Today, The Wrap followed by The Hollywood Reporter announced the full cast for Disney’s Pinocchio live-action remake. The reports mention that Benjamin Evan Ainsworth will voice the wooden puppet in the film. He joins the previously announced Tom Hanks who will play the toymaker Geppetto. Keegan-Michael Key also joined the cast as Honest John. The READ MORE…
In 1970s London, young fashion designer Estella de Vil becomes obsessed with dogs’ skins, especially Dalmatians, until she eventually becomes a ruthless and terrifying legend known as Cruella. Cruella hits theaters May 28th
Today, our friends over at The DisInsider revealed on their Patreon that casting is currently underway for The Russo Brothers’ live-action adaption of Hercules. According to their report, the studio is indeed open to any ethnicity for the title hero role. They mention the studio is looking at Michael B. Jordan (Creed) and Taron Egerton READ MORE…
Today, The Illuminerdi announced that Disney has offered Parks & Rec star, Nick Offerman, the role of Smee in their upcoming Peter Pan & Wendy live-action film. He would join Jude Law as Captain Hook as they terrorize Peter & The Lost Boys. It’s unknown if Offerman accepted the role of Hook’s sidekick at this READ MORE…
Today, during Walt Disney’s Investor Day presentation it was announced that a sequel to the animated-live-action hybrid Enchanted was in the works. Star Amy Adams was announced to be returning for the upcoming sequel. The sequel will debut as an original movie for the Disney+ streaming platform. Not much else is known about the project READ MORE…
Recently, Variety revealed that director Jon M. Chu has joined Disney’s upcoming Lilo & Stitch. The film will be a live-action adaption of the classic animated film of a little Hawaiian girl alongside her sister who befriends an alien fugitive as her pet. Jon M. Chu recently got praise for his film Crazy Rich Asians. READ MORE…
Earlier this week, it was announced that Johnny Depp had exited the Fantastic Beasts franchise. This comes off the news that he lost a libel lawsuit with The Sun newspaper over abuse claims from his ex-wife Amber Heard. Johnny Depp was revealed to be the sorcerer Grindelwald at the end of the first film. He READ MORE…
Today, it was announced by Varitey that director Barry Jenkins would be taking over as director of Disney’s The Lion King sequel. This comes as an unusual choice of to helm a big-budget tentpole film after the director helmed Oscar-caliber films like Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk; as well as next years The READ MORE…
Today, Deadline announced that Yara Shahidi (Black-ish) has joined the cast of Disney’s upcoming live-action Peter Pan film Peter Pan & Wendy. She joins the cast as Peters trusty fairy Tinkerbell. This will mark the first time a woman of color has played the character as she has been depicted in the past as blonde READ MORE…
Earlier today it was revealed that Lion director Gareth Davis has boarded Disney’s upcoming Tron: Ares. The long-awaited pseudo-sequel to Tron: Legacy. While the film is set in the same universe it will not be directly tied to Tron: Legacy. Jared Leto was announced to be a part of the project in 2017 but announced READ MORE…
