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Universal will do the competition to Disneyland with Harry Potter and Mario. Disney will counteratacious “turbo-charging” its parks

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In its annual meeting with shareholders, the Disney CEO of Bob Iger has made ads that cover the entire empire of the producer: of sequelae for its animated franchises to plans for its attraction parks. It is the conducive moment: the competition will be more at odd than ever, especially now that it arrives Epic Universe de Universal To Orlando. Old acquaintances in attractions mode. In the ads that Iger has shared, he has talked about attractions inspired by ‘Cars’,’Avatar‘,’The lion king‘,’ Monsters SA ‘,’ Coco ‘and many other franchises. With this, they set the planned plans of Disney, which in autumn of 2023 announced that it was going to fold the investment in thematic parks: The producer would be spent in this sector that, together with the cruises, is what most benefits the brand, $ 60 billion in the course of a decade. An ambitious plan to spab from the experience section, which Nor is it working as it should. The turbo-carga. This has been defined by Iger himself: “Last year we talked about our plans to boost growth in this segment through strategic investments.” And he continues: “Right now, we have more projects in progress throughout the world than at any other time. Magic Kingdom is experiencing the greatest expansion of its history, with a new area inspired by ‘Cars’ and the expected theme park of the villains. And a thematic area of ​​’Monsters SA’. It will reach Hollywood Studios.” And the lion king, to Paris. To all this are added attractions of ‘charm’ and Indiana Jones in Animal Kingdom. And in California Adventure, new attractions of avengers (the area dedicated to the Marvel heroes will bend their size), ‘Avatar’ and ‘Coco’. Disneyland Paris will arrive the first attraction dedicated to ‘The Lion King’, which will be aquatic and that will accompany Simba on his trip to become king. Some of them already advanced Disney in the past D23, where detailed what would consist Many of these attractions. The competition: Epic Universe. In Disney they are in crisis policy because on May 22, Universal will open in Orlando Epic Universe. It is a theme park divided into five universes, some of them as attractive to the general public as Harry Potter or the outside of Japan version of Super Nintendo World. They will join the Dark Universe, based on the company’s classic monsters, Celestial World and its science fiction and fantasy setting, and another area about ‘How to train your dragon’, which Universal wants to turn into one of its star franchises with the premiere of the real image film. And the rest? Regular, thanks. Being one of the companies dedicated to entertainment more powerful and influential of the moment, and with Well sanitized accounts (especially if we compare them with Warner)we are far from being able to say that Disney is in crisis. But this annual meeting with shareholders has been revealing: before all the news related to the parks, only some sequelae and new animation films have been presented, Like ‘Coco 2’they have not awakened too much enthusiasm. Safe Baza. To this is added that Marvel spends complicated moments: Captain America’s last movie is already one of those who have had Less collection of the MCU Hster. At a time, it is clear that Disney should cover several fronts … and re -bet for a safe trick: the multimillionaire parks business. Header | Disney In Xataka | The catastrophe of the ‘Star Wars’ hotel: 3,000 euros per night in an interactive film of 350 million dollars

It is the best series of ‘Star Wars’, and in the face of its second season, Disney has uploaded its first episodes free of free

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It is possibly the best that will give us’Star Wars‘In 2025 (and beyond, possibly), so it has all the meaning that Disney is taking care of this premiere to the extreme of promoting it with a few free episodes. Specifically the first three of the initial season of ‘Andor‘, that You can enjoy free on YouTube (Yes, in original version with subtitles only in English). This arrival has coincided with the premiere of the series in Hulu in the United States, something that does not affect us in Europe but demonstrates that Disney knows what is brought between hands. ‘Andor’ is a series acclaimed by criticism and public, and that has been celebrated to recover the little solemn style and with a mixture of genres (Here, a very curious mixture of prison leaks and robbery film) that has characterized the best moments of the franchise since the late seventies. A gift that helps us to refresh the memory with the history of this rebel to her, set about five years before what we saw in ‘Rogue One’, that is, we are in the early days of that rebel alliance that we would see in the first trilogy of Star Wars, with a series of events that will lead to the theft of the plans of the Death Star. Andor is a thief who will end up becoming a spy and, finally, into a key piece to trigger the rebel movement against the empire. Without a doubt, what makes ‘Andor’ one of the key series of ‘Star Wars’ is introduce ourselves to a series of characters with many gray nuances: Neither heroes nor villains, many believe in the rebel movement, others are ready for their own interests, and we will see how their behaviors and ideals evolve realistically. A characteristic that will undoubtedly remain in the expected second (and last) season of the series, which has already made history within the franchise. Header | Disney In Xataka | Kathleen Kennedy seeks substitute in the front of Lucasfilm: it is the sign that ‘Star Wars’ is going through the greatest bump in its history

‘Mufasa’ has been the surprise success of the year for Disney. And all thanks to not immediately take it to Disney+

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The First impressions about the ‘Mufasa box office: the lion king’the prequel to the success of 2019, they were not too flattering: it seemed a puncture that confirmed, after the stumbling blocks of ‘Dumbo’ and ‘Pinocchio’, that the remakes in real image of Disney classics (although it enters that pack, ‘mufasa’ is rather realistic CGI) had lost their good star. However, it has ended up becoming an indisputable success for the company, and all thanks to a strategy that seemed like the past: persistence in the billboards. An upperbow box office. ‘Mufasa’ had to see them in theaters with A very powerful rival: ‘Sonic 3’which has ended up raising almost 500 million dollars, becoming the second most popular adaptation of a video game in history and the best entry of the franchise, which has the future more than insured. ‘Sonic 3’ (to which more competition was added: ‘Wicked’ and Disney’s own ‘Vaiana 2’) worked like a cannon from the first moment, and although ‘MUFASA’ led the most watched tops, its 35 million dollars in the first weekend left it well below the 200 with which the first installment started. Erta 30% less than what Disney expected. Taking impulse. The alarms lit in Disney: Had they squeezed the franchise while exhausting it? Let’s not forget that the musical of the original film is one of the most popular in history, and the presence of Simba and company in attraction parks is inescapable. However, ‘Mufasa’ would soon take the expected route, closing a very good year for Disney, which came from sweeping the United States with a demolish thanksgiving weekend thanks to ‘Vaiana 2‘, and to beat records with’Upside down 2‘ and ‘Deadpool and Wolverine‘. However, mouth mouth made its effect and spent five weeks at number 1, entering 2025 with 600 million dollars of collection. And all thanks to a strategic decision. Contrary to the expected. That strategic decision was not to release ‘MUFASA’ in Disney+ for Christmas, possibly a decision that had more than one executive in suspense, especially taking into account the lazy start of the film at the box office. But if I had gone to Disney+, I would not have had those five glorious weeks sweeping cinemas. Finally, the film has raised 712.9 million dollars, becoming the seventh highest grossing film of 2024 … and of course, it has ended in Disney+, where it has been since mid -February. After Christmas, perfect storm. After the avalanche of Christmas premieres, Mufasa benefited so much from the premiere of films not addressed to the children’s public (‘Werewolf‘, for example), as of the Violization in Tik Tok songs Composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. But above, all, of a certain recovery of the confidence in the rooms not as a procedure before the arrival of the films to streamingbut as a space in which the premieres can perform as they did years ago. Let us forget pandemic. We leave behind one of the greatest stigmas in the pandemic: that we would not recover the figures for assistance to cinemas prior to COVID. In Europein 2023 the assistance rose 18% and in the United States, in 2024 the 8,750 million dollars collected are below the more than 11,000 pre-pondemic levels, but It is clear that the industry continues to approach With a firm step. And the confidence of the industry in the rooms with trajectories such as ‘MUFASA’ only reinforce that impression. Header | Disney In Xataka | Disney+ before the abyss: the series of ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel have less spectators than ever, but they are still their main asset

If you like ‘Yellowstone’, but you think it lacks some suspense and violence, in Disney+ you have a perfect alternative

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More and more people are hooked to the cattle soap opera of ‘Yellowstone’, and their arrival in majority platforms such as Netflix and Prime Video It has a good part of the blame. However, There are many ways to focus contemporary westernand although it is perfect territory for the portraits of family sagas full of ambition and overflowing passions, gender also allows us to focus on action and suspense. This is the case of the extraordinary ‘Justified. Raylan’s law‘, which you can find in full, with its six seasons, in Disney+ and in Movistar Plus+. And although this neo Western has a decade, it has not lost an apex of intensity or interest. The reason: addictive writing, almost HARD BOILED Of its creator, Graham Yost, whom we owe the script of films such as ‘Speed’ and series such as the recent ‘Silo’, added to the overwhelming charism of its protagonist, Timothy Olyphant. Olyphant is a sheriff reallocated from Miami to a mining area, poor and rural, very close to the place where he was born. His expeditious methods make him an unpopular man among criminals, but also among his superiorsthat often do not approve of their methods. His return to action will lead him to meet his ex -wife, with his father who is in prison, and with his childhood friend, who has become a dangerous Nazi activist. The series is based on several books of the great Elmore Leonard, author of the novel on which ‘Jackie Brown’ of Tarantino and one of the great names of black and suspense literature was based. In 2023, Raylan returned in a new season of the series, ‘Wild City’, which lasted a season and you can also find complete In Disney+. In Xataka | This Kevin Costner’s Thriller and Western mixture punctured at the box office, but Netflix has made it one of her last successes

The new Spider-Man series arrives at Disney+, but it has something that is raising controversy: its animation style

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Marvel’s new arachnid hero animation series, ‘Your friend and neighbor Spider-Man‘ has arrived at Disney+and raises an interesting point of view, although of course not unpublished in the adaptations of the hero: his first years with the costume, in which he combines work as a photographer of Peter Parker with his care Safeguard your secret identity and, at times, save New York from some cataclysm than another. However, What has caught the attention has not been his argument, but his peculiar aesthetics: appropriate to reflect the comiquero spirit of the series, has a style that reminds of Cel-Shading of the games a few years ago. That is, more than the Cel-Shading Sophisticated titles such as the next ‘Borderlands 4’ or ‘Hi-Fi Rush’, is closer to original experiments with style, such as ‘XIII’ U ‘Okami’. That it does not have to be bad, we are all excited about ‘Jet Set Radio’, but criticisms have already pointed out that it gives a somewhat expired touch to the series. Jeff Trammell, Srie’s screenwriter, defended the style in techradar. He declared that “there is no Spider-Man like ours. I think it is important -Man mixed with others, you think: ‘That is the Spider-Man of’ Your friend and neighbor Spider-Man ‘”. The truth is that this style sometimes leads to something rigid and somewhat artificial environments, But the truth is that it is perfect for action sequencesand transmits purely comic vibrations. Although it is not the only complaint: in the first two episodes that have been seen from the series, the scenarios are somewhat soulless, with empty and grid streets and that remember, again, to video games of a time that was already left behind. It is a shame, although the entire series will have to be seen to calibrate to what extent these problems weigh in the final result. Header | Disney In Xataka | ‘Spider-Man’: Where and in what order to see the films and series of Marvel character

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