120 posts tagged ‘disney’
Hazbin Hotel review: Vivid and stylish animated series lacks writing flair
AV Club,
The age of the scripted web series, when DIY projects like Broad City, High Maintenance, and Insecure leaped from a browser window to TV, has long passed. That is until Hazbin Hotel. Conceived by Salvadoran-American cartoonist Vivienne Medrano (aka VivziePop), Hazbin is an adult animated musical set in a technicolor… Read more...
12 more Broadway musicals based on films we’d like to see on the big screen
It’s nothing new for Broadway creatives to look to Hollywood for inspiration, but the trend has gotten a little out of hand in recent years. You can’t throw a stone in Times Square without hitting an advertisement for the latest musical based on a movie. But now it’s Hollywood taking the cue from Broadway’s successes.… Read more...
Daredevil's New Show May Reunite Its Original Trio
Gizmodo,
The upcoming Daredevil: Born Again series may have been fully reborn on a casting level. Along with leading man Charlie Cox, both Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson may be set to reprise their respective roles as his friends/coworkers, Karen Page and Foggy Nelson. Read more...
The Mandalorian's Cinematic Prospects May Not Just Be One-Offs
Earlier in the week, Disney surprisingly revealed Din Djarin will be headlining two films. Along with Dave Filoni’s New Republic-era movie still potentially called Heir to the Empire, the Mandalorian will star in The Mandalorian & Grogu, which sees father and son go on a big-screen adventure. Read more...
All the Shocking Star Wars News of the Week, and More
Lucasfilm decided to drop a bomb this week with the shocking reveal of a remixed movie slate: now headlined by a Mandalorian movie, the first Star Wars film to enter production since The Rise of Skywalker. But that wasn’t all in the galaxy far far away: Ahsoka’s back! Luke and Padmé finally met, sort of! There’s all… Read more...
Monsieur Spade shows its hand, The Curse delivers an unforgettable finale, and more from the week in TV
It kind of goes without saying, but here we go anyway: Humphrey Bogart’s portrayal of Dashiell Hammett’s genre-defining private detective character Sam Spade in the 1941 noir classic The Maltese Falcon is one of the all-time great movie performances. Bogie’s brooding gumshoe is vulnerable and cynical at the same time,… Read more...
Will Mean Girls kick off a new era for the 'movie to musical to movie musical' pipeline?
Mean Girls, the movie-musical adaption that opens in theaters this weekend, feels like both an inevitable release and a bizarre confluence of trends that began long before its young cast was even born. We know that Hollywood will take any opportunity to expand an existing piece of intellectual property in a bid to… Read more...
The week in entertainment news: How about those Golden Globes, huh?
Sometimes an awards show moment can change the course of history—at least, if you’re Taylor Swift. The mind immediately goes to the 2009 VMAs, an event that has haunted both Swift and Kanye West’s careers for more than a decade. Most recently, there was the cringeworthy Jo Koy quip about the cameras cutting less… Read more...