Walt Disney News

An adorable talking dog remained just the sort of escapist movie hero audiences wanted after a week of awful economic news.

The Walt Disney Company announced a grant of $1.5 million to TreePeople, a non-profit organization, to help reforest fire-ravaged areas in the mountains surrounding greater Los Angeles.

The new terrorism thriller "Body of Lies" failed to take the top spot at the weekend box office in North America, an apparent victim of moviegoers' preference for escapist fare amid global financial turmoil.

Talk about your captive audience. Advertising is coming to the dentist's chair in the form of video goggles that patients wear while getting their cleaning or root canal.

DUBAI: Global theme park operators are eyeing a slice of the entertainment pie within the Iskandar Malaysia growth region.

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Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro climbed on stage at a small theater in Manhattan to introduce a discussion on the changes online video has been experiencing.

Talk about your captive audience. Advertising is coming to the dentist's chair in the form of personal video goggles that patients wear while getting their cleaning or root canal.

Canine comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was top dog at the North American box offices, digging up $29 million in ticket sales in its first weekend in theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

Entertainment media companies' shares slumped Monday after the House defeated a government bailout package for the troubled financial sector, amid fears of a knock-on effect on the wider economy.

Since leaving the Walt Disney Co. in 2005, Michael Eisner has been all about the Internet.

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday announced its plans to independently produce four live action films.

The recommendation, approved 11-2, now goes to the guild's national board for review, and would ultimately need approval of 75 percent of the some 120,000 voting guild members.

LOS ANGELES : Five Hollywood studios have agreed to help pay for a $1 billion-plus rollout of digital technology on about 20,000 movie screens in North America, a precursor to showing movies in 3-D. Digital ...

Hollywood's Screen Actors Guild Monday asked the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to resume contract negotiations.

In this Feb. 25, 2007 file photo, composer Philip Glass arrives for the 79th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

I used to think that trying to understand and explain the city of Billings' budget was a hopeless endeavor.

Downtown Disney, the Florida home of Pleasure Island, is being reworked or 'reimagined,' as Disney calls it.

In a gala adorned with Hollywood stars, The Walt Disney Co. wowed an industry crowd Wednesday in a showcase of its upcoming films that included a sequel to its 1982 sci-fi flick "Tron" and a "Lone Ranger" ...

Celebrity guests include TIM ALLEN, ANNETTE BENING, WARREN BEATTY, NIA VARDALOS, JOHN CORBETT, BILL PULLMAN, DB SWEENEY, KRISTEN BELL, ED MARINARO, MONTY HALL and DAVID L. LANDER.