10 posts tagged ‘bob iger’
Year-end roundtable: On Disney's 100th anniversary, what succeeded?
AV Club,
In a series of special year-end roundtable discussions, The A.V. Club looks back at the stories that made the biggest impact on pop culture in 2023. Read more...
The biggest pop culture news stories of 2023
What a year, huh? It feels like we’ve been saying that since March (in the spirit of a 30 Rock meme) but, finally, the expression is earned. Every year is weird at this point; they have been since at least 2020, and you could make the case the weirdness started even earlier. Maybe life itself is weird. It probably is. Read more...
Frozen Celebrates 10 Years With Sequels and Disney Parks Lands
Gizmodo,
Walt Disney Animation Studios ushered in a new era with the release of 2013's Frozen, a film which opened second upon release but went on to become the highest-grossing animated film at the time. Frozen II followed in 2019 and was similarly successful—so of course, there’s now more sequels on the way, as well as immers… Read more...
Tim Allen seems pretty excited about Toy Story 5
It seems like Toy Story is getting sequels to infinity and beyond, whether we like it or not. While Toy Story 5 was initially announced back in February (alongside the grimmer news of 7,000 company layoffs), it seems like the studio is actually starting to move forward with the project. Does this mean the recently… Read more...
It’s not Iman Vellani’s problem that The Marvels is a bomb
Marvel’s The Marvels is having a pretty lousy time at the box office, having already gotten the worst opening in MCU history and then a huge drop-off in its second week, but star Iman Vellani—who plays Ms. Marvel, a.k.a. Kamala Khan—isn’t phased by it. In fact, it sounds like she doesn’t particularly care about the… Read more...
For the Fourth Time in Forever, We’re Getting More Frozen
Vulture,
Fourquels are better than threequels, Sven. Don’t you think that’s true?
There will probably be a Frozen 4, by the way
If there’s one rule of the modern movie business, it’s “milk a good thing for all it’s worth.” Disney’s animated divisions have traditionally been fertile ground for new and innovative storytelling, but they’re now heavily in the business of sequels. Earlier this year, the company’s CEO Bob Iger announced a new Toy… Read more...
Disney Is Already Planning On a Frozen 4
With both the Writer’s strike at an end and SAG-AFTRA’s suspend as it heads to vote on its next contract, Hollywood is getting back into the swing of things: announcing things, way, way, way ahead of time for absolutely no rhyme or reason. Read more...