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After being closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Disneyland Resort in California is set to open once again. Disney has announced that both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure will open their gates to visitors on April 30 at reduced capacity. Meanwhile, Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa is planning to reopen one day earlier on April 29.

With the parks opening come some new restrictions, though. As mentioned above, attendance capacity for Disney’s California parks will be limited. To gain access, guests must both purchase admission to the park and make a reservation through a new system. Due to state guidelines, only citizens of California will be able to access reservations. Details about how the reservation system will work have not been announced and it is not known if park hopping between the two parks will be available.

For now, Disney is bringing back over 10,000 employees as the parks prepare to open. When guests return, those who visit will notice some changes made over the course of the last year. The most noticeable difference is the reimagined Snow White ride in Fantasyland. Per a press release from Disneyland Resort, the new Snow White’s Enchanted Wish “comes alive in dazzling new scenes, including a dancing figure of Snow White joining the dwarfs in their cottage as the scent of a baking pie wafts through the air. Vibrant new shadow projections show the dwarfs as they march off to the mine happily singing ‘Heigh Ho,’ and the new lighting, glittering jewels and shimmering effects make the mine sparkle. Guests then travel through the Queen’s den to see a new library of spell books, glowing potions and bubbling flasks, toward the famous magic mirror. In the end, Snow White and her Prince ride joyfully into a golden sunset to live happily ever after.”

Additionally, Disney still plans to open Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure later in the year. The land was originally meant to launch in July 2020, before the parks closed.

One thing that will be missing when the parks open again are events that draw large crowds, like parades and fireworks shows. Disney says those will return at some point in the future. Character meet and greets, however, will take place in a physically distanced manner. Much like Disney and Universal are doing with their characters at their respective Florida parks, guests will be able to wave to and take selfies with characters from a distance.

If you don’t envision yourself going to Disney’s theme parks anytime in the near future, soon enough they may be coming to you. It was previously reported that a new Disney+ TV series is in the works based on the characters and locations inside Disney’s parks, so at the very least that might tide you over until you feel comfortable going back–though that universe of shows is still a ways off.

Collabs between cosmetics companies and pop culture franchises are becoming a regular occurrence these days; in the past year alone, we’ve seen some stunning makeup collections inspired by Sailor Moon, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and even Baby Yoda. The latest beauty collab comes from Ulta and celebrates the recent Disney+ hit WandaVision with a line of eyeshadows, blushes, lip glosses, gel liners, and more. An official collaboration with Marvel Studios, the WandaVision x Ulta collection features red-themed packaging and focuses on makeup inspired by the various decades WandaVision takes place in, starting with the ’50s and continuing through the ’90s and beyond. The product names are also inspired by the Marvel show, such as “Hexed,” “Distortion,” and “Please Stand By.”

This is quite a large collection, with 15 different products up for purchase on Ulta’s website, and there’s something for pretty much every type of makeup wearer, whether you like dramatic eye looks, lots of glitter, or natural shades. Notably, the WandaVision collection includes an “eyeshadow vault” that comes with three six-shade palettes. The ’50s/’60s palette features matte, dusty cool tone shades, while the ’70s palette includes bronze tones with pops of shimmery purple. Finally, the ’80s/’90s palette has bolder shades ranging from blue to pink and silver. You can get the entire WandaVision Eyeshadow Vault for $20.

As a fan of colorful eye looks, I love this 4-piece gel eyeliner kit that’s inspired by the bright, bold looks of the ’80s: Frequency (black), Static (pink), Haywire (purple), and Distortion (blue). The wing-tip liner duo also lets you more easily achieve a striking cat-eye look. For those who like to shimmer, this liquid eye shadow looks absolutely stunning, and for those who like a dramatic look, there’s even a three-piece lash set to let you capture Wanda’s look from the ’60s.

Finally, I have to shout out my favorite product in the collection, which isn’t makeup at all: a bright red cosmetics bag with a gold zipper and pattern inspired by the WandaVision logo. There’s even a gold logo that references Wanda’s Halloween costume, making this bag an awesome get for makeup-wearing fans of the show. The WandaVision cosmetics bag sells for $16 and would be perfect for storing your makeup at home or taking it on the go. And if you’ve been needing new brushes lately, you could pick up this matching five-piece brush set that comes with its own small red bag (which could fit inside of the larger one). Each brush has a gold handle with a tiny WandaVision logo on it.

You can see the entire WandaVision makeup line exclusively at Ulta. Plus, check out our breakdown of the WandaVision finale, our favorite theories, and why critics of WandaVision are missing the point.

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A sequel to Ridley Scott’s 2000 historical epic Gladiator could happen, and now one of the original movie’s stars, Connie Nielsen, has commented on how production is coming along. She told Collider that Scott plans to make the movie … eventually.

“I know that it’s on the ledger, so let’s just see when Ridley–I know he had to do one or two other movies, and then I think it’s on the ledger after that, but I’m not quite sure where it’s at right now,” she said.

As Nielsen said here, Scott has kept very busy. He recently wrapped production on the period drama The Last Duel starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, while he is currently filming the Gucci murder movie with Lady Gaga and Adam Driver. After that, he’s lined up for a Gladiator reunion of sorts with the Napoleon Bonaparte movie starring Joaquin Phoenix in the title role.

In addition to Gladiator 2, Scott is attached to potentially direct a new version of Queen & Country, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Gladiator won five Oscars, including Best Picture. Russell Crowe won Best Actor for his performance, while the film also took home awards for Best Costume Design, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects. It was nominated for seven additional Academy Awards as well.

The last we heard was that Peter Craig (The Town, Top Gun: Maverick) was writing the script for Gladiator 2 that would follow Lucius, the son of Nielsen’s Lucilla and the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus. Whether or not the script has changed over the years is unknown.

Nielsen said it would be “amazing” to play Lucilla again in Gladiator 2. “I know that a lot of people want to see more of that,” she said.

The mysterious nature of the recent Marvel show WandaVision provoked lots of fan theories and rumors. One of these was that Doctor Strange might make an appearance in the final episode. He didn’t, but now actor Benedict Cumberbatch has commented on these rumors.

Cumberbatch appeared on The Tonight Show, where host Jimmy Fallon asked Cumberbatch if had anything to say to fans about the issue. Amusingly, Fallon was careful not to specifically say whether Cumberbatch had appeared or not, something the actor played along with in his reply.

“If it didn’t happen, then I am sorry about that,” he said. “If it did, hell, what a lot to look forward to! But if it didn’t, um, I don’t know why.”

The main reason that fans expected a cameo from Stephen Strange was because the events of WandaVision will feed into the upcoming movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which is currently shooting in London. Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Wanda Maximoff, will appear in that movie, and in the Fallon interview, Cumberbatch described it as “a very exciting next step for Wanda.”

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is directed by Sam Raimi, who helmed the 2000s Spider-Man movies as well as the Evil Dead series. Cumberbatch was recently asked about working with Raimi, and described him as an “an incredible force, especially in this genre. But he’s so humble, he’s so nice, he’s so appreciative, you really wanna serve him.”

In related news, it has been reported that Cumberbatch will star in the World War II drama War Magician, in which he plays a real-world illusionist who used magic to beat the Nazis. It’ll be directed by Jurassic World’s Colin Trevorrow.

Comedian and actor Ali Wong (Always Be My Maybe, Tuca & Bertie) and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) are co-executive producing a new series, according to Deadline. What’s not yet clear is whether Wong and Yeun will also co-star, but that would be a safe–though still unconfirmed–guess as of this writing.

The untitled series is a dramedy spanning 10 episodes, each 30 minutes in length, and is also being created and showrun by Lee Sung Jin. It’s being billed as a limited series, and Jin’s resume suggests whatever this show actually is, it should be promising and pretty interesting: Jin is co-executive producer on the polarizing but surprisingly vulnerable FXX comedy Dave about a white rapper and has also worked on HBO’s Silicon Valley, FX’s Singularity, and Amazon’s Undone. As if those aren’t enough credits to convey Jin’s prolific nature and great track record, he’s also working on the Showtime pilot Omniverse with Kanye West, Jaden Smith, and Scooter Braun.

The series is being developed with A24, a production company Yeun just worked with on the immigrant drama Minari. Through Minari, Yeun recently made trailblazing Oscars history as the first ever Asian-American Best Actor nominee. More details are likely forthcoming soon, as Deadline is indicating the show is as of only last week being pitched around to different streaming services

This series will also be the first live-action show for Yeun since his character Glenn Rhee was (spoilers ahead) killed off on the long-running series The Walking Dead; it was a role that largely helped Yeun become a household name. On March 26, the actor will star as Mark Grayson in Amazon Prime’s Invincible, another series based on a comic by Robert Kirkman.

A Joe Exotic documentary from prolific documentarian Louis Theroux is in development. The BBC has announced that Theroux will produce a feature-length documentary on Joseph Maldonado-Passage AKA Joe Exotic that has the tentative title Louis Theroux: The Cult of Joe Exotic.

Theroux met Exotic 10 years ago when he was making a documentary called Most Dangerous Pets. “Heading back to Oklahoma, Theroux will explore what has happened since, with the big cat man now residing in a federal prison, having been found guilty of a murder-for-hire plot and multiple animal cruelty charges,” reads a line from the description (via THR).

Theroux said the story of Joe Exotic is “one of those quintessentially American stories,” featuring a cast of characters that are almost too larger-than-life to be real.

“I spent eight or nine days filming at the park back in 2011, over the course of three separate visits. I’d forgotten how much we shot until I went back into the footage during lockdown,” the filmmaker said. “It’s extraordinary how much was there. Since then the story just got stranger and bigger, and in going back at the end of last year I uncovered a real-life drama that took me in directions I never could have expected.”

The BBC’s new documentary doesn’t have a release date yet. It’s one of many new projects focused on Joe Exotic in the works–another one for Amazon has Nicolas Cage playing Exotic. In another production, SNL’s Kate McKinnon will play Carole Baskin.

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