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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 […]

Disney+ goes on pre-sale in the UK with introductory subscription offer

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We’ve been made to wait, but Disney+ is now less than a month away from arriving in the UK, and to mark the occasion the streaming service is offering a pre-launch annual subscription for the price of £49.99, equivalent to £4.17 a month, and a saving of £10 on the regular annual price of £59.99 […]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Bad Batch’

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Ricky Church reviews the first episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7… After six years off the air (seven if you think about the show’s original cancellation), Star Wars: The Clone Wars has returned for its highly anticipated seventh and final season. The season premiere wastes little time placing fans in the thick of things […]

Video Review – Onward (2020)

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Onward, 2020. Directed by Dan Scanlon. Featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer, Ali Wong, Lena Waithe, and Mel Rodriguez. In this video review, EJ reviews the latest Pixar film, Onward. With the high standards set by the brand’s usual work, join EJ as he dives into why this one […]