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Despite what Best Buy will tell you, physical media, including Blu-rays, is back in style—spurred along by the panic that comes when streamers remove content and a movie or TV show becomes suddenly very inaccessible. While most Disney content is readily available, there are a few difficult-to-snag titles, something the Disney Movie Club has helped fans circumvent for the past 23 years... until this summer.“After serving over 10 million valued Club Members, we have made the difficult decision to close the Disney Movie…

Former Disney Channel star Bridgit Mendler is now a CEO. The actress, who rose to fame for her roles in Disney’s Good Luck Charlie and Wizards of Waverly Place, is now a founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based startup Northwood Space. Mendler founded Northwood along with her husband, Griffin Cleverly, and engineer Shaurya Luthra in October 2023. The former actress announced on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday that the organization has now received $6.3 million in funding. “We have our sights on building…

Time to alert your friends and family members who have access to your Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ accounts. The House of Mouse is officially putting those dastardly U.S.-based customers who dare share their passwords on notice. Netflix already started cracking down on password sharing last year, so it was only a matter of time before other streaming services followed suit. If you’re paying monthly for the privilege of watching all your favorite Pixar movies or the latest season of The Bear, then by March 14, Disney will…

Screenshot: Disney+Disney+ subscribers may have already noticed a new addition to the carousel on the app’s home screen: along with Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, there’s now a link to access Hulu content. The two apps won’t officially merge until March, but the beta test is now live.Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI UnlockedDisney is currently in the process of buying out Comcast’s share in Hulu, a long-teased deal made official earlier this month. Right now, the Disney Bundle Duo…

The 2000s were a turning point for movies. With franchises X-Men and Spider-Man starting up at the same time the likes of Star Wars and The Matrix were winding down, the modern Hollywood blockbuster was gradually beginning to take shape. Whether it was the emphasis on visual effects or stars (both rising and previous big names) getting caught up in the tentpole movie machine, you can chart a lot of modern filmmaking back to today, and one franchise in particular is emblematic of this.Spoilers of the Week | June…

In its continued quest to capture the attention of families across America, media juggernaut Disney developed its namesake television channel, with the network’s first broadcast going live on April 18, 1983—exactly 40 years ago, today. Four decades later, it’s impossible to understate just how much of an impact the network had on young adults like me.Reuniting With Tyra BanksLong before the days of a Marvel buyout and the company’s own streaming service, teens and families across America could look forward to consuming…

Sabrina Carpenter at Spotify’s 2023 Best New Artist Party.Photo: Sthanlee B. Mirador (AP)The BBC apparently isn’t a fan of porn puns, especially ones that pertain to its own name. A live performance by Sabrina Carpenter was cut a tiny bit shorter after it was uploaded to YouTube, removing the singer’s riff at the very end that refers to an obvious sexual innuendo. Last week, Carpenter performed her hit song Nonsense on BBC Radio 1. At the end of the song, the former Disney Channel star finished with a brief ad lib that…

Image: DisneyHere’s a fun thing you can do if you’re Disney and own virtually all of the top studios and major movie franchises that exist: you can spew your releases over the yearly box office like an invading army, determined to decimate all foes. And thus, Disney has announced 21 release dates for mysterious new films in addition to its already fat-packed schedule—still including, somehow, two(!) Star Wars movies.As you go down this monstrous list, there are two things to note: 1) the newly announced released dates…

Image: Disney AnimationLast we left off with The Owl House, Luz and the other Boiling Isles kids were making the most of being stranded in the Human Realm after the end of season two. That first 45-minute special, “Thanks to Them,” ended with the kids and Luz’s mom Camilla taking a portal back to the Boiling Isles to finally stop Emperor Belos and save everyone else on the Isles. Disney provided io9 with a preview of the second special, titled “For the Future,” which picks up right where the previous one left off. The…

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…