2023-04-26 22:51:59
Disney stuck strictly to script on Wednesday at CinemaCon in Las Vegas: The entertainment giant unveiled footage of its upcoming blockbusters, ‘Indiana Jones and ‘The Little Mermaid,’ without commenting on the legal battles and mass layoffs that plague its news.
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The group has just filed a lawsuit once morest Governor Ron DeSantis, whom it accuses of waging “political revenge” by removing Disney World’s special status in Florida and appointing a new committee to oversee the future of the amusement park. .
The company also began a new wave of layoffs this week, as part of a plan announced in February that should allow it to cut 7,000 jobs.
But faced with the gratin of movie theater owners gathered in Las Vegas, the group focused on its catalog of cinematic releases. Starring a new episode of “Indiana Jones”, of which Disney revealed an extract of a breathtaking chase in the alleys of Tangier, Morocco.
Playing the adventurer for more than forty years “meant a lot to me”, explained in a video message Harrison Ford, who finds his hat and his whip in this fifth part entitled “The Dial of Destiny”.
“These films are full of adventure, of heart,” continued the actor, who will present the new version of “Indy” at the Cannes Film Festival in May before a summer release on the big screen.
In this new opus, actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays the goddaughter of Indiana Jones, who does not hesitate to upset the archaeologist by calling him an “aging grave robber”.
Artificial intelligence
Disney also unveiled new clips from its remake of “The Little Mermaid”, for which it chose live action rather than cartoon.
We see the sea witch Ursula, played by Melissa McCarthy, manipulating the heroine Ariel — the African-American actress Halle Bailey — into agreeing to take human form for three days, as part of a diabolical deal. .
“She’s attractive, she’s a dishonest chick. Maybe that’s why I identify with her,” explained Ms. McCarthy, the only actress on stage for the entire Disney presentation.
Besides these two blockbusters, the group discussed a new science fiction film in which humans fight once morest an artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future.
Renamed “The Creator”, this feature film due out in September benefits from “very timely timing” according to Disney, at a time when the capabilities of software like ChatGPT and Midjourney are generating widespread public debate around artificial intelligence.
The group also presented “Elementary,” a new Pixar cartoon, a new adventure by detective Hercule Poirot called “A Haunting in Venice,” and “The Haunted Mansion,” a fantasy film starring Owen Wilson.
As for its Marvel superheroes, the group is due to release the third installment of “Guardians of the Galaxy” in May and “The Marvels” in November.
Finally, the same month, “Wish” will mark Disney’s 100th anniversary with “an original animated musical adventure that draws inspiration from the classics.”
The film stars Ariana DeBose as a young woman who lives in a magical kingdom “just off the Iberian Peninsula”, where “wishes do come true”.
CinemaCon runs through Thursday in Las Vegas.
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