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Disney-Pixar’s Onward tops the box office but falls well short of expectations

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Pixar released the first of its two offerings for the year this weekend, and while Onward managed to top the domestic and international box office charts, the Chris Pratt and Tom Holland-led animated adventure came in well below expectations. As per studio estimates, Onward amassed $40 million domestically to dethrone Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man and […]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 3 Review – ‘On The Wings of Keeradaks’

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Ricky Church reviews the third episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7… With the thought-to-be-deceased Echo recovered by Anakin, Rex and the Bad Batch, ‘On The Wings of Keeradaks’ doesn’t lose any momentum as the group fight their way through the entire episode from Separatist forces. The action remains fresh as the situation […]

Disney+ developing Beauty and the Beast prequel series with Gaston and LeFou

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Disney is looking to expand its Disney+ output with a prequel series based upon 2017’s Beauty and the Beast; however, it won’t focus on Belle or the Beast, but rather the characters of Gaston and LeFou. THR confirmed this news, while revealing that Luke Evans and Josh Gad will be reprising their roles as Gaston […]

Sneak peek clip and images from Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 3 – ‘On the Wings of Keeradaks’

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The third episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 hits Disney+ tomorrow, and you can check out a batch of images and a sneak peek clip from ‘On the Wings of Keeradaks’ here… SEE ALSO: Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Dave Filoni reveals George Lucas’ influence on the final season Jedi Anakin Skywalker […]

The Call of the Wild to lose around $50 million

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Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox may have given the House of Mouse control of a host of prestigious and potentially lucrative IPs (see Avatar, X-Men, The Simpsons et al), but it’s also brought with it some costly bombs. Last year, X-Men: Dark Phoenix tanked at the box office, finishing its run as the lowest […]

Disney-Pixar’s Onward tracking $100 million global opening despite coronavirus fears

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Disney-Pixar’s Onward is set to make its global bow this week, and despite growing concern about the coronavirus (which has just led to the delay of the new James Bond film No Time To Die), it looks as though the animated adventure is on course for a solid opening. As reported by Deadline, the film […]

Subscribers spend three times as long on Netflix as Disney+, according to study

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Despite Disney+’s successful launch, Netflix is still the king of the streaming giants according to a new study. While Disney+ may have picked up an impressive 28 million subscribers since its launch four months ago (and the fact that it is still not available everywhere), Netflix remains the favourite streaming destination for the majority of […]

Disney’s Artemis Fowl gets a new trailer and poster

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Disney has released a new poster and trailer for Artemis Fowl, the upcoming big screen adaptation of Eoin Colfer’s fantasy adventures novels. Directed by Kenneth Branagh, the film stars Ferdia Shaw in the title role as an exceptionally intelligent 12 year old criminal mastermind on a dangerous hunt for his missing father; take a look […]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 2 Review – ‘A Distant Echo’

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Ricky Church reviews the second episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7… The excitement from the Star Wars: The Clone Wars premiere was raised considerably in ‘A Distant Echo’ as Rex, Anakin and the Bad Batch launched a mission to discover the source of the Separatist’s secret signal and, if possible, rescue a captive […]