and directed by Ron Howard, it stars Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, and Paul Bettany.

  • Solo: A Star Wars Story Teaser Trailer Caught During The Super Bowl

    Solo: A Star Wars Story Teaser Trailer Caught During The Super Bowl

    Finally, after much speculation over when the trailer for “Solo: A Star Wars Story” would be released, we finally get to see it! The questions can finally be put to rest as it debuted tonight during Super Bowl LII.

    Take a look below and see what all the hype has been about:

    The film follows the young Han Solo and Chewbacca’s adventures before joining the Rebellion, including their encounters with Lando Calrissian.

    Solo: A Star Wars Story opens May 25, 2018. Written by Lawrence and Jon Kasdan and directed by Ron Howard, it stars Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Joonas Suotamo, and Paul Bettany.

    It’s just a Teaser to hold us over.  The full trailer is expected to air Monday morning on Good Morning America on ABC. Let us know what you think about the trailer in the comments below.

  • Emily Blunt Is On Board For Disney’s Jungle Cruise Movie

    Emily Blunt Is On Board For Disney’s Jungle Cruise Movie

    Disney’s Jungle Cruise Movie is pulling in more stars to fill its cast.  Emily Blunt is reportedly set to co-star in the upcoming film next to Dwayne Johnson.

    The film is a live-action adaptation of Disneyland’s iconic theme park ride. The ride takes guests on a guided tour through Africa’s Nile and Congo rivers to South America’s Amazon.

    Blunt is becoming a Disney regular. Previously she starred in Disney’s Into the Woods and currently she is starring in Mary Poppins Returns, the follow-up film to the 1964 classic, Mary Poppins.

    Johnson was extremely excited about the casting and took to his Instagram account to congratulate her.

    Disney has had success with movies based on attractions with Pirates of the Caribbean as a prime example. Disney is hoping to add to that success rather than see it turn out like the Haunted Mansion movie or dare we mention The Country Bears.

    Oscar nominee Michael Green wrote the most recent draft of the script. He rewrote a screenplay by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay.

    John Davis and John Fox will produce via Davis Entertainment, Beau Flynn will produce via his FlynnPictureCo. banner, and Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia are producing through Seven Bucks Productions.

    The film is currently slated to go into production in May.

     

     

  • Dark Horse Releasing Original Comics Featuring Disney’s “Frozen”

    Dark Horse Releasing Original Comics Featuring Disney’s “Frozen”

    Dark Horse Comics announced Monday that they will be  teaming up with Disney and creating a new three-issue miniseries to release this August titled Disney Frozen. Founded in 1986, Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic publisher in the United States.

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    Disney Zootopia Comics and Disney DuckTales: Treasure Trove writer Joe Caramagna and artists from the Kawaii Creative Studio both return to bring some fan-favorite Disney characters to the world of comics.

    Disney Frozen #1 finds Queen Elsa and Princess Anna trying to get to the bottom of things when the peace of their beloved kingdom is disrupted. There’s a wild animal loose in the village, destruction in the forest, and unrest brewing in a nearby kingdom. Luckily, Elsa and Anna will have the help of Olaf, Kristoff . . . and a mysterious, adventurous young woman to restore peace in their kingdom.

    “We are incredibly excited to collaborate with Disney on this great project,” Mike Richardson, Dark Horse president and founder, said in a press release. “Frozen has legions of fans, many of whom are here at Dark Horse. I’ve personally enjoyed repeated viewings with my granddaughter, and I look forward to sharing this new series with her.”

    The first issue of Disney Frozen is scheduled for a summer 2018 release. Dark Horse and Disney will announce additional comics in the coming months.