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Yesterday, numerous rumors surfaced about Captain America: Brave New World. After months of speculation, the entire plot of the film has reportedly leaked online, revealing some surprises for fans to anticipate.

It appears that the movie will not only lay the groundwork for the World War Hulks storyline but also introduce a new Hulk to the MCU: Amadeus Cho.

At this point, Cho would become the fourth Hulk in the MCU, joining Banner, She-Hulk, and Thaddeus Ross’ Red Hulk. After the leak about Amadeus Cho, industry insider Daniel Richtman shared on X that Logan Kim will portray the character.

Logan Kim (Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire) has been cast as Amadeus Cho in the MCU pic.twitter.com/c0bOdcH0Ur

— Daniel Richtman (@DanielRPK) October 3, 2024

Logan Kim is widely recognized for his role as Liam Kwan in the 2021 film Ghostbusters: Afterlife, where he portrays a tech-savvy teenager assisting the new...

Yesterday, several rumors broke regarding ‘Captain America: Brave New World.’ After months of silence seemingly, the whole plot of the movie has leaked online and fans have a few surprises to look forward to.

Apparently, the movie is not only going to work toward setting up ‘World War Hulks’ storyline but it’s going to introduce another Hulk to the MCU – Amadeus Cho.

Cho would be at this point the fourth Hulk in the MCU alongside Banner, She-Hulk, and Thaddeus Ross’ Red Hulk. Following the Amadeus Cho leak, Daniel Richtman, notable industry insider posted on X that Cho will be played by Logan Kim.

Logan Kim (Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire) has been cast as Amadeus Cho in the MCU pic.twitter.com/c0bOdcH0Ur

— Daniel Richtman (@DanielRPK) October 3, 2024

Logan Kim is best known for his role as Liam Kwan in the 2021 film ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ where he plays a...

Another hotly anticipated Disney+ sci-fi series has been cancelled according to one of the creatives behind the project. 

Disney+ purged dozens of already-released movies and shows from its service in May 2023, including decently budgeted series like Willow and The Mysterious Benedict Society. Hulu followed suit that Summer with its own removals. In the following months, planned shows like The Spiderwick Chronicles were abandoned from the service.

These moves were true signs that the 'Peak TV' era of Hollywood had reached its end, with media conglomerates like Disney no longer splurging on countless projects to boost subscriber counts for their streaming services, instead becoming much more selective with which ones it decides to greenlight and keep on its service.

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With the nominations round of Emmy voting done, all that’s left to do is tabulate the choices and reveal the nominees in July. And then vote again. And tabulate again. And hand out the actual awards.

Regardless, the nominations news will be delivered by two previous Emmy winners: Tony Hale and Sheryl Lee Ralph. The pair are set to anchor the nominations ceremony on Wednesday, July 17, at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. A live stream of the announcement will be available on the Television Academy’s Emmy website.

“While this year has been marked by significant challenges for our industry and its workforce, there has been an abundance of remarkable programs, extraordinary performances and impactful storytelling,” said Television Academy chair Cris Abrego. “Great television relies on the contributions of so many, and we are delighted to have Tony and Sheryl help us acknowledge excellence across our field as...

Exclusive: Craig Zisk has been tapped to direct and executive produce Season 2 of Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ original series Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone, which has started production. Now designated as a comedy series, Tulsa King will film in Oklahoma and Atlanta.

As Deadline reported in February, Terence Winter, who stepped down as showrunner of the mob drama/comedy after its first season, has come back as a writer on Season 2 in addition to his continuing duties as an executive producer. The series opted not to get a replacement for Winter in line with the practice at the other Sheridan series produced by 101 Studios that don’t have a traditional showrunner. Instead, Tulsa King, produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, was to bring in a director/executive producer, which it now has with Zisk’s hire.

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This is why we can’t have nice things. Disney+ announced today that it will not move forward with a second season of the action-fantasy series American Born Chinese. The decision to cancel the series comes seven months after Disney debuted the eight-episode series on its streaming service, Disney+. The cancelation is raising a red flag for fans of the series, as Disney tends to purge content from Disney+ to save money and digital real estate. We’ve seen the mouse-eared streamer purge content before, with shows like Willow, Turner & Hooch, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, The Mysterious Benedict Society, and more. According to Deadline, options on the cast expired yesterday. However, there could be a silver lining to this disappointing news. 20th Television still plans to shop the series to other outlets, giving the show a chance to live again through another platform.

Per Disney+, here’s the...

The 2nd Annual Children’s and Family Emmy Awards announced their winners on December 16 and 17. These prizes were formerly handed out as part of the Daytime Emmys, but they were given their own separate event as part of a restructuring of the Emmys as a whole. Scroll down for the complete list of winners in all categories.

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Preschool Series

Blue’s Clues & You! — Nickelodeon

Helpsters — Apple TV+

X — Sesame Street — HBO Max

Slumberkins — Apple TV+

Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant — Netflix

Children’S Or Family Viewing Series

Are You Afraid of the Dark — Nickelodeon

Best Foot Forward — Apple TV+

Jane — Apple TV+

Malory Towers — BYUtv

X — The Muppets Mayhem — Disney+

Young Teen Series

X — The Crossover — Disney+

Ghostwriter — Apple TV+

High School Musical: The Musical – The Series — Disney+

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The 2nd annual Children’s & Family Emmys got underway on Saturday night, starting with the Children’s & Family Creative Arts Emmys at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. According to early results — pending final tallies — Disney+ and Netflix tied the lead with nine wins overall.

The most honored program of the evening was actually Netflix’s “Lost Ollie,” which scored five trophies. Disney+’s wins included multiple awards for “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special” and animated series “Baymax!” Nickelodeon picked up five wins.

And it was also a good night for Disney via its linear Disney Channel, which picked up four wins.

Presenters included Tamara Almeida (“Jane”), Ceci Balagot (“Monster High: The Movie”), Eric Bauza (voice of Bugs Bunny and others), Tantoo Cardinal (“Spirit Rangers”), Nayah Damasen (“Monster High: The Movie”), Miia Harris (“Monster High: The Movie”), Sonia Manzano (“Alma’s Way”), Ava Louise Murchison (“Jane”), and...

Disney racked up 93 nominations for the second annual Children’s and Family Emmys over their different networks, including Disney+ and Disney Junior.

Netflix followed with 61 nominations and Nickelodeon with 30, with AppleTV+ proving itself to be a rising player with 27 total nods.

“We are very proud of the growth experienced in year two of the Children’s and Family Emmys, especially in the development and cultivation of the new categories dedicated to puppetry,” said Rachel Schwartz, director of Daytime and Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, in a statement.

Among the notable actors who received nominations for acting categories included “The Santa Clauses” stars Tim Allen and Kal Penn, “National Treasure: Edge of History” player Catherine Zeta-Jones, Gina Rodriguez for Netflix’s “Lost Ollie,” and various voice performances were recognized for Hollywood vets such as Laurence Fishburne, Jack Black, Tom Kenny and Rob Paulsen.

Details for the ceremony are slated to drop sometime next week.

The 2nd Annual Children’s and Family Emmy Awards announced their nominations on November 2, with “Sesame Street” and “The Mysterious Benedict Society” among the top contenders. These awards used to be handed out as part of the Daytime Emmys, but they were shifted to their own separate ceremony as part of an overall restructuring of all Emmy events. Scroll down for the complete list of nominees in all categories.

Rachel Schwartz, Director of the Daytime and Children’s and Family Emmy Awards, said in a statement, “We are very proud of the growth experienced in year two of the Children’s and Family Emmys, especially in the development and cultivation of the new categories dedicated to puppetry.”

Brent Stanton, Head of the Daytime and Children’s and Family Emmy Awards, added, “Programming created for children’s and family viewing has a long history of leading the way in innovation and storytelling.

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced on Thursday the nominees for the second annual Children’s & Family Emmy Awards.

Disney led the nominees with an overwhelming 93 nods, which included programming across Disney+, Disney Channel and Disney Junior. Netflix followed with 61 nods, while Nickelodeon earned 30 and Apple TV+ earned 27. With 50 categories, the Children’s and Family Emmys is the largest competition that NATAS oversees.

“We are very proud of the growth experienced in year two of the Children’s and Family Emmys, especially in the development and cultivation of the new categories dedicated to puppetry,” said Rachel Schwartz, director of Daytime and Children’s & Family Emmy Awards, in a statement.

Added Brent Stanton, head of Daytime and Children’s & Family Emmy Awards: “Programming created for children’s and family viewing has a long history of leading the way in innovation and storytelling. In this year specifically, a...

As the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences continues to figure out how and when to finally hold this year’s Daytime Emmys — delayed in June due to the WGA strike — it has gone ahead and announced the nominations for this year’s 2nd Annual Children’s & Family Emmys.

There’s no date yet for this year’s Chidren’s & Family Emmys — NATAS is likely waiting for a hopeful soon resolution to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike before firming up dates. But last year, winners were announced during two ceremonies—one focused on creative and technical arts, and the other to performances and programming—at Wilshire Ebell Theatre on December 10 and 11. This year’s Cafe will likely be held around the same time — and NATAS could very well use that timeframe to simultaneously finally hold the Daytime Emmys as well.

In announcing this year’s nominees, NATAS also supplied a...

Warwick Davis is the face of the “Willow” franchise, which kicked off in 1988 with Ron Howard’s fantasy film and continued with the short-lived Disney+ sequel series in 2022. Disney canceled the television series after only one eight-episode season, and then it pulled the show off of Disney+ entirely for cost-cutting measures. Davis is now calling out Disney on X (formerly Twitter), asking the studio in a recent post to answer the many fans wondering why they can no longer watch the show via streaming.

“I meet lovely people on a daily basis who are fans of ‘Willow,’ who are the reason the Disney+ series was made,” Davis posted. “Please tell me [Walt Disney Company], what do I say to these subscribers when they ask why they can’t watch the series any more? #embarrassing.”

“Willow” was one of nearly 50 titles that Disney+ pulled from its streaming library in May. Other...

At times it feels like if a news story breaks on Friday, Lifetime is there on Monday with an original movie at the ready. The speed of this brand that’s been around since 1984 isn’t just surprising to fans and reporters in the TV space.

“We surprise ourselves sometimes,” senior vice president of scripted programming Tia Maggini told TheWrap.

One of those surprising turnarounds happened around “Murdaugh Murders: The Movie,” a two-part project that makes history on Saturday for being the 500th original movie to air on the network.

According to Maggini, the team at Lifetime had been following the story of the Murdaugh family murders from the beginning. Though the “crazy” story captured their attention, the team was hesitant to move forward “legally” until the had a more definite idea of who committed the murders. But once Alex Murdaugh was arrested, the team went to work “towards the top of this year.

It's another historic first for Disney+ as seven movies that were abandoned from the streamer are now available on major digital platforms.

As part of a surprising move to cut down costs, Disney decided to remove several TV shows from Disney+, which included notable titles like Willow, Big Shot, and The Mysterious Benedict Society.

A good chunk of Disney+ original movies was also not safe from the content purge as the streamer removed the likes of the Cheaper By The Dozen reboot, Artemis Fowl, and Better Nate Than Never.

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Facing litigation on multiple fronts, the Walt Disney Company has been served with another lawsuit from investors claiming that the company under former CEO Bob Chapek concealed the true costs of producing films and TV shows for its Disney+ streaming service.

In the 63-page lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Delaware and obtained by TheWrap, Stourbridge Investments LLC alleges that Chapek, along with his lieutenant Kareem Daniel and former CFO Christine McCarthy, initially aired shows greenlit as Disney+ originals on legacy outlets like Disney Channel and then shifted the marketing and production costs of those shows onto those outlets “as part of a scheme to make Disney+’s financial performance appear more successful than it really was.”

Among the shows the plaintiffs cite as part of this strategy were “The Mysterious Benedict Society,” which was pulled from Disney+ this past May, and “Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.,” which ran...

Disney+ is not moving forward with its live-action series adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles, TVLine has confirmed.

The streamer has decided to scrap the six-episode series after announcing its original order in November 2021. The episodes have already been completed and are being shopped by Paramount Television Studios and 20th Television, according to our sister site Deadline.

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There will be no third season for Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. Disney+ has canceled the series after two seasons, Deadline has confirmed.

The move comes five months after all 10 episodes of Season 2 of the coming-of-age medical half-hour dramedy launched on the streamer.

Created and executive produced by Kourtney Kang, Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. followed the adventures of Lahela “Doogie” Kameāloha (Lee), a 16-year-old girl, juggling a budding medical career and life as a teenager in modern-day Hawaiʻi.

The cast of the series, a reboot of the popular ’90s medical drama Doogie Howser, M.D. starring Neil Patrick Harris, also included Jason Scott Lee, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Matthew Sato, Wes Tian, Emma Meisel, Mapuana Makia and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman. Ronny Chieng, Alex Aiono and the late Al Harrington recurred in Season 1.

Executive producing alongside Kang were Melvin Mar, Jake Kasdan, Dayna Bochco, Jesse Bochco, Erin O’Malley, Matt Kuhn and Justin McEwen.

Doogie Kamealoha,...

The Television Critics Association announced the winners for the 39th annual awards on Monday.

As expected, it was another clean sweep for Succession and The Bear -- both of which have been awards magnets since their debuts.

Check out the complete list of winners below.

Individual Achievement In Drama

Christine Baranski, The Good Fight

Kieran Culkin, Succession

Dominique Fishback, Swarm

Betty Gilpin, Mrs. Davis

Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us

Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us

Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul — Winner

Sarah Snook, Succession

Jeremy Strong, Succession

Individual Achievement In Comedy

Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary (2022 Winner)

Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Harrison Ford, Shrinking

Bill Hader, Barry

Janelle James, Abbott Elementary

Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face — Winner

James Marsden, Jury Duty

Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Outstanding Achievement In News And Information

30 for 30 (ESPN)

Free Chol Soo Lee (PBS)

Frontline (PBS)

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? (Netflix)

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Winners for the 39th annual Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards were announced on Monday and HBO’s Succession emerged victorious. The series was named Program of the Year and took home Outstanding Achievement in Drama honors for the second year in a row.

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The Bear (Season 1) also nabbed two trophies, for Outstanding New...

Add Vice to the list of disappeared series from cable and streaming outlets.

The documentary series was removed from Showtime and Paramount+ earlier in July as part of a broader set of programs taken off the Paramount Global services. Vice joins the likes of The L Word: Generation Q, Ziwe, I Love That for You and American Gigolo in being taken down from Showtime, which is focusing its programming on key franchises like Billions — which has several spinoffs in development — Dexter and The Chi.

But while the other pulled shows had finished their runs, Vice still had half a season remaining on its order, plus an episode featuring a segment on Florida governor and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis that was taken out of the rotation in May. At the time, Vice News, which produces the series, said in a statement, “As with all current affairs programming there can be scheduling changes,...

Disney+ fans can be forgiven for wondering just what will disappear from the service next. It’s been nearly two months since Disney executives announced during a conference call with investors and analysts that it would start removing titles from its streaming services in order to cut costs. In that time, dozens of titles have been pulled from Disney+ and Hulu.

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The news of cuts continued this week, as Disney has made its most brazen content removal yet. Its original movie “Crater” has been taken off Disney+, a mere seven weeks after it was originally added to the platform on May 12. “Crater” now joins Disney and Hulu titles like “Willow” and “The Mysterious Benedict Society” on the discard pile. Neither title is currently available digitally or on physical media.

The elimination of “Crater” from...

The Television Critics Association awards nominations went public Friday, and it was great news for some series and sad news for others.

The Last of Us, The Bear, and Succession are in a three-way tie with five nominations apiece.

All three shows were expected to get some awards love, so their performances here are not surprising.

The Bear has been a bonafide hit for FX and Hulu, but there were some more first-year shows in the mix, too.

Andor, Jury Duty, Shrinking, Interview With the Vampire, and Poker Face were all well-represented.

Somewhat surprising: Ted Lasso and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel were shut out.

The news comes after both series have been big hits on the awards front and could set a precedent for upcoming awards shows.

Awards will be handed out at an in-person ceremony on August 7, 2023.

Check out the complete list of nominations below.

Individual Achievement In Drama

Christine Baranski,...

The final seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and (maybe-probably) Ted Lasso got the cold shoulder from the Television Critics Assoc., which honored the Emmy-winning pair with a total of zero TCA Award nominations.

By contrast, Succession‘s swan song scored a leading five nods, putting the Roy family in a three-way tie with fellow HBO drama The Last of Us and Hulu’s breakout hit The Bear.

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“Succession,” “The Last of Us” and “The Bear” are tied for most Televisions Critics Association Award nominations with five each.

The full list of nominees was released on Friday with the winners scheduled to be announced August 7. During that time the Career Achievement and Heritage Award winners will also be announced.

The two HBO juggernauts will be competing against each other in Outstanding Achievement in Drama as well as Individual Achievement in Drama. In the former category, “Succession” and “The Last of Us” are facing Disney+’s “Andor,” AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” AMC’s “Interview with a Vampire,” Paramount+’s “The Good Fight,” HBO’s “The White Lotus” and Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.” As for individual acting achievements between the two leaders, both Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay were nominated for “The Last of Us,” and Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Jeremy Strong were nominated for “Succession.”

As for comedies,...

Following the cancellations of ABC’s “Alaska Daily” and “The Company You Keep” in May, both series are being pulled off Hulu as part of Disney’s ongoing review and removal of content in an effort to cut costs.

The shows, which were initially set to remain on the streamer until September, will now be removed next month. However, they will still be available through iTunes and Amazon.

Other impacted shows include the Rashida Jones comedy “Angie Tribeca,” NBC’s “Blindspot,” Samantha Bee and Jason Jones’ “The Detour” and TNT’s “The Last Ship,” which will be removed on July 1.

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Disney+ and Hulu Content Purge Underway as ‘Willow,’ ‘Dollface’ and More to Be Removed

The latest wave of titles follows the removal of Disney+’s “Willow” and “Big Shot” and Hulu’s “Dollface” and “Y: The Last Man,” which were removed on May 26.

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Eliza Skinner had no idea that her Disney+ series Earth to Ned would be permanently taken off the platform until a text on the show’s writer group chat in mid-May shared an article about Disney removing more than 70 films and series from its streaming services that month. Among the disappearing titles was the comedic talk show — which launched in 2020 with Skinner as head writer — centering on an alien welcoming celebrities to his spaceship.

Due to its classification as a streaming variety series, Skinner says the writers and performers weren’t receiving residuals, although the show’s team had heard rumors blaming Disney’s tax bill. But while her loss isn’t a financial one, Earth to Ned can no longer serve as a calling card to help land future gigs for Skinner, who also doesn’t own a physical copy of the show.

“It’s part of this overall...

Content cuts with a smile are still content cuts, as Disney’s production partners are finding out. The company has removed a long list of shows from Hulu and Disney+, following through on a promise made by Disney executives during its most recent quarterly earnings report.

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In a filing made to the SEC last Friday, Disney said that it expected to incur a $1.5 billion impairment charge from the content removed thus far. Impairment charges are a one-time expense companies pay to write down items and remove them from their budgets, so they don’t have to pay taxes on assets that are no longer valuable.

Disney also said it “currently anticipates additional produced content will be removed from its [streaming] and other platforms, largely during the remainder of its third fiscal quarter.” That means that...

A week ago, Disney yanked 76 movies and TV series from streaming services Disney+ and Hulu. Now, in a Friday filing with the SEC, the company said it will record a $1.5 billion impairment charge in the ongoing quarter due to the “strategic change in approach to content curation.” In layman’s terms, Disney is writing off the value of the removed programming as a non-recoverable loss. The loss can be used to offset gains for tax purposes.

And, oh yeah, Disney’s probably not done deleting shows and films, per the filing. The company is “continuing its review and currently anticipates additional produced content will be removed from its [direct-to-consumer] and other platforms.” That will “largely” happen by the end of June; the removal of additional programming is expected to result in a further $400 million impairment charge.

Additionally, Disney “may terminate certain license agreements for the right to use content on its platforms,...

Disney made it official with an SEC filing after the markets closed Friday, confirming it would take $1.5 billion in write-downs associated with removing streaming programming from its platforms.

The number came in on the low end of a range provided by the company last month when it released its quarterly earnings. (Read the new filing Here.) Like other media companies, Disney has been looking to trim expenses in the once-fevered streaming arena, and removing programming has been one means of reaching that goal. Rival service Max, the outlet recently rebranded by Warner Bros Discovery, has also drawn scrutiny for shedding a number of high-profile titles, though the removals are part of the larger reckoning with the daunting economics of streaming. The long-promised nirvana for consumers of a nearly endless storehouse of available titles has collided with the reality of how much that costs to sustain, both in terms of technology...

Titles include The Mighty Ducks, Willow, The World According To Jeff Goldblum, Turner & Hooch.

Disney will take a $1.5bn write-down in its fiscal third quarter as it seeks to cut costs by removing more than 30 film and TV titles from Disney+ and Hulu.

The company also indicated in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday that it expected to remove further content – mostly in the remainder of the fiscal third quarter – which would will incur an additional $400m write-down.

The move is consistent with comments by CFO Christine McCarthy in May’s earnings call that Disney would...

Disney, after removing dozens of shows and movies from Disney+ and Hulu last week, said it will incur a $1.5 billion impairment charge for the June quarter.

In an SEC filing Friday, the company said that on May 26, 2023, it removed “certain produced content” from its direct-to-consumer streaming services. As a result, Disney will record a $1.5 billion impairment charge in its fiscal third quarter financial statements “to adjust the carrying value of these content assets to fair value.”

Disney said it’s continuing to review content on streaming platforms and “currently anticipates additional produced content will be removed from its Dtc and other platforms, largely during the remainder of its third fiscal quarter.” As a result, Disney currently estimates it may incur further impairment charges of up to about $400 million related to produced content.

On Disney’s earnings call last month, CFO Christine McCarthy had said the company expected to take a...

Over at Disney+, nearly everything developed under former CEO Bob Chapek is out, including dozens of movies and TV shows that are being pulled from the streamer.

“Willow,” “The World According to Jeff Goldblum” and “The Mysterious Benedict Society.” Also, say goodbye to Disney+ Originals movies, including “The Princess” with Joey King and “The One and Only Ivan” with Bryan Cranston, as well as “Wolfgang,” a documentary about celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck.

And even content that debuted earlier this year, such as “Marvel’s Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever,” will be gone soon.

At press time, Disney had not yet decided whether to yank “Howard,” a doc about the Oscar-winning lyricist behind ’90s classics “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Little Mermaid.”

Here’s what’s being pulled from the service on May 26.

America the Beautiful (2022)

Among the Stars (2021)

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Disney did a little (late) spring cleaning of its streaming services this week, removing several properties from Disney+ and Hulu. Among those that will go on May 26 include some high profile recent shows like “Willow,” “Y: The Last Man,” “Dollface,” and “The World According to Jeff Goldblum.” What makes this troubling for many home viewers who may have been fans (or even stans!) of the affected programs is that, in most cases, there are no Blu-ray/DVD options. In the old days you could always hit record on your Vcr to build a personal library, but it’s not so easy to capture material from streaming—and the whole point of streaming is not needing to do that, right?

As per The Verge, Disney’s cost-cutting is due to a reduction in Disney+ subscribers, to the tune of 4 million in 2023. While the company will have to pay a “content impairment charge” of over $1.5 billion,...

For Halloween 2021, Disney+ entered the world of R.L. Stine with “Just Beyond,” an 8-episode anthology series based on Stine’s line of comic books. The series never got a second season, with Disney+ leaving its fate hanging in the balance these past two years.

Unfortunately, we’ve learned this week that Stine’s “Just Beyond” will be one of many Disney+ original projects that are soon being deleted from the streaming service entirely.

As The Hollywood Reporter explains, “Disney is following Warner Bros. Discovery and removing under-performing titles from its streaming services in a bid to write off nearly $2 billion from its bottom line. In all, there are more than 30 shows that will be removed starting next week from the platforms in this first round of reductions. The titles will vanish starting May 26.”

The long list of titles being removed from Disney+ includes…

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Disney will remove select series, movies, and specials from Disney+ and Hulu, The decision was initially announced on May 10th during a Disney earnings call, and the list of impacted titles has now been revealed. Among there are the recently released Willow sequel series, Y: The Last Man, Danny Boyle’s Sex Pistols series Pistol, and The World According to Jeff Goldblum.

“We are in the process of reviewing the content on our Dtc services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation,” Disney CFO Christine McCarthy said during the call.

Other titles in the purge include the Turner & Hooch reboot, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Just Beyond, Diary of a Future President, The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Hot Zone, Maggie, and more. Check out the full list below.

Disney isn’t the first media entity to make a move like this — HBO Max removed...

Streaming fans are still stinging after HBO Max took a hatchet to their library within the last few months. Now, the same strategy is playing out with Disney, as Disney+ and Hulu are set to lose several titles as early as next week.

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Outlets like Vulture, Deadline, and Variety report different lists of disappearing titles, including “Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings,” “Big Shot,” “Magic Camp,” “The Mysterious Benedict Society,” “The World According to Jeff Goldblum,” and “Willow.” The full extent of the purge may not be known until after it occurs. (See the anticipated list of cuts at the end of this article.)

Allegedly, these cuts will help the services become more profitable. But for viewers, these cuts simply mean less content on the platform.

The biggest flop on the list appears to be “Willow.

Content reduction is underway at Disney, as dozens of series have will soon be removed from Disney+ and Hulu, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.

Several titles, including Disney+’s “Willow” and “Big Shot” and Hulu’s “Dollface” and “Y: The Last Man,” will no longer be available to stream globally beginning May 26.

Impacted titles that will soon depart Disney+ include “The Mysterious Benedict Society,” “Big Shot,” Turner & Hooch,” “Willow,” “The Making Of Willow,” “Just Beyond,” “The World According To Jeff Goldblum,” “The One And Only Ivan,” “Timmy Failure,” “Be Our Chef,” “Magic Camp,” “Howard,” “Earth To Ned,” “Foodtastic,” “Stuntman,” “Disney Fairy Tale Weddings,” “Wolfgang” and “It’s a Dog’s Life With Bill Farmer.”

Likewise, Disney will remove Hulu titles “Pistol,” Dollface,” “The Quest,” “The Hot Zone,” “Y: The Last Man,” “Maggie,” “Little Demon,” “The Premise,” “Love In The Time Of Corona,” “Everything’s Trash,” “Best In Snow” and “Best In Dough.

Add Disney+ and Hulu to the list of streamers whose complete slate of original shows and films is no longer guaranteed to be there the next time you go looking for it. According to Vulture, the Disney-owned streamers are set to remove some titles from their catalog as soon as next week. The list of titles includes the high-budget "Willow" sequel series, the Danny Devito-led animated series "Little Demon," and the highly-anticipated yet swiftly canceled comic adaptation, "Y: The Last Man," among others.

While this content purge follows in the footsteps of Warner Bros Discovery's much-criticized decision to make select titles disappear from streaming for tax reasons last year, Vulture reports that the Disney+ and Hulu titles are likely set to resurface elsewhere — a guarantee that HBO Max was slow to make when its content started to disappear. The two likely landing spots for the removed titles, per the outlet,...

Update, July 4: Another victim of Disney’s cost-cutting on the streaming front has emerged: “Crater,” a sci-fi adventure film about a group of children that hijack a rover before a member of the group relocates to a new planet. The film, starring Mckenna Grace and Isaiah Russell-Bailey with a featured role played by Kid Cudi, drew mostly positive reviews around its debut on the streaming service on May 12. Roughly seven weeks later, “Crater” has been pulled from Disney+.

The original report follows.

Disney’s content culling from Disney+ and Hulu is coming as early as next week — with the media company pulling off more than 50 titles, including series “Willow,” “The Mysterious Benedict Society” and “Dollface,” and movies such as “The One and Only Ivan.”

At the same time, CEO Bob Iger told investors last week that the company expects to raise the price on the ad-free Disney+ tier later...

Well, this is just depressing. It was reported last week that Disney would start removing content from their streaming services, and the first casualties have been revealed. The dozens of TV shows and specials from Disney+ and Hulu that will be removed on May 26th include Willow, Big Shot, Y: The Last Man, and many more. Considering that Willow premiered on Disney+ less than a year ago… it hurts.

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Here is a list of a few of the titles that are being removed:

The Mysterious Benedict Society [Disney+] Big Shot [Disney+] Turner & Hooch [Disney+] Willow [Disney+] The Making Of Willow [Disney+] Just Beyond [Disney+] The World According To Jeff Goldblum [Disney+] Pistol [Hulu] Dollface [Hulu] The Quest [Hulu] The Hot Zone [Hulu] Y: The Last Man [Hulu] Maggie [Hulu] Little Demon [Hulu] The Premise [Hulu] Love In The Time Of Corona [Hulu] Everything’s Trash [Hulu] Best In Snow...

As expected, Disney is following Warner Bros. Discovery and removing under-performing titles from its streaming services in a bid to write off nearly $2 billion from its bottom line.

Scripted titles set to be removed from Hulu and Disney+ include FX’s Y: The Last Man, Pistol, Little Demon, Hulu-turned-Disney+ series Mysterious Benedict Society, Disney+’s Big Shot, The Mighty Ducks, Turner & Hooch, Willow and ABC-turned-Hulu comedy Maggie, as well as National Geographic’s The World According to Jeff Goldblum. In all, there are more than 30 shows that will be removed starting next week from the platforms in this first round of reductions. The titles, many of which are listed below, will vanish starting May 26. Sources say the programming could be made available elsewhere, like digital sell-through platforms, etc.

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Updated with more titles being removed: Disney is starting to pull content from streaming, with dozens of series and specials slated to leave Disney+ and Hulu on May 26, Deadline has learned. The titles, which are being removed from Disney’s streaming services globally, include Disney+’s Willow, Big Shot, Turner & Hooch, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Just Beyond, Diary of a Future President, The Mysterious Benedict Society and The World According to Jeff Goldblum and Hulu’s Y: The Last Man, Dollface, The Hot Zone, Maggie, Pistol and Little Demon. A number of Freeform series also are slated to leave Hulu.

The list features largely short-lived series, specials and direct-to-streaming movies.

The move, which comes with a content impairment charge of $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion, was announced during the recent Disney earnings call on May 10.

“We are in the process of reviewing the content on our Dtc services to align...

If Mickey Mouse has any lawyers in his close circle of friends, they may be needed by the Disney legal team soon. According to The Wrap, the company is headed back to court, this time to combat a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of Local 272 Labor-Management Pension Fund in California Central District Court.

The suit alleges that under the guidance of former CEO Bob Chapek, departed executive Kareem Daniel, current CFO Christine McCarthy, and Disney “inappropriately” shifted titles it advertised as Disney+ Originals to linear TV platforms like the Disney Channel, Freeform, FX, and more. This allowed the company to shift the marketing budgets for those shows to its linear segment, which misrepresented the success of its streaming platform.

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“As part of a scheme to make Disney+’s financial performance appear more successful than it was,...

The Walt Disney Co. and former CEO Bob Chapek were named in a class action lawsuit brought on Friday for allegedly engaging in a “fraudulent scheme” to make Disney+ appear more successful than it was.

The defendants, which also includes ex-Disney exec Kareem Daniel and CFO Christine McCarthy, are accused of “inappropriately” moving Disney+ originals and their marketing budgets to legacy platforms like The Disney Channel, and thus misrepresenting the success of the newly launched streaming platform.

“As part of a scheme to make Disney+’s financial performance appear more successful than it was, defendants aired certain shows that were supposed to be Disney+ originals – such as the mystery show ‘The Mysterious Benedict Society’ and the medical drama ‘Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.’ – first on legacy television networks such as the Disney Channel. By doing so, a significant portion of the marketing and production costs of the shows were shifted away from Disney+,” the suit alleges.

The mysteries at the center of National Treasure: Edge of History will remain unsolved.

Disney+ has officially canceled its TV spinoff of the hit movie series.

Deadline first reported the news on Friday.

Lisette Alexis, Zuri Reed, Jordan Rodrigues, Antonio Cipriano, Jake Austin Walker, and Lyndon Smith starred as series regulars.

Catherine Zeta-Jones also appeared as Billie, a badass billionaire with an eye for black-market antiques. 

Movie series veteran Justin Bartha reprised the role of computer expert Riley Poole from the movies.

The series was described as an expansion of the National Treasure movie franchise told from the point of view of a young heroine, Jess (Lisette Olivera), a brilliant and resourceful DREAMer in search of answers about her family -- who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about the past and save a lost Pan-American treasure.

The cancellation isn't entirely surprising: Disney+ has failed...

The treasure hunt is over.

Disney+ has cancelled National Treasure: Edge of History after a single season, according to our sister site Deadline. The news comes two months after the release of the Season 1 finale, which dropped Feb. 8.

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Kids, did I ever tell you about the time that my streaming series got a secondary run on a linear cable network? Hulu’s “How I Met Your Father” will make its linear debut next month on Freeform, marking the first time the series has been available off of Hulu.

“How I Met Your Father” will bow Tuesday, April 25, on Freeform, starting with the first two episodes, “Pilot” and “Fomo,” at 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Et, respectively. Episodes will continue to air back-to-back each week, culminating with the season finale on May 23. Hulu will continue to also offer “How I Met Your Father” episodes for streaming as well.

“How I Met Your Father” premiered in January 2022; the comedy is currently in the midst of a 20-episode Season 2, having returned earlier this winter.

Episodes will continue to premiere each Tuesday on the channel, continuing with the 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.

Exclusive: Emmy-winning writer/director/producer Karyn Kusama has signed with WME.

Kusama currently serves as executive producer on Showtime’s Yellowjackets. The show garnered seven Emmy nominations in 2022, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Kusama’s direction of the pilot episode.

Kusama previously helmed the Golden Globe-nominated film Destroyer starring Nicole Kidman that was written by her frequent collaborators, Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi. The trio’s banner, Familystyle Film, is currently under a first-look deal with MRC.

Her feature credits include indie thriller The Invitation, as well as Jennifer’s Body, Aeon Flux, and her Cannes and Sundance-award winning debut, Girlfight.

On the TV side, Kusama has directed episodes for such series as Billions, The Man in the High Castle, Dead Ringers, The Outsider, and The Mysterious Benedict Society, for which she won a Children’s and Family Emmy.

She continues to be managed by Black Bear Management.