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Marvel announced the title of the hotly anticipated "Black Panther" sequel: "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever."

Sri Lanka will build South Asia’s first Disneyland in the proposed Bopitiya leisure Park which will be created by Korea Cavitation Co. a company with Investments from Malaysia and Korea.

Disney is debuting Black Widow as a Disney Plus Premier Access title alongside its theatrical release this summer, sacrificing one of its biggest potential summer blockbusters to its streaming service and forgoing what would almost certainly have been hundreds of millions (or even billions) of dollars at the box office in the process.

February 12 - Walt Disney Co swung to a surprise quarterly profit on Thursday, as “The Mandalorian” and “Soul” lifted its fast-growing streaming business, outweighing pandemic worries about its hobbled theme park operations. Investors overlooked a 53% decline in park revenue in the quarter and welcomed Disney+ streaming reaching 94.9 million subscribers. Shares rose 3.1% to $194 after they closed ...

Disney just made a deluge of announcements at its 2020 Investor Day, including updates on new Marvel, Star Wars, and Disney Animation studios projects, as well as updates on Disney Plus and Disney’s other streaming services. Here is everything you need to know:

Disney has announced that it will bring a lot of original content directly to its Disney Plus streaming service over the next few years. The company is bringing “roughly” 10 Marvel series; 10 Star Wars series; 15 Disney live-action, Disney Animation, and Pixar series; and 15 all-new Disney live-action, Disney Animation, and Pixar features to Disney Plus.

If you loved Disney's live-action "The Jungle Book" and take on "Maleficent," the Mouse House is bringing even more animated classics back to life.  From fairy-tales like "Snow White" to classics such as "Bambi" and "The Little Mermaid," Disney's live-action list continues to grow with more than a dozen in the works. 

September 8 (The Verge) - Protests and calls for boycotts over Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan  have sprung up again in wake of the film hitting Disney Plus. Hashtags like #BoycottMulan have trended on Twitter following  Mulan’s release on September 4th, but protests are tied to an incident that occurred in summer 2019,  Vulture  reports.  Mulan  actress and star Liu ...

July 24 (AFP) - Disney announced on Thursday that the coronavirus pandemic had forced it to indefinitely postpone the release of big-budget film "Mulan," while pushing back upcoming installments of "Star Wars" and "Avatar" by a year. The live-action "Mulan" had already been postponed twice, with its release most recently delayed to August 21. Following the postponement of "Tenet," a ...

(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co’s (DIS.N) top streaming executive, Kevin Mayer, will leave the entertainment and theme parks giant to become the chief executive officer of TikTok, the popular video app owned by China’s ByteDance Technology Co, the companies said on Monday. Mayer led the successful launch of the Disney+ streaming service in November but in February was passed over ...