Cassie Lang—a character last seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania—is returning for Avengers: Doomsday. The film is being positioned as a massive, multiverse-spanning event. Earlier casting announcements of legacy characters, and Robert Downey Jr.’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a different character, sparked some discussion online.
The Midjourney AI lawsuit just got a whole lot bigger. Warner Bros. Discovery has officially joined Disney and NBCUniversal in a high-stakes legal showdown against the AI art generator, accusing the company of mass copyright infringement that strikes at the heart of Hollywood’s most valuable properties.
Disney’s Marvel Studios, once the crown jewel of Hollywood’s box office dominance, is now bleeding money on a scale that even Iron Man couldn’t patch up. A new report from Forbes journalist Caroline Reid reveals that the company has lost an average of $619 million in takings on each Marvel film over the past two years — a stunning reversal from the MCU’s billion-dollar glory days.
The Black Widow movie that audiences got was apparently a much different story than the one originally conceived.
The Muppets just can’t seem to catch a break. According to multiple outlets, a pilot for The Muppet Show is reportedly in the works at FOX. The kicker? Seth Rogen is said to be attached as producer of The Muppet Show, alongside his Point Grey Pictures partner Evan Goldberg.
Amid mounting constraints in its land-based assets, The Walt Disney Company is increasingly emphasizing cruise operations as a scalable alternative. While theme‑park growth faces limitations—such as high operating costs, competition from rivals like Universal’s Epic Universe, and infrastructure saturation—Disney Cruise Line (DCL) has emerged for the company as a viable avenue for expansion.
Disney’s big-budget live-action remake of The Little Mermaid has now entered the record books for all the wrong reasons. According to a new report by Caroline Reid at Forbes, the production cost for The Little Mermaid ballooned to an eye-watering $379.8 million — far...
The Walt Disney Company is facing yet another controversy, this time not in the form of box office misfires or declining theme park attendance, but in the realm of online privacy. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Disney improperly labeled YouTube videos targeted at children, which allowed the unlawful collection of personal data from under-13 viewers.
The result: a $10 million settlement and a new compliance program that puts Disney under regulatory scrutiny for years to come.
At the recent Destination D23 event on August 31, 2025, Disney provided new details about Villains Land, a themed expansion planned for the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. This is the first land in any Disney park solely centered on the company’s well-known villain characters.
The summer box office is supposed to be Hollywood’s surest bet. Big-budget blockbusters, loaded with effects and franchise branding, are meant to draw in global crowds and deliver the kind of revenue that keeps the industry afloat. Instead, the 2025 summer box office season has ended not with fireworks but with alarm bells.
A new lawsuit could expose Disney for hypocrisy when it comes to gender messaging.
The Walt Disney Company has built an empire in recent years on the language of empowerment and virtue signaling. From turning Marvel into a “girl brand” to leaning hard into Force is Female “girl power” messaging across Star Wars and the theme parks, Disney has marketed itself as the corporate face of gender progress. Now, the company finds itself accused of something that cuts against that very image. A former top lawyer, Alisa Clairet, has filed a lawsuit against Disney in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging gender pay discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination.
When families board a ferryboat at Walt Disney World, they’re supposed to be gliding toward the Magic Kingdom — not bracing for a disaster that sends dozens of guests flying. Yet that’s exactly what happened on the night of July 30, 2025, when the General Joe Potter ferryboat slammed into the dock at the Transportation and Ticket Center.
Labor Day at Walt Disney World, particularly in the Magic Kingdom, should be the grand finale of the summer season. It’s a day when Florida schools are closed, parents have time off, and families from up North take their last vacations before heading back to classrooms. Yet in 2025, what should have been a triumphant crowd surge instead looked more like the lockdown-era doldrums of 2020.