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Just in case Frozen 2 on Disney Plus isn’t enough to keep kids entertained while they’re stuck at home, Disney animator Hyrum Osmond and actor Josh Gad have teamed up to produce a new series of shorts available on YouTube. At Home with Olaf follows Gad’s beloved character from the Frozen movies as he gets into a series of hijinks around Arendelle. The first episode is written and voiced by Gad, who plays the snowman in both movies, and animated by Osmond, who oversees animation on Olaf projects. It’s pretty simple: Olaf is lobbing snowballs into the Arendelle forests and…

April 6, 2020 | 10:00am | Updated April 6, 2020 | 11:27am Actor Jay Benedict, who appeared in “Aliens” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” is the latest celebrity to die from the coronavirus. He was 68. “It is with profound sorrow that we must announce Jay’s death on the 4th of April due to complications arising from a COVID-19 infection,” his official website announced. His agency, TSG, also shared the news “with great sadness,” saying, “Our thoughts are with his family.” No further details were given. Benedict appeared in a number of major movies, including as Newt’s father in James…

The easiest question to answer about Quibi is the one I’m most frequently asked: Just what is Quibi, anyway? Quibi is short for “quick bites” — though you don’t pronounce it “quih-bye” (to rhyme with “rib-eye”) but, instead, “quih-bee,” to rhyme with the name “Libby.” It’s a new streaming service built from the ground up for mobile devices, and some of the names behind it include media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg (who worked at Disney Animation during its renaissance, then started Dreamworks Animation and was instrumental in making such films as Shrek and Prince of Egypt) and CEO Meg Whitman, who…

Published on Apr 6, 2020Taskmaster is the Anti-AvengerSUBSCRIBE NOW to CBR! Click here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-CBRThe Avengers made a lot of people nervous. That includes the people that they kind of work for. Those guys even tried to send a nuclear missile where they were fighting for the Earth. Imagine how nervous the Avengers make people who might end up on the receiving end of some Avenging? They might want to get their own kind of secret weapon. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the go to secret weapon of choice turns out to be a super soldier. It worked for Captain America,…

call me old fashioned, but i was raised to take care of my husband. cook his meals, wash his clothes, and make sure he has a clean house to come home to. i live to serve his every demand. pic.twitter.com/Ov5yTPoY4r — the jake gyllenhaal protection squad (@th… Read More

TikTok post on how to make a Brandy Melville dupe.TikTokBack in our salad days, back when we were young and innocent, back on March 11, I wrote a column about how coronavirus quarantines could be an ideal time for subscription streamers Quibi, HBO Max and NBC's Peacock, all of which plan to launch in some form in April and May. After all, streaming video usage would surely increase with everyone stuck at home with few other entertainment options.What I didn't consider is just how dramatic the explosion of job losses would be, with more than 10 million Americans filing for jobless…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Disney continues to change its operations during the coronavirus outbreak.Annual passholders had recently complained about still being charged monthly payments despite the Disney parks being closed. Now, the company has announced that it will no longer be charging the monthly payments and is making refunds to certain customers. Annual passholders who paid in full will have the option of having their pass’ expiration date extended or receiving a partial refund (to be determined by the park’s length of closure). (iStock)On the Disney World website, the…

Tiger King is taking the country by storm. The new Netflix documentary, which has drawn attention to cold case investigations and put a spotlight on the treatment of big cats in captivity, has left fans and celebrities speculating about a potential adaptation to the big screens. With a Tiger King movie almost certainly in the works, here are all of the unlikely celebrities who want to play Joe Exotic. Could Dax Shepard take on ‘Tiger King’? | Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images‘Tiger King’ captivates a nation Directed by Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and…

In PBS Masterpiece's new seven-part drama series "World on Fire," writer and creator Peter Bowker depicts World War II from multiple fronts to show the insidious and devastating effects of the German forces across Europe. Beginning with the occupation in Poland in 1939, the story follows several families as the encroaching presence becomes a horrifying reality, one that pushes ordinary people into moral quandaries and to make devastating sacrifices. Bowker's own grandmother was a wartime performer, and she inspired the character of Lois Bennett (Julia Brown), an outspoken and independent British lass whose father Douglas (Sean Bean) has become a…

One of the few small upsides to the current global mess is that a bunch of movies are hitting streaming services and rental platforms earlier than they otherwise would have: Emma., Onward, and Birds of Prey are on that list, among many others. Another that’s now streaming early on Hulu is Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which I caught last weekend. It’s a wonderful movie about two women slowly growing closer together over the course of about a week that they’re forced to spend together. The movie revolves around painting, as the title suggests, but the film also does…