**WordPress Excerpt (200+ words):** Disney's D23 Entertainment Showcase is just around the corner, and after a rollercoaster few years at the box office, Walt Disney Studios has plenty to prove. With recent successes like *Lilo & Stitch* and *Freakier Friday* balancing out disappointments
Disney’s live-action Tangled is officially moving forward, and new set photos from Spain have given fans their first look at Teagan Croft as Rapunzel and Milo Manheim as Flynn Rider. The upcoming remake of the beloved 2010 animated classic is currently filming, with production photos offering a
Disney's live-action TV series Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the one adaptation of the novel series of the same name by Rick Riordan that seems to get the books right. This is especially significant since there was a 2010 live-action movie that tried to do the same thing. Fans will readily
D23 is the name of the official fan club for Disney, in which the "D" stands for the obvious and the "23" stands for the year in which Walt Disney founded his namesake Walt Disney Company. They are also best known for their biennial D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, in which Disney not only
Sometimes you can sense when a film isn't going to make a splash. The right amount of awareness isn't there, or there is a general disdain towards a project that has turned the masses off. The live-action Moana, which is an adaptation of the popular Disney animated franchise, falls into the latter.
Disney is not opposed to double-dipping, and they have proved that time and time again with the release of the live-action remakes of their classic animated films. Even though they appear to be obvious cash grabs, Disney continues to crank them out, and who could blame them? Even though critical
DC Studios is branching out. Instead of following the normal comic-book movie playbook, we're getting a movie based on the Batman villain, Clayface. Clayface is an interesting look at what we can do when a comic-book villain gets humanized a bit. The film stars Tom Rhys Harries as Matt Hagen, an
Just like the Street Fighter movie of the 90s, it's been quite a while since someone has tried to bring the video game back to the big screen. We had Mortal Kombat II earlier this year (which led to quite the rivalry between the two casts), which made the more absurd and video game-like features
Few studios have set such a precedent within their own genre quite like Laika Studios. With each painstakingly crafted story, they consistently find new ways to level up stop motion animation and push the limits of what can be accomplished. Stop motion is already a marvelous feat of patience and
