Disney is closing the CG studio behind ‘Ice Age’ and ‘Ferdinand’

Posted on 09/02/2021 by Engadget

Disney is closing Blue Sky Studios. Under Fox, the CG animation studio produced 13 films, including the Ice Age franchise, The Peanuts Movie and most recently Spies in Disguise with Tom Holland and Will Smith. Deadline was first to report the news of...

Disney+ offers ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ pre-orders before its debut

Posted on 05/02/2021 by Engadget

Disney+ has previously offered early access to movies with theatrical releases, but now it’s hoping you’ll pay in advance. The streaming service has started taking pre-orders for Premier Access to Raya and the Last Dragon ahead of its digital debut o...

Netflix leads the pack at the SAG Awards with 30 nominations

Posted on 04/02/2021 by Engadget

Netflix is far ahead of the pack so far this awards season. Much like it did at the Golden Globes nominations on Wednesday, the streaming giant racked up the most nods of any company at the Screen Actors Guild Awards with 30 overall. With Da 5 Bloods...

A Wakanda series is coming to Disney+

Posted on 02/02/2021 by Engadget

Ryan Coogler is set to expand the Black Panther universe with a new Disney+ series based in the Kingdom of Wakanda. Disney has signed a five-year exclusive TV deal with Coogler’s Proximity Media, and the series is one of the projects the Black Panthe...

Disney releases interactive short ‘Baymax Dreams’ on GeForce Now

Posted on 29/01/2021 by Engadget

Sundance Film Festival isn’t happening this year — not in person, anyway — so creators are finding new ways to showcase their creations. The folks at Disney, for instance, are offering an interactive short through NVIDIA’s GeForce Now, a streaming se...

Disney+ restricts kids from watching content with racist stereotypes

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Engadget

Last fall, Disney added content warnings on Disney+ to flag some of the racist content it had produced in the past. Now the company is taking an additional step to provide children the proper context when seeing those titles. In a move spotted by Pol...

HBO Max didn’t expect to have this many subscribers for another two years

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Engadget

During its Q4 2020 earnings call on Tuesday, AT&T revealed that its streaming subsidiary HBO Max now boasts some 40 million paid monthly subscribers — a figure neither company anticipated the service would attain until at least 2023. HBO overall...

Disney and Comcast are sharing streaming rights to ‘Modern Family’

Posted on 26/01/2021 by Engadget

Here’s something we’re not used to seeing: two companies sharing the streaming rights to a popular show. But that’s exactly what’s happening with Modern Family, which you’ll be able to watch through both Hulu and Peacock when all 250 episodes of the...

Pixar’s ‘Soul’ was so popular on streaming that it beat ‘The Office’

Posted on 23/01/2021 by Engadget

There was little doubt Pixar’s Soul would find a large audience by going straight to Disney+ in many countries, but it’s now clear just how successful that strategy was. Deadline reports that the existential movie topped Nielsen’s streaming rankings...

‘The Muppet Show’ finally hits Disney+ on February 19th

Posted on 19/01/2021 by Engadget

Disney+ is about to play the music and light the lights. All five seasons of The Muppet Show will be available to stream on the service starting on February 19th.Until now, the classic variety show has been a notable omission from Disney+, where it’l...

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