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Column: Disneyland will never be completed. Neither will healing the Earth
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Column: Disneyland will never be completed. Neither will healing the Earth

LA Times  

Benjamin Kay, a marine biology teacher at Santa Monica High School and Santa Monica College, holds an “I Love EVs” sign at a rally held by climate activists at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank on Sunday. The company also promised to stop operating the combustion vehicles by fall 2026 — a much firmer commitment than its initial timeline of “in …

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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Succession’ clean up at 2024 Golden Globes: full winners list
1 year ago

‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Succession’ clean up at 2024 Golden Globes: full winners list

LA Times  

“The Holdovers” star Da’Vine Joy Randolph poses with her Golden Globe for female actor in a supporting role in a motion picture. Motion Picture – Drama “Anatomy of a Fall” “Killers of the Flower Moon” “Maestro” “Oppenheimer” | WINNER “Past Lives” “The Zone of Interest” Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Annette Bening Lily Gladstone | WINNER Sandra …

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Don Bluth made animation history by leaving Disney. Looking back, he has no regrets
2 years, 4 months ago

Don Bluth made animation history by leaving Disney. Looking back, he has no regrets

LA Times  

Don Bluth first found his “laughing place” — a term he uses to refer to an intangible mental refuge from the drudgery of existence — in the films of his lifelong hero, Walt Disney. For 20 years, Bluth worked on a variety of Disney projects, including “The Sword in the Stone,” “Robin Hood,” “The Rescuers” and “Pete’s Dragon,” on the …

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NAACP Image Awards 2022: Here Are All The Winners
2 years, 10 months ago

NAACP Image Awards 2022: Here Are All The Winners

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The 53rd NAACP Image Awards has arrived. In her acceptance speech, Hannah-Jones called out the ongoing Republican-backed efforts to ban critical race theory in schools across the U.S., saying “our history is being attacked.” Check out the list of nominees and winners below: MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES Outstanding Motion Picture WINNER: “The Harder They Fall” “Judas and the …

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Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla – why we've got the Vikings wrong
2 years, 10 months ago

Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla – why we've got the Vikings wrong

BBC  

Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla – why we've got the Vikings wrong Netflix As Vikings: Valhalla premieres on Netflix, Luke Walpole explores how images of marauding pagans are misleading – despite being part of the popular imagination since the 8th-Century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The success of Assassins' Creed: Valhalla reflects an ongoing fascination with the heady mix of violence and pagan mysticism that …

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Golden Globes 2021 Nominations: Full List of Nominees
3 years, 11 months ago

Golden Globes 2021 Nominations: Full List of Nominees

News 18  

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced the nominees for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA THE FATHER MANK NOMADLAND PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA VIOLA DAVIS MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM ANDRA DAY THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY VANESSA …

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Netflix, HBO and Beyoncé lead 2021 NAACP Image Award nominations
3 years, 11 months ago

Netflix, HBO and Beyoncé lead 2021 NAACP Image Award nominations

LA Times  

The NAACP has revealed this year’s nominees for its annual Image Awards, celebrating the work of artists of color and those advocating for social justice through art. Netflix leads this year’s film and TV nominations with 48 — including multiple nods for award-season heavyweights “Da 5 Bloods” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — followed by HBO with 25. Boseman is …

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Disney studio cochairman Alan Horn passes reins to Alan Bergman
4 years ago

Disney studio cochairman Alan Horn passes reins to Alan Bergman

LA Times  

Disney is passing the torch at the top of its movie studio. The division Bergman and Horn oversee is now dubbed Disney Studios Content, which encompasses a sprawling array of units including the Blue Sky animation studio, prestigious film label Searchlight Pictures and Disney’s live theatrical production business, in addition to Lucasfilm, Marvel and Pixar. The heads of Disney’s production …

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Disney announces Sister Act 3 with Whoopi Goldberg returning to star
4 years ago

Disney announces Sister Act 3 with Whoopi Goldberg returning to star

Daily Mail  

Nearly 30 years after donning that iconic habit, Whoopi Goldberg is returning to star in and produce the long-awaited sequel Sister Act 3. Original Buzz: Perhaps one of the most intriguing projects announced during the lengthy presentation was Lightyear, a new animated film debuting in theaters June 17, 2022 No words: In the Toy Story franchise, the Buzz Lightyear doll …

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The complete list of all Marvel, ‘Star Wars’, other projects Disney announced on Investor Day
4 years ago

The complete list of all Marvel, ‘Star Wars’, other projects Disney announced on Investor Day

The Hindu  

The Walt Disney Company revealed a massive slate of new projects on its 2020 Investor Day, with updates on several Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, National Geographic, Hulu, FX and more on its platform Disney Plus as well. Disney Television Studios is currently in production on four live action series set to debut on Disney+ in 2021: “ The Mighty Ducks: …

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Bebe Rexha WINS $5,200 gambling in Las Vegas
5 years, 2 months ago

Bebe Rexha WINS $5,200 gambling in Las Vegas

Daily Mail  

Bebe Rexha treated her friends to a lavish meal after winning $5,200 gambling in Las Vegas. The singer loves to play the slots in Sin City and during to a recent visit - during which she performed at the JBL Festival - she ended up pocketing the tidy sum after initially experiencing a losing run which was gonna bust her …

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Disney's live action Lion King rules the savannah of remakes, reboots and spin-offs
5 years, 5 months ago

Disney's live action Lion King rules the savannah of remakes, reboots and spin-offs

ABC  

Ah yes, the circle of life. And 25 years or a moment later — because time and memory and nostalgia have long since collapsed in on each other — Disney's The Lion King is back again for the first time, to roar across the savannah of superheroes, half-baked reboots and lazy spin-offs that our recycled culture keeps spawning. Those familiar …

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Toy Story 4 sees Disney franchise oscillate between reset and replay mode in comeback bid
5 years, 6 months ago

Toy Story 4 sees Disney franchise oscillate between reset and replay mode in comeback bid

ABC  

Want to feel old? At 24, modern animation's foundational family series has been running long enough that the toddlers who loved 1995's Toy Story have now been able to groom their own kids with three decades of Pixar product — which is, of course, precisely where the Disney nostalgia factory wants them. When Bonnie and her parents set out on …

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Will Smith is all-smiles with his family on the purple carpet at the premiere of Aladdin
5 years, 7 months ago

Will Smith is all-smiles with his family on the purple carpet at the premiere of Aladdin

Daily Mail  

They've been married for over 20 years. Smitten: The couple have been married for over 20 years and are still besotted with one another Family: Will wore a brilliant blazer with black satin lapels and a slim-fit black sweater underneath for his big night, but his wife stole the spotlight Genie pants: The actress had a playful time in front …

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With Captain Marvel the franchise finally delivers a complex female superhero
5 years, 10 months ago

With Captain Marvel the franchise finally delivers a complex female superhero

ABC  

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman. Captain Marvel packages this dilemma in a stylish, thoughtful and funny superhero movie that's a twist on the usual origin story formula. Captain Marvel's a good film, not a great one, that sometimes gets bogged down in its own intricacies. Along the way she's aided by her commander and partnered with local grunt …

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