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After reports detailing the domestic violence charges Justin Roiland is facing first surfaced last month, it seemed like Adult Swim might not have been sure about how to proceed. Eventually, Roiland was fired by Adult Swim, Hulu, and Squanch Games.

According to a report from Bloomberg, Disney CEO Bob Iger is weighing the idea of licensing more original shows and movies to rival media companies.

Breaking news: Deadline reports that King of The Hill will return, and there’s no way in hell the lord of propane is going to allow lawmakers to seize gas stoves from the people.

Octavia Butler’s Kindred will always be one of her most powerful works, but FX’s haphazard adaptation of the novel has been canceled, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The Mandalorian’s second season didn’t really delve into what being a re-appointed Nevarro’s High Magistrate would mean for Carl Weathers’ Greef Karga going forward.

CNBC has lots more, but you know things are getting weird when the slide deck Disney filed to SEC flat-out says “Nelson Peltz does not understand Disney’s businesses and lacks the skills and experience to assist the board in delivering shareholder value in a rapidly shifting media ecosystem.”

Pedro Pascal already had one major premiere over the weekend as The Last of Us started airing on HBO / HBO Max.

Hello my fellow geriatric millennials (and everyone else), remember Willow? The movie starring Warwick Davies and Val Kilmer got a TV show sequel, also called Willow, and its first season is concluding today on Disney Plus. With snappy, if modern, dialogue, an incredible wealth of young acting talent, and a myriad of terrifying and/or goofy monsters, this adventure story has been a blast.

The original ride opened at Shanghai Disneyland in 2016, and it’s hitting the US in just a few more months. It’s based on Tron: Legacy, the problematic sequel with the killer Daft Punk soundtrack. I enjoyed the movie, but Disney Park prices are so high these days... will you go? Here are more videos of the ride.

Keep an eye on this page; we’ll post the Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania trailer once it’s available after premiering during the college football National Championship game between TCU and Georgia.

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Disney announced that Jim Cameron’s sequel pulled in $1 billion at the box office in 14 days, the fastest any movie has done that in 2022.

James Cameron’s long-awaited Avatar follow-up is a letdown in the same way that many multimillion dollar movie sequels years in the making often are because it’s hard for them to live up to the hype building in people’s minds. Between its discomfitingly high frame rate and middling story, Avatar: The Way of Water probably won’t blow your wig back the way the first film was able to.

Disney just launched its $7.99 per month Disney Plus Basic ad-supported plan, but if you want to use it with a Roku device, you can’t, according to a Disney support article. It doesn’t work with Disney’s Windows desktop app, either.

Operational Bob is OUT, Visionary BOB is IN.