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Of all Disney’s relatively recent franchise’s its no stretch to say that “Moana” is among the most beloved. The first film was a massive hit with children everywhere and only gained more popularity with the sequel’s release. The fan-favorite film franchise has even received a live-action adaptation, which is set to debut incredibly soon. Although the trailers have received a lot of scrutiny online, most negative statements are from people outside the film’s target audience.

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July 2 (Reuters) – “Lethal Weapon” star Danny Glover has said he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.

In an interview that aired on Wednesday’s edition of The Today Show, the 79-year-old San Francisco-born actor and activist said he got the diagnosis soon after receiving an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his advocacy for justice and human rights, in 2022.

“I can live with it in ⁠a sense,” Glover said. “I’m ⁠sure as it advances, things are going

July 2 (Reuters) – “Lethal Weapon” star Danny Glover has said he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.

In an interview that aired on Wednesday’s edition of The Today Show, the 79-year-old San Francisco-born actor and activist said he got the diagnosis soon after receiving an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his advocacy for justice and human rights, in 2022.

“I can live with it in ⁠a sense,” Glover said. “I’m ⁠sure as it advances, things are going

July 2 (Reuters) – “Lethal Weapon” star Danny Glover has said he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.

In an interview that aired on Wednesday’s edition of The Today Show, the 79-year-old San Francisco-born actor and activist said he got the diagnosis soon after receiving an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his advocacy for justice and human rights, in 2022.

“I can live with it in a sense,” Glover ⁠said. “I’m sure as it advances, things are going t

Josh Gad is the latest to join Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper’s crew for their forthcoming “Ocean’s 11” prequel at Warner Bros, sources told Variety.

Gad has booked a significant role in the period heist film, the sources added, and joins a starry ensemble led by Robbie and her director-costar Cooper. Casting has been coming at a steady clip as the film heads toward production. Reps for Gad and Warner Bros. Pictures did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment.

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The mouse is set to pay.

The deadline to apply for a $50 million settlement from The Walt Disney Company, linked to a class action case claiming the company helped drive up subscription prices for streaming platforms, is approaching.

The settlement stems from a 2022 federal class action suit filed by YouTube TV subscribers who argued that Disney used its control over must-have programming, including content t

Actor and activist Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s disease

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and activist Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s disease. The “Lethal Weapon” star, who turns 80 on July 22, was diagnosed three years ago. He told “Today” and People magazine that he’s still coming to terms with the disease. Alzheimer’s affects more than 6 million people in the U.S. and millions more worldwide. Glover earned four Emmy nominations and an honorary Oscar in 2022. He also received awards from t

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Warner Bros. is going all in with the casting for its Ocean’s Eleven prequel. Another Oscar-nominated actor has joined the heist movie, which Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper are headlining.

Deadline reported that Monica Ba

LOS ANGELES, June 30 (Reuters) – Netflix has partnered with AI firm ElevenLabs to recreate late actor Gene Wilder’s voice for the reality competition series “Wonka’s The Golden Ticket,” the streamer said on Tuesday.

ElevenLabs specializes in AI-generated, human-like speech and voice cloning technology.

Wilder, who played the title character in the original 1971 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” film, died in 2016 at the age of 83.

“More than five decades after Gene brought Willy Wonka t

Tom Hardy appears to be back in the fold at MobLand.

The actor had reportedly clashed with producers of the Paramount+ series during the filming of season two; THR reported that Hardy at times refused to leave his trailer and gave script notes to executive producer Jez Butterworth and MobLand creator Ronan Barrett.

“He kept the cast waiting, [which is] a power play,” a source told THR. “Keeping [co-stars] Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and others waiting is career suicide, I would wager.”

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* The Comcast and NBCUniversal split sets up both companies to pursue transactions even if they aren’t in the plans yet, according to a Deutsche Bank analyst.

* Paramount Skydance’s megamerger with Warner Bros. Discovery and others like it eclipses the lack of volume with very large values.

This year is shaping up to be one for mega unions. We’re not talking about the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce nuptials — we mean big-time M&A.

Comcast (CMCSA) on Monday said it plans to spin off NBCUniversal,

Comcast on Monday announced plans for a company split, whereby its NBCUniversal media and entertainment operations will be spun out from the Comcast connectivity business, resulting in two standalone publicly traded entities.

It follows Comcast’s earlier move to spin out traditional linear cable networks into the standalone Versant entity.

Post-split, the NBCU business will be led by current Comcast chief executive Mike Cavanagh as CEO and include the NBCU theme parks division, Universal film

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy will ask the competition and media watchdogs to probe Paramount’s £85bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery to ensure the mega-deal doesn’t stifle the breadth of Britain’s media ecosystem.

The Wigan MP said on Tuesday that she planned to authorise both the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Ofcom to examine the impact of the deal, which will see two of America’s largest media titans brought under one roof.

“Following engagement with the parties and indepe

Comcast plans to split off NBCUniversal and Sky into a separate publicly traded company, a major shakeup for one of Hollywood’s biggest media empires.

Comcast announced it is splitting off NBCUniversal and Sky from its cable and wireless business, a major media-industry shakeup that could reshape valuation and merger possibilities across entertainment and streaming.

The Directors Guild of America sued MGM, alleging the studio undervalued licensing deals with MGM+ to reduce revenue reporting and avoid paying full pension contributions.

Christopher Nolan is again making the case that Hollywood’s biggest movies do not have to be its most predictable. The filmmaker, whose “Oppenheimer” became one of the most commercially successful adult dramas in modern box office history, has said that relying on caution in mainstream filmmaking is not a reliable strategy because audiences respond to […]

Blink49‘s branded entertainment division, Brand Studio, recently launched a vertical video division — and it has just announced its first project in the space. “Murder at the Mansion,” described as an “original vertical micro-drama designed for mobile-first audiences,” is set for this fall. Blink49 head of vertical content Tieren Hawkins is writing the micro drama. […]

Trending on Billboard A judge says Russell Simmons can be sued for rape in New York by a former Def Jam executive, even though he now lives in Indonesia. A Tuesday (June 16) order in New York state court, first obtained and reported by Billboard, rejects Simmons’ latest attempt to dismiss the civil lawsuit alleging […]

Robert Thurman, father to actress Uma Thurman and the co-founder of the cultural institution Tibet House in New York City, has died at the age of 84. Thurman’s death was announced via social media by Tibet House, which wrote, “We are deeply saddened to announce that Robert A.F. Thurman, prominent American Buddhist scholar, co-founder of […]

Trending on Billboard Last spring, Concord announced its acquisition of Stem, an independent artist services company led by Milana Rabkin Lewis. The deal, however, didn’t come as a total surprise. Over the past few years, distribution and artist services companies have consistently been on the market, and larger players have been eager to buy into […]