Just prior to Disney’s February report to stockholders, the company will now have to defend their actions that have caused #CancelDisneyPlus to trend as one of the top hashtags of Twitter. The goodwill that had been earned by the two seasons of The Mandalorian is now surely washed up.
- So, why is ‘cancel Disney Plus’ trending? The trend and boycott is in response to the news of Gina Carano’s firing. The Mandalorian actress was let go by Lucasfilm on February 10 th after.
- The latest tweets from @disneyplusnews.
A weekly round-up of the new movies and TV series streaming on Netflix, Crave, Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus and CBC Gem
New on Netflix
Amanda Seyfried stars in the haunted-house thriller Things Heard & Seenfrom the directing team of Shari Springer Bergman and Robert Pulcini (American Splendor, The Nanny Diaries), which drops on April 29. Also being released by Netflix this week is the sci-fi fantasy series Shadow and Bone, an epic YA-adjacent series created by Arrival screenwriter Eric Heisserer. Many networks and platforms have rolled the dice on what they hope will be the next Game of Thrones, and early reviews of Shadow and Bone suggest that fans might find exactly that. Season one of RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race also drops today. Among the celebrity guests participating in the show (which aired in April 2020) are Dustin Milligan, Vanessa Williams, Phoebe Robinson and Jermaine Fowler. The movie lineup is pretty thin this week: highlights include the Taylor Schilling-led horror movie The Prodigy and Neil Jordan’s thriller Gretastarring Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz.
New on Amazon Prime Video
It’s a very thin week for Amazon Prime, likely leading up to the big release of their Michael B. Jordan-starring tentpole Without Remorse next Friday. The only two titles hitting Prime this week (today, in fact) are both Indian productions: the action movie Roberrtand the comedy Jathi Ratnalu.
New on Crave
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Crave’s lineup is almost as thin. It’s saved by the first two episodes of season 4 of The Handmaid’s Talewhich air on April 28, and the April 23 release of a couple of well-received genre films: Jim Cummings’ The Wolf of Snow Hollowand Girl, starring Bella Thorne and Mickey Rourke. And while Mortal Kombat is streaming on HBO Max in the U.S. as of today, it will only start streaming on Crave following its theatrical run — which began in the U.S. and Canada today. In Canada, Mortal Kombat is, however, available for home viewing via VOD. (Read our review here.)
New on Disney Plus
In what seems to be a running theme, there isn’t much on Disney Plus either. All three seasons of something called Liv and Maddieand the perennial classic Baby’s Day Out, in case you want to recreate what it was like to be stuck indoors watching TV during a rainy Sunday in ’90s Quebec. Both are available to stream right now.
New on CBC Gem
Disney Plus Twitter Launch Conversation
Season 5 of Call the Midwifeis available as of today alongside Ron Mann’s documentary Altman about the legendary filmmaker Robert Altman. ■
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