On this week’s Legion of Leia podcast, myself and co-host Anastasia Washington welcome Austin Basis (Beauty and the Beast, Supernatural, Curb Your Enthusiasm)! Austin is Kickstarting a pretty amazing project right now and I’m so psyched for you guys to check it out! The project is called The KINETIX, a comic book series about an...
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Take a Behind the Scenes Look at Frozen: The Broadway Musical Prepare yourselves to get the songs of Disney’s Frozen stuck in your head all over again. Frozen: The Broadway Musical is coming. When Beauty and the Beast was converted into a Broadway musical in 1994, there has been a beautiful marriage between our favorite Disney classics and...
Raise your hand if you’ve seen Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast multiple times leading up to this week’s home release. This is for you. Director Bill Condon’s sweeping adaptation continues to enchant as a new timeless classic that pays homage to the original animated ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in wonderful...
Considering the record breaking success opening weekend with Disney’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, you would think the thought of a potential sequel would be quickly thrust into the spotlight. Even more so since there are already sequels to the original animated film in place anyway. However, a sequel to the live-action...
Hi Legion of Leia friends!!! My name is Katherine (alias: Katie) and I’ve been fortunate enough to write for Legion of Leia for a while now! I am all about female empowerment which is, of course, a HUGE part of this site! So, here’s the fun, new thing I’m doing! My girl, Emily Paddock, and I have a podcast. Yup. You guessed it. Coffee with...
Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast is a fun and whimsical film that you can, if you allow yourself to, get completely lost in. Fans of the original animated classic will be happy upon realizing that not much has been changed about the tale. The majority of the storyline is almost taken verbatim from the original animated film and, in all...
A new generation will be discovering a tale as old as time with the new live-action Beauty and the Beast this week. In anticipation of the film’s release cast members including Emma Watson, Josh Gad, Luke Evans, Dan Stevens, and Audra McDonald took part in the Los Angeles press day to chat about what makes the film stand apart from...
Disney Really Wants to Remind You That Belle is an Empowered Woman We all knew Belle from 1991’s Beauty and the Beast was a smarty pants and that she aspired to be something greater than a doting wife to a conceited meat head. Admittedly, in the original animated film, we don’t really see what she becomes other than a bonafide...
LeFou will be Disney’s first-ever openly gay character Many of what we’ve seen from Disney’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast have stuck very close to its animated predecessor, but make no mistake there will be a few major changes. In an interview with British magazine Attitude, director Bill Condon reveals...
Today Walt Disney Studios released a new clip featuring the talented Josh Gad and Luke Evans singing the infamous “Gaston” song. For anyone who had any doubts that Josh Gad was not meant to play Lefou, this clip should put all doubts to rest. He nails the whole number and is just a joy to watch. The official synopsis is below: Beauty...