Disney Plus Video Reveals 2020’s Originals: WandaVision, Mandalorian Season 2, And More

The first major Disney+ original series The Mandalorian has come to a close, with Season 2 coming this fall. That’s not all that will be arriving in 2020, as a video showcasing this year’s Disney+ offerings revealed that the Marvel series WandaVision has been moved up for a 2020 release. That means both Star Wars and Marvel properties will each be getting two new series in 2020.

In the video, which you can check out below, Disney shows off plenty of new original series and movies that are slated to arrive this year. Aside from WandaVision–a series following Avengers characters Wanda… and Vision–The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series also hits the service sometime this year, which began filming in late 2019. Additionally, a second season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series will be coming in the fall, and there are plenty of specials that looked to be under the NatGeo banner, exploring the animal kingdom.

Unfortunately, there are no release dates attached to any of these shows yet. Clone Wars Season 7 will be the first of these series to hit the service, but as of this writing, it doesn’t have a specific release date outside of February. A few of these originals are slated for the fall, but that’s all we know.

If you can’t watch the video, check out the list of original programming coming to Disney+ this year.

Disney+ original programming for 2020:

  • The Mandalorian Season 2
  • WandaVision
  • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7
  • Lizzie McGuire
  • Muppets Now
  • The Phineas & Ferb Movie: Candace Against the Universe
  • High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: Season 2
  • Diary of a Future President
  • Short Circuit: Experimental Films
  • Lamp Life (Toy Story spin-off)
  • Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
  • Star Girl
  • Penguins
  • Dolphin Reef
  • Elephant
  • Secret Society of Second Born Royals
  • Rogue Trip
  • Becoming

Pokemon Sword and Shield Eeveelutions: How to Evolve Eevee

In Pokemon Sword and Shield, Eevee has eight different possible evolutions (aka Eeveelutions). The evolution you get depends on the method you use to evolve it. These Eeveelution methods are the same as previous games but evolving Eevee into Glaceon and Leafeon is now easier – and Sylveon can evolve with Friendship just like Espeon and Umbreon. And of course, you can always just catch these Eeveelutions – avoiding the work of evolving them all together. Here’s how to evolve Eevee into all its evolutions plus where to find and catch Eevee and its evolutions.

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Star Trek: Short Treks Trailer Drops For “Children Of Mars” Ahead Of Picard Series Release

While we’re a few weeks away from Star Trek: Picard hitting CBS All Access on January 23, a new Short Treks will be hitting the streaming service very soon. Titled “Children of Mars,” a new trailer for the short film arrived ahead of its January 9 release.

“Children of Mars” will be the 10th episode of this series, exploring stories within the Star Trek universe that don’t fit within the Discovery or Picard TV series. According to the official synopsis, “12 year-old classmates Kima and Lil find themselves at odds with each other on a day that will change their lives forever.” Check out the trailer below.

There is some speculation that this episode of Short Treks will have some connection to the upcoming Picard series, but the trailer doesn’t lead us to believe that. And although Season 1 of Picard hasn’t aired yet, it was picked up for a second season last October.

Picard stars Patrick Stewart as the titular character and features many familiar faces from The Next Generation. Brent Spiner returns as Data, Jonathan Frakes as William Riker, Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, and Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi. And there is one returning enemy that Picard simply can’t avoid that will make its return, the Borg.

“Children of Mars” hits CBS All Access on January 9, and Picard arrives on January 23. There are nine other episodes in Short Treks available on the streaming service along with Seasons 1 and 2 of Discovery.

Disclosure: CBS All Access is owned by ViacomCBS, GameSpot’s parent company.

The Grudge Review

With his 2016 directorial debut The Eyes Of My Mother, writer/helmer Nicolas Pesce had critics championing him as a bold new voice in horror for his black-and-white cinematography, dread-entrenched character study, and its bleak tale of love, isolation, and violence. In 2018, he returned to the spotlight of the Sundance Film Festival with Piercing, a horror-thriller about an aspiring killer and the sex worker he’s eying to be his victim. Now, this on-the-rise horror auteur returns to put his mark on a once-hot horror franchise with the star-stuffed, studio offering The Grudge. But horror fans might wish Pesce had let dead things stay dead. This Grudge is a trudge through muck, meandering plot, half-baked performances, and tired tropes that should’ve been retired by the end of the 2000s.

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Here’s Why Disney Plus Is Losing Pirates of the Caribbean and Home Alone

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:

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Star Wars: How J.J. Abrams Convinced [Spoiler] to Return

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.’”

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CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher Gets Netflix ‘Toss A Coin To Your Witcher’ Mod

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.”

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Arrow Spinoff: Canaries Backdoor Pilot Description Revealed

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.

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