This week Disney, via Deadline, announced plans for a live-action remake of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, written by David Henry Hwang and featuring music by the original film’s composers, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. Josh Gad is also attached as a producer, with some unconfirmed speculation t...
Read MoreEntertainment Weekly has plunged deeply into Agrabah. The outlet has released several photos and interviews from the set of Disney’s live-action Aladdin remake, as they have done for a myriad of productions in the past. I’ve always looked forward to them doing these articles; they serve to b...
Read MoreThis week, Disney dropped the first footage of their upcoming Kim Possible reboot. We already knew that relative unknowns Sadie Stanley and Sean Giambrone would be playing Kim and her best friend turned boyfriend Ron Stoppable, and that original Kim Possible voice Christy Carlson-Romano and actor/co...
Read MoreAccording to Collider, Tom Hanks is in early talks to portray Pinocchio’s father/creator, Gepetto, in the upcoming live-action remake; Paul King of Paddington fame is also attached to direct the feature. At this point, not much else is known about the project aside from what we can infer, and ...
Read MoreThe Pride Lands are about to get the live-action treatment as the first teaser for Jon Favreau’s remake of The Lion King has been released. Like most people of my generation, I loved The Lion King growing up. It was the first movie I saw four times in the theater (a record that has since … ...
Read MoreCarpets, magic, and monkeys, oh my! For most kids of the nineties, Aladdin was a seminal movie. I remember being six years old and going to Disneyworld, completely myopic about meeting the beloved street-rat. I had been watching the first two films on repeat, completely unaware of all the behind th...
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