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The Mandalorian Had Its Entire Season Pre-Visualized Before Filming Began

If someone were to say that a fully animated version of The Mandalorian exists, they wouldn’t be wrong. They wouldn’t be quite right either, but the truth behind the tale is fascinating. On “Process,” the latest episode of Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian, the show’s crew explains what went into the creation of each…

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X-Men: Evolution Is the Mutant Cartoon You Should Be Bingewatching Right Now

Look, I get it. We all went onto Disney+ the minute we could and collectively shredded in the most radical fashion by loading up X-Men: The Animated Series and listening to a truly killer Whitney Houston riff. We’re all Children of the Atom, and Children of the ‘90s, at heart. But we could’ve been doing…

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9 New Minutes of Baby Yoda Magic Will Make Your Day

The Gallery has finally gotten to the Baby. After four episodes with barely a peep about the central character of the show, the latest episode of Disney+’s behind-the-scenes documentary series Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian spends almost 10 minutes discussing Baby Yoda. And it’s glorious. You can watch it on Disney+ right now at this…

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The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in June

Streaming is more important than ever. As huge numbers of people stay home during the global pandemic, many have turned to the plethora of services for a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most streaming services do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some off, and we’re here to help with…

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The First Star Wars Game Show Is Coming and the Trailer Is Here

Next week, every Star Wars fan will wish they were a kid again. That’s because on June 3, Star Wars: Jedi Temple Challenge will finally be released to the world. Hosted by Ahmed Best (aka Jar Jar Binks himself), the show is very much like the kids’ game shows many of us grew up with:…

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Pixar’s Out Short Is a Magical By-the-Numbers Story About Queer Acceptance

At a time when full-fledged series like Steven Universe, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts have all carved out bold new spaces for queer representation in animation, Pixar’s new short feels incredibly staid despite (or because of) the fact it’s Disney’s first attempt at telling a story that…

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The Latest Disney+ Series Is Basically ASMR, With Its Own Animated Movies

Yes, we have reached the point of the pandemic-induced thirst for new streaming content that we have reached “listen to Disney movie sounds for a lil’ while” is now an actual show. This morning Disney lifted the lid on Zenimation, a new shortform series that hit Disney+ today. The surprise drop for the David Bess-edited…

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Disney+ Will Finally Fix Classic Simpsons on May 28

In just over a week, you’ll be able to watch standard definition Simpsons as technology and the TV gods intended: the boxy might of the 4:3 aspect ratio. Disney+ launched with the very tempting opportunity of being able to watch as much Simpsons as one could possibly want (arguably too much, as it was pretty…

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Disney’s Muppets Now Limited Series Finally Has a Release Date and Teaser Images

The Muppets are back, but only for a couple of hours. Disney+ has announced a release date for Muppets Now, a six-episode limited series that takes a meta peek behind the curtain of making a Muppets streaming series happen. The network announced in a press release that Muppets Now is coming to Disney+ on July…

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Well, The Mandalorian Boba Fett Situation Might Have Just Gotten a Whole Lot More Interesting

The Mandalorian’s second season already has enough interesting things going on—babies yoda! sabers dark!—before it started heaping on the prospects of bringing back a few familiar faces…including theseeming, ominous return of Boba Fett. But a new report suggests things aren’t quite going to go the way many people may have expected. Last week, the Hollywood…

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Oh No (Oh Yes?), Disney+ Lets You Turn Its Subtitles Into Comic Sans

We really do live in those interesting times they keep talking about. One of the coolest little features about Disney+ is a settings menu hidden away when you enable subtitles. Unlike a service like Netflix where the choice for subtitles is relatively binary—you either have them on in a language of choice, or you don’t—for…

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The Mandalorian’s Carl Weathers Initially Had a Much Smaller Role

Also, he was an alien. Yesterday, the third episode of Disney’s excellent Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian hit Disney Plus, providing us another behind-the-scenes look at how the show was made, focusing in particular on its third episode. There’s a lot of interesting tidbits from this episode that are worth sharing—Slash Film has a nice rundown…

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The Mandalorian Season 2 Picks Up Justified‘s Timothy Olyphant

A new brand of law is coming to The Mandalorian and it’ll be dished out by Raylan Givens himself. That’s the name of the hard-nosed cop played by Timothy Olyphant on FX’s Justified and now the actor will bring that power and swagger to the Star Wars universe. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that…

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Frank Oz to Baby Yoda: I Don’t Know Her

Without Frank Oz, there likely never would have been a Yoda, or at least a Yoda that would have been memorable enough to inspire The Mandolorian to unleash the Child upon the world. On some level, Oz has to know this, but that doesn’t mean that he’s felt much of a desire to get to…

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Gargoyles Could Have Been the MCU Before the MCU Existed

In the 1990s, the creator of Gargoyles was in a meeting with the then-chairman of Disney, Michael Eisner. The meeting was about potentially buying a comic book company we’re all very familiar with. “I was at a meeting where he wanted to buy Marvel Comics,” Greg Weisman said to Polygon as part of a fascinating…

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Lightning Strikes Twice as a New Percy Jackson TV Show Heads to Disney+

Many fans of Percy Jackson & the Olympians were less than thrilled with the big screen adaptation of Rick Riordan’s series—the author included. Now, after years of trying to get a new take on the fantasy saga, Riordan has announced that a television series is coming to Disney+. Riordan announced in a video on Twitter…

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Report: Katee Sackhoff Is Reprising Her Clone Wars Role on The Mandalorian

You know how Clone Wars is over? Well, about that. /Film is reporting that yet another familiar Clone Wars face will be making an appearance in the second season of The Mandalorian. Unlike the arrival of beloved ex-Jedi Ahsoka Tano (played by Rosario Dawson), this one makes a bit more sense for a show about…

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Dave Filoni’s Thoughts on The Phantom Menace Are Must-See Star Wars TV

Get ready to never think about The Phantom Menace the same way ever again. Disney+ recently launched a new show called Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Mandalorian that goes behind the scenes of the first-ever live-action Star Wars TV show. However, it’s not a traditional making-of show. Each episode focuses on larger themes, and episode…

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6 Interesting Ways The Mandalorian Could Handle Boba Fett’s Return

The Mandalorian isn’t just giving us more Baby Yoda than we are probably equipped to deal with when it returns for season two, but seemingly more than a few familiar Star Wars faces. Last week, reports began swirling that one of those faces is the arrival of a specter that has hung over The Mandalorian…

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Ahsoka Tano Could Have Saved the Republic

The right hero in the wrong place. The story of Ahsoka Tano, the young heroine introduced in Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Anakin Skywalker’s plucky, previously unseen or unmentioned Padawan apprentice, isn’t finished. Her latest in-canon appearance in Star Wars Rebels was open-ended, and rumors suggest very strongly that she’s going to make the…

Movies Julie Muncy

The Mandalorian Had Its Entire Season Pre-Visualized Before Filming Began

X-Men: Evolution Is the Mutant Cartoon You Should Be Bingewatching Right Now

9 New Minutes of Baby Yoda Magic Will Make Your Day

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in June

The First Star Wars Game Show Is Coming and the Trailer Is Here

Pixar’s Out Short Is a Magical By-the-Numbers Story About Queer Acceptance

The Latest Disney+ Series Is Basically ASMR, With Its Own Animated Movies

Disney+ Will Finally Fix Classic Simpsons on May 28

Disney’s Muppets Now Limited Series Finally Has a Release Date and Teaser Images

Well, The Mandalorian Boba Fett Situation Might Have Just Gotten a Whole Lot More Interesting

Oh No (Oh Yes?), Disney+ Lets You Turn Its Subtitles Into Comic Sans

The Mandalorian’s Carl Weathers Initially Had a Much Smaller Role

The Mandalorian Season 2 Picks Up Justified‘s Timothy Olyphant

Frank Oz to Baby Yoda: I Don’t Know Her

Gargoyles Could Have Been the MCU Before the MCU Existed

Lightning Strikes Twice as a New Percy Jackson TV Show Heads to Disney+

Report: Katee Sackhoff Is Reprising Her Clone Wars Role on The Mandalorian

Dave Filoni’s Thoughts on The Phantom Menace Are Must-See Star Wars TV

6 Interesting Ways The Mandalorian Could Handle Boba Fett’s Return

Ahsoka Tano Could Have Saved the Republic

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