D23

Photo: Sabina Graves/GizmodoWalt Disney World’s best and most underrated festival is going on right now at Epcot. Disney Parks’ International Festival of the Arts happens at the start of the year and showcases amazing artists debuting Disney-inspired art—and it’s truly any fandom print collector’s dream destination. This year, artists like Tim Rogerson, Fenway Fan, Lewis Whitman, and so many more are on hand to sign their work in a true celebration of Disney’s legacy of characters. There’s Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, and…

Screenshot: 20TH CENTURY STUDIOSYou’d think that James Cameron breaking up his Avatar sequels would mean leaner runtimes, but no—we’re just getting multiple epics. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed the official run time of Avatar: The Way of Water, and it’s clocking in at 3 hours and 10 minutes.In Avatar: The Way of Water, we pick up on the Sully family led by Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), which has expanded with kids of their own. Sigourney Weaver returns to voice Kiri, who seems to carry the reborn…

One of the most adorable Hollywood photos to come out of this year was when Harrison Ford and Ke Huy Quan reunited backstage at D23 last month, nearly 40 years after respectively playing Indiana Jones and Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom together. We previously deduced that both the actors just happened to be at Anaheim Convention Center in Orange County, California to promote their Disney projects, but now we have more details about how the sweet reunion went down. When Ke Huy Quan recently spoke to…

Photo: Marvel StudiosThe highly anticipated debut of Marvel’s first family into the MCU didn’t come away with any major news at D23 Expo 2022—however, Deadline reports that Fantastic Four has already had scribes hard at work on a script. Writers Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer have been officially announced as Marvel Studios’ choice for screenwriters on the Phase 6-launching franchise.Matt Shankman (WandaVision), who was at D23 Expo as an audience member when Kevin Feige pointed him out to simply confirm him as the film’s …

After making her debut in the 2021 Disney+ series "Hawkeye," Maya Lopez, aka Echo (Alaqua Cox), will return to lead her own series that also brings along two highly beloved Marvel characters. D23 offered those in attendance a first look at the upcoming "Echo," and while there's no public version of the trailer to watch, some of the details of what was shown have made their way online. Per IGN, the trailer shows that the series will take fans to Maya's hometown so that she can reconnect and reconcile with…

via 20th Century Fox Before we dive into why claiming a movie we know nothing about can’t justifiably be called cursed, it’s worth pointing out that if the terminology were to be applied to one marquee superhero property above all others, it would probably be Fantastic Four. After all, the original 1994 version was only made to keep hold of the rights and was never intended to be released, while Tim Story’s mid-2000s pair of candy-colored blockbusters were the textbook definition of “passable at best”. The less…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosIn the comics, the Thunderbolts are villains masquerading as heroes. That’s only partially true of the upcoming movie, but it does have a hell of a line-up including Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier, David Harbour’s Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost, Wyatt Russell’s U.S. Agent, Olga Kurylenko’s Taskmaster, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as the Countess when it arrives on July 26, 2024. Read more here. Screenshot: Marvel StudiosIn the comics, the Thunderbolts are…

Photo: Sabina Graves/GizmodoThe wonderful worlds of Disney and all of its franchises were well represented at the D23 Expo 2022 by cosplayers donning their fandom best. Check out these amazing looks that covered the various universes of Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and Disney, plus some fun mash-ups. Photo: Sabina Graves/GizmodoThe wonderful worlds of Disney and all of its franchises were well represented at the D23 Expo 2022 by cosplayers donning their fandom best. Check out these amazing looks that covered the various…

Photo: Disney Animation StudiosIt’s an important Disney character you probably never thought too much about: the star, as in the “When You Wish Upon a Star” that Jiminy Cricket sings about, the star that Princess Tiana looks up to ask for her palace restaurant, and the star that Simba gazes at while missing his father. Now, the star is getting an origin story, in the form of animated film Wish. And I’m here for it—you know if Marvel came out with movies about the origin of each Infinity Stone, you’d watch them. In Wish,…

| Two editions of Amazing Fantasy #1000 were given away by Marvel Comics at the D23 Expo in Anaheim this past  weekend, alongside the 60th anniversary of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published in August 1962. And at D23, Marvel Comics gave away two exclusive-to-the-show editions of the extra-sized comic, featuring the work of Neil Gaiman, Steve McNiven, Dan Slott, Armando Iannucci and more at the Marvel Comics: Celebrating 60 Years of the Amazing Spider-Man panel,…