The original series ran for 10 seasons between 2001 and 2017 and followed Timmy Turner (voiced by Tara Strong), a 10-year-old boy with neglectful parents and an unhappy life, who’s given two fairy godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, to grant his every wish. However, these wishes usually backfire in some way and cause problems that Timmy has to fix, despite the well-meaning efforts of Cosmo and Wanda.

The reboot (titled The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder) is set several years later, with the fairy godparents now (attempting) to help Timmy’s younger cousin Vivian (Audrey Grace Marshall) and her new step-brother Roy (Tyler Wladis). Daran Norris and Susanne Blakeslee are reprising their voice roles as Cosmo and Wanda from the original series, in which they also voiced Timmy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Turner. Timmy also makes an appearance as an adult – he’ll be played by Caleb Pierce this time around.

However, Twitter users have been left confused and disappointed by the trailer. “Remember when I’ve always said that The Fairly OddParents died a slow and painful death?” tweeted one user. “Well now it’s come back with a vengeance and became a fucking zombie.”

“Didn’t we already prove that “live-action Fairly Oddparents” gets mixed results, thanks to the THREE Nickelodeon movies?” said another

“Please. I’m begging you @Nickelodeon PLEASE let this franchise die,” wrote someone else. “It should have been allowed to end decades ago. Either have the creators come up with something new or find new creators instead of just doing “The Fairly Oddparents” & “SpongeBob SquarePants” all the time.”

The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder starts streaming on Paramount Plus on March 31. For further viewing inspiration, check out our list of the best Netflix shows that you can stream right now. 

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The classic Looney Tunes character is usually seen in hot pursuit of the Road Runner, although he’s rarely successful in catching his nemesis. He is often aided in his attempts by devices mail-ordered from Acme Corporation, which never work exactly as they should and usually result in the coyote getting injured in a slapstick manner.

This new movie will see Wile E. Coyote take Acme to court with a down-on-his-luck human attorney taking on the case, only to discover that his boss from his former law firm is representing Acme. Cena will play the role of Acme lawyer. The script is based on The New Yorker humor article “Coyote v. Acme” by Ian Frazier, which was published in 1990 and the movie is described as part courtroom drama and part family comedy.

Dave Green, who previously helmed Earth to Echo and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, will direct the movie, while James Gunn is on board as a producer. Production is due to start next month. 

Cena was most recently seen in the HBO Max series Peacemaker (directed by Gunn), which stars his character from The Suicide Squad. The show was just renewed for season 2.

While we wait for Coyote vs Acme to speed onto the big screen, check out our list of the upcoming movies release dates that should be on your radar in 2022.

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However, Burnap isn’t set to play the prince or the huntsman – he’ll play a new, original character created for the movie. West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler is already on board as Snow White, while Gal Gadot will play her step-mother, the Evil Queen.

Disney’s original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in 1937 and it was the studio’s first animated feature film. This, in turn, was based on the 19th Century fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. 

The movie doesn’t have a release date yet, but it’s set to start filming in the UK this spring. Marc Webb is directing – he previously helmed (500) Days of Summer and The Amazing Spider-Man movies – while Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the duo behind the music in La La Land, The Greatest Showman, and Dear Evan Hansen, are writing a set of brand new songs for the movie. Marc Platt, who’s also working on the live-action Little Mermaid remake, is producing.

Burnap is best known for his stage roles and he won a Tony in 2021 for his performance in the Broadway play The Inheritance. He’s also set to appear in the Apple TV Plus series WeCrashed opposite Jared Leto and the Hulu series Under the Banner of Heaven with Andrew Garfield. 

While we wait for the live-action Snow White movie to arrive on the big screen, check out our list of the upcoming movie release dates that should be on your radar in 2022.

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According to The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab), Shinsuke Sato has come on board the adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi’s hit manga and, latterly, an anime that has taken the world by storm.

Sato has history adapting anime and manga for the big screen in Japan. He has previously directed Death Note: Light Up the New World and Bleach. Curiously, he was also involved in the development of Tekken 4. My Hero Academia, however, is set to be Sato’s first English language film.

My Hero Academia sees a boy named Izuku, born without a superpower (or ‘Quirk’) into a world teeming with heroes. But he doesn’t let a little thing like being powerless stop him – and begins training to become one of the world’s strongest heroes at a superhero academy. A gamut of heroes, villains, and superpowered mayhem inevitably follows.

But even the most ardent fan of My Hero Academia might be forgiven for forgetting that a live-action movie is in the works. It’s been in development since 2018 without a director attached, and it’s not yet known when the movie will be released, nor which parts of the source material it will be adapting.

Still, it’s a move that means there’s arguably never been a better time to be an anime fan. While the likes of Akira and Your Name’s live-action adaptations are in various states of limbo, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train’s surprise box office returns has kickstarted a new renaissance in the medium. It’s been bolstered by a 12 months that will see Attack on Titan’s final season return, Demon Slayer season 2 hit screens, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean heading to Netflix.

It’s not longer a quirk – anime is becoming mainstream. Let’s hope My Hero Academia follows suit on the big screen.

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Spoilers for Cruella follow. You have been warned!

So, yeah. Cruella’s adopted mother is killed by Dalmatians. Wild. Early in the movie during a flashback, we see the then-Estella witness her mother being pushed over a cliff and to an early grave by a rabid pack of dalmatians. We later learn it was orchestrated by Cruella’s real mother Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), which goes some way to explaining the origins behind Cruella’s distaste for the animals.

If some early conversations had been heeded, the scene could have been very different, as Gillespie explained to Polygon (opens in new tab): “There were executives that said, ‘Well, maybe they can scare her, and she can sort of stumble.’ I’m like, ‘No.’ That’s splitting hairs. It had to be this very aggressive moment. It’s one of those places where you’re going to lean in.”

And, thus, a meme was born – and sent Twitter abuzz. User SORROKI (opens in new tab) echoed the feelings of just about everyone when they said, “I’m so sorry but I thought it was a joke that Cruella’s mom was killed by dogs but it’s real and I can’t process that like WHAT.”

It may have seemed absurd to some but, in context, Gillespie felt the scene was warranted. “My editor and I talked about it a lot, the idea that it’s as shocking to the audience as it is to young Estella – the violence of that, and actually seeing what happens. I really wanted to lean into it in a gratifying way, and Disney never backed down from it once they saw it,” he said.

Cruella is not the end of Disney’s desire to remake and re-imagine its classic properties. The Little Mermaid is getting a live-action remake, while a Margot Robbie-led Pirates of the Caribbean spinoff is also on the way. Find out what else Mickey Mouse has in store for cinemas with our guide to new Disney movies.

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Bursting with punky visual style, the movie drops Emma Stone’s thieving orphaned urchin Estella into ’70s London’s stuffy high-fashion circles, scrabbling to swap toilet-cleaning in Liberty’s for creating outrageous Alexander McQueen-style ensembles. Before long, she’s taken on by Emma Thompson’s hilariously terrifying queen of couture, the Baroness. But Estella’s passion for fashion becomes a hunger for vengeance on discovering that the Baroness stole her precious family heirloom.

Director Craig Gillespie amps up the fun furiously here, having Stone let rip as ‘Cruella’, Estella’s arrogant alter ego. Now a monochrome-haired fashion prankster, she embarks on an Ocean’s 8-style caper to steal back the jewel from the Baroness’ charity ball. A fiery frock ignites; twisted secrets begin to unravel.

As he did in the pitch-black biopic I, Tonya, Gillespie adroitly solves the problem of his unlikeable heroine by pitting her against a downright monster. Stone makes Cruella an audacious and appealing thief, whose childhood trauma fuels her obsession, bolstered by her long-suffering grifting ‘family’ Horace and Jasper (slyly funny turns from Joel Fry and Paul Walter Hauser).

But Emma Thompson’s ruthless reptile of a baroness commits grand larceny by stealing every scene. Fuelled by scripter Tony McNamara’s deadpan dialogue, the stone-cold baddie deploys merciless cunning and killer wit as unstoppable weapons.

As Cruella’s fashion feud with the Baroness ramps up into wild public antics, the film’s eye-poppingly spectacular costumes (a giant skirt ‘trap’, a trick frock-train) reflect her riskiness, conjuring a Harley Quinn-like pseudo-villainess vibe.

But though it’s dark for a Disney, this edgy, dog-loving escapade (check out Winky the criminal chihuahua) is no junior Joker; older kids will love its dash and daring. True, like Cruella, it does take things a bit too far. It’s too long, and too in love with its twist-on-twist plot and myriad, Scorsesian musical montages, comprising crisply edited scams and stunts propelled by the Rolling Stones, The Stooges, and Blondie. But it’s hands-down Disney’s best and punchiest prequel yet, one whose playful perils make for a deliciously rowdy ride.

Cruella reaches cinemas and Disney Plus via Premiere Access on May 28. You can also read about the making of Cruella, including our interview with Emma Stone, here.

The Verdict

4

4 out of 5

Cruella review: “Emma Stone’s audacious performance makes this a deliciously rowdy ride”

The DeVil wears… her own killer creations, as two Oscar-winning Emmas battle it out in a high-fashion, high-energy, pup-packed prequel.

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Amazon has acquired worldwide rights to Kay Cannon’s upcoming movie that features Camila Cabello in the title role. The supporting cast is full of big names, including Billy Porter, Idina Menzel, Pierce Brosnan, Missy Elliott, John Mulaney, and James Corden. 

The movie is described as a musically driven take on the traditional rags to riches story –  Cinderella is an ambitious young woman whose dreams are bigger than the world will allow. With the help of her Fab G (Porter), her genderless fairy godparent, she musters the courage to make her dreams come true.

This is Cabello’s feature debut and her first major acting role – she also worked on the music for the movie along with Menzel and both artists have original songs on the soundtrack alongside contemporary pop music. 

Cinderella is Cannon’s follow-up to her directorial debut, the 2018 comedy Blockers. Prior to that, she wrote all three of the Pitch Perfect movies and produced the last two. On the small screen, she was a writer and producer on 30 Rock, New Girl, and Girlboss, which she also created. 

The movie was originally supposed to be released in theaters in July after Sony pushed it back from February. However, now that distribution is in Amazon’s hands, it’s unclear whether a summer release date is still on the cards – all we know so far is that it’s still coming at some point this year.

While we wait for Cinderella to arrive on the streamer, check out our list of the best movies on Amazon Prime that you can watch right now.

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The movie will be a hybrid of live-action and visual effects in the vein of the 2017 re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast, with Tom Hanks playing Geppetto and Luke Evans as the Coachman. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth will voice Pinocchio, while Keegan-Michael Key will provide the voice for Honest John and Lorraine Bracco will voice a new character, Sofia the Seagull. 

Gordon-Levitt recently starred in Aaron Sorkin’s legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, and his other acting credits include Batman flick The Dark Knight Rises and sci-fi thriller Looper. He’s done voice work before, too, including the English dub of Studio Ghibli animation The Wind Rises and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. 

Meanwhile, Erivo’s star has been on the rise since her feature film debut in Steve McQueen’s 2018 heist thriller Widows. In 2020, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet, and she stars in the upcoming sci-fi movie Chaos Walking alongside Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley. 

Directed by Forrest Gump helmer Robert Zemeckis, filming on the Pinocchio remake is due to start this month in the UK. The movie doesn’t have a release date yet, but it will premiere on Disney Plus. 

While we wait for the Pinocchio remake to arrive on the streamer, check out our list of the best movies on Disney Plus and the best Disney Plus deals.

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