Scooby-doo Animator Takamoto Dead At 81
9th January 2007
Iwao Takamoto, an animator who learned his craft at the Walt Disney studios after being released from the Manzanar internment...
Disney Gives Website A Makeover
9th January 2007
The Walt Disney Co. has unveiled a completely revamped website that emphasizes video and allows users to customize the look...
Pixar Rides Coming To Disney Theme Parks
5th January 2007
There was no mention of the much-rumored plan to turn Tom Sawyer's Island into a Pirates of the Caribbean Island,...
San Francisco Isp Shuts Down Website After Disney Complaint
5th January 2007
An Internet service provider in San Francisco has shut down a website that posted recorded excerpts by right-wing talk-show hosts...
Disney's Theme-park Biz Picks Up -- And How!
28th December 2006
The Walt Disney Co., which saw attendance at its theme parks plunge following the 9/11 attacks and only recently begin...
Disney Returning To 2-D Only, Says Report
19th December 2006
John Lasseter and Ed Catmull are planning to return the Walt Disney Co.'s studios in Burbank to its roots as...
Cartoons Make A Comeback
5th December 2006
Cartoon shorts, once a staple of movie shows (they gradually faded away following the advance of television in the 1950s),...
Disney Narrows Window For Pay-per-view
23rd November 2006
Confirming widespread rumors, the Walt Disney Co. said on Tuesday that it had reached an agreement with Comcast, the nation's...
Target And Disney Call Truce
20th November 2006
Target and the Walt Disney Co. have apparently reached a cease-fire agreement in their battle over DVD pricing. Target had...
Disney Rides Pirates' Wave
10th November 2006
That "dead man's chest" was packed with treasure for the Walt Disney Co., which said Thursday that its profit had...
Christmas Season Starts This Weekend At Box Office
3rd November 2006
The Walt Disney Co. is hoping that Santa Claus will be clambering down the box-office's chimney this weekend to find...
Disney To Sell Its Stake In E!
1st November 2006
The Walt Disney Co. will sell its 39.5-percent stake in E! Entertainment Channel to Comcast for $1.2 billion as part...
Disney Shows Support For Gibson
26th October 2006
The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that it believes that Mel Gibson's latest directorial effort, Apocalypto, will have broad audience...
Abc's Ugly Betty Gets Exposure On Soapnet
23rd October 2006
ABC has found a way to "repurpose" yet another one of its primetime shows. On Saturday, it aired a rerun...
Disney Finds Musical For Nemo
19th October 2006
The Walt Disney Co. has announced plans to turn another one of its animated film hits into a Broadway musical....
Disney To Become Picture Of Health
17th October 2006
The Walt Disney Co. on Monday announced a company-wide campaign to end promotions of unhealthful foods to kids and eliminate...
Mermaid Swims To The Top
12th October 2006
Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid, which was yanked from DVD shelves seven years ago to comply with Disney policy on...
Two More Studios To Make Films Available On Itunes?
11th October 2006
Two more studios are expected to join the Walt Disney Co. in selling movie downloads through Apple's iTunes store after...
Tom Sawyer's Eye Is On The Sparrow
11th October 2006
The Walt Disney Co.'s Disneyland theme park, which already has altered its Pirates of the Caribbean ride to include Captain...
Movie Reviews: School For Scoundrels
29th September 2006
Bob and Harvey Weinstein, who appeared to lose their legendary golden touch after they left Miramax, the company they founded,...
Fcc To Probe Kid-show Ads
28th September 2006
Responding to complaints that commercials on TV kids shows is contributing to a spreading epidemic of childhood obesity, the FCC...
Disney Testing New Theme-park Waters
21st September 2006
The Walt Disney Co. is planning to turn another one of its theme-park rides into a movie. Today's (Thursday) Hollywood...
Itunes Is Apple Of Iger's I
20th September 2006
To use Variety's term, the first week of Apple's iTunes movie business produced "boffo" results for the Walt Disney Co.,...
Moonves Says Abc Was "Partially Misled" By 9/11 Producers
13th September 2006
CBS Corp. Chairman Les Moonves added his voice to the controversy over rival ABC's miniseries The Path to 9/11. Speaking...
Mobile Espn To Offer College Football On Cell Phones
31st August 2006
The Walt Disney Company's Mobile ESPN network plans to offer subscribers up to 25 college football games per month beginning...
Feel-good Sports Movie Scores Touchdown
28th August 2006
The Walt Disney Co., whose formula for turning out successful inspirational sports movies ranks right up there with its formula...
Disney Will Distribute Gibson's Movie After All
14th August 2006
The Walt Disney Co. said Friday that it plans to fulfill its obligation to distribute Mel Gibson's Apocalypto and denied...
Disney Confirms Apocalypto Distribution
12th August 2006
Hollywood studio WALT DISNEY has confirmed it will distribute MEL GIBSON's upcoming movie APOCALYPTO, despite the controversy raging around the...
Disney Makes A Comeback
10th August 2006
The Walt Disney Co. beat analysts' expectations by a wide margin as it reported that its third-quarter net income jumped...
Forget The Witch, Fox Takes The Lion And Wardrobe
9th August 2006
Escalating the battle for the family audience, Fox Filmed Entertainment has lured Walden Media, the production company responsible for The...
