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YouTube Reportedly Cancelling Plans for Original Premium Content
Casualty of the Streaming Platform Arms Race YouTube is apparently giving up on producing more original premium content according to Bloomberg. The company has a slew of original shows such as Cobra Kai, and Origin. However, they have been struggling to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and soon…
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The First Official Trailer Is Released For Toy Story 4
Toy Story 4 I must admit that when I first heard that a brand new Toy Story film was on the way, I was more than a little confused. While I won’t go into any specific spoilers, the third film in the franchise has a somewhat conclusive feel about it…
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Captain Marvel Defies Expectations – Hauls in $455M Worldwide
Strong 3-Day Opening Despite Critical Reception Disney and Marvel Studios continue their success with the arrival of Captain Marvel. The movie is the studio’s first female-led superhero movie and has been the target of review bombing weeks prior to launch. This did not seem to do much to affect its…
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Disney Streaming Platform Will Include The Entire Film Library
Disney Plus Will Include Entire Film Library At some point this year, Disney is expected to launch their own subscription based streaming service. Exactly what this will entail (or more accurately) include has, to date, been something of a mystery. Disney has, however, been working hard to acquire franchises over…
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Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Theme Parks Launch Date Revealed
Launching in Two Phases Star Wars fans have been eagerly anticipating the launch of the Galaxy’s Edge theme park for ever since its announcement two years ago. LucasFilm in collaboration with Disney imagineers are bridging the Star Wars universe into the real world. Dedicating a chunk of Disneyland and Disneyworld…
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New Trailers Released For Disney Dumbo And Aladdin Films
Dumbo And Aladdin It is something of a growing trend at Disney in recent years to provide live-action adaptations to their classic catalogue. We have, after all, already seen this done for The Jungle Book, Alice In Wonderland and most recently Beauty and the Beast. With the Grammy awards being…
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The Punisher Returns to Netflix for Season 2 on January 18
Frank Castle Returns to Netflix Netflix has some good news for Marvel fans. The Punisher is coming back soon for season 2 starting January 18, 2019. As expected, the second season is a direct continuation of the arc from explosive first season. This time, Billy Russo is evolving into one…
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2018 Worldwide Box Office to Reach All-Time High with $41.7B
No Business Like Show Business The year is almost over and if analyst estimates hold true, 2018 box office movie records would end up raking in $41.7 billion worldwide. This is the highest benchmark ever since the movie industry began. Comscore (via Variety) predicts that the international grosses will reach…
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Square Enix Release New Kingdom Hearts 3 Video
New Kingdom Hearts 3 Video It’s not often that my wife gets hyped for the release of a video game, but barely a week can go by without her making a subtle enquiry as to whether Kingdom Hearts 3 is out yet. Incidentally, it isn’t and the release date is…
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Marvel TV Era on Netflix Ends – ‘Daredevil’ Officially Cancelled
Is This The End of the Line for Marvel TV? Following the news of Netflix cancelling Iron Fist and Luke Cage, the streaming service is now announcing that Daredevil is next on the chopping block. The series which kicked off the Marvel TV mini-universe for Netflix is a flagship series…
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Disney Repacks Original Star Wars Trilogy into Animated Shorts
Introducing Star Wars to Younger Audiences Although revered by a hardcore fanbase, the only way to truly keep the Star Wars franchise alive is to reach new audiences. In Disney‘s perspective, this means reaching out to children and the next generation. Especially those who have not and will not have…
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Disney Releases Trailer For New CGI Lion King Remake
Disney Releases Trailer For New CGI Lion King Remake Many people have a rather soft spot in their heart for the Lion King. The animated film, which released in 1994 marked a recent upturn in the quality (and also quantity) of Disney films. The ’80s hadn’t been particularly kind to…
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Disney’s Upcoming Streaming Service Finally Has a Name
Say Hello to ‘Disney+’ Disney‘s much anticipated streaming service which is set to rival Netflix finally has a name. The service will be called ‘Disney+’ and it is set to debut sometime in 2019. Unlike Netflix who has to constantly find content for their platform, Disney already has access to…
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Disney Reports It’s Made Back the $4BN It Spent On Lucasfilm
Disney Reports It’s Made Back the $4BN It Spend On Lucasfilm Six years ago Disney purchased Lucasfilm. This, by proxy, meant that Disney had gained control over one of the hottest film franchises out there. Namely, Star Wars. Spending $4.05BN (yes, billion) on it though at the time seemed like…
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Disney Confirm Boba Fett Star Wars Film Is “100% Dead”
Disney Confirm Boba Fett Film Isn’t Happening When Disney purchased Lucasarts it seemed clear that the House of Mouse was rather keen in extending the Star Wars Universe quite significantly. Since the purchase, we have already seen a number of brand new feature films released with even more to come.…
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