Bob Iger Says Marvel Will Have “Reduced Volume & Output” & Claims Studio “Lost Focus”

EXCLUSIVE: Auli’i Cravalho is coming back toreprise the voice of Moana in Moana 2.

This past weekend saw red carpets for the SAG Awards and Spirit Awards and, frankly, some stars are running out of things to say. Thankfully, Kathryn Hahn was a presenter at the former and willing to talk about her upcoming Marvel Studios series, “Agatha: Darkhold Diaries.” A spin-off of the Emmy Award-winning “WandaVision” which will arrive on Disney+ on September 19.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Timothée Chalamet first revealed in September 2022 that his “Don’t Look Up” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio once gave him brief but essential career advice: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” DiCaprio has never gone down the comic book movie route, and it’s a path Chalamet has also avoided so far despite the majority of his contemporaries signing up for Marvel and DC films in recent years. Is Chalamet still committed to DiCaprio’s advice? In a recent interview with The New York Times while on the press tour for “Dune: Part Two,” Chalamet said the door on starring in comic book movies is not completely shut the way it might be for DiCaprio.

Charles D. King made history tonight, becoming the first African American producer to accept the PGA Milestone Award.

Selome Hailu Netflix is no longer adapting Rick Riordan‘s “Kane Chronicles” book series into feature films. Riordan, best known as the author of the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” books, shared the news while responding to question from a fan on Goodreads. “Right now, Kane Chronicles is in ‘turnaround,’ which means Netflix has decided not to move forward and their option has lapsed after trying for two years to develop a script they liked,” he wrote.

The undeniable narrative of superhero movies in 2023 was arguably the most disastrous on record since Marvel took off in 2008 with “Iron Man.” The “Marvel wobble” year, as it’s been called, saw Marvel’s first flop ever, “The Marvels” (their lowest-grossing film ever), a major box office disappointment, “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania,” and a series so poorly reviewed (“Secret Invasion”), the studio would love to pretend it didn’t exist.

Katcy Stephan Lady Gaga is trading in the “LoveGame” for a video game. The singer is coming to Fortnite Festival as the second season’s headlining icon, launching Feb.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Kirsten Niehuus, head of German film fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, is confident that the changes to film funding proposed by the German government recently will have a “very positive effect on the production scene in Berlin-Brandenburg.” The proposed changes to the funding system were presented last week to German lawmakers in the Bundestag by commissioner for culture and media Claudia Roth (see here). Speaking to Variety Saturday at a party Medienboard hosted at Berlin’s Holzmarkt, Niehuus said the changes “will mean that we would have a tax system in place that could compete, for instance, with Budapest or Prague, so that not so many German productions would go and shoot somewhere else, and more foreign productions would come and shoot in Germany.” Looking at the media landscape across Germany she notes that one major challenge is the decision by high-end outlets such as Paramount+, HBO and Sky to cancel local productions, and she noted “the streamers are not such reliable partners anymore.” She added: “So I think producers are having a really hard time at the moment.” On a happier note, the Berlin government raised Medienboard’s budget by Euros 6 million over the next two years, which will be targeted at the exhibition sector in the region, allowing for the upgrading of facilities at movie theaters.

Sir Keir Starmer said his party would deal with Donald Trump if the United States chooses him as the next president.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Nelson Peltz, the activist investor who runs hedge fund Trian Partners, believes urgent change is needed at Disney. He’s waging a proxy-fight battle to install himself and ex-Disney CFO Jay Rasulo as directors, a vote that will go up at Disney’s 2024 annual shareholders meeting April 3. What does Trian want? “Fundamentally and crudely, we want the stock to go up,” Peltz says in a video on Trian’s Disney proxy-fight site.

EXCLUSIVE: UK Director Ben Gregor says his upcoming adaptation of Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree will tap into children’s post-pandemic anxiety and retreat into screens as it celebrates the joy of being outdoors in nature, in a subtext that will chime with parents worldwide.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang, who has two films in the Berlinale this year, is a contrarian who would be almost at home working with art-galleries and museums as cinemas and film festivals. Indeed, his new “Abiding Nowhere” is part financed by the Smithsonian Institute. “Abiding Nowhere,” which premieres on Monday in the Encounters section and consists of lonely wanderings through Washington DC by a barefoot monk, is, by Tsai’s own admission, “not a normal film.” “It does not have a story or a plot.

Jeremy Hunt has said the upcoming Spring Budget will focus on "prioritising economic growth" as he hinted that further tax cuts could be announced on March 6.

Activist Disney investor Nelson Peltz, whose Trian Capital is at war with CEO Bob Iger, blasted the company’s spree of earning-timed announcements last week as “spaghetti against the wall.” He also guaranteed victory in the proxy fight.

Now that the Super Bowl is over, the next speculation in Taylor Swift mania is whether she will be going to the White House for the traditional winning team celebration for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Kanye West calling him “a very charming anti-Semite”.The comedian and writer shared that he sat down with the ‘No More Parties In LA’ rapper and they filmed a two-hour-long episode for Maher’s Club Random podcast. In an interview with TMZ for their TMZ Investigates series, Maher said that the episode would not be aired due to West’s antisemitism.“I thought it was going to be a learning moment.” Maher said while on TMZ Investigates which aired on February 5, titled “Unhinged but Unstoppable.”He continued: “We were here for two hours.

Joey Potter and Jen Lindley are together again!

The Walt Disney Company reported its first quarter earnings of 2024 on Wednesday, and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger made several surprise announcements. For one, as you probably already read, a surprise “Moana 2” is not only coming, it’s nearly ready, and dated for November 2024.

Well, this one comes out of nowhere. A $682.6 million global box office winner that has surely grossed just as much as that in toys, games, merchandise, and ancillary products if not more, today Disney’s Bob Iger made the surprise announcement of a sequel to the animated hit “Moana.” And here’s more of a shocker: it’s basically done and ready to come out this year in November.

Gemma Atkinson has joked 'you should have heard me' as she recalled her labour while watching a video of herself in the gym. The Hits Radio host previously joked that it was her fiance Gorka Marquez's fault that she was back for a new 12-week programme at celebrity fitness haunt Ultimate Performance (UP Fitness) in Manchester.