After spending nearly thirty years at The Walt Disney Company, during over fourteen of which he was the CEO of the company, Bob Iger is stepping down effective immediately. In his place, Bob Chapek, the former Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, has been named the new Chief Executive Officer. Iger will stick around …
One of the things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving holiday is that The Simpsons will not end after this season, which happens to be the 31st season of the highly acclaimed animated series. The reassurance that the show isn’t ending just yet comes directly from showrunner Al Jean, who took to Twitter on Thursday …
Is Wade Wilson — aka the Merc With the Mouth, aka Deadpool — secretly a Nickelback fan? It sure seems that way in a new clip that’s been released in advance of Once Upon a Deadpool, the shameless cash grab of a Deadpool 2 remake that hits theaters this week and which has been sufficiently sanitized …
At not-quite-5PM yesterday, a judge rejected the Department of Justice’s bid to prevent AT&T and Time Warner from merging, in effect giving the final stamp of approval to a deal that will see AT&T gain an enormous and valuable content library. Comcast was widely expected to make a bid on 21st Century Fox if the …
With just days to go before the release of Deadpool 2, Ryan Reynolds and his co-stars are on a media blitz to make sure that everyone goes to see the movie. Reynolds has been appearing on talk shows and giving interviews at press junkets in recent weeks, but perhaps the most interesting appearance of the …
In a disappointing (but not altogether unexpected) move this week, Fox announced that it wouldn’t pick up Brooklyn Nine-Nine for a sixth season. The cop comedy has skated by with average ratings for the past few years, but despite the optimism of the cast and crew, the show has been canceled. Now, the season five finale …
Just when it seemed like the record-breaking success of Avengers: Infinity War might make everyone forget about the fact that there are other movies hitting theaters this summer, Deadpool steals back the spotlight. On Thursday, Celine Dion (yes, that one) shared her latest music video, which just so happens to feature a song called “Ashes” …
Deadpool is renowned for his penchant to break the fourth wall, but the latest trailer for Deadpool 2 from 20th Century Fox is about as traditional a trailer as we’re likely to see for a movie starring the anti-hero. It’s got violent action, plenty of cursing, and there even appears to be a plot of …
Although there were plenty of fourth-wall-breaking twists and turns along the way, the first Deadpool movie was, for all intents and purposes, an origin story. We saw how Deadpool got his powers, we met his girlfriend and we learned that this superhero doesn’t have to play by the same rules as the Avengers or the …
It’s finally official, the move that will shake up the entire entertainment industry and give Netflix plenty of reasons to worry. Disney on Thursday announced that it’s ready to acquire 21st Century Fox in a deal worth $52.4 billion in a stock-only deal. What better time to announce the deal than on the eve of …
