The live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake has cast its Hiccup and Astrid. Mason Thames (The Black Phone) will portray the lead Viking youngster, and Nico Parker (Dumbo, The Last of Us) will play dragon expert Astrid. The movie is being directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-directed the original. A ...
Read MoreDeadline reports that Tim Burton is done with Disney after his experience making Dumbo. Burton was honored with the Prix award at the Lumiere film festival in Lyon. In a conversation with Deadline, Burton compares Disney to “a horrible big circus” and says Dumbo was somewhat autobiographical. R...
Read MoreDo you miss the good old, original Disney films? Are you interested in reading the backstory of Walt Disney and his team creating shorts and films? Then you should read The Walt Disney Film Archives: The Animated Movies 1921-1968. This 512-page book starts with Disney’s Laugh-O-grams and en...
Read MoreIn honor of Mother’s Day, I’d like to take a look at some of Disney’s best mother characters. Surprisingly, there aren’t that many, as most of them are either dead for the majority of the film or pushed to the background, so I’ll also be including Pixar mothers. Characters introduced in se...
Read MoreAbout a week ago, The Boardwalk Times broke the news that the Disney+ streaming platform would be excluding the film Song of the South as well as scenes from the original Dumbo featuring the crow characters. You can see the original story here. I was instantly intrigued by this story, but I was hopi...
Read MoreThis weekend saw Disney’s most recent live-action remake of one of their animated classics, this time 1941’s Dumbo. Personally, I have mixed feelings on Disney’s trend of remaking their movies because the results have been mixed in terms of quality and creativity. 2015’s Cinderella is my fav...
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