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Craig Hunegs is leaving Disney. The President of Entertainment at Walt Disney Television has decided to step down six months after a major restructure at the company. The Warner Bros. veteran joined Disney in 2019 following the Mouse House's acquisition of key 21st Century Fox assets, and he was to serve as a layer…

UPDATED, 9:20 AM: Disney+ has moved up the premiere date for Marvel Studios‘ Loki. The series now will debut Wednesday, June 9, two days earlier than its initial June 11 date. New episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays. Spring Premiere Dates As Networks Adjust Schedules Amid Coronavirus Crisis: Broadcast, Cable…

Warning: The following article contains spoilers from “Aftermath,” Episode 1 of the Disney+ animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch  Here’s a big deal for fans of the Dave Filoni-created Star Wars animated canon: An old character (actually, much younger here) made an appearance on the first episode of the new Star War…

Maggie Simpson is the latest – and perhaps unlikeliest – visitor to the Star Wars universe: Disney+ has unveiled a new cross-promotional short starring the Springfield toddler. See the official artwork below. “Maggie Simpson in The Force Awakens From Its Nap,”  which takes place, according to the streamer, “in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Killian Scott (Dublin Murders, Damnation) is in negotiations to join Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn in Secret Invasion, the upcoming Marvel series for Disney+, Deadline has learned. In Secret Invasion, Jackson and Mendelsohn reprise their MCU characters Nick Fury and the Skrull Talos, respectively…

Here's the question haunting Hollywood about the Oscar show: Why expect next year to be different? Anthony Hopkins' no-show put a hole in the show last Sunday, but it was the slate of nominees that represented the biggest “hole.” Audience movies  — films that register on some scale of awareness — were on the missing…

Amazon, Disney, and sports streamer DAZN are reportedly circling a sale of BT Sport, the British broadcaster that holds rights to blue-chip sports events including the Premier League and Champions League. The Daily Telegraph reported late Wednesday that UK telecoms giant BT has engaged investment bank Lazard to…

Keith Le Goy has been promoted to chairman of distribution and networks at Sony Pictures Entertainment. The promotion gives the company three chairman-level execs running the studio’s main areas of business. The others are Tom Rothman, chairman of the motion picture group, and Ravi Ahuja, chairman of the company’s…

SPOILER ALERT: For those who still haven’t seen the Season 1 finale of Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, "One World, One People", this interview contains spoilers.  To control spoilers on the internet, Disney held off season finale interviews with the talent, showrunner and director of The Falcon and the Wint…

The search for the ideal teenage demigod has begun as Rick Riordan unveiled a preliminary casting call for the upcoming Percy Jackson series at Disney+. On Wednesday Riordan shared a blog on his official website noting that casting for the series is “now in its earliest stages.” The YA novel author shared that he…

UPDATED, 10:10 AM: Downtown Los Angeles’ Union Station is pretty much back to normal after hosting the 2021 Oscars on April 25, and now the final and far from normal numbers are in for 93rd Academy Awards. No surprise, the ambitious affair from ABC and producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh remains…

Disney is to close 18 of its television channels in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong on October 1, according to local reports. The news, which appears to have been first reported by Singapore-based blog Geek Culture, will see channels including Fox, FX, and Disney Channel go dark (full list below) as Disney shifts its…