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There will probably be a Frozen 4, by the way
AV Club,
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...
Hollywood Just Released 2 Teddy Bear Trailers on the Same Day
Gizmodo,
The teddy bears are coming! The teddy bears are coming! Dear God watch out, the teddy bears are coming! Read more...
Peacock's Ted takes shots at both Peacock and itself in first teaser
To quote The A.V. Club’s Sam Barsanti, “Who was the first person to walk into a movie studio executive’s office and say ‘it’s like a movie for kids, but it has a hard-R rating,’ and does that person now have more money than God?” Whether or not that evil genius was actually Seth MacFarlane or not, he’s certainly the… 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...
Please Don't Destroy finds common ground with Beyoncé
The Please Don’t Destroys guys haven’t really been gone, but they’re back nonetheless. Sure, Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy returned to Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago after the writers’ strike ended, but when their new film, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain, premiered during… Read more...
Leaked video shows Alec Baldwin on the Rust set with prop guns
New footage of Alec Baldwin on the set of Rust with a prop gun has been leaked to the public amid ongoing legal issues pertaining to the film. NBC News obtained five videos from the set, which were taken days before Baldwin fired a prop gun that injured director Joel Souza and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.… Read more...
New Percy Jackson And The Olympians trailer finally gives us some actual Olympians
After 20th Century Studios’ dismal stab at the Percy Jackson series in 2010, Disney+ series co-showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and and Dan Shotz knew they one job: don’t fuck it up. Based on the latest trailer for Percy Jackson And The Olympians (and everything else we’ve seen), it seems they’ve completed their… Read more...
Superman: Legacy Casts Another Deep Cut Comics Character
Russell T. Davies teases a more human Doctor for David Tennant’s latest Doctor Who incarnation. Scarlett Johansson has an update on her Tower of Terror movie. Has The Last of Us found its Abby? Plus, what’s coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away! Read more...