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Disney World explicitly stated that they are opening auditions to transgender actors to play the roles of Ariel and Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid. The Walt Disney Company is seeking the roles as part of their upcoming new Hollywood Studios stage show, “The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure,” which is replacing their previous “Voyage of the Little Mermaid” show which ran from 1992 to 2020. The New York-based casting call posted online made the callout. Meanwhile, with other current postings on Disney’s casting website, the audition job postings cited men/women, not specifying if the ac...
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The Village People are so upset with how they were treated at Disney World that their team is suing the theme park giant. The alleged incident took place in 2018 when the “YMCA” singers performed as part of their Epcot concert series, as they did annually for at least a decade. Now, TMZ reported that a case against Disney was filed by Karen Willis, the wife of Victor Willis, who performs as a naval officer or policeman and also owns the group’s song and performing rights. Over the series of shows in the two day span, Karen alleged that they were “treated terribly” by Epcot workers. She claimed...
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It’s official: Freaky Friday is getting a sequel — with original stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan both returning to reprise their roles from the 2003 movie as mother and daughter duo Tess and Anna Coleman.. Joining them from the original film will be Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Rosalind Chao — most of the old cast, in fact. New additions include Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. In addition to the image above, Disney shared a video from the set as production began...
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Universal Studios Orlando theme park explicitly called out Walt Disney World in the queue of one of their popular rides. Universal Studios sits right down the road from The Walt Disney World Resort and have been competitors in the theme park industry. Universal Studios is home to the Men In Black: Alien Attack ride, which is a shooting interactive dark ride, a similar concept to Magic Kingdom’s Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin. Before you reach the ride vehicles, which is based of the Men In Black film franchise, guests are taken through their themed queue to the MiB secret headquarters, com...
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There are certain things Pixar fans are known to do. They love to hunt down the company’s Easter eggs, like A113 and the Pizza Planet truck. They frequently weep at children’s films. They tend to look down their noses at kids films from other companies. And they compulsively rank all of the studio’s movies. In honor oftime-honored tradition, which now dates back decades this Pixar fan humbly presents his deeply personal (and yet, somehow, 100 percent objectively correct) ranking of all those movies. Compared with some of the other franchises, universes, or genres I’ve ranked, this was an absol...
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Richard Sherman, the iconic Disney songwriter responsible for some of the most memorable soundtracks of childhood, has died at age 95. The Walt Disney Co. announced Sherman’s death due to age-related illness on Saturday (May 25) in Beverly Hills, Calif. “Generations of moviegoers and theme park guests have been introduced to the world of Disney through the Sherman brothers’ magnificent and timeless songs. Even today, the duo’s work remains the quintessential lyrical voice of Walt Disney,” the company said in a statement on its website. “Richard Sherman was the embodiment of what it means to be...
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A Disney World guest claimed that she suffered a brain injury after riding one of their iconic water slides. Laura Reyes-Merino filed the lawsuit in Orange County, Fla. alleged that The Walt Disney World Resort did not “warn of any dangerous conditions about which it knew or should have known about” on its Humunga Kowabunga waterslide at their Typhoon Lagoon waterpark. The lawsuit claimed that there were “dangerous conditions” and alleged that there were no life guards at the end of the ride where riders exit out off of the body slide. The apparent incident took place on May 11, 2024 as she we...
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Long the gold standard of the American animation industry, Pixar is, amidst some shakier recent history, now underdoing what is being described as “the biggest restructuring” in the company’s 30+ year history. That’s according to The Hollywood Reporter, which writes today that the studio is now in the midst of laying off “approximately 14 percent of Pixar’s workforce, or around 175 employees, will be let go.” They note that “before the reductions, approximately 1,300 people worked at the animation studio.” The layoffs had been anticipated for months, and follow various other cost-cutting measu...
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A character performer at Shanghai Disneyland had quite the costume malfunction during a parade. A now viral video shows the character, Clawhauser, from the Disney movie and television franchise, Zootopia, needing assistance from cast members to get out of the parade path after his costume deflated. One cast member is seen holding up his head to have some sort of a semblance of normalcy while another one cleared the pathway to help them get backstage. Disney has not released a statement about the malfunction but it seems as though that something either malfunctioned or was broken which caused t...
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A woman is at odds with her bride-to-be sister after refusing to dress up as a Disney princess for the sister’s upcoming wedding. “I have an older sister Jade who has been obsessed with Disney since we were kids. I too have a liking for the brand and many of its movies and characters but Jade takes it to a whole new level,” she wrote on Reddit. Since getting engaged, “Jade has been raving about decorating her entire house with Disney stuff, basically anything she can find. My brothers and I have no issue with this because we know how much she loves Disney.” However, the trouble started when th...
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