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Building right off the heat of WandaVision , which ends on March 5, Disney+ will have Falcon & The Winter Soldier ready to drop on March 19. However, it will only be six episodes long, and today at his Disney Marvel ’s first TCA , Kevin Feige explained why. Let’s just says, it sounds like it comes to budget. “Anthony Mackie and Sebastien Stan are spectacular actors which we felt we had to explore their stories and their backstories, or personal stories enough as Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. So it was always the thought we’d like to learn more about both of them. In the little interactions they had with each other in Winter Soldier and Civil War… as friends of a mutual best friend in Captain America. We thought we’d have a fun dynamic, if we ever had that opportunity, we’d watch a whole show with the two of them and Disney+ gives us that opportunity. “Six hours is what we landed on as the best way to tell our story. Six hours, whether it’s six … [Read more...] about Why ‘Falcon & The Winter Soldier’ Is Only 6 Episodes: Marvel Boss Kevin Feige At TCA

It’s quite clear that we’ll get more Marvel series on Disney+ this year than arguably Star Wars series. At the top of the first Disney/Marvel TCA session, President of Marvel Studios and Chief Creative Officer Kevin Feige gave a brief rundown of the studio’s plans. March 5 reps the end of season one of WandaVision . Then on March 19 The Falcon and the Winter Solider is debuting. That will run six episodes, a speculated season end date (if Disney doesn’t skip weeks) of April 23. The next big event in the MCU to happen after Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the feature release of Black Widow on May 7. However, it’s not clear if all global markets will be open as Covid quells and vaccinations swell by that time. Disney will know in the next month whether they’ll move the Scarlett Johansson movie. It’s not just about New York and Los Angeles re-opening, and the hopeful capacity restrictions easing, but the rest of the world as well. Rival distributors guess that … [Read more...] about How The Marvel Cinematic Universe Calendar Is Shaping Up For 2021 & Beyond Between Movies & Streaming Series – TCA

Disney+ has announced and confirmed a number of major released dates for upcoming shows. The reveals were made during the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. Some of the series included in the presentation included the Monsters Inc. spin-off Monsters at Work , Chip 'N' Dale: Park Life and a new series titled Big Shot starring John Stamos. The streaming service unveiled Spring and Summer premiere dates for new scripted series including Star Wars: The Bad Batch (May 4), Marvel's Lok (June 1), The Mysterious Benedict Society (June 25), Monsters At Work (July 2), Chip 'N' Dale: Park Life (July 23) and Turner & Hooch (July 16). Additionally, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series season 2 is set for May 14 and Zenimation season 2 will arrive this summer on June 11. RELATED: WandaVision Season 2 Not Planned Yet, But Marvel Boss Kevin Feige Won't Rule It Out Monsters At Work takes place the day after the Monsters, Inc. power plant … [Read more...] about Disney+ Announces Premiere Dates for Monsters at Work, Big Shot, Chip ‘N’ Dale & More

When the pandemic hit, Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices decided to go spelunking into his archives of unfinished songs and discarded demos from the last five to 10 years. “I was blown away that I had discarded them,” he tells Rolling Stone . “Anyway, I combined some of them and created new arrangements. Others I just left the way they were.” The result is Earth Man Blues , which Pollard calls “a collage of rejected songs” set for release on April 30th. Despite Pollard’s humble tone, however, it’s one of GBV’s most eclectic, adventurous records to date, careening between heavy-rockers reminiscent of Black Sabbath, guitar lines cribbed from early 2000s pop-punk, near-rock operas worthy of the Who, and sweet little swingers that sound like the Monkees melting in the sun. There’s even a sample from an old stenographer instruction album. “I tied the songs together loosely with characters and stage productions notes to make it seem almost autobiographical,” Pollard says. “After … [Read more...] about Guided By Voices Announce ‘Collage of Rejected Songs’ ‘Earth Man Blues’

Majid Majidi has been making sensitive and trenchant films about kids in Iran for three decades and he’s still doing it in Sun Children ( Khorshid ), a shrewdly observed humanistic drama about some young teens scrambling to make their way in a difficult world. Winner of the Best Picture prize at last year’s Fajr Film Festival and an official Venice Festival entry, this brisk drama focuses sympathetically on several marginalized but striving kids whose every waking moments are devoted to survival strategies. The International Feature Oscar-shortlisted title from Iran is being distributed by Strand Releasing in the U.S. Related Story Int'l Critics Line: Anna Smith On Ivory Coast's Oscar-Shortlisted 'Night Of The Kings' Freckle-faced Ali (Rouhollah Zamani, winner of Venice’s Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor) works in an automobile garage and in the opening scene leads his three good buddies in a botched attempt to steal tires off fancy … [Read more...] about Int’l Critics Line: Todd McCarthy On Iran’s Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Sun Children’