Peter Billingsley is sharing his thoughts on the long-standing debate over the movie Die Hard!
05.12.2023 - 19:53 / justjared.com
Disney’s reputation is notoriously squeaky clean.
The beloved company has provided family-friendly fun for decades, with live-action favorites and animated classics spanning back to the 1930s.
As a powerful force in the industry and one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, the company expanded its reach over the years with film distribution companies, like Touchstone Pictures, Miramax, Searchlight Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution.
The movies often featured more adult themes than one would expect from the company. Because they are published by subsidiaries, the titles are all only indirectly Disney-related – but they still fall under the major studio’s umbrella anyway.
Find out which R-rated movies reside within the Disney brand…
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Starring: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie
Plot summary: An agoraphobic woman begins to spy on her new neighbors, and is witness to a crime in their apartment.
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Touchstone Pictures
Starring: Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss
Plot summary: A rich but dysfunctional family saves the life of a suicidal homeless man.
The film is also the first R-rated film ever released by Disney, and got the rating due to profanity and a brief scene of a maid in bed having sex.
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Touchstone Pictures
Starring: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tom. T. Tran
Plot summary: in 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Hollywood Pictures
Starring: Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh
Plot summary: The film follows the relationships
Peter Billingsley is sharing his thoughts on the long-standing debate over the movie Die Hard!
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Sorry, folks. Natalie Portman doesn’t plan on ever going topless in a movie.
A bunch of major Hollywood stars not only act in movies, they also produce them!
In an intriguing move, yet retro, move for Disney on the 2024 theatrical release calendar which is starving for product, three Pixar movies –2020’s Soul, 2021’s Luca and 2022’s Turning Red –which were sidelined on Disney+ during the pandemic, are getting special engagement theatrical runs. We hear all three will receive moderate to wide theatrical runs. The titles will remain in play on Disney+ during their new theatrical window.
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is a Marvel star and was also one of the Kens in the hit “Barbie” movie, announced on his Instagram Story on Thursday that he had to drop out of a planned appearance in Disney World’s 2023 Candlelight Processional, due to unspecified “health scares.” “I’m so absolutely gutted to have to drop out,” he wrote. The Candlelight Processional retells the Christmas story with a celebrity narrator, orchestra and choir. It was scheduled to be narrated by Liu from Nov.