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Hollywood actors poised to strike after union negotiations failGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNegotiators for Hollywood’s actors’ union unanimously recommended a strike after talks with studios broke down, setting the stage for performers to join writers on picket lines as early as today, disrupting TV and movie production across the US.The national board of Hollywood’s largest union, SAG-AFTRA, will vote on a…

In May, another horror-infused take on a classic fairytale Disney made millions off of was announced. In the future, audiences will be seeing Cinderella’s Curse and, while the mouse monopoly would rather its princesses and characters like Winnie the Pooh not go on blood-soaked rampages, they do not seem to be too phased by the new and noxious trend if a new movie remaster is any sort of indication. The company’s Disney Plus streaming service posted the above earlier today. Accompanying the information about the…

When Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019 the fate of Deadpool 3 was left uncertain. Here you have a franchise that uses cuss words and dirty jokes more than Micky Mouse says “A-ha!” How on earth was it going to make that fly in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Now that we’re less than a year away from its theatrical debut (finally!) one of the stars of the film has given us a pretty succinct answer as to what we can expect.  Outside of the MCU, Disney is battling more drama on the Strange World front after the…

It’s easy pickings to pile on Disney and its woeful recent run at the box office, but things could somehow be about to get even worse if the latest projections surrounding Haunted Mansion are to be believed. Director Justin Simien may have assembled a star-studded cast that features LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Jared Leto, and many more, but the opening weekend estimates are fairly disastrous for a movie that’s estimated to have cost around $157 million…

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…

In words that would have sounded unfathomable as recently as a few months ago, it sure sucks to be Disney right about now. The company is in the midst of not just a horrendous run at the box office following a string of colossal bombs, but the Mouse House is also managing to infuriate subscribers to its streaming service by canceling original TV shows and movies, before immediately wiping them off the face of the planet. The conglomerate that owns Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios,…

Image via Netflix The last week has seen a rather unprecedented development for Netflix; while mashing the streamer together with anything involving the fantasy genre tends to spell bad news, it turns out the revival of Warrior Nun was just the beginning of a positive uptick in fantasy-related Netflix news. Nimona, the animated film axed by Disney and picked up by Netflix, is proving to be one of the Mouse House’s greatest missed opportunities as it hemorrhages viewership numbers left and right, and as if not…

Screengrab via YouTube/Angel Studios If there is ever a trophy for bad choices, Disney will win it fair and square courtesy of its globally detested decisions, especially its refusal to release films that are then whisked away by its competitors and end up ruling the box office — a feat Mouse House’s recent creations have been struggling to achieve.  While Netflix is busy enjoying the roaring success of Nimona, which was dumped by Walt Disney Studios post its acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Sound of Freedom,…

Image via Walt Disney Studios/Pixabay/Remix via Apeksha Bagchi Looking at the poor box office performance of the likes of Elementals and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania often makes us wonder how Disney is dealing with the hard blows. Well, the Mouse House has had plenty of practice. The recent string of disappointments is hardly the first time — and obviously, not the last based on Disney’s increasingly nonsensical antics — that the studio has had to power through jaw-dropping financial losses courtesy of its…

Image via Lucasfilm Fandoms are a fickle bunch. From the rabid intensity of BTS lovers to the nerdy dismissiveness of the worst of Star Wars fans, you can usually get a contrarian opinion about a beloved bit of content from somewhere, or a dramatic overreaction about how something new is ruining a franchise forever. More often than not, these accusations are a little unfounded, but sometimes newer films — especially the endless reboots of beloved franchises we seem to be drowning in nowadays — are worthy of…