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A moment can make a movie. You’re sitting there, you’re watching something, it’s fine, and then boom: a scene or shot happens, and instantly something you thought was just okay becomes amazing. Read more... A moment can make a movie. You’re sitting there, you’re watching something, it’s fine, and then boom: a scene or shot happens, and instantly something you thought was just okay becomes amazing. Read more... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an…

The Little Mermaid’s iconic sunset poster art inspires what’ll be a must-have for Disney movie collectors: the SteelBook release of the live-action fairy tale’s home media release. Melissa McCarthy’s Performance on the Iconic Disney Villain | io9 InterviewDue out on digital July 25 and DVD/Blu-ray/4k on September 19, Rob Marshall’s The Little Mermaid gets a gorgeous limited edition physical release courtesy of Best Buy’s SteelBook collection. We’re so relieved the company is still adding titles to this linedespite stores…

Photo: Disney ParksNow open at Disney California Adventure’s Hyperion Theater at the Disneyland Resort is Rogers: The Musical. Perhaps one of the last things Twitter fandom made happen, the abridged musical history of Steve Rogers’ Captain America takes the corny parody seen in Disney+’s Hawkeye and expands it into a theme park-perfect musical theater sampling that really smashed our expectations. io9 attended a media preview of the bite-sized musical at Disney Parks, opening for a limited time as part of their summer…

Photo: Disney ParksSteve Rogers will really find out if he could “do this all daaaaaay” in Rogers: The Musical, the previously announced special one-act show coming to Disney California Adventure. Its limited run will be June 30-August 31. The Marvel Studios in-universe parody show about Steve Rogers—which apes Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, and appeared in Hawkeye’s opening episode on Disney+—has become real. The musical project came to fruition with the efforts of Disney Live Entertainment in partnership with writer…

Director Rob Marshall (Mary Poppins Returns) brings audiences a live-action retelling of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, the 1989 animated feature that revived the studio. It pays faithful homage to the original film—but doesn’t quite recapture its magic. Its saving grace is a cleverly reimagined second act carried by Halle Bailey’s sheer tour de force breakthrough performance as Ariel. Why is Halle Bailey This Generation's Ariel? | io9 InterviewIn particular, Bailey’s version of composer Alan Menken and late lyricist Howard…

Screenshot: Disney+After an internet uproar, Howard—the 2018 documentary chronicling the indelible legacy of lyricist Howard Ashman, the queer icon who gave The Little Mermaid a voice—will stay on Disney+. Deadline shared the update that that the title was no longer on a list of films being removed from the streamer.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesThe Don Hahn-directed homage to Ashman almost had a twisted fate, as the film was originally slated for removal the same day…

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Screenshot: DisneyFans of Disney’s The Little Mermaid have been waiting a long time for the live-action version to arrive... or even reveal more than the teeny teaser we got in September. A long time: Halle Bailey’s casting as Ariel was announced in July 2019. Finally, though, we’ve got a magical new look at Rob Marshall’s film.The Little Mermaid | Official TrailerDisney’s track record with live-action (or “live-action,” considering the intense levels of VFX involved) adaptations of its beloved animated classics has been…

Screenshot: Walt Disney StudiosJust 100 days shy of its release, Rob Marshall’s The Little Mermaid has revealed the first glimpse of Melissa McCarthy as the film’s iconic Disney villain Ursula. Actress Halle Bailey released the latest look at the Walt Disney Studios live-action adaptation; she stars as Ariel, the fairy tale heroine whose popularity in 1989's The Little Mermaid helped usher in the Disney Renaissance era in animation. With hit songs by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, the original film brought more modern…

Photo: Max FleuryBeing a multi-hyphenate performer is something Nina West knows well. Winning Miss Congeniality on Ru Paul’s Drag Race season 11, partnering with Dolly Parton on a kindness campaign, making music for kids, acting opposite Daniel Radcliffe in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, becoming the LGBTQ face of Disney’s Pride campaign, and releasing a children’s book—West is doing it all in heels and a wig that touches the sky.Speaking of that children’s book: with The You Kind of Kind, West aims to spread awareness…