In a weird turn of events, the first animated Marvel film from Disney seems to be not just an obvious cash grab but also — and tellingly — part of a plan to continue evolving the artistry of a legendary studio. And there's something nostalgic about the way Big Hero 6 is being embraced. Take a first look.
The first trailer for Thor: The Dark World begins the post-Avengers attack on the box office with character driven sequels bent on becoming legitimate franchises of their own. And yet, now that Man of Steel looks great again, it's hard not to wonder what the future for Marvel holds.
Disney is bringing the franchise to a theater near you — again and again and again and again.
Today in show business news: Judge Judy has just signed a new long-term deal, Disney is doing some layoffs, and new details about Captain America's next movie.
Today we know all too much about former Mickey Mouse Club stars like Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, and Ryan Gosling, but the original Mousekeeter turned teen star was Annette Funicello, who has died at the age of 70 after a close relationship with Walt Disney himself defined her career.
Hulu owners have an offer on the table from a real person offering real money to purchase the streaming television service, but the price tag is significantly lower than the last time the company was for sale.
Another day, another old Star Wars actor semi-confirming that the original trio is indeed coming back for the next installment.
Disney just announced a very fun-sounding new project that will resurrect the 2D Mickey Mouse you knew and loved as a kid as well as that unmistakably vintage Disney look in a new cartoon series.
Critics might not think Oz the Great and Powerful is, well, all that great or powerful, but the movie is selling so many tickets for its opening weekend, that Disney, seeing green, is already making plans for a sequel.
We now know, straight from the top, that the original leads of Star Wars are "negotiating" to come back for Disney's rebranding. Except, well, George Lucas isn't on top anymore.
Twitter is ablaze with word of Toy Story 4 coming to the big screen, but the "news" seemed a little computer-generated to begin with — and here's why.
Beyond the Yoda talk, one of Disney's new spin-off projects will apparently be a Han Solo origin story. There will be a Boba Fett adventure movie, too, but — what? A new Han Solo movie? Relax, there's hope. (A new hope, if you will.)
Today in viral videos: Lance Armstrong "sings" the song "Creep," an Oscar-nominated Disney short film that's almost as good as the beginning of Up, and 60 years of pop music's valiant attempt to woo men.
Today in show business news: Disney has changed the name of a buzzed-about upcoming project, Allison Janney gets a potentially big new TV job, and Paul Giamatti is a new Spider-Man villain.
We already know that Star Wars is coming back to the big screen, but the franchise might also be coming to ABC, a subsidiary of the new LucasFilm owners at Disney.
A big, juicy new deal with Disney means that Netflix will be the first and only place to show its new releases — a privilege generally reserved for places like HBO, Starz, and Showtime.
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Disney bought a majority share of LucasFilm today, announcing plans for a new Star Wars movie as soon as 2015. One of our commenters thinks he already knows what they'll call it.
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There's a funny and sad—mostly funny, well, mostly sad—video going around the Web Monday of kids reacting to the ending of Disney's The Odd Life of Timothy Green that reminded us of our own "Bambi's Mom" moments—the time pop culture taught us some hard lessons.
Hulu is contemplating some changes to its service, according to what has been described as a "death memo" that will "completely screw up Hulu" obtained by Variety's Andrew Wallenstein.
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We've been busy gossiping about Kim Jong-Un's new lady friend, who may or may not still have a husband and child, but we've also quietly wondering how Disney would respond to Kim using, like, all of their characters for a stage show. The answer: they're thrilled.
Among Kim Jong Un's priorities as North Korean leader are establish the nation as an intercontinental nuclear threat and organize a stage show featuring his favorite unauthorized Disney characters. He's succeeding in at least one.
Pixar's new movie, Brave, is out Friday, and it features the first girl lead the studio has ever had in 17 years of existence. Her name is Merida, she is Scottish, and she is a princess.
Today: Disney has made a lot but not *that* much, Justin Timberlake scores a film, and so does Rupert Everett.
Disneyland is raising its admission prices to a staggering $87 for a simple one-day, one-park pass.
Rich Ross, once lord-of-the-tweens at Disney Channel with hits like Hannah Montana and High School Musical was, alas, not so successful in his role at Disney Studios; he resigned on Friday after Disney lost epic amounts of money on the film John Carter.
Many of the country’s biggest media companies — which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations — are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.
The social media sphere continued to spin this week as spring set in. National Amusements topped the charts, bumping Disney down to number two. Whereas the rest of the top 10 stayed stagnant, there was a lot of movement in the teens, with NBC Universal and WWE both winning the biggest mover status.
Today: Rupert Murdoch gets the movie treatment, Disney resurrects an amphibian, and Charlie Sheen is, well, winning.
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week: Disney ruled the rankings while Intel figured out that you really, really liked talking about yourself.
Disney's new action-adventure sci-fi epic John Carter opened this weekend to a staggeringly low $30 million, earning it certified flop status. So what happened? What did they do wrong? Well, a few things.
Apple named Arthur Levinson, a current board member, as its new board chairman, and it also added Disney CEO Bob Iger to the board to fill the seat left by Steve Jobs.
Ever since Eddie Murphy stepped down as Oscars host following Brett Ratner's departure as producer, the Internet has spoken clearly on who it wants the replacement host to be: the Muppets!
Everybody wins in Disney's new partnership with Google's YouTube to produce original content — everybody except the cable companies, of course.
After a 10 year reign, which included a Pixar acquisition, he'll step into a chairman position
Also in movie news: Francis Ford Coppola's 3D vampire movie has a European distributor
One writer's lessons from smoking while touring the theme park: "Be ready to book it"
After weeks of ridicule, Disney has withdrawn its trademark application
It only took two days after Bin Laden's death for them to file an application
Too bad his new one sounds like 'Rubicon'
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