Say aloha to Disney’s Angel! Experiment 624 has arrived at Build-A-Bear Workshop for the first time.
Stitch’s lovable companion looks heavenly adorable with her large ears, curly antennae and soft claws.
With the Disney’s Stitch and Angel logo on her paw pad, Angel makes an out-of-this-world addition to any fan’s collection. Take a look at one of her cute poses below:
The new Angel Build-a-Bear is an online exclusive and can only be purchased stuffed for $32.
Conjure a bag full of compliments when you cast a spell on your wardrobe with the new mini Sorcerer Mickey backpack by Loungefly.
Part of the Disney Ink & Paint Collection, the magical styling on this compact bag includes metal paintbrush zip pulls and a Disney character-covered lining.
The lining features allover pattern of Disney characters, including Cinderella, Captain Hook, Evil Queen, and more as you can see below:
Inspired by The Sorcerer’s Apprentice segment of Walt Disney’s Fantasia and be found on shopDisney for $80.00.
It’s time for the world to meet Disney nuiMOs featuring miniature plush, outfits and accessories with a fashionable twist – and these little friends don’t skimp on style. The Micro-Plush craze is now going global and is now expanding to North America and Europe.
Since originally launching at Disney stores in Japan, followed by Disney stores in China, Shanghai Disney Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, Disney nuiMOs quickly gained popularity on social media as fans styled and took their plush on adventures during everyday life; be it to a Disney theme park, the beach, a shopping trip or anything in between.
To help kick off the launch in style, celebrity stylist Maeve Reilly created four signature Disney nuiMOs looks for Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse by mixing and matching clothing and accessories from the new lines. Check them out below:
Now, Disney nuiMOs plush characters will be available for the first time in North America and Europe beginning Jan. 19 on shopDisney.com and shopDisney.co.uk, Disney stores in North America and Europe, as well as select Disney Parks around the world.
The first release includes Disney nuiMOs plush of Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Stitch and Angel, along with an assortment of fashionable outfits and accessories for fans to mix and match to create their own unique styles.
“Disney is unique in its ability to create a phenomenon in one region and expand the excitement to other parts of the world,” said Stephanie Young, president, Consumer Products, Games and Publishing. “Bringing Disney nuiMOs to North America and Europe, while maintaining the authenticity that made these plush so beloved in Asia, will enable millions of additional fans to express their love for our characters and stories while celebrating their own individuality by creating personalized looks.”
The name nuiMOs is a blend of the Japanese words nuigurumi, meaning plush, and moderu, meaning model. Disney nuiMOs are meant to be an extension of one’s self, with the flexibility to change their looks to suit one’s unique personality and taste. Disney nuiMOs are flexible and can do a wide variety of poses. Adding along their pocket-sized and portable characteristics, they are the perfect companions and models.
On the first Monday of each month, beginning Feb. 1, new accessories, outfits or plush will be released to keep up with the latest trends, including co-brands with Loungefly, Spirit Jersey, Ashley Eckstein and more. Disney nuiMOs plush retail for $17.99 USD each, with outfits and accessories starting at $12.99 USD.
After Johnny Depp lost his libel case in the UK, Disney and other studios began to back away from the famed Pirates of the Caribbean actor, but rumour has that long time friend Tim Burton might be the one to give the actor another shot with a role in Beetlejuice 2.
“Depp has had talks with his old friend to team up once again for a new project. He can’t say for sure right now what it might be, but he notes that one possibility is the long-awaited Beetlejuice 2,” insider Daniel Richtman claims.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have a longstanding successful relationship when it comes to movies. This shared history might be one reason the director is willing to consider Depp in an upcoming film in spite of the latter’s recent woes. Through the years they’ve worked together on a total of eight films.
“If he manages to get one more good part, he could ostensibly come back,” indie producer Orian Williams said. “I would consider hiring him for the right role. You can question a lot, but you can’t ever question his talent.”
Disney had distanced itself from the 57-year-old actor even before his ‘wife beater’ libel trial in the UK, despite never formally severing ties according to The Hollywood Reporter.
THR reveals Disney blocked Depp’s return to Pirate’s of the Caribbean. Citing producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s desire to include Depp in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie, even if just in a cameo role to hand over the reins of the franchise to Robbie, the report says “Disney balked,” refusing to entertain the idea due to the reputation risk it would pose for the family-friendly media giant.
“Not the Mama!” As we previously reported, Dinosaurs is coming to Disney+ and now Disney has officially announced, the classic ’90s sitcom is coming to the streaming service in January!
Set in the prehistoric era, the Jim Henson Productions puppet show initially ran on ABC from 1991 to 1994, was a series about the end of an entire species whixh has become a bit of a cult classic and was truly ahead of it’s time.
Disney+ revealed that all 65 episodes of the show will be available to stream on their service, starting January 29 as you can see in the post below:
Gotta love this news! Earl, Baby, and the rest of the Sinclair fam are coming to #DisneyPlus. 🦖 Start streaming Dinosaurs on January 29. pic.twitter.com/Xaz08svFPb
— Disney+ (@disneyplus) December 15, 2020
Dinosaurs was a joint production between Michael Jacobs Productions and Jim Henson Television, with Walt Disney Television and Buena Vista International involved as well.
The show debuted in 1991 — one year after the death of Henson — and focused on the life of a family of anthropomorphic dinosaurs as they go about their daily lives and navigate the highs and lows of society and culture in 60,000,003 BC Pangaea.
The show ran for four seasons on ABC, eventually airing its finale on Oct. 19, 1994. While it was fan-loved series during its run, the show became somewhat of a cult classic, finding a steady audience once it landed on DVD and streaming services.
While the show is not currently streaming anywhere other than for purchase, it was previously available on Hulu.
Abigail Disney has opened up about her concerns surrounding the corporate policies of The Walt Disney Company again and she now says, Disney “Needs to be Saved From Itself.”
Disney has continually criticized the company’s compensation practices for senior executives and its treatment of lower-level employees.
Unlike most company shareholders, however, Disney has a personal connection to the entertainment giant, which was co-founded by her grandfather, Roy O. Disney, the brother of Walt.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s editor-at-large Kim Masters on KCRW’s The Business podcast, the Emmy-winning director says that Disney’s C-suite turnover and the novel coronavirus pandemic have only exacerbated her concerns around the company’s future.
“I don’t believe that the company and the magic can survive this kind of corporate behavior, I don’t think that the brand, as solid gold as it is, will last,” Disney says. “And it is the kind of brand that is so enormous and all-encompassing and people invest so much into it, I don’t think it will erode slowly, it will fall over like a great sequoia … I am a little bit about saving the company over the long term. I think the company needs to be saved from itself.”
At the very core of Disney’s concerns is the chasm between what the C-suite is paid and what the thousands of hourly and low-level Disney “castmembers” are paid.
“The high, high compensation at the top tends to come as a reward for pushing down compensation at the bottom,” she tells Masters. “When I try and draw a direct line between how the C-suite is paid and how the hourly workers are paid, when I try to draw a direct line between some of those things, I think they look at me like I am speaking in some kind of alien language, because to them that is the dumbest thing they have ever heard. To them there is no relationship between what we pay a line worker or a shift worker and what we pay Bob Iger.”
The pandemic has made those differences even more stark, with the company laying off tens of thousands of employees as many of its theme parks remain closed.
“Let’s not pretend that [employees that get laid off] go somewhere and disappear; they lose their houses, they are homeless, and they have to steal things to eat,” she says.
To hear Abigail Disney explain it, there is also a tug-of-war between the creativity that built the company’s brand, and a corporate ideology defined by business school best practices. And that something has changed over the past few decades to depress wages for workers at the same time that executives are seeing their compensation skyrocket.
“My grandfather made a lot of money, and he provided for me and my children of course, he wasn’t shy about taking compensation,” Disney says. “I’m not talking about ownership, I am saying are you willing to put everything you have up again and again and again, every single time, with the chance of losing everything, because that is what my grandfather did … He would never have taken a $66 million payday, never. And not because he was a perfect guy, but because it wasn’t done, it just wasn’t done.”
Disney was also surprised by the executive shakeup this year, with Bob Iger ceding the CEO title to Bob Chapek in February.
“There is no question it’s baffling, there is probably something to know in the fact that it was baffling, because he doesn’t do things that way,” Disney says. “[Iger] is a nice man and a great manager, I have nothing personal against him, but his strategy from day one was to buy Pixar, buy Lucasfilm, he was a purchaser of creativity which added and added to the machine.”
The appointment of Chapek only sharpened her criticism.
“It was extremely disappointing to see a person who never held a creative job in his life take over the company,” Disney added. “It is just a business, it is the deli, they are selling salami, and they are slicing it as thin as they can possibly slice it, because they are not making any more salami.”
And while some hold out hope that a Biden administration could seek to reverse some of the corporate-friendly policies instituted by the Trump administration, Disney remains unconvinced.
Source: THR
During Disney’s Investor Day event, the studio confirmed that Sister Act 3 is officially in development and Whoopi Goldberg set to reprise her iconic role.
The View co-host played Deloris, a lounge singer who joins a convent after being placed in a witness protection program to stay away from a pimp.
The film, which follows 1992’s Sister Act and 1993’s Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, will debut on Disney+. Disney took to Twitter to make the announcement after the investors meeting as you can see below:
Sister Act 3 is in development! 🎤 @WhoopiGoldberg returns to star and produce, with @TylerPerry as producer as well. Sister Act 3 will premiere on @DisneyPlus.
— Disney (@Disney) December 11, 2020
Goldberg, 65, has long advocated for another Sister Act installment, teasing the possibility of a third film in October.
“For a long time, they kept saying no one wanted to see it,” Goldberg said. “And then quite recently, it turns out, that may not be true. People may want to see it.”
The announcement of the third installment, with Perry at the helm, gained widespread attention online. Perry, the creative force behind 22 movies, 20 plays and eight TV shows, built a 330-acre movie studio complex in Atlanta last year.
Disney blocked Johnny Depp from making a returning cameo appearance to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise according to a recent report.
The studio had distanced itself from the 57-year-old actor even before his ‘wife beater’ libel trial in the UK, despite never formally severing ties according to The Hollywood Reporter.
THR reveals Disney blocked Depp’s return. Citing producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s desire to include Depp in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie, even if just in a cameo role to hand over the reins of the franchise to Robbie, the report says “Disney balked,” refusing to entertain the idea due to the reputation risk it would pose for the family-friendly media giant. Take a look at the relevant paragraph below:
The paragraph in question reads:
Disney had already backed away from a Pirates future with Depp well before the U.K. trial, even if it never formally severed ties. Bruckheimer, who has been one of Depp’s biggest champions and once suggested the finger injury happened because “he got it caught in a car door,” was hoping to at least bring the Captain Jack Sparrow character back briefly in the next outing — said to be a female-centric incarnation fronted by Margot Robbie. Disney balked.
There have already been multiple petitions signed by more than a million fans online, that have demanded Depp be reinstated in his role as Sparrow.
Meanwhile, in the same article it was reported that Depp had tried to keep his wife Heard from starring in the 2018 action film Aquaman, with the actor allegedly attempting to have her replaced from the movie.
During Disney’s Investor Day event, the studio confirmed that the 2016 animated hit film Moana is getting a sequel series on Disney+.
Moana brought to the screen the story of a 16-year-old strong-willed daughter of Polynesian village chief, who is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti. When a blight strikes her island, Moana sets sail in search of Maui, a legendary demigod, in the hope of returning the relic to Te Fiti and saving her people.
The Moana series was announced with a number of other animated series in development for the streaming platform, including the Big Hero 6 spinoff Baymax!, Tiana, and Zootopia+ as you can see in the post below:
Just Announced: @DisneyAnimation’s first-ever original animated series are coming to @DisneyPlus: Baymax!, Zootopia+, and Tiana are coming in 2022, and Moana, the series, in 2023. pic.twitter.com/s7aOht4uU6
— Disney (@Disney) December 11, 2020
The Moana animated series will reportedly follow the titular spirited voyagers as she once again ventures beyond the safety of her Polynesian island home of Motunui, and will see Walt Disney Animation bringing in storytellers from Moana’s home region of the Pacific Islands in order to faithfully continue to tell authentic stories of wayfinding and other traditions brought to life for generations through oral storytelling.
The movie was a huge success for Disney, receiving two nominations at the 89th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, and Best Original Song for the inspirational “How Far I’ll Go”. Moana went on to gross $690 million at the box office on its estimated $175 million budget.
The Moana sequel is set to come to Disney+ sometime in 2023.
During Disney’s Investor Day event, the studio confirmed that a new sequel to the 1993 Disney classic “Hocus Pocus” will be running amok amok amok on Disney+
Earlier this year in October, Bette Midler — who starred alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as a trio of witches who are accidentally resurrected on Halloween in the film — revealed in an interview with that she, Parker, 55, and Najimy, 63, have all agreed to star in the highly anticipated sequel.
Disney also shared the news on their twitter account as you can see below:
Coming exclusively to @DisneyPlus is Hocus Pocus 2, the spooky sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic! @AdamMShankman is set to direct.
— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020
“They want to make a movie, they’ve asked us if we were interested and of course all of us said yes,” Midler, 75, said at the time. “I’m game, I’m totally game.”
In the original film, “After moving to Salem, Mass., teenager Max Dennison (Omri Katz) explores an abandoned house with his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and their new friend, Allison (Vinessa Shaw). After dismissing a story Allison tells as superstitious, Max accidentally frees a coven of evil witches (Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy) who used to live in the house. Now, with the help of a magical cat, the kids must steal the witches’ book of spells to stop them from becoming immortal.”
Although casting has not yet been confirmed for the sequel, Midler previously said the original cast was interested in returning to their iconic roles. They recently brought their characters back to life for a virtual fundraising event in October – yes, it even included a performance of I Put A Spell On You.