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Disney’s New Cruise Ship Serves $5,000 Star Wars Drink

Image: Disney Parks and ExperiencesYes, you read that headline correctly: a $5,ooo drink. It comes served in a camtono, the bounty hunter accessory container most recently featured on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett—which you can find it on Ebay for far less. So why is this drink, served only on the Disney Cruise Line’s newest ship, the Wish, so special?Camtono aside, that’s still a mystery—as are the ingredients in the drink, dubbed “the Kaiburr Crystal,” which, again, goes for $5,000 and can only be ordered

iOS gaming recap: Drop into Disney’s Mirrorverse, more new Netflix games, plus what to play this week

This week, there's a new game about a cast of beloved characters hopping between dimensions that isn't a Marvel game, Netflix reveals yet more new games coming to the service and Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki drops his new game on Apple Arcade. There's other stuff to play involving hook-ups, guns and dungeons too, but not all at the same time. Let's get started, shall we? A multitude of mirror Mickeys Disney's Mirrorverse has multiple versions of familiar heroes colliding in battle, hopping in and out of portals as they…

Disney’s Dana Walden Takes the Reins of Entertainment Unit, Looks to Push Past Corporate Chaos

Writer and producer Danny Strong was unaccustomed to high-ranking television executives calling him at odd hours for in-depth discussions about a project.That changed when he began making shows for Dana Walden, who last week was thrust into the role of chairman of Walt Disney Co. DIS 0.06% ’s General Entertainment Content unit, a job that comes with oversight of more than 300 shows and an annual budget of around $10 billion. Already one of…

Bruce Campbell Is Down to Play Hades in Disney’s Live-Action ‘Hercules’

Vivien Killilea/Getty Images/Walt Disney Animation Bruce Campbell is known for keeping his ear to the ground in regards to fan-castings featuring his unmistakable jawline, even if those petitions to have him step in as a last-minute replacement for Amber Heard to play Mera in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom are going to fall on deaf ears, as much as we’d love to see if happen for obvious reasons. As an enduring cult icon, fans are always going to want to see the 63 year-old in as many high-profile projects as…

Disney’s Florida Relocation Plan for Employees Delayed to 2026

Photo: Arturo Holmes (Getty Images)For nearly a year, the Walt Disney Company’s Parks, Experiences, and Products Division has been planning to move a large portion of its employees to Florida by 2023. That has relocation date has now been pushed three years. The timing is... interesting.01:57Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DYesterday 4:32PMFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis—who publicly clashed with the company when Disney came out in opposition to the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation and then signed an

Disney’s big holiday movie will skip French theaters in release window protest

In protest of France's content streaming rules, Disney has announced that its animated holiday film Strange World (aka Avalonia) will go straight to Disney+ and not appear in theaters in the country. It also gave a strong statement to Deadline decrying France's so-called chronologie des medias rules.  "Strange World will be available to all Disney+ subscribers in France, foregoing a French cinematic release. While we support French cinema — and have for decades — the new, cumbersome media chronology is anti-consumer,…

Deadpool 3 Writers Say Disney’s Not Messing With What Works

Image: 20th Century FoxNews on Deadpool 3 has been few and far between, with the biggest update coming in the form of Free Guy director Shawn Levy signing on back in March. Right now, the only thing that’s confirmed about it is that it’ll indeed be in the MCU, which has fans equally thrilled (for obvious reasons, several of them related to his apparent BFF Spider-Man), and also wary, because Disney’s stranglehold on superhero content has a particular sheen that easily turns folks away.On the subject of the MCU and how

Star Wars Celebration 2022: news from Disney’s big event

Disney is hosting Star Wars Celebration, its big Star Wars conference, and there have already been a lot of notable announcements from the show. The Mandalorian will be returning to Disney Plus in February. Andor, starring Diego Luna, hits the streaming service in August. And did you hear about the new Star Wars show starring Jude Law? The company is also sharing updates about some other big Lucasfilm franchises, including an early image from the upcoming Indiana Jones movie. You can read our coverage of the…

First Look at Disney+’s ‘Disenchanted’

Trailer via YouTube Fans have been anxiously awaiting any news or first looks at the highly anticipated sequel to 2007’s Enchanted, Disenchanted. It was announced to be released straight to the Disney Plus streaming platform with almost all of the original cast returning. Today, fans got lucky when Disney Plus posted, via its official Instagram account, the first screenshot from the film featuring Maya Rudolph and Amy Adams reprising her role as Princess Giselle. The costumes are stunning and both women look…

Disney’s CEO knows ‘at some point’ it will offer standalone ESPN streaming

On an earnings call earlier today, Disney CEO Bob Chapek sounded like someone who has clear ideas of ESPN’s fully streaming future. He told analysts and investors that “when it comes time to actually pull the trigger,” he believes ESPN can create “the ultimate fan offering that will appeal to the superfan who loves sports,” and “I think there’s nobody but ESPN who could frankly pull that off.” This isn’t the first time we’ve heard a Disney exec reference the potential of ESPN streaming — former CEO Bob Iger said in…