Disney approached Kevin Hart about playing the Genie in Guy Ritchie’s upcoming Aladdin remake, but have since moved on to other stars. Following from the billion-dollar-scooping success of Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s remake enterprise wherein its animated classic are beefed out for live-action continues apace. Development on Mulan, Dumbo and The Lion King is hotting up, although the furthest ahead would appear to be Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin, which is currently casting ahead of a Summer 2017 shoot....

Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People which follows the Brown family are creating their own ‘fully self-contained village’ which has been the patriarch’s dream for over fifty years. The Browns originally raised their children in the wild of the Alaskan bush for over thirty years but were forced to vacate their land due to Ami’s cancer battle. The family all moved together to the Pacific Northwest of Washington State where they built a new Browntown....

Alita: Battle Angel is a mesmerizing feat of filmmaking - and stunning in 3D - that struggles under the weight of adapting such rich source material. A film adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s manga, Battle Angel Alita, has been in development for quite some time. The cyberpunk manga was published between 1990-1995 and earned a number of devoted fans - including James Cameron, a director who found great success in the 80s and 90s bringing sci-fi and tentpole projects to life on the big screen....

American Express credit cards have supported Apple Pay since the iOS device-based mobile payment service launched nearly a year ago, and today AmEx announced that it has turned on support for corporate cards in the United States. Previously, American Express cards in the US were limited to consumer cards and OPEN Small Business cards. Apple CEO Tim Cook first shared that the expansion was coming during last month’s quarterly conference call with analysts....

If you’ve ever been frustrated by having to recomplete levels in Angry Birds or The Croods when you download the game to a new device, Rovio has you covered. After a limited trial back in May, Rovio has now announced that its account-synchronisation feature is being rolled-out globally across both iOS and Android devices. When you download a game to a new device, you just login with your Rovio account to continue right where you left off....

Keep up with the best gear and deals on the web by signing up for the 9to5Toys Newsletter. Also, be sure to check us out on: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and Safari push notifications. TODAY’S CAN’T MISS DEALS: Last Call Updates: Best of Black Friday 2016 – Top 10 Tech Picks: Samsung 50″ 4K UHDTV $398, ecobee3 Thermostat $200, iPad Air 2 $274, more The new Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones hit $200 shipped in this doorbuster deal Best Buy Early Access Black Friday Sale: Nest Thermostat $200, Apple deals, Samsung 28-inch 4K Monitor $250, more Grab the WD My Passport Ultra 1TB Portable Hard Drive for $48 + 3TB Toshiba portable for $80 shipped Best Buy is offering $125 off iPad mini 4 Wi-Fi as it gears up for the holiday shopping season: 32GB $275, more Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro w/o Touch Bar is being discounted by up to $200 (tax in NY only) Best of Black Friday – Apple: iPad Pro 9....

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Amid a tumultuous day for U.S. stocks, AAPL ended down 7.9%, but it wasn’t the only big tech company to sink. As detailed by CNBC, big tech companies lost over $320 billion in value today, coinciding with the worst day for broader market since 2008. As we explained this morning, the market slump is driven by two factors: coronavirus concerns and oil prices. For Apple specifically, the ongoing coronavirus situation is a major concern for investors....

Before you begin to insert links into your documents, it is important to understand how to create links that point to internal and external pages. There are basically two ways to address these links. You are going to either reference these links by absolute or relative paths. Absolute Paths Absolute paths are easy to use and understand. These links refer to a very specific location, including the domain name. The absolute path to another location is referred to as the URL....

The Ad Astra cast consists of several top-tier actors and actresses, and they’ve come together to bring a new space movie to theaters. The Lost City of Z’s James Gray directed the 2019 science fiction drama, and co-wrote the screenplay with Ethan Gross. Ad Astra’s central storyline involves a pivotal space journey to Mars. When sonic blasts hit Earth, the government enlists Major Roy McBride for an intergalactic research mission to locate his missing father, astronaut pioneer Clifford McBride....

WARNING: The following contains SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Ahsoka Tano’s much-anticipated big screen debut finally happens in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Directed by J.J. Abrams, Episode IX is the final film in the Skywalker saga, serving as the culmination of everything that has transpired in the space opera. Abrams was tasked with tying all narratives and characters linked to the overall story of the Jedi and the Sith - including the fan-favorite Jedi Ahsoka Tano, from animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars....

In today’s iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3 updates, Apple has removed AirPlay 2 support from both platforms, hinting that the feature will be delayed until further down the road, possibly coming with a future iOS 12 release. Lack of AirPlay 2 also indicates that HomePod will not be getting multi-room or stereo pairing when iOS 11.3 ships to the public, which some have hoped for. This also means that multi-room will no longer be available on Apple TV as well as the feature was also removed in the tvOS 11....

Following the disastrous reveal of Will Smith’s Genie, new Aladdin fan art swaps in the late Robin Williams as Disney’s live-action wish-granter. As a company, Disney will probably always be best known for its rich legacy of classic animated films. Some of the most beloved of those efforts came out of the 1990s, including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and of course, 1992’s Aladdin. In recent years, Disney has been trying to make its old properties new again by creating live-action remakes of its animated hits....

Alan Tudyk returns to Disney Animation films voicing the role of Knowsmore in Ralph Breaks the Internet. This is not only Tudyk’s sixth time voicing a character in a Disney animated feature, but he also returns to the Wreck-It-Ralph franchise as he previously played King Candy. Screen Rant: We just saw a nice presentation today and we saw some of the special features for the film, producer Clark Spencer called you “Disney’s lucky charm....

Layers Of Fear has three possible endings for players to unlock, so here’s how to get them all. First-person horror games have become a popular subgenre in recent years, with 2014 bringing both Alien: Isolation and P.T. The former was a direct sequel to the original Alien, with Ripley’s grown daughter Amanda trapped on a decaying space station with a relentless, unkillable Xenomorph. Isolation perfectly captured the atmosphere of the movie and proven to be one of the most terrifying games of recent years....

Everyone has their own favorite season of American Horror Story, and, for many, that series is American Horror Story: Apocalypse, which was the eighth season of the hit horror show and saw several tie-ins from previous seasons all blend into one. This season was very popular because it saw some of American Horror Story’s greatest ever characters make their return for one-off special cameos, answering a lot of questions about previous seasons that were left unanswered by that particular story....

Actor Evan Peters will not be part of American Horror Story season 9. In February, Emma Roberts and olympian Gus Kenworthy were officially cast for American Horror Story season 9. Until now, Peters had appeared in every season of American Horror Story. The American actor first portrayed Tate Langdon in American Horror Story: Murder House, co-starring alongside Connie Britton, Dylan McDermott, Taissa Farmiga, and Jessica Lange. Most recently, Peters portrayed four characters, including the aforementioned Tate Langdon, in American Horror Story: Apocalypse - a crossover of the first two seasons....

Though the two shows couldn’t be more different, Ryan Murphy may have learned a valuable lesson from the decline of his hit musical dramedy, Glee, which he then adopted to ensure longevity for his horror anthology series, American Horror Story. Glee premiered on May 19, 2009 on the FOX network, and ran for six seasons. Its series finale aired on May 22, 2012, a little under a year after American Horror Story premiered on FX....

The security implications of Android affect many millions of people worldwide who use their devices for personal reasons. But also, more and more corporations and governments are either offering their employees corporately administrated Android devices, allowing Android devices into their networks via BYOD (bring your own device), or some combination of both. So, using Android insecurely can also devastate corporations and governments- costing them millions or even billions. I wrote an introductory article on Android security which covers the basics regarding malware, privacy, password security, and physical security....

Agenda for iPhone, iPad, and Mac is a date-focused notes/productivity app and it has received some new features today in the latest update. Headlining the changes is support for tables, inline styles, and horizontal rules. Agenda 12.0 is out today for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. If you haven’t checked the app out before, it is an Apple Design Award winner and uses a date-focused approach to give you a full picture of the past, present, and future....