Disney Finds Its Live-Action ‘Moana’ In Catherine Laga‘aia

The Bear has returned to Disney+ for its hotly-anticipated third season - but fans appear to be torn over the award-winning comedy. After an explosive first episode, some reckon the rest of the series is 'monotonous and tiresome.'

Coronation Street actress Lorna Laidlaw, who plays Bailey family matriarch Aggie Bailey has reportedly quit the soap more than 12 months after her last appearance on the cobbles.The 61-year-old star, who became most well known for playing Mrs Tembe in the medial soap Doctors for eight years, last appeared on the show in summer 2023 and has been absent from a number of the Bailey family's major storylines. After last being seen on screen on 12 June 2023, the actress didn't return as part of the storyline in which her son Michael lost his job and was wrongly arrested, nor when her on-screen husband found the body of murder victim Leo Thompkins on his building site.

If it’s the end of June that means a new membership class for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences is ready to meet the world. This morning AMPAS revealed the 2024 class which featured a number of 2024 Oscar winners including Lily Gladstone, Justine Triet, Cord Jefferson, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, among others.

This is arguably where there’s smoke, there’s fire of a story, but it lends credence to a lot of recent online rumors growing louder and louder and hard to ignore. In a recently unearthed clip from W Magazine from nine years ago, Scarlett Johansson says she first met with Marvel she met for the characters Black Widow, The Scarlett Witch, The Wasp, and The Blonde Phantom, a project she is heavily rumored to be involved with.

EXCLUSIVE: No, John Oliver‘s lengthy rant about the UK election and Conservative Party woes is not about to be censored in Britain.

Specialist teams looking for missing teenager Jay Slater in the ‘dangerous’ Tenerife mountains say they ‘still have hope’ he will be found alive. At the search base, Civil Defence teams revealed that so far, they have ‘found nothing’ as they detailed on which areas are being searched in fresh update.

Bad Robot veteran Hannah Minghella has been hired as Head of Feature Animation and Live-Action Family Film at Netflix, Deadline can confirm. We understand that her departure from the J.J. Abrams-led company was amicable.

Princess Catherine‘s appearance at Trooping the Colour may have looked seamless, but it likely took a massive toll on her!

It was an Inside Out specialty weekend, fairly quiet and with a stream of indies films and more wide releases. The schedule is starting to recover from a strike-induced slump that, however, provided oxygen to some indies.

A princess by title, but she’s a true queen!!!

Did you hear the good news?? King Charles did!

Taylor Swift will kick off her three Liverpool shows at Anfield Stadium this week.

A birthday dinner for Stephen Colbert turned into a humbling experience for John Oliver.

Pixar‘s Chief Creative Officer is opening up the possibilities of live-action adaptations of their films!

Angelique Jackson Disney’s live-action “Moana” has found its new leading lady: Catherine Laga‘aia will star opposite Dwayne Johnson, who reprises his role as the demigod Maui, in the highly anticipated film. “I’m really excited to embrace this character because Moana is one of my favorites,” said Laga‘aia, a 17-year-old from Sydney, Australia. “My grandfather comes from Fa‘aala, Palauli, in Savai‘i.

Disney has just revealed the young actress who will be playing Moana in the upcoming live-action movie adaptation!

Zack Snyder touched down at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Wednesday to offer a sneak peak of his upcoming Norse mythology animated series Twilight of the Gods as part of the Next at Netflix showcase.

Pete Docter, Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios, is shooting down the idea of remaking classics into live-action features.

Billie Eilish has performed her new song ‘The Greatest’ for the first time on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Check out footage of the rendition below.The moment took place last night (June 10) as the singer appeared as the musical guest on the US chat show for the second time to promote her latest studio album, ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’.Originally, she appeared on the show last month to perform a moving rendition of ‘Lunch’, and this time, she broke out the first ever live performance of the album’s centrepiece, ‘The Greatest’.She took to the live stage to perform the song alongside her brother and producer Finneas, who joined her in the dimly lit lighting and played acoustic guitar.

Jamie Lang Former Moonbug managing director Andy Yeatman has been appointed CEO of the newly launched Miraculous Corp USA, a joint venture between Mediawan and the “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir” studio ZAG. Unveiled last month, Miraculous Corp was established to join all facets of the Miraculous franchise under one roof, with Mediawan taking 60% ownership and Zag the other 40%. Zag founder and Miraculous co-creator Jeremy Zag will continue as a major shareholder and board member while overseeing the development and creation of new storylines and characters within the franchise.