Review: Artemis Fowl is a crushing disappointment
Newcomer Ferdia Shaw beat out 1,200 other actors for the title role. Disney Once upon a time, the fairies lived above ground. Disney Human greed drove them underground "to escape from your rapacious appetite." Disney The Fowl estate, home to 12-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis. Artemis and Butler (Nonso Anozie) discover a portal to the fairy…
Clone Wars S7 premiere brings the war to Star Wars—and hints...
Enlarge / Could we squeeze a few more lightsabers into this Clone Wars poster image, Lucasfilm?Lucasfilm After a long road to The Clone Wars’ final season, the animated series returns to wrap up a story over a decade in the making. The opening episodes of the new season—which debuts on Friday, February 21, exclusively on…
Disney’s CGI-remake-mania continues with a live-action fox as Robin Hood
Enlarge / Disney has yet to formally announce a remake of 1973's Robin Hood, but THR has confirmed it's being made. In the meantime, we've come up with our own guess of how the reported film, a "hybrid" of live-action footage and CGI characters, will look in action.Getty / Aurich Lawson The Walt Disney Company…
Apple TV+: Can it be saved before everyone’s free trials run...
Enlarge / When Apple TV+ landed on November 1, it did not include all of these original series, thanks to its "soft launch." When Apple TV+ launched in November 2019, it was the first of four major video-streaming services that would launch between then and May of the next year. It was also one of…
Review: Sumptuously reimagined Mulan turns Disney princess into a true warrior
Liu Yifei stars as Hua Mulan in Disney's live action remake of Mulan. I'm on record as not being a huge fan of Disney's live-action remakes, but Mulan, the studio's live-action remake of the 1998 animated film, is a welcome exception to that personal sentiment. This isn't just a lazy frame-by-frame copy cat of the original (looking at…
Blast off: Disney drops first trailer for The Right Stuff dramatic...
In October, Disney+ will debut its new series, The Right Stuff, based on the 1979 book by Tom Wolfe. A team of elite military test pilots finds itself tapped to be astronauts for Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program in the United States, in The Right Stuff, a new eight-episode dramatic series debuting in October…
Mandalorian season 2 premiere: This is (still) the way
Lucasfilm Last year, Disney dropped The Mandalorian, a Disney+ exclusive Star Wars TV series, into one of its most crowded entertainment years of all time. Avengers Endgame un-snapped the world. Leia and Kylo died. Heck, the company released three live-action remakes of cartoon classics last year. This year, a new season of The Mandalorian no longer…
“This is the way”: Disney drops first trailer for The Mandalorian...
Pedro Pascal is back as the titular bounty hunter who befriends a mysterious Child in The Mandalorian S2. Disney has dropped the first trailer for the second season of The Mandalorian, the Emmy-nominated first live-action Star Wars TV series created by Jon Favreau. Starring Pedro Pascal as Din Djarin, the titular Mandalorian, the series takes place a few…
Wandavision premieres in ways that would never work on ABC—and that’s...
Enlarge / The black-and-white world of Wandavision, as occasionally interrupted by color in its first two episodes on Disney+ as of today.Disney The modern era of Marvel Comics television has been a jumpy one, with ABC and Netflix dividing-and-conquering based on available comic series, exclusivity deals, and otherwise trying not to step on Marvel Studios'…
Mulan skips US theaters, will debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an...
Hua Mulan (Liu Yifei) tries to be the perfect woman. She just doesn't have a knack for traditional skills. YouTube/Disney Hua Zhou (Tzi Ma) has no sons and offers himself to serve once more in the emperor's army. YouTube/Disney Mulan, her mother, and sister Hua Xiu (Xana Tang) are dismayed. YouTube/Disney Mulan rides off to…