New details have reportedly emerged about what Lucasfilm and showrunner Leslye Headland had planned for Star Wars: The Acolyte season 2 before the Disney+ series was canceled. According to a new exclusive from Knight Edge Media's Caleb Williams, plans for Season 2...
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI have entered into a licensing partnership for generative artificial intelligence with Disney characters. The legalities of such a deal are likely to impact the future of entertainment forever.
Disney has ignited one of the most explosive entertainment-tech fights of the year, accusing Google of using artificial intelligence (AI) to unlawfully copy and distribute Disney characters on a “massive scale.”
Late last week, Netflix struck an $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. However, a recent report from Bloomberg suggests that before the Warner Bros. bidding war started, the streaming giant had flirted with the idea of pursuing EA Games, Fox (before the Disney merger), or Disney itself.
Walt Disney World Resort has confirmed that guests will be able to “take off” Soarin’ Across America at EPCOT on an opening date of Memorial Day 2026. Disneyland California guests will be able to take flight on the updated ride July 2nd, just in time for Independence Day.
For more than two decades, Jimmy Kimmel has been a fixture of ABC’s late-night lineup. But while headlines everywhere are declaring Jimmy Kimmel has been renewed for “another year,” the details of ABC’s contract extension tell a very different story — one the media is largely ignoring.
Disney just delivered the kind of holiday-season thunderclap that studio executives dream about. After only two weekends in theaters, the Zootopia 2 box office total has rocketed to $915.8 million worldwide, placing the animated sequel within striking distance of the coveted $1 billion milestone far earlier than analysts expected. If current trends hold, the billion mark could fall within days, making Zootopia 2 one of the fastest animated titles in modern history to reach that benchmark.
Frozen Ever After, the boat‑ride attraction at Epcot in Walt Disney World, will temporarily close beginning January 26, 2026 for a planned refurbishment. The ride is scheduled to reopen in February 2026.
If Avatar: Fire and Ash is as big a box office success as anticipated, the film’s release is a prime opportunity for studios to debut some major trailers. There are several 2026 tentpole releases of which filmgoers have yet to see anything more than some production photos.
Move over, superheroes. The next big entertainment era may have less capes and a whole lot more talking cartoon animals. It’s the 1930s all over again!
Variety has published yet another report asserting that Paramount Skydance’s latest all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery is backed by Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, and Abu Dhabi’s ADIA. The timing is striking—not only because the Warner Bros. bidding war is heating up, but because Paramount already blasted this exact story last month.
What’s one more legacy sequel? Macaulay Culkin, who famously played Kevin McCallister in the first two Home Alone movies, says he “wouldn’t be completely allergic” to returning for a third true Home Alone sequel (we’ll pretend the others never happened).
Wicked: For Good saw a steep second weekend box office drop amid huge competition during the holiday weekend. The Universal musical stormed into theaters with a stronger debut than the original Wicked, which many saw as a promising start for Universal’s two-part adaptation of the beloved Broadway hit. But as the dust settles on the Thanksgiving frame, a worrying trend is emerging: that second weekend plunge.