Drew Taylor is a senior film reporter at TheWrap, writing broadly across topics including blockbuster films, production, animation and with a side passion for Hollywood’s theme parks. Before joining the site in 2021, Drew was a film journalist with a keen interest in animation and Disney history. Drew has been covering film, television and theme parks for 15 years, writing for the New York Times, the New York Daily News, Time Out New York, Collider, The Playlist, Polygon, Vulture, Box Office Magazine, AOL Travel and Syfy.
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Toluca Lake, California
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Drew received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Literary Studies from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School in New York, New York.
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How Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Skirted Controversy and Spiritually Transformed Disneyland
The attraction once known as Splash Mountain, based on the problematic “Song of the South,” has a new lease on life
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Shout! Studios to Release Early Jet Li Classics Including ‘Fist of Legend’ and ‘Tai Chi Master’
The titles will come to digital in 4K on Feb. 18
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Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ Hotel to Be Converted to Offices for Future Walt Disney World Projects | Exclusive
The shuttered project will not be open to guests anytime soon
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Sundance Breakout ‘Train Dreams’ Acquired by Netflix
The film stars Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones
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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Is Grisly and Lush in First Footage of Jacob Elordi’s Monster
The Oscar winner’s monster mash comes out this November
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Netflix Debuts First ‘Stranger Things 5’ Footage: ‘It’s Like 8 Blockbuster Movies’
Series creator Ross Duffer said, “It’s our biggest and most ambitious season yet”
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Netflix’s Big Fall: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Knives Out 3’ and New Kathryn Bigelow Film Get Release Dates
Plus: learn when you can finally see Tom Hardy wreak “Havoc”
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Universal’s Fan Nights Events to Feature ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Star Trek’
An extension of the popular HHN, the nighttime event begins on April 25 and runs through May 18 at Universal Studios Hollywood
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‘Moana 2’ Deleted Scene Reveals Monsters Inside a Giant Clam | Exclusive Video
Director David Derrick Jr. walks us through a moment that nearly made it into the blockbuster sequel
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‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’ Dr. Seuss Adaptation From ‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu Gets 2028 Release
Chu will direct alongside Jill Culton on the Bad Robot/Dr. Seuss Enterprises feature
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‘Oh, Hi!’ Review: Charming Logan Lerman/Molly Gordon Rom-Com Subverts Indie Movie Clichés
Sundance 2025: A romantic weekend at a cabin in the woods takes a turn in writer/director Sophie Brooks’ sophomore feature
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Cynthia Erivo on Her Big ‘Wicked’ Moment, ‘Completely Different’ Sequel and Desire to Reprise Holly Gibney
Sundance 2025: “I feel like I’ve arrived in the way I’ve I meant to in this moment,” the newly minted Oscar nominee tells TheWrap
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‘Pee-wee as Himself’ Review: A Profoundly Moving and Damnably Incomplete Portrait of Paul Reubens
Sundance 2025: The HBO documentary is strange and affecting as the Pee-wee performer talks openly about his sexuality and complicated past
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How ‘Presence’ Writer David Koepp Reinvented the Haunted House Movie From the Perspective of the Ghost
It’s the writer’s second collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh, and two more are on the way
