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Disney’s D23 Expo, the company’s biennial celebration of corporate consolidation, is in full swing down in Anaheim, and unlike last month at Comic-Con there’s some actual Simpsons news!
- The upcoming sequel to 2007’s The Simpsons Movie finally has a title: The New Simpsons Movie. I like it and I’m relieved I no longer have to awkwardly write around it.
- During the Disney Entertainment Showcase, they screened an early animatic of a scene from the movie where Homer and much of Springfield chase after a baseball.
- On the show floor, they brought back the hedges from 2024. I’d like to think they overpaid for them and now they have to keep bringing them back to justify the cost. Laughing Place has some photos of the pavillion.
- During a Simpsons panel, Matt Groening may have accidentally revealed The Simpsons: Hit and Run will be re-released “in some form,” which showrunner Matt Selman tried to cover by saying “…or not.” When asked about a potential collaboration with Universal Studios’s Halloween Horror Nights (“Disney loves that question,” quipped Groening), Selman responded “I can’t announce it officially, but I am going to say it out loud: that we are going to begin the process of Treehouse of Horror-ing the Universal experience, probably first with food and experience later.”
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