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The Disney+ schedule for November 2021 is packed with programming from the Disney mothership, Pixar and Marvel, including a stocking full of early holiday offerings. The biggest event of the month on the streamer will undoubtedly be Disney+ Day, a celebration of the service on November 12. It will include the streaming…

“I wanted to do Captain America meets West Wing more than anything,” What If… executive producer and head writer A.C. Bradley said today on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast. You can listen to our  conversation with Bradley here: “I wanted the walk-and-talks, the full Aaron Sorkin treatment,” Bradley tells us. “It was…

This week marks the 48th anniversary of the fabled “Back to School Jam” hosted by DJ Kool Herc at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, a gathering that is now celebrated as the birth of hip hop. With that belated Happy Birthday on decks and a touch of #throwbackthursday, there are some serious series dropping on the…

What If…? might sound like another Marvel animated series; a plethora produced since the 1960s, however, the latest iteration stands apart from the rest for one big reason: It’s the last performance from Black Panther title actor Chadwick Boseman. The conceit of the show from EP Brad Winderbaum, director Bryan Andrews…

EXCLUSIVE: Billy Porter's What If? from Orion Pictures has set Eva Reign, Abubakr Ali and Renee Elise Goldsberry to star in Porter's feature directorial debut, which begins production today in Pittsburgh. Courtnee Carter, Kelly Lamor Wilson and Grant Reynolds round out the cast.  The film's global casting search was…

Disney+ gives Marvel fans a look into the multiverse with the trailer for Marvel Studios’ first animated series, What If…? Set to launch on Disney+ Wednesday, August 11, What If…? seeks to reimagine famous events from various MCU films, from key battles to notable scenes. The trailer gives a look at some unlikely…

Marvel Studios' EVP of Production, Victoria Alonso, showed off a new look at Marvel’s upcoming Disney Plus animated series What If…? during a Women In Animation panel at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this morning. Following a preview that dropped last December, today’s clip showed off more of Peggy…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a global casting search, rising star Yasmin Finney, the 17-year-old Black trans woman from Manchester, England, has landed a lead role in Orion Pictures’ What If?, the first project announced under the leadership of Orion President Alana Mayo. Emmy-winning Pose star Billy Porter is stepping behind…

Disney Investor Day premiered a clip from the forthcoming animated Marvel Studios project What If…? As the title suggests, prepare for the unexpected. The first animated series from Marvel Studios, the show is expected to bow on streamer Disney+ this summer. Jeffery Wright has already been cast as the voice of The…

Orion Pictures has set its first feature film project since its relaunch, securing Emmy-winning Pose star Billy Porter to direct What If?, a high school coming-of-age drama penned by Alvaro García Lecuona. Pic, billed as a cross between coming-of-age features Booksmart and Love Simon, follows high school senior KHAL…

Jeffery Wright has been cast as The Watcher, the narrator of What If…?, Marvel’s upcoming animated series for the Disney+ streaming service. The news was revealed Saturday during Marvel’s jam-packed Hall H presentation at Comic-Con. Wright fittingly was in San Diego already, participating earlier today in HBO’s panel…

Renee Zellweger's thriller What/If has moved to the top of Netflix's latest UK top ten list, while rom-com feature Always Be My Maybe and mini-series When They See Us have also crashed into the most-watched titles. It marks Netflix's fifth most-watched list in the UK with the SVOD service running the experiment on a…