Adam Epstein

This article includes spoilers from various films and TV series with characters who start coughing and soon die.

Update (8:20pm ET): Disney has decided to close the theme parks at Disney World and Disneyland Paris through the end of March, the company announced. Hotels and retail stores at both sites will remain open. Earlier on March 12, it said it would also close Disneyland. All five of its main international resorts are now closed to the public. The original story about the challenge facing Disney’s parks business amidst the coronavirus pandemic appears below.

The last time sporting events were disrupted this widely, the world was at war.

Perhaps no industry is being damaged as quickly—or as widely—by the rapid spread of Covid-19 as entertainment.

As misinformation about the coronavirus spreads as quickly as the epidemic itself, Shen Yun now wants you to know that it actually has nothing to do with China.

Bob Iger stepped down as CEO of Disney yesterday, ending one of the most successful leadership runs in modern history. He was replaced by Bob Chapek, the former head of Disney parks.

Bob Iger, who led Disney for 15 years during a period of enormous growth, is stepping down as CEO effective immediately, the company announced today. He will be succeeded by Bob Chapek, the most recent head of Disney’s theme parks.

Love, Victor, an upcoming spinoff TV series of the queer-themed 2018 teen movie Love, Simon, will move from the Disney+ streaming service to Hulu, Disney announced yesterday.

Thanks to streaming, it’s a great time to be a former 1990s sitcom star.

Following its historic Oscar win, Parasite is now winning at the US box office.

What if movies were taller and thinner?

The same blockbuster franchises from a handful of media empires suck up most of the oxygen in Hollywood. But there’s still plenty of originality if you know where to look. A24 is a good place to start.

What’s lost in the battle between Netflix and Disney+ is that most Americans are still spending much of their free time watching old-fashioned TV instead.

The very first project under Netflix’s partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama won an Oscar.

For one night, at least, Hollywood celebrated another part of the world.

The Oscars are already here—a month earlier than last year.

Quick: What do Citizen Kane, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Taxi Driver have in common?

Baby Yoda is even more popular than we thought.

At the end of the Broadway musical Hamilton, the characters reflect on their legacies, wondering who will tell their stories when they’re gone. The answer, of course, is the Walt Disney Company.

Quibi has three months to teach consumers what it is—and why they should buy it—before its launch.

We tend to take the Super Bowl for granted.

As many Americans ditch their traditional TV plans for streaming services, one thing hasn’t changed: The NFL is still an extraordinarily popular television product.

China has shut down virtually all of its movie theaters and canceled the releases of several blockbuster movies amid the outbreak of coronavirus that has now killed 81 people in the country and sickened more than 3,000 others worldwide.

This story includes essential plot details from the recent film Color Out of Space.