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Lucasfilm Scraps Second Season of Leslye Headland’s ‘The Acolyte’

Photo by Lucasfilm Ltd./Lucasfilm Ltd. – © 2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Lucasfilm will not be producing a second season of The Acolyte, the Star Wars Disney+ series. The first season of The Acolyte had premiered in June to less-than-enthusiastic reviews from fans, some of whom took issue with the way the film…

D23: The Last Day Was Dedicated to the Disney Legends

©Courtesy of D23 As always happens on Sundays at D23, the last day of the Convention is dedicated to the fans and to the tribute of the newly elected Disney Legends. During the morning some of the most important artists at Walt Disney Studios and Pixar Animation Studios meet thousands of fans for book signing,…

D23 : What Happened on Day 1 at the Disney Convention

@Courtesy of Disney When at 9.30 on Friday, August 9th the Anaheim Convention Center opened its gates, thousands and thousands of Disney fans had already gathered outside of it, waiting to start this edition of the D23. At least four generations started filling the rooms where talking, panels, and events occurred. As always the enormous…

Mufasa: The Lion King | Official Trailer

©Courtesy of Disney ONLY IN THEATERS DEC. 20 ACTION-PACKED NEW TRAILER FOR DISNEY’S “MUFASA: THE LION KING” PREMIERES AT D23: THE ULTIMATE DISNEY FAN EVENT  Plus, Check Out the New Teaser Poster Featuring Taka, the Cub Who Becomes Scar Disney’s Mufasa : The Lion King director Barry Jenkins and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda, along with cast members Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Seth…

Steven Spielberg to Produce ‘Jaws’ 50th Anniversary Docufilm with National Geographic

Photo by mptvimages.com Fifty years after directing Jaws, Steven Spielberg is collaborating with National Geographic to produce a documentary as an anniversary tribute. Tentatively titled Jaws @ 50, the film will be directed by Laurent Bouzereau under NatGeo’s Amblin Documentaries banner. It will include archival footage and images from Spielberg’s archives, as well as materials…

Inside Out 2 : Exclusive Video Interview with Production Designer Jason Deamer on Creative Art

Adriano Ercolani : Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it, Cinefilos.it and Ciak Magazine. He started working as a film…

Inside Out 2 : Exclusive Video Interview with Director Kelsey Mann and Producer Mark Nielsen

Kelsey Mann started his career at Cartoon Network, where he worked as a storyboard artist on Duck Dodgers, Megas XLR, My Gym Partner’s a Monkey, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, before joining Pixar in 2013, where he started as a story supervisor for Monsters University, The Good Dinosaur (also…

Andrew Stanton to Direct ‘Toy Story 5’

©Courtesy of Disney Andrew Stanton has been tapped to direct the upcoming Toy Story 5, according to a statement by Pixar’s chief creative officer Pete Docter. Stanton is a veteran creative with Pixar, having directed Finding Nemo and WALL-E for the studio, both of which won Oscars for Best Animated Feature. He also wrote the…

‘The Acolyte’ Review: Another Star Wars Show just for the Young

@Photo by Lucasfilm Ltd./Lucasfilm Ltd. – © 2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Since Lucasfilm was sold to Disney in October 2012, the target audience for the Star Wars movies and future TV series changed quite drastically, especially in how the new titles would address the viewers’ tastes. Except for a few productions like…

Moana 2 | Teaser Trailer : Starring Dwayne Johnson, Auli’i Cravalho 

Disney has dropped the first trailer for Moana, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2016 animated hit  on Wednesday. Auli’i Cravalho returns as the voice of Moana, while Dwayne Johnson is again voicing Maui. Although the teaser didn’t provide much of plot, it shows Moana embarking on another sea voyage after discovering a call from her ancestors…

‘Let It Be,’ The Beatles Film Is Restored But Unengaging

If you recall Peter Jackson’s multiple Emmy Award-winning docuseries, The Beatles: Get Back, be prepared for what inspired it! Michael Lindsay-Hogg, over fifty years ago, made the original 1970 film about The Beatles, called Let It Be, which is now available on Disney+ in its restored version. The film opens with a conversation between Jackson…