We already knew there was trepidation with Marvel's late-summer film, The Marvels. The mostly-female superhero flick had been scheduled for the tail end of July, not a time big movies often debut. Now it's worse. “There’s something immensely powerful about...
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Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania Aims for Huge Opening Weekend
Reviews are in for Quantumania and they're not good. But for Marvel, the hope is that the first film in Phase 5 can live off of those early die-hard fans and an international surge of enthusiasm. We all know that Marvel movies are now notoriously frontloaded....
The Destruction of Splash Mountain: Imagineer Brags of Fulfillment
It seems that The Walt Disney Company has ordered everything from Splash Mountain not for immediate reuse to be utterly destroyed. It's said to be because Splash Mountain is a "sensitive" issue. Museums all over North America would love to have the historical...
Disney Company Won the Super Bowl with Historically Well-Received Ad
There are popular advertisements, beloved commercials and greatly-successful marketing campaigns. But in the history of the Super Bowl, few companies have pulled off the feat Disney achieved. According to System1, a company that measures audience response to...
Disney World Survey Asks Guests About Sexual Orientation and More
Just when you thought things couldn't get any stranger for Disney Parks, now a survey is going to guests which wants to know if members of your family are anything but heteronormative. When a family comes back from Walt Disney World, sometimes they'll receive a...
Strange World Plummets on Disney+
It is fair now to say that Strange World was a failure, not only at the box office, but also on Disney+. And while Bob Iger may find it more palatable to blame it on straying from core franchises, it may be more accurate to ponder core values. Just when you...
Proxy War Ends: Nelson Peltz Mostly Wins as Iger Gives Concessions
As WDW Pro was publishing a video explaining the Disney Earnings Report, huge news broke. Nelson Peltz is ceasing his efforts to get onto the Disney Board and is declaring absolute victory. BREAKING NEWS Nelson Peltz bought into Disney with nearly a billion...
Multi-Million Disney Plus Subscriber Loss Expected in Today’s Earning Call
At the same time Netflix is adding subscribers, we now anticipate that Robert Iger will be forced to declare Disney+ is losing subscribers at the latest earnings call. That Park Place is not a financial advice website and this article should not be construed as such....
Hong Kong Disneyland Frozen Addition Update
It's Disney's most problematic park. Located directly next to a medical internment camp (that could be worse in the future), Hong Kong Disneyland is landlocked and lowly attended. It's often been closed for government policy reasons. Still, Disney is pouring vast...
AMC Tier-Based Theater Seating (and Pricing) on the Way
I'm no fan of this change coming from AMC. Despite the goodwill of many individual investors having saved AMC theaters through a hard situation in 2020 and 2021, the cinema chain is sticking it to consumers. It has always been that when you bought a movie...
Disney Parks Releases New Info on Tron and Tiana: It Does Not Go Well
When a theme park company releases info on upcoming rides, they usually drop that info at a prime time to get the most views possible. For Disney, both Tron and Tiana's Bayou Adventure get updated late on a Friday. It still didn't go well. As of publication,...
Daisy Ridley Ready to Return as Rey
Daisy Ridley is expressing interest, and more, for returning to the role of Rey "Skywalker". But will fans have any interest in all in such a thing? As with so many other things at this point, you heard it here before it happened. On January 25th,...
