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Michelle Yeoh is a mythological goddess in the new Disney+ series American Born Chinese. Based on the genre-hopping graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, Disney unveiled a featurette of the new series during the D23 Expo. “It’s a lot of fun, it’s a log of magic, it’s a lot of badass action,” Yeoh says in the clip which you…

In his two-hour presentation at D23 today, Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Josh D’Amaro rattled off a long list of coming (and potentially coming) movie-themed attractions. First and foremost is Frozen, which will be the subject of new lands at three of the company’s parks internationally. Next year…

Percy Jackson is back and Disney+ just unveiled the first look teaser trailer of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The footage was introduced at the D23 Expo by the three stars of the series: Walter Scobell, Aryan Simhadri and Leah Sava Jeffries. Watch the teaser video above. “Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood…

Indian streamer Disney+ Hotstar has struck another deal with Bollywood director, producer and talkshow host Karan Johar, a highlight of its latest content slate revealed today at the D23 expo. The agreement with Johar will comprise season eight of talkshow Koffee with Karan and drama series Showtime. Koffee with Karan…

Director Justin Simien and Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis stopped by D23 today to tease their upcoming live-action Haunted Mansion film, sharing that it will feature cameos from Winona Ryder, Dan Levy, Hasan Minhaj and more. Simien also debuted a new for-the-room-only trailer which watches as a car pulls up to a…

There were both highs and lows at the Live Action D23 panel today. In the lows department: a distinct lack of new trailers for Black Panther and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Also, no news on the Han Solo prequel, except that it's still coming out next summer as planned. And while attendees lucked out with an Avengers…

Disney today announced that Star Wars creator George Lucas, and a group of people with long ties to Disney and Disney-owned properties, will be named an honored as official Disney legends this year at the biannual D23 Expo in Anaheim. In addition to Lucas, honorees will include All My Children star Susan Lucci, Disney…

Disney‘s conspicuously keeping Star Wars out of its Comic-Con slate, but the studio will welcome the newest member of the corporate family to the fold at its own annual D23 Expo. Three weeks after Disney presents its Marvel lineup and animated and television properties at the San Diego convention, Star Wars will make…

Disney Announces Two New Pixar Films Who needs Comic-Con when you can do it yourself? That must be exactly what Disney is thinking as it continues its massive second annual Disney D23/ Expo, the “ultimate fan event” taking place all weekend long at the Anaheim Convention Center right next to Disneyland (the name…

The first movie is set for 2014 and looks inside the human mind. Directed by Peter Docter, the Academy Award-winning director of Up, the new Pixar toon is just starting its designs and sets and anticipating castings. The other movie is about dinosaurs set sometime in the future. Director Bob Peterson was inspired by…