A Hilarious “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” Parody

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If you’re a Disney fan, there’s no doubt you’ve either watched or have heard multiple takes on Disney’s newest animated film, Encanto. The film was initially released in the theaters and is now available to watch on Disney+. Encanto’s stunning animation and music have Disney fans infatuated, with awards flooding in for the new movie. But, there is one song that is especially catchy from Encanto – yep, you know it… “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”. So, of course, a parody of the popular song is rather fitting.

Encanto

One of the most popular characters in Encanto is what seems like the villain at first but later is discovered to be a key part of the magical family. Yes, we’re talking about Bruno! His special gift has kept him hiding away for several years and his family pulls together a song literally talking about Bruno…. but called, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”.

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And while the Encanto family tries not to talk about Bruno, it seems like if you apply that to today, the big hush that has everyone in talks on social media, news, and beyond is COVID. Even though we’re almost two years in since the major COVID-19 closures began in March 2020, today, cases of the Omicron variant are just as high as ever.

So how are Encanto and COVID linking up here? Well, a new catchy parody is taking over social media!

Chances are if you’re on social media, you’ve seen videos from the Holderness Family pop up on occasion. Kim and Penn Holderness are known for dishing out funny music videos that display what many young families are experiencing at the present time. The best part… the Holderness Family does it with a little dose of humor. They say the point of their videos is to “create original music, song parodies, and skits to poke fun of ourselves, the world we live in, and (hopefully) make you laugh.”

The Holderness Family’s latest video is “We Don’t Talk About COVID” which is a “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” Parody from the ever-so-popular Disney’s Encanto. The video was posted with the note, “It’s the elephant in the room… and it’s weird, right? #encanto #parody #bruno.” Check it out below:

In case you’re in the mood to hear the real “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Disney’s Encanto and Lin Manuel Miranda, here’s the music video to compare to the “We Don’t Talk About COVID” above:

Disney’s looking for PAID extras for its new Haunted Mansion film

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Do you love the Haunted Mansion attraction? Would you consider yourself a huge Haunted Mansion fan? If so, you could get paid to be an extra in Disney’s newest Haunted Mansion-themed film, set in New Orleans.

The right Haunted Mansion fans might just get the chance to be in Disney’s newest take on the Haunted Mansion film that will star Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Tiffany Haddish, LaKeith Stanfield, and Rosario Dawson.

Here's Everything We Know About Disney's The Haunted Mansion Movie Remake

Disney’s new film has a working title of Joyride. It is a remake Disney’s 2003 film, The Haunted Mansion, starring Eddie Murphy, who plays the workaholic realtor Jim Evers. It will follow in the footsteps of some of The Walt Disney Company‘s most popular films like Jungle Cruise, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, loosely based on the Jungle Cruise attraction at Disneyland, and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, inspired by the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disney Parks. Disney’s looking for fans interested in being paid extras in the Haunted Mansion reboot.

According to NOLA.com, the plot of the film follows the story of a mother and her son who buy a mansion in New Orleans, only to discover they aren’t the only ones living in the mansion. That’s right. It’s haunted.

Disney’s latest production is in need of hundreds of extras–men and women of all ages and all ethnicities. These people will play background roles.

Extras will be paid $161 for each day on set in New Orleans. A day is 12 hours. Extras will also be paid a stipend of $65 every time the production requires a COVID test to be administered to them. Extras will start on January 27.

Sound interesting?

If so, you can send an email to ghostsinfilm@gmail.com and type “NOLA extra” in the subject line. Be sure to include your name, cell phone number, your current location, current photos of yourself, as well as your shirt size, your pants size, and your shoe size.

New Haunted Mansion Movie in the Works at Disney

You can get all the details by visiting the casting agency responsible for hiring extras for Disney’s Haunted Mansion remake. Click here to be taken to the site.

Extras must be fully vaccinated and also be able to show proof of vaccination status.

Another Pixar Movie to Skip Theaters and Go Straight to Disney+

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The pandemic has been incredibly tough for the film industry. Almost all theaters across the country shut down for months because it was not safe for strangers to be around each other while indoors, and films that were supposed to have massive premieres were either pushed back or canceled altogether. However, the pandemic did lead to an absolutely massive jump in streaming service subscriptions — especially for Disney. Disney even introduced Premier Access to Disney+, where Guests would pay $30 to see the latest movie from the comfort of their own home.

While theaters are now back open and fans are seeing their favorites on the big screen, one production is still struggling to get its films into theaters. Pixar has been releasing a number of wonderful and popular films since the pandemic hit, but none of them have had a theatrical release. The last Pixar film to be in theaters was Onward which was in theaters for just a few weeks before the pandemic hit. Since then, Soul and Luca have come out but went straight to Disney+.

And now, Disney is revealing that yet another Pixar film will be going straight to Disney+ and not even with Premier Access. Turning Red will be available to all Disney+ subscribers beginning on March 11. Disney explained their decision in a press release and said:

Today, Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution announced that Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” will premiere exclusively in homes worldwide on Disney+ on Friday, March 11.

“Disney+ subscribers around the world enthusiastically embraced Pixar’s Academy Award-winning ‘Soul’ and the critically-acclaimed “Luca” when they premiered exclusively on the service and we look forward to bringing them Pixar’s next incredible feature film ‘Turning Red’,” said Kareem Daniel, Chairman, Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution. “Given the delayed box office recovery, particularly for family films, flexibility remains at the core of our distribution decisions as we prioritize delivering the unparalleled content of The Walt Disney Company to audiences around the world.”

Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda! Directed by Academy Award® winner Domee Shi (Pixar short “Bao”) and produced by Lindsey Collins “Turning Red” releases on March 11, 2022.

Lately, Disney has been releasing its films with a limited theatrical run — typically 45 days — and then moving them to Disney+, but Turning Red was supposed to experience what would be considered a “normal” theatrical release.

The decision to skip theaters for another Pixar film has reportedly been incredibly demoralizing for the teams that work so hard on these great films. Matthew Belloni, who runs a film and television industry reporting site called Puck, reported that Pixar employees were upset that their films aren’t even being perceived as good enough to be released with Premier Access, and Skyler Schuler responded that complaints about the issue have been voiced.

People are forgetting some Pixar staff are upset and have voiced their concerns and rightfully so. Look at Raya and Encanto, one received a Premier Access release with a theatrical run, the other a 30-day theatrical run then Disney+. The last 3 Pixar films get neither option.

Turning Red will premiere on Disney+ on March 11 and tells the story of Mei Lee — a 13-year-old-girl who turns into a giant, fluffy red panda when her emotions get the best of her, and if you know teenagers, it happens a lot. To make matters worse, Mei’s overprotective mother is never far away from her.

Disney unveils a new series inspired by Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland”

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A new series inspired by Disney’s Alice in Wonderland is coming to Disney Junior in February. You’ll also be able to see it on Disney Channel and on the Disney+ streaming platform.

The series, called Alice’s Wonderland Bakery, will be another component of the original programming on the Disney Junior Channel and will feature the talents of 13-year-old Libby Rue as the voice of Alice, as well as Craig Ferguson, Eden Espinosa, Jon Secada, Saturday Night Live‘s Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer, and Ana Gasteyer, Donald Faison (Dr. Turk in NBC’s Scrubs), Yvette Nicole Brown (NBC’s Community, Disney+’s Lady and the Tramp and Big Shots.

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The original new series follows the adventures of Alice, but she’s not Disney’s Alice from the 1950s. She’s that Alice’s great-granddaughter, and the series definitely has nods to the original 1951 Disney animated feature, Alice in Wonderland.

Other stars lending their voices to the new Disney Junior series include Abigail Estrella as the Princess of Hearts, C.J. Uy as Hattie, Jack Stanton as Fergie the White Rabbit, Secunda Wood as Cookie the Cookbook, and Audrey Wasilewski as Dinah the cat. Musician and singer Jon Secada plays the King of Hearts, and Vanessa Bayer and Bobby Moynihan play as Tweedle Do and Tweedle Don’t. Captian Dodo is voiced by Rich Sommer, and Yvette Nicole Brown voices Mama Rabbit. Ana Gasteyer voices Kiki, Lesley Nicol plays Iris, Lamorne Morris plays Dandy, and Matthew Moy plays a character cleverly named David of Spades (not that any preschooler will pick up on the name).

No word yet on whether the March Hare will make an appearance in the new series.

The series was created with preschool-aged children in mind and will include musical numbers as well. Alice’s Wonderland Bakery will debut on Disney Junior on February 9 at 10:30 a.m. and will also air at the same time on Disney Channel. The first few episodes of the Alice-themed series will also be streamable on Disney+.

Marvel Runs Into Copyright Issue Changes Villain’s Name

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One of the most highly anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe movies of 2022 is Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness. Originally slated for a March 25, 2022 theatrical debut, the upcoming Doctor Strange 2 was part of Marvel Studios’ recent rash of film delays.

It is now scheduled for a May 6, 2022 release, but marketing efforts for Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Stephen Strange) and Elizabeth Olsen’s (Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff) next MCU installment are already beginning to ramp up following the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home.

The second Spider-Man post credits scene was the first trailer for Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness — it featured a return to the WandaVision post credits scene’s Wundagore Mountain and thrilled Marvel fans.

wandavision post credits scene wanda on cabin porch

Now, however, fans have noticed something strange (no pun intended) about a recent merchandise leak. A new LEGO set for the Doctor Strange (2016) sequel seemingly features the Marvel Comics villain known as Shuma-Gorath.

However, in this case, the box art suggests that the tentacled creature will go by the name of Gargantos.

This seemingly pointless name change frustrated some fans on social media, but it seems that there may be a very good explanation that has to do with copyright law. As Twitter user @UpToTASK noted:

After doing some research on ̶G̵a̵r̵g̵a̵n̵t̵o̵s̵/Shuma-Gorath, I get it but I hate it. The name “Shuma-Gorath” was first created by Robert E. Howard for Conan [Conan the Barbarian]. And yea, that’s a WHOLE problem that can be avoided by simply changing the name. UGH that SUCKS. But at least it’s him?

Marvel likely wants to avoid even the suggestion of a copyright battle with Conan creator Howard’s estate, as the works featuring the character and any adjacent characters are not yet in the public domain.

ant-man and the wasp

Furthermore, this isn’t the first time Kevin Feige and his team have made a name change to avoid a potential lawsuit. The “Quantum Realm” in Paul Rudd (Scott Lang/Ant-Man) and Evangeline Lilly’s (Hope Pym/the Wasp) Ant-Man films is referred to as the “Microverse” in the Marvel Comics universe.

evangeline lilly as hope van dyne aka the wasp and paul rudd as scott lang aka ant man

The word “Microverse”, however, is already copyrighted as part of Hasbro Toys’ “Micronauts” franchise, so the MCU opted to make the name change. Presumably, that is what has happened with the villain now known as Gargantos as well.