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Disney Parks in 2026: Leia, Luke and Han Hit Galaxy’s Edge

Disney Parks in 2026: Leia, Luke and Han Hit Galaxy’s Edge

Published by skeptic

Disneyland had a huge 2025 when it kicked off its 70th anniversary, a celebration that continues at the original Disney theme park this year. Three new rides are also being built at California Adventure, as well as a whole new Avatar area. And at Walt Disney World in Florida, four new lands are being constructed right now, themed around villains, Pixar characters and more. Here’s everything you need to know about Disneyland, Disney World and Disney Cruise Line in 2026 and beyond. Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge: New old characters New characters have begun roaming around the Star Wars-themed lands in Disneyland, as the area “expands its timeline” to include Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa and Han Solo. The original trio of Star Wars main characters arrived in Batuu on April 29 and are now interacting with guests and other characters. To help tie them in with the more modern Star Wars land, there will also be new props, graphics and music (featuring the legendary John Williams score) in Galaxy’s Edge. “Black Spire Outpost will roll back in time several …

Disney+ Sets Korean Remake of The Americans With Lee Byung-hun, Han Ji-min

Disney+ Sets Korean Remake of The Americans With Lee Byung-hun, Han Ji-min

Published by Daniella Wilson

Eric Schrier, president of Disney Television Studios, admits he was “a little hesitant” when he first heard the pitch to remake the hit FX series The Americans as The Koreans — a big-budget, local-language reimagining starring Lee Byung-hun and Han Ji-min as a pair of North Korean spies masquerading as a happily married couple in 1990s South Korea. “I was the guy who developed The Americans,” says Schrier, who, before taking the top global TV job at Disney, served as president of FX Entertainment. “I’m still very close with Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields, the originals’ creators, so I wasn’t so sure about this idea, because it’s all very near and dear to my heart.” Schrier says he was eventually won over when he realized the unique storytelling potential that transposing The Americans’ premise to a Korean context might present. The idea to remake the show had come organically from Disney’s content relationships in Korea, rather than any top-down corporate mandate to exploit legacy IP from the studio’s libraries. It will be the company’s first …

Light and Thread by Han Kang review – a tantalising book of reflections | Han Kang

Light and Thread by Han Kang review – a tantalising book of reflections | Han Kang

Published by Sam Flores

When Korean novelist Han Kang won the Nobel prize in literature in 2024, the committee praised her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. In other words, Han’s work looks both out at the world – towards the 1980 Gwangju massacre fictionalised in her novel Human Acts –  and inward to the human experience, as with The Vegetarian’s portrait of one woman’s claustrophobic struggle. Much of the appeal of Han’s work is in its mystery, the gaps she leaves for the reader to close. So it is tantalising to have this collection of prose, “a book of reflections” that might illuminate the darker corners of her work. It is a hope partly fulfilled. Light and Thread – the title from a poem Han wrote at the age of eight – comes in three parts, which we might categorise as writing, poetry and gardening. The title essay, her Nobel laureate lecture, does open up the novels a little. The Vegetarian, about a woman whose progressive rejection of social norms results in her trying to become a plant, was, we learn, …

Han Han’s Pegasus 3 Climbs to 0M at China’s Box Office

Han Han’s Pegasus 3 Climbs to $530M at China’s Box Office

Published by Daniella Wilson

Pegasus 3 kept its grip on the China box office this past weekend, adding $49.5 million (RMB 351.3 million) to push its cumulative haul to $529.6 million (RMB 3.76 billion), according to data from Artisan Gateway covering Feb. 27–March 1. The racing comedy’s healthy hold solidifies its status as the clear engine of the market so far this year — but the rest of the field is running on fumes relative to past Chinese New Year tentpoles.  Total weekend ticket sales came to just $107.9 million, and China’s cumulative 2026 box office now stands at $1.41 billion, a 55.9 percent decline compared to the same point in 2025. Last year, of course, animated juggernaut Ne Zha 2 was still deep in its historic run, on its way to a $2.2 billion finish that both set global records and single-handedly rescued China’s film sector from a deepening malaise.  Pegasus 3 is directed by Han Han, a high-school dropout who has become one of China’s most consistent cultural creators — against the odds. In the mid-2000s, while …

Daisy Ridley on ‘We Bury the Dead,’ Her Next Movie with Han Solo

Daisy Ridley on ‘We Bury the Dead,’ Her Next Movie with Han Solo

Published by Daniella Wilson

This is your biannual reminder that the independent offerings of Daisy Ridley deserve your attention. While she patiently awaits Disney and Lucasfilm’s next move with regard to Star Wars, Ridley has been releasing a couple well-received indies per year, save for Disney’s highly acclaimed sports biopic, Young Woman and the Sea (2024). On Jan. 2, Ridley kicks off the new year with another well-regarded film in We Bury the Dead.  Zak Hilditch’s contemplative zombie thriller, which premiered at 2025’s South by Southwest, chronicles Ava Newman (Ridley) as she journeys from America to Tasmania in hopes of finding her husband alive. The U.S. military botched a nearby weapons test that obliterated the population of Tasmania, creating either a pile of dead bodies or zombies that gradually become more aggressive. Ava’s husband, Mitch, had the misfortune of being on a work retreat there at the same time. Ava’s marriage was already on the rocks. Her and her husband’s struggle to conceive a child slowly chipped away at their union, so she is simply looking for closure in …