Reports are coming out that Disney+, the company’s video streaming service, is starting to lose some films in its library including Pirates of the Caribbean and Home Alone.
The company confirmed that a small number of titles are leaving Disney+ temporarily due to existing legacy deals. But these titles will return once the deals expire and Disney can once again host those films.
Here’s a list of movies currently unavailable on Disney+ according to ScreenCrush:
Warning: this article contains major spoilers for Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker!
Amid all the big surprises in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, perhaps none is more welcome or unexpected than the return of Harrison Ford as Han Solo. Even more surprising, it turns out director J.J. Abrams didn’t have to work very hard to convince the notoriously Star Wars-wary Ford to reprise that iconic role one last time.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Abrams revealed all it took was a simple phone call. “Well, I called him and I said, ‘We want to have a scene in the film between Kylo Ren and his father, would you do it?’ And he said, ‘Okay.’”
While Netflix’s The Witcher is solely based on the books, the TV series and CD Projekt Red’s video game adaptation have now crossed over in an unexpected way. A popular song from The Witcher TV series can be seen in Geralt of Rivia’s first adventure, 2007’s The Witcher, thanks to a new mod.
You can add “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher,” a song performed by the show’s version of Dandelion at the end of the second episode, to the original Witcher PC game by downloading Hubert Wiza’s mod from Nexus Mods. Once installed, it appears as an in-game cutscene during The Witcher’s third chapter. The song replaces Dandelion’s performance at The New Narakort Inn.
The Witcher’s main campaign is lengthy and getting to the third chapter just to see the cutscene could take a while, so Wiza uploaded the full performance to YouTube for your convenience. You can check it out below.
This mod really capitalizes on The Witcher games’ recent resurgence in popularity. Since The Witcher TV adaptation debuted on December 20, the games have seen huge player spikes on Steam. CDPR’s third installment in particular, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, had more people playing than ever before since its 2015 launch. Though the show and the game remain separate entities, CDPR and author Andrzej Sapkowski recently settled a royalties dispute that “confers new rights” to the developer.
Prior to Netflix’s The Witcher receiving less than favorable reviews from some critics, the show had been picked up for a second season. In our The Witcher Season 1 review, we said, “If you’re utterly devoted to the world of The Witcher, you’ll certainly enjoy the familiar aesthetic and characters, but beyond that, this series is hard to recommend.”
With the CW’s Arrow entering its final few episodes, the Queen family still has a lot to offer Star City — and so do the Canaries. The CW has revealed the description for the Arrow penultimate episode, which will serve as a backdoor pilot for the new Canaries spinoff series.
Reported by Deadline, the Canaries backdoor pilot, titled “Green Arrow and the Canaries,” will feature Katherine McNamara’s Mia Smoke and will be set in Star City in the year 2040. Airing on the CW on January 21, Mia’s life will be interrupted by Katie Cassidy’s Laurel Lance and Juliana Harkavy’s Dinah Drake, who need Mia’s help tracking down a kidnapping victim.
After several delays, The New Mutants will finally hit theaters in April, and when it does, it will be director Josh Boone’s original cut.
A fan on Instagram asked Boone if the theatrical cut of New Mutants will be his “og version,” to which the director replied, “I wouldn’t be promoting it here if it wasn’t.”
Image via Josh Boone on Instagram
It’s taken longer than you might expect, but official Mandalorian toys are starting to go up for preorder. You can preorder Baby Yoda plushes and Funko POPs (if you can find them in stock), plus a line of absurdly adorable Baby Yoda figures from Hasbro. If that’s not enough, a new batch of Mandalorian Funko POP figures has just become available to preorder. Most of them will be available on February 17, which is sooner than the Baby Yoda figures will arrive. Here they are.
Apparently, James Gunn has confirmed that he passed on directing a new Superman movie for Warner Bros. in favor of taking on The Suicide Squad.
This information should be taken with a grain of salt because it was revealed in a now-deleted Instagram story that was screen-captured and posted on reddit. The post (via Newsarama) allegedly written by Gunn read: “As has been reported many times, DC offered me whatever film I wanted to do, including some sort of Superman movie (not specifically Man of Steel 2 as I’ve seen reported). I chose The Suicide Squad because it’s one of my favorite properties in the world. It’s the story I wanted to tell more than any other.”
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker leaves fans with some lingering questions, including a few that can only be answered if you pick up the recently released Visual Dictionary. But when it comes to one of the movie’s biggest mysteries – how Emperor Palpatine survived the events of Return of the Jedi – the answer is locked away in deleted footage.
In an interview with HuffPost (via CBR), editor Maryanne Brandon reveals Episode IX was originally supposed to have shed more light on Palpatine’s return. But ultimately, the scenes dealing with the hows and whys of Palpatine’s return were trimmed in order to prevent fans from being bombarded with exposition.
Netflix has released a list of its most popular titles released in 2019, and some of the entries on the list might surprise you. While major releases like Stranger Things 3 and The Irishman make the cut, along with box office smashes like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and The Incredibles 2, the most popular title of the year is going to come as a shock.
Murder Mystery, the comedy starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, takes the top slot on Netflix for 2019. Does this mean it was actually the most-watched movie on the streaming service, though? Not necessarily. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, Netflix determines popularity based on how many people watch at least two minutes of a movie or show within the first 28 days of release. The streaming giant, however, does not release statistics showing how many people actually finished any given title.
Other movies that made the list include Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, Triple Frontier, and Wreck-It Ralph 2. On the TV side of things, Stranger Things 3 was joined by The Witcher, Umbrella Academy, Season 3 of You, When They See Us, and 13 Reasons Why, among other shows. You can take a look at the full Top 10 below.
Most popular 2019 releases
1. Murder Mystery
2. Stranger Things 3
3. 6 Underground
4. The Incredibles 2
5. The Irishman
6. The Witcher
7. Triple Frontier
8. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
9. The Umbrella Academy
10. The Highwaymen
Most popular 2019 TV series releases
1. Stranger Things 3
2. The Witcher
3. The Umbrella Academy
4. Dead to Me
5. You: Season 2
6. When They See Us
7. Unbelievable
8. Sex Education
9. 13 Reasons Why
10. Raising Dion
Most popular 2019 movie releases
1. Murder Mystery
2. 6 Underground
3. The Incredibles 2
4. The Irishman
5. Triple Frontier
6. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
7. The Highwaymen
8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
9. Wreck-It Ralph 2
10. Secret Obsession
Now, with a new year underway, there’s even more original content coming from the service. Make sure to take a look at our most anticipated Netflix exclusives of 2020–and what’s coming and going from the service in January–to plan your binging accordingly.
