On this weeks show, our Predictions Panel returns to revisit our 2022 Disney predictions. Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans join me as we look back at the things we all predicted would happen throughout the Disney company including theme parks, movies, Broadway, and more. We’ll see who was right on the money and who was way, way off!
Episode 671 – Disney Conversation Starters
On this week’s show, I’m joined again by our Disney Conversation Starters panel to talk about all things and anything Disney. These shows are always a lot of fun with this lively group of Disney fans and loyal listeners, because we sit down and start talking about anything Disney and just see where the conversation takes us. We don’t know what we’ll end up talking about or where the conversation will take us, but we do know that, whatever it is, will be full of varying opinions, a lot of laughs, and who knows, maybe even a little bit of controversy.
Episode 653 – Disneyland Update
On this week’s show, I’ve invited Adria Shannon back onto the show to talk about her recent trip to Disneyland. We’ll talk about what the Disneyland Resort in California is like now. She’ll also tell us about her trip, her thoughts on new attractions like Web Slingers and Avengers Campus, and of course we’ll cover the amazing food offerings available currently.
Episode 649 – 2022 Disney Predictions
On this week’s show, we kick off the new year with our 2022 Disney Predictions. Bryce, Blake, and Sarah join me again to see if we can predict significant news items, additions, announcements, and more that we think might occur within the Disney company, theme parks, movies, etc in 2022.
Episode 644 – Disney Conversation Starters 4
On this week’s show, our Disney Conversation Starters panel returns for a little post-Thanksgiving dinner table conversation. It was right about a year ago that I invited Becky, Mike, Adria, Carey, Bill, and Janette on the show for an impromptu and unscripted discussion using Disney Conversation Starter topics created by Becky Ginther on the Disney in Your Day blog. This week, we celebrate one year of our conversation starter discussions with another impromptu discussion about anything and everything Disney.
Episode 643 – Disney+ Day
On this week’s show, I’ll cover all of the big announcements about new movies, series, and other content coming to the Disney+ streaming video platform. November 12th was Disney+ Day, a special day that Disney has dubbed for them to make big announcements about upcoming content to their wildly popular streaming video service. Bryce Yelverton joins me as my guest this week to talk about those announcements, which include “Hocus Pocus 2”, a new series based off of the 1988 film “Willow” starring Warwick Davis, a sequel to Disney’s “Enchanted” titled “Disenchanted”, and much, much more!
Episode 604 – Disney Investor Day Announcements
On this week’s show, we are covering all of the announcements that came out of the recent Disney Investor Day presentation. Shortly before 2020 ended, Disney dumped one last treasure trove of announcements related to Disney entertainment in Disney+ TV shows and feature films to be released at the box office. My guests this week, Sarah Evans and Rick Gutierrez, join me to break down all of the announcements and the everything you need to know these exciting announcements!
Episode 570 – Listener Feedback
On this week’s episode, I’m sharing some comments, stories, and other feedback submitted by our listeners via the All About the Mouse Disney podcast Facebook group. We’ll start off the show by sharing some audio that was posted by one of our listeners of an interview with Clark Gregg of Avengers and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fame from Mainframe Comic Con. Then, I’ll choose some other listener posts to share on Disney-related topics from Disney cover songs to some home-made Disney magic and more!
Episode 568 – Disney News 05/04/2020
On this week’s Disney News show, I’ll cover all of the news that happened in the month of April including, Bob Iger speaking out about possible changes in the Disney parks once they re-open, a man arrested for breaking into DCA, and Disney’s purchase of more land near Magic Kingdom. We’ll also feature the return of Jonathan “The Voice” Dichter for a special game show segment of the podcast.
Episode 567 – Avengers Campus
On this week’s show, Jessica Sanders from The Happiest Blog on Earth, joins me for a look at newly-released details on Avengers Campus, the new Marvel-themed area coming to Disney California Adventure. Together, we’ll look at all of the information that has been released about what we can expect from this new land including the backstory of Avengers Campus that will expand to other parks around the world, the key attractions in the land, merchandise and, of course, food.
Episode 561 – Bob Iger
On this week’s show, my special guest Nate Evans and I take a look at The Walt Disney Company’s most recent CEO Bob Iger. We’ll talk about his early life and career at ABC, how he came to work for Disney and ultimately be selected by Michael Eisner, and his accomplishments as CEO over the last 15 years including the acquisitions of Marvel, Lucasfilm, Fox, and Pixar and the rise of the company’s stock price along with theme park tickets and more.
Episode 502 – Disney News 08/28/2019
On this week’s Disney News show, I’m joined by Bryce Yelverton and Blake Reilly to run through and discuss all of the major announcements that came out of this year’s D23 Expo. Last weekend, everybody who was anybody in the Disney company got together to reveal big announcements coming to Disney theme parks, movies, cruise ships, streaming media, and more. Together as a panel, we’ll talk about some of the announcements including more things coming to Epcot, Disney+ revelations, the latest Marvel attractions and characters coming to the Disneyland Resort, a new cruise ship featuring Rapunzel, and so much more!
Disney fires James Gunn from GOTG 3 for past Tweets made
Disney has fired director James Gunn from helming the third film in the hit Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, following the discovery and circulation of several old tweets in which he displayed gross humor and made jokes about rape. The tweets began to circulate Thursday after right-wing news personalities found the tweets and began calling for his dismissal; Disney later fired Gunn, on Friday afternoon.
”The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him,” Walt Disney Studios chair Alan Horn said in a statement.
Several of the tweets were posted a decade ago and contain jokes about topics like rape, pedophilia, sex, and masturbation. Many have since been deleted. According to the Daily Dot, “they resurfaced online after [Gunn] voiced his opinion on director Mark Duplass’ now-retracted endorsement of the Daily Caller Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro.” (For more on the Duplass-Shapiro controversy, see Vox’s explainer.)
In response, many conservatives began calling for Gunn’s firing, and encouraged their followers to confront Disney and Gunn himself. Some argued that conservatives have lost their jobs over things they have said, and questioned why Gunn was still employed even though he had displayed such poor taste. Gunn has also been a vocal critic of Donald Trump, which might further explain why conservatives were so insistent on seeing him punished.
Gunn tried to add context to the tweets on Thursday evening.
“Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo. As I have discussed publicly many times, as I’ve developed as a person, so has my work and my humor,” he tweeted. “It’s not to say I’m better, but I am very, very different than I was a few years ago; today I try to root my work in love and connection and less in anger. My days saying something just because it’s shocking and trying to get a reaction are over.”
But his comments were clearly not enough to change Disney’s mind.
Gunn has directed both of Marvel’s two Guardians of the Galaxy movies and saw them take off to wild success. He and his cast and crew are credited with taking an obscure comic book team and turning them into a massively successful franchise.
Gunn was also scheduled to appear at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend as part of Sony’s Hall H presentation, but it’s unclear if he will still be in attendance.
