Disney announces an impressive slate of built-in box office movies from Pixar, Marvel

WALT DISNEY died nearly 50 years ago, but the company that bears his name is doing very well, thankyouverymuch.

Since Disney releases so many tentpole movies from so many different franchises, the Mouse House likes to plan ahead. Yesterday it announced dates for a number of new movies through 2020.

Highlights, according to the Hollywood Reporter, include "Cars 3" (June 16, 2017) and "The Incredibles 2" (June 21, 2019), both from Pixar. "Toy Story 4," which originally had the 2017 date, is being pushed back to June 15, 2018. Pixar also will open "Coco" on Nov. 22, 2017, and Disney Animation has "Gigantic" set for March 6, 2018.

On the Marvel side of Disney, "Ant-Man and the Wasp," will sting theaters July 6, 2018. "Black Panther" will move from that date to Feb. 16, 2018. "Captain Marvel" will be pushed from Nov. 2, 2018, to March 8, 2019, and that will be followed two months later by "Avengers: Infinity - Part II." Three more Marvel titles will hit theaters in 2020.

Previous Marvel films announced were "Captain America: Civil War," May 6, 2016; "Doctor Strange," Nov. 4, 2016; "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," May 5, 2017; "Untitled Spider-Man," July 28, 2017; "Thor: Ragnarok," Nov. 3, 2017; "Avengers: Infinity War - Part 1," May 4, 2018; and "Inhumans," July 12, 2019.

The studio also expects to release a quartet of live-action fairy-tale movies from 2017 through 2019, and they also have offshoots coming from a little franchise called "Star Wars."

Save your money. Or just put a little aside each week for Disney.

Like it's your 401(k).

Selena Gomez has revealed that she's battling the debilitating immune system disorder lupus.

"I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy," the 23-year-old singer told Billboard magazine, in an interview published yesterday.

Selena acted in "Wizards of Waverly Place" before becoming a pop star. She says she was treated in late 2013 and early 2014 after she canceled the Asian and Australian legs of her Stars Dance tour.

Lupus causes fibrous tissue and inflammation of internal organs, skin rashes and joint pain. It affects women nine times more than men. Organs affected by lupus include the kidneys, heart and lungs.

Selena recently announced her 2016 "Revival" tour with, of course, a mostly nude, strategically positioned pose. Tickets go on sale via ticketmaster.com a week from tomorrow. So far there is no Philly date scheduled (just Newark, N.J., and Washington, D.C.).

Per Variety, SAG-AFTRA video-game voice actors have authorized the union's national board to call a strike.

They did so in a deep, ominous baritone.

A stunningly high 96.5 percent of those voting backed a work stoppage. But in this stoppage, the workers stop talking.

The contract in question covers work performed for Activision, Electronic Arts, Disney, Warner Bros. and other employers of video-game voice actors.

One of the sticking points remains bonuses for voice actors on games that sell over 2 million, 4 million, 6 million and 8 million units.

It seems that if the game maker makes a fortune, the actors would like some of that fortune to trickle down. The job creators, alas, have taken issue with the bonuses because, darn it, only they should get bonuses: SAG-AFTRA said that Activision's COO received a bonus last year of $3,970,862, and Electronic Arts paid its executive chairman a bonus of $1.5 million.

* Country singer Scotty McCreery, who won "American Idol," is writing his first book.

McCreery, who will be 22 today, says his autobiography, Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream, will be released May 3, 2016, through Zondervan.

The book will chronicle his life as a kid in North Carolina who imitated Elvis Presley to winning Season 10 of "American Idol" at age 17.

* As for a book by a writer, the end is near for Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy, his foray into crime fiction.

King's End of Watch will be published next June, Scribner announced yesterday. The novel is the third, after Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers, to feature retired police detective Bill Hodges. End of Watch will feature another recurring character, Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield, and his extraordinary powers even as he lies in a vegetative state.

According to Scribner, End of Watch will bring the series to a "sublimely terrifying conclusion."

* People mag reports that Justin Bieber dissed Ronda Rousey's 16-year-old sister when Ronda asked him to take a picture with sis at the Cannes Film Festival.

Bieber's lucky. His refusal of the MMA star could have led to a sublimely terrifying conclusion.

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