Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios granted the wish of an entire fandom when they announced in February of 2015 that they had reached an intracompany agreement that would allow Spider-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe alongside the likes of Iron Man and Captain America.
The convoluted matter of the ancestry of Anthony Edward Stark, the hero formerly known as Iron Man and currently operating under the codename Mark One, could fill an entire season of paternity episodes of The Maury Povich Show. The details of Tony's increasingly entangled lineage have been revealed to be a succession of half-truths and outright lies, and now it seems that the devil is not only in the details, but he's also slithering along a branch of Tony's family tree.
In eight short years, Bob Iger's acquisition of Lucasfilm for a hefty $4.05 billion price tag has already paid enormous dividends, from Disney's five Star Wars films that earned an average of $1.18 billion each (even accounting for Solo: A Star Wars Story's underwhelming performance) to the opening of the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge sections of Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios to next year's debut of the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser wholly-immersive resort experience.
Tom Holland has emerged as one of the central figures of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's future, both on-screen and off, and when asked in a recent interview which Disney+ series he'd like his high-school hero to cameo in given the choice, the actor responded with his customary British enthusiasm: "I think the WandaVision show looks really cool...very stylistic. It almost looks like a bit of a sitcom with the way they've shot it. Paul and Elizabeth are, like, two of the nicest people I know, and I would love to work with them some more... That'd be great, Kevin Feige... If you want to do that, you know my number."
The Walt Disney Studios animated film Frozen 2 and its predecessor borrowed liberally from the fantasy and science-fiction genres, from the manipulation of the four natural elements as seen in Avatar: The Last Airbender and the discovery of a unifying fifth element as seen in The Fifth Element. Elsa was never called an Avatar (Disney's already got a franchise by that name), but a new theory suggests that the Arendellian monarch may in fact be related to the mutants of Marvel's X-Men.
The joke across the United Kingdom is that their entertainment industry has a grand total of twelve actors, six sets, and one tie. One need only look at the overlapping area on the Venn Diagram of actors who have appeared on both the Doctor Who television series and the Harry Potter film series to see it. One such actor is David Tennant, who appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Bartemius Crouch Jr. in 2005 before going on to play one of the most beloved incarnations of the Doctor from Christmas Day of that year until the end of time, which, for him, aired in two parts on Christmas Day of 2009 and New Years Day of 2010.
Set to deliver the eagerly anticipated returns of title characters Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes, as well as S.H.I.E.L.D.-agent-turned-CIA-operative Sharon Carter and former EKO Scorpion commander Helmut Zemo, and introducing government-sanctioned Captain America successor John Walker and possibly even early World War II Project Rebirth test subject Isaiah Bradley, the Disney+ streaming series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is quickly positioning itself to become one of the most anticipated projects in the near-future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The opening day attraction of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland in California, Millennium Falcon – Smugglers Run went online on May 31st of 2019, allowing guests to "ride in the famous cockpit of the Millennium Falcon on a daring flight" that includes "danger at every turn" as members of "discreet flight crews" hired by the Weequay pirate Hondo Ohnaka "to deliver a backlog of hard-to-find items to particular clientele."
Inspired in part by 15th-century Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler, Count Dracula first appeared as the prototypical vampire in Bram Stoker's 1897 epistolary novel Dracula. Alternately played on film over the last century by, among others, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr. Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman, Gerard Butler, and Dominic Purcell, the character was most recently portrayed by Luke Evans in Gary Shore's 2014 dark fantasy original story Dracula Untold, which was intended to be the first installment of an interconnected Dark Universe franchise of horror films.
