Tag: Wish
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‘Wonka’ back on top at global box office after strong hold; ‘Night Swim’ splashes into sixth place
Warner Bros’ ’Wonka’ is now less than $10m behind the lifetime global total of Tim Burton’s ’Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’.Worldwide box office January 5-7 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (world) Cume (world) 3-day (int’l) Cume (int’l) Territories 1. Wonka (Warner Bros) $43.4m $465.9m $28.9m $301.2m 78 2. Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom (Warner Bros) $40.9m…
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Disney Animation At 100: Looking Back On A Century Of Magic
October 16, 2023 marks the official 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company. While many enterprises now make up the conglomerate — from theme parks to sports broadcasting — animation has been at its core since the beginning.The legacy of Walt Disney Animation Studios continues strongly today. 2023 also sees the theatrical debut of “Wish”…
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Chris Pine Gets the Funko Pop! Treatment With New ‘Wish’ Figures
Disney collectors will soon be able to add several of the characters from the studio’s next animated feature film to their collection. Funko (via Entertainment Earth) has unveiled new Pop! figures based on the upcoming film Wish. Most of the figures are set to be released this month. The Wish movie is scheduled to be…
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Cool Stuff: Disney Celebrates 100 Years With 100 Animated Films In One Blu-Ray Collection
Since the Writers Guild of American and Screen Actors Guild are both still on strike, this year’s Destination D23 convention down in Orlando, Florida didn’t really have much of anything to showcase. Sure, the studio showed some footage from Disney’s upcoming animated movie “Wish,” and they announced that “Haunted Mansion” would be hitting Disney+ in…
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D23’s Disney Studios Showcase Didn’t Have Much To, Er, Showcase
If there’s one thing to be said for the Disney Studios Showcase at D23 this year, it’s that it gave those of us on the weekend news shift a nice quiet start to Sunday. First, to give some perspective, here’s a quick recap of the headlines from last year’s D23 showcase. The 2022 presentation included the…
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‘It’s Ok that life is hard’: Jennifer Lee, the bullied Cinderella fan who rose to billion-dollar boss at Disney
As co-writer and director of Frozen, she changed cinema forever. Now Lee is in charge of Disney animation – and creating a new blockbuster, Wish, about a dodgy king’s whistleblowing apprenticeForty years ago, Jennifer Lee was miserable in middle school. Her parents had got divorced and she had moved to Rhode Island with her mother…
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Animated Features 2023 Preview: From ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ to Miyazaki’s ‘How Do You Live?’ Farewell
The year in animation will be marked by three high-profile sequels — Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” Aardman’s “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,” and DreamWorks’ “Trolls Band Together” — Pixar’s first rom-com, the effects-driven “Elemental,” Disney’s latest animated musical, “Wish,” from the Oscar-winning “Frozen” team, and the final film from Studio Ghibli’s anime legend…
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The Best of D23: 15 Films and TV Series Revealed at Disney’s Fan Expo
After a three year hiatus, the 2022 edition of D23 Expo pulled out all the stops.Thousands of the world’s biggest Disney fans made the pilgrimage to Anaheim for a sneak preview of the conglomerate’s upcoming projects over the weekend, and Disney didn’t leave them hanging. Though there was an opening ceremony on Thursday night, the…
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Disney Announces Wish, New Animated Feature Film For The Company’s 100th Anniversary [D23]
Of all the catchy songs from Disney’s movies, the one that is most linked to the company is probably “When You Wish Upon A Star” from “Pinocchio.” Walking down Main Street at Magic Kingdom or Disneyland? You’ll hear it pumped through the loudspeakers. If you listen to any compilation of their songs, it’ll be right on top of the playlist.…