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Encanto won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature on Sunday, beating out Flee, The Mitchells vs. the Machines and two other Disney animated features Luca and Raya and the Last Dragon. It was Jared Bush and Yvett Merino’s first Oscar nomination and win, as well as the second win and third nomination for both Byron Howard…

Today, Walt Disney Studios' Chief Creative Officer and Co-Chairman Alan Horn and Co-Chairman Alan Bergman announced that Walt Disney Animation Studios President Andrew Millstein has been named Co-President of Blue Sky Studios. The news comes as the Burbank studio continues to bring the assets of Fox under its domain…

In the history of Disney Animation, the studio has only made two sequels: 1990’s The Rescuers Down Under and Fantasia 2000. So what provoked Wreck-It Ralph producer Clark Spencer and his team to pursue a sequel to that 2012 film? Why, the last line of the film: “If that little kid likes me, how bad could I be?” “It’s…

Walt Disney Animation Studios used the Wall Street Journal’s technology conference to talk about how animators portrayed the internet in the film Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 and build some Silicon Valley buzz for its Nov. 21 opening. Producer Clark Spencer said the internet provided an intriguing…

Both the films Walt Disney Studios brought to Deadline’s The Contenders LA promote social change, albeit in extremely different ways. Groundbreaking superhero epic Black Panther put the African experience at the forefront of a mainstream Marvel film, reaching a worldwide audience and scoring a phenomenal $1.3 billion…

Oscar nominated, respectively, for their work on Bolt and Wreck-It Ralph, directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore have triumphantly returned to the forefront of the awards conversation this year with Zootopia. Taking the Best Animated Feature prize at the Critics' Choice Awards and a Golden Globe nomination the…

During a year when the leading Republican presidential candidate won the head office off an inflammatory rhetoric and a groundswell of bigoted hate group support, along comes a Disney movie that promotes equality and battles fear-based sentiment. Animated films take years to make, so how did the filmmakers behind Zooto…

Osnat Shurer knows good fortune when it strikes. At Deadline’s Contenders event today, the producer of the highly-anticipated animated musical Moana talked about how the project landed Broadway’s hottest name in years: Lin-Manuel Miranda. "Talk bout lucky, right?" Shurer said about Miranda, who cowrote some of the…