Disney took another step in the ongoing circle of life for The Lion King today, releasing the first full trailer of director Jon Favreau's remarkably realistic “live action” take on the great 1994 traditionally animated film.

“Life’s not fair, is it, my little friend?,” says that dastardly lion Scar, surely one of Disn…

As anticipation builds for this summer’s release of Jon Favreau’s CGI/live-action The Lion King, Disney dropped a new clip from the film at CinemaCon today. In the footage, a young and playful Simba hops on his sleeping parents, not so subtly trying to wake them and greet the morning.

Looking out on stunningly rendered…

While most Americans feasted and gave thanks on a holiday Thursday, the rest of the world was online and enjoying the first teaser trailer from the live action version of Disney’s The Lion King, propelling it to the studio’s biggest trailer bow ever.

The Lion King topped Disney, and became…

Mark A. Livolsi, a veteran film editor who worked such films as The Jungle Book, The Devil Wears Prada and Disney's upcoming live-action adaptation of The Lion King, has died. He was 56. Livolsi unexpectedly on September 23 at his Pasadena home. The cause was not revealed.

Nominated for four ACE Eddie Awards, his many …

Disney dropped a trailer-featurette combo of Tim Burton’s Dumbo in showing off its upcoming slate at CinemaCon today. The ornate period piece brings to mind such movies as The Greatest Showman, Burton’s circus tale Big Fish, and Disney’s Oz The Great and Powerful.

But they also had more: Before the session ended, the s…

Embarking on a storied creative partnership with Christopher Nolan over a decade ago, Hans Zimmer always shared with the director one particular desire: to compose a score that would fuse completely and irrevocably with the image.

"I think on this one, we’ve come as close as anybody ever has," Zimmer says regarding Dun…

Legendary musician Elton John has announced his retirement from touring. In a live event broadcast from New York City’s Gotham Hall this afternoon, the Rocket Man said he will kick off a three-year farewell tour beginning September 8 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour was mapped out over…

The lion roared, the witches flew, the school rocked and even the aging Opera Ghost deserved a Champagne toast. Broadway is more generous than Washington on Thanksgiving: Here, all the turkeys get reprieves along with the biggest hits. Nearly everyone comes up a winner as families and tourists pump the trade each year…

A week that saw Broadway’s slide continue – all the Brooklyn fans staying home, no doubt, to watch the Dodgers in the World Series – and nearly every show down from the previous week nevertheless had a few glimmers of good news. Steve Martin’s new comedy, Meteor Shower, with its four-member cast led by Amy Schumer…

Jon Favreau’s live-action adaptation of The Lion King has added a queen to the cast — Queen Bey to be specific. Beyonce Knowles-Carter has joined the cast in the adaptation of the Disney classic as Nala.

There have been rumblings that the multi-hyphenate superstar was going to star in the Disney project, but her role w…

Richard Madden, who played Robb Stark on HBO’s Game Of Thrones and also was the prince in Disney’s live-action Cinderella, is joining the cast of the Netflix movie Ibiza. He joins Gillian Jacobs, Phoebe Robinson and Vanessa Bayer in the comedy, which depicts a business trip to Spain that turns into a nightclubbing…

Disney just unveiled a bevy of release dates for its upcoming slate, not the least of which is Star Wars: Episode IX (in 3D) which will bow on May 24, in 2019. In addition, it removed the mystery around the untitled animation title previously announced on Nov. 27 in 2019. It will be the highly anticipated sequel to Fro…