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- Marvel revives its Swimsuit Special with 'Brand New Beach Day' #1 — Marvel Comics is reviving its 1990s Swimsuit Special with a new one-shot, Marvel Swimsuit Special: Brand New Beach Day #1, on sale July 1. The issue pairs four…
- Locals Take Note: Disney World's Summer Florida Resident Tickets Start at $65 a Day With No Blockout Dates — Walt Disney World is offering Florida residents multi-day tickets from $65 per day, valid May 17 through October 3 with no blockout dates. Residents can also s…
- Pixar's "Mother's Nature" turns classic mom lines into a Mother's Day short — Pixar's new short "Mother's Nature" plays the everyday things human moms say over the lives of animal and plant parents, from turtles to a parrot to an ear of…
- Andor Star Diego Luna Joins Disney's Live-Action Tangled, and Fans Are Intrigued — Diego Luna, fresh off Andor, is joining Disney's live-action Tangled alongside Teagan Croft, Milo Manheim, and Kathryn Hahn. The Greatest Showman director Mich…
- Marvel Rivals Season 9 hotfix buffs Cyclops and Phoenix, nerfs Psylocke and Iron Man — Marvel Rivals has deployed an emergency Version 20260711 balance hotfix for Season 9. Strategists charge ultimates faster again, Cyclops and Phoenix get damage…
- Alice in Wonderland Urupocha-chan Plush Hop to Disney Store on July 14 — Disney Store will release its Alice in Wonderland Urupocha-chan plush on July 14, announcing the date with a stop-motion garden teaser on X. The palm-sized Jap…
- Fans Debate Disney's Remake Playbook as Live-Action Moana Opens to a Soft $95M Worldwide — Disney's live-action Moana opened to about $43 million in North America and $95 million worldwide, one of the weakest starts among the studio's live-action rem…
- Brews and Views Pairs Beauty and the Beast With Fort Point Beer at The Walt Disney Family Museum — The Walt Disney Family Museum's Perfect Pairing series matches the 1991 Beauty and the Beast with San Francisco's Fort Point Beer Company on July 27, including…
- How Imagineering wrote Smugglers Run's new 80-page Mandalorian mission — Walt Disney Imagineering has revealed how the new Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run mission was scripted. In a behind-the-scenes featurette, senior story lead R…
- Behind the Build: How Disney's 350 New Fort Wilderness Cabins Come Together — Disney is building more than 350 new cabins at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort for Disney Vacation Club members and guests, prefabricated off-site in an Orland…
- Disney Legend Don Iwerks, Circle-Vision Pioneer and Star Tours Engineer, Dies at 96 — Don Iwerks, the son of animation pioneer Ub Iwerks, spent 35 years building the camera and projection systems behind Circle-Vision 360, Captain EO, Star Tours,…
- Amazing Spider-Man #1000 Lands in September With Seven Stories and a New Villain Named Ravage — Marvel celebrates 1,000 issues of Amazing Spider-Man on September 16 with an oversized anthology of seven original stories from legendary and current creators.…
- Ron Clements Looks Back on 45 Years of Disney Animation in Making Disney Magic — The director behind The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and Moana has put his whole career on the page. Making Disney Magic, Ron Clements' 496-page memoir a…
- Catherine Laga'aia Tours Journey of Water at EPCOT and Talks Becoming Moana — Catherine Laga'aia, who plays the title role in Disney's live-action Moana, tours Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana at EPCOT in a new Disney Parks video. Bet…
- Inside the Mobilator, Disney Live Entertainment's First Fully Autonomous Onstage Character — Walt Disney Imagineering has released a behind-the-scenes look at the Mobilator, the fully autonomous platform that drives WALL-E's wagon in Remember: A Disney…
- Dwayne Johnson, Catherine Lagaʻaia, and Thomas Kail on Reimagining Moana for Live Action — Disney's live-action Moana opens exclusively in theaters July 10, and the people who made it are explaining how it came together. Producer and Maui star Dwayne…
- Marvel Rivals Season 9: Jubilee Joins the Roster, Team-Ups Get Rebuilt, and Apocalypse Is Dead — Marvel Rivals Season 9 lands July 10 with Jubilee as the new hero, a ground-up rework of the Team-Up system, and significant changes to Black Widow. The season…
- Disney Sets Its Comic-Con 2026 Slate: Percy Jackson Opens Hall H, Hulu Animayhem Takes Over the Gaslamp — Disney Entertainment Television has locked in its San Diego Comic-Con 2026 plans. Percy Jackson and the Olympians opens Hall H on Thursday, July 23, Hulu Anima…
- Spy School Is Becoming a Disney+ Series From Chuck Creator Chris Fedak and Ryan Reynolds' Maximum Effort — Disney+ is developing Spy School, a drama based on Stuart Gibbs' bestselling middle-grade books about a kid recruited into a CIA academy disguised as a science…
- D23 2026 Merch First Look: Walt's Office, Epic Rivals, and Every Exclusive Collection at the Ultimate Disney Fan Event — D23 has revealed the exclusive merchandise lines coming to The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, August 14 through 16. The Walt Disney Company Store and the Walt Disn…
- A Disney+ Shake-Up Has Streaming Fans Talking: President Alisa Bowen Departs to Run Fubo — Alisa Bowen, the executive who has run Disney+ as its president since 2022, is leaving to become CEO of Fubo, the sports streamer Disney now controls after mer…
- Toy Story Hotel at Shanghai Disney Resort: A Stay Inside Andy's Toy Box — Shanghai Disney Resort's Toy Story Hotel shrinks guests down to toy size, with an infinity-shaped layout honoring Buzz Lightyear, courtyards anchored by giant…
- Live-Action Moana Draws $4.5M in Previews as Fans Question a Remake So Soon — Disney's live-action Moana opened Thursday previews with $4.5M, coming in below a forecast that shrank all week, while critics landed at 35% on Rotten Tomatoes…
- Where to Find Moana Across Disney Parks Around the World — With Disney's live-action Moana in theaters July 10, the wayfinder from Motunui is turning up at nearly every Disney destination on the globe. From EPCOT's Jou…
- Fort Wilderness Expands Its Meadow Swimmin' Pool and Refreshes the Reception Outpost — Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground has expanded its Meadow Swimmin' Pool with a new zero-entry pool and more deck space, and refreshed the Receptio…
- 31 Years of Toy Story in Five Minutes: Tom Hanks and Tim Allen Look Back — Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, the voices of Woody and Buzz Lightyear since 1995, sat down with creator Jace Diehl for a five-question interview timed to Toy Story 5…
- Disney Store Teases an Alice in Wonderland 75th Anniversary Limited Edition Doll, Revealing July 14 — Disney Store has teased an Alice in Wonderland 75th Anniversary Limited Edition Doll, with a full reveal set for July 14 to mark 75 years of the 1951 animated…
- Pixar Pals Spectacular Debuts at Hong Kong Disneyland: Drones, Projections, and a Story About Friendship — Hong Kong Disneyland Resort has debuted "Pixar Pals Spectacular," an all-new nighttime show that turns the Castle of Magical Dreams and Main Street, U.S.A. int…
- Hong Kong Disneyland Debuts ‘Pixar Pals Spectacular’ Drone-and-Projection Nighttime Show — Hong Kong Disneyland’s first-ever Pixar Summer Fest introduces Pixar Pals Spectacular, a roughly eight-minute nighttime show that fills the Castle of Magical D…
- Josh Gad Grills Disney's Josh D'Amaro on His First 100 Days — With the Questions Fans Actually Want — Actor Josh Gad — the voice of Olaf — turned interviewer to mark Disney's Josh D'Amaro's first 100 days, trading corporate talk for fan-first questions. In the…