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Remembering Peter Mayhew on His Birthday: The Original Chewbacca

by SCIFI.radio | May 19, 2022 | Movies / Video / Theater | 1 |

Little did Peter Mayhew know that he would be using his remarkably long legs to step into the history books. He would have been 78 years old today.

Editorial: Disney Settles With Scarlett Johansson, But Who Won?

by Elizabeth Carlie | Oct 11, 2021 | Comics, Editorials, Movies / Video / Theater, Science Fiction / Fantasy | 0 |

As of last week, Disney and Scarlett Johansson have reached a settlement over the Black Widow movie lawsuit filed back in July.

Trailer Park: ‘Encanto’

by Susan Macdonald | Oct 1, 2021 | Animation, Trailer Park | 0 |

“Encanto” is the story of a magical house and the gifted family who inhabits it. Mirabel is the only one in her family without a gift.

‘Star Wars: Rogue Squadron’ Director Patty Jenkins Says: ‘This Will Be a New Story.’

by David Raiklen | Aug 22, 2021 | Movies / Video / Theater, Science Fiction / Fantasy | 1 |

Disney is bringing the Star Wars franchise back to the big screen with an original film directed by Patty Jenkins called Star Wars: Rogue Squadron. Slated for 2023, this is the first feature film since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019.

‘Bedknobs & Broomsticks’ Goes to Broadway

by Susan Macdonald | Jun 16, 2021 | Science Fiction / Fantasy | 0 |

Disney has revamped several of its movies — The Lion King, Newsies, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, Tarzan — as stage plays, Broadway musicals, to be specific. The latest film to be turned into a Broadway musical is the Oscar-winning Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).

“National Treasure” Coming to Disney +

by Susan Macdonald | Mar 27, 2021 | Science Fiction / Fantasy | 0 |

Disney plans to turn the two movies into a trilogy with the original cast, and reimagine it as a TV show on their streaming service, Disney+, with a younger, more racially diverse cast.

Gina Carano Faces ‘The Mandalorian’s Airlock

by Shawn "Obi-Shawn" Crosby | Feb 11, 2021 | Movies / Video / Theater, Politics, Science Fiction / Fantasy | 0 |

The actress and mixed martial arts fighter has been removed from the cast by Disney after she shared a post on social media implying that being a Republican was like being Jewish during the WWII Holocaust.

Trailer Park: ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’

by Susan Macdonald | Jan 26, 2021 | Science Fiction / Fantasy, Trailer Park | 0 |

“I’m going to be real with you. I’m not like, um, the best dragon.”

Disney Stiffs SF/Star Wars Author Alan Dean Foster

by Susan Macdonald | Nov 27, 2020 | Science Fiction / Fantasy | 0 |

“When you purchased Lucasfilm you acquired the rights to some books I wrote. STAR WARS, the novelization of the very first film. SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE, the first sequel novel. You owe me royalties on these books. You stopped paying them.”