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Disney Is Thinking About Buying Twitter: Report

The Walt Disney Co. is working with a financial adviser to evaluate a bid on Twitter Inc., according to a new Bloomberg report. The acquisition would make sense for a lot of reasons. For starters, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is on the board of the Walt Disney Company. It also happens to be one of…

Tech News Michael Nunez Sep 26

Long Lost Proposal Shows Plan for EPCOT’s Cashless City of the Future

Before Walt Disney’s Epcot was a theme park, it was supposed to be an actual city. With actual humans inside of it around the clock. After Walt died in 1966, the plans for Florida slowly changed. But in a newly uncovered proposal for the park’s computer and communications system in 1968, we can see what…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 22

Disney Pulls Offensive Moana Costume Off the Shelves

Just a few days after people noticed that a costume of the demigod Maui being manufactured and sold by Disney included a bodysuit of tattoos and darker skin, Disney has removed the costume from stores, both physical and online. If you don’t recall the costume (or missed it), here you go: And looking at it…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Sep 22

Angela Lansbury Can Still Emotionally Wreck You by Singing the Beauty and the Beast Theme

Continuing the 25th-anniversary celebrations for the animated Beauty and the Beast, Angela Lansbury took the stage before a screening of the film in New York to sing the song that she made iconic. (She even said her classic lines to Chip after it was over!) Enjoy this blast of pure nostalgia and heart-warming skill: [ABC…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Sep 19

Disney Does Brownface in Moana Costume Misfire

Disney’s latest film Moana is a celebration of Polynesian culture that, by all appearances, is aiming to be mindful and diverse. Sadly, it doesn’t look like the Halloween costume department got the memo. Disney has released its line of clothing, toys, and accessories for Moana, and the company decided to make Maui’s costume full-on “brownface.”…

io9 Beth Elderkin Sep 18

The New Moana Trailer Is an Epic Start to Adventure

Of course, Moana’s actual meeting with the demigod Maui is a bit more frustrating than it normally is in most mythic adventures. But holy crap, Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson have such good chemistry as these characters. Also, every single frame of this movie that we’ve seen is gorgeous: Moana comes out November 23.

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Sep 15

Watch the Beauty and the Beast Cast Record Their Parts, and Re-Mourn Jerry Orbach

November 22, 2016 will be the 25th anniversary of the animated Beauty and the Beast, and so Disney has released some behind the scenes footage from the special edition Blu-ray and DVD coming out this month. It is delightful. Just try to fight the desire to rewatch the movie after this: [via The Mary Sue]

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Sep 14

Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time Has Its Lead

Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling, and Reese Witherspoon may be the more recognizable names but they aren’t the stars of A Wrinkle in Time. That honor goes to actress Storm Reid. Director Ava DuVernay just cast Reid as Meg Murry, the young girl at the center of the story who, along with a classmate and her…

Movies Germain Lussier Sep 13

Disney Almost Built a Park Based on the Myst Computer Game

Do you remember Myst? That mysterious 3D computer game from the 1990s where you walked around solving puzzles? Well, believe it or not, the folks over at Disney were in talks with the creators of Myst to turn it into a theme park down in Florida. No joke. The AV Club has a new interview…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 12

Darkwing Duck and DuckTales Are in Separate Universes and This Is Not Okay

Darkwing Duck creator Tad Stones revealed that the terror that flaps in the night doesn’t flap anywhere near Duckberg, because Darkwing and DuckTales exist in two separate universes. Excuse me for a moment, my own universe is collapsing. Stones chatted with Heat Vision this week to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Darkwing Duck’s series debut.…

io9 Beth Elderkin Sep 10

Disney’s Adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time Just Added Two More Amazing Actresses

Few movies on the horizon are as exciting as Ava DuVernay’s Disney adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. It’s a book almost everyone knows and DuVernay is quietly building an incredibly impressive cast. We’d already reported that Oprah Winfrey would be playing Mrs. Which in the film, but now The Hollywood Reporter says…

Movies Germain Lussier Sep 7

15 Fascinating Facts About the Making of Disney’s Moana

An adventurous young girl sets out with a demi-god to solve the mystery of her people in Moana, the upcoming film from Disney Animation. It sounds like a simple story, but as directors Ron Clements and John Musker can tell you, putting it on-screen is anything but simple. Earlier this summer, we visited Disney and…

Movies Germain Lussier Sep 7

Walt Disney World Won’t Say The Word Zika

Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and SeaWorld Florida have all put up signs about mosquito prevention efforts today. The Florida theme parks will also start offering free mosquito repellant to any visitors who ask for it. But curiously you won’t find the one word that matters on any of the signs or handouts: Zika. WDW…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 28

Your First Look at Lumière and Cogsworth in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Remake (UPDATED)

After that fantastic teaser trailer, we’ve been patiently waiting for something, anything, in the way of information for the upcoming live-action musical version of Disney’ Beauty and the Beast. We finally have it. The first art from the film has been revealed and it gives us an early look at two of the primary non-human…

Movies Germain Lussier Aug 26

Disney May Remake James and the Giant Peach as a Live-Action Sam Mendes Movie

After The BFG—a Roald Dahl adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg, of all people—failed to connect at the box office, one would have thought the odds of Disney quickly announcing another Dahl property probably seemed slim. Well, that’s exactly what just happened. Deadline is reporting that Sam Mendes, who won an Oscar for American Beauty and…

Movies Germain Lussier Aug 25

Disney May Have Found a Way to Deflect Lasers With a Lightsaber

When Disney opens 14-acre Star Wars areas in California and Florida in the coming years, there’s no doubt everything will be state of the art. In fact, a new patent suggests they’ve figured out a new way to make lightsabers work in the real world, but maybe not in the way you think. A website…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 17

Lin-Manuel Miranda Signs Up For Another Disney Film, the Live-Action Little Mermaid

He did a song for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he’s helping with songs for Moana, he’s starring in and doing songs for Mary Poppins Returns and now, Lin -Manuel Miranda is about to join another Disney film, the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Deadline reports Miranda, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning creator…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 16

Kiera Knightley Will Be the Sugar Plum Fairy in Disney’s Live-Action Nutcracker

The Nutcracker, one of the latest films in Disney’s stable of live-action versions of classic tales, has just cast Kiera Knightley as the Sugar Plum Fairy. Of course, the movie is not based on the ballet. It’s based on the book the ballet is based on. The ballet is The Nutcracker. The book is The…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Aug 16

Ben Whishaw Is in Talks to Join That Mary Poppins Sequel

Ben Whishaw is reportedly in talks to play the grown-up version of Michael Banks, the boy from the first Mary Poppins film. I kind of need this to be happen. Mary Poppins Returns, which is set 20 years after the first film, has amassed a fairly impressive cast list so far. Emily Blunt is already…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta Aug 15

James Cameron Will Unveil New Details on the Avatar Theme Park in November

There’s news coming from the world of Pandora. As most of us are patiently twiddling our thumbs waiting for Disney to open its Star Wars lands, James Cameron’s Avatar is going to beat it into the parks. Pandora: The World of Avatar will open in 2017 at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida and io9 can…

io9 Germain Lussier Aug 15

Disney Is Thinking About Buying Twitter: Report

Long Lost Proposal Shows Plan for EPCOT’s Cashless City of the Future

Disney Pulls Offensive Moana Costume Off the Shelves

Angela Lansbury Can Still Emotionally Wreck You by Singing the Beauty and the Beast Theme

Disney Does Brownface in Moana Costume Misfire

The New Moana Trailer Is an Epic Start to Adventure

Watch the Beauty and the Beast Cast Record Their Parts, and Re-Mourn Jerry Orbach

Disney’s A Wrinkle In Time Has Its Lead

Disney Almost Built a Park Based on the Myst Computer Game

Darkwing Duck and DuckTales Are in Separate Universes and This Is Not Okay

Disney’s Adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time Just Added Two More Amazing Actresses

15 Fascinating Facts About the Making of Disney’s Moana

Walt Disney World Won’t Say The Word Zika

Your First Look at Lumière and Cogsworth in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Remake (UPDATED)

Disney May Remake James and the Giant Peach as a Live-Action Sam Mendes Movie

Disney May Have Found a Way to Deflect Lasers With a Lightsaber

Lin-Manuel Miranda Signs Up For Another Disney Film, the Live-Action Little Mermaid

Kiera Knightley Will Be the Sugar Plum Fairy in Disney’s Live-Action Nutcracker

Ben Whishaw Is in Talks to Join That Mary Poppins Sequel

James Cameron Will Unveil New Details on the Avatar Theme Park in November

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