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EXCLUSIVE: Multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor, producer and director David Oyelowo and his wife, actress, writer and producer Jessica Oyelowo, have signed a two-year first-look deal with Walt Disney Pictures for feature length films across all platforms at the studio. The Oyelowos will produce…

Reacting to a tumultuous 2020 and looking to establish a corporate structure suited to the transformations to come, the Walt Disney Co. has unveiled a major streamlining of its media and entertainment businesses. Under the new structure, the focus will be on developing and producing original content for the company's s…

EXCLUSIVE: The Walt Disney Studios has set Oscar winner Barry Jenkins to direct the studio’s follow-up to the 2019 blockbuster The Lion King. Jeff Nathanson, who scripted the last installment, is back in the fold and has completed an initial draft of script. Jenkins won the Oscar for scripting the Best Picture winner M…

Disney, which has had the No. 1 movie over the last two weekends with Pixar’s Onward, as the coronavirus crisis has gripped the nation and shut down movie theaters nationwide, has announced it won’t be reporting numbers going forward. While many will say, “Well, duh” given how 4,933 domestic theaters are closed…

Walt Disney Pictures has moved up the release of DreamWorks’ feature adaptation of Japanese manga comic Ghost In The Shell from Easter weekend — April 14, 2017 — to March 31, 2017. The pic will be released in 3D. The film, directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Scarlett Johansson will go up against Sony’s untitled Sm…

2ND UPDATE, MONDAY, 2:20 PM: Disney’s eye-candy version of Cinderella opened to $2.3M less than estimated yesterday with a final box office tally of $67.8M. However the princess movie went over initial tracking estimates going into the weekend. You can’t beat Disney’s marketing prowess. Second to none but come on…

This weekend, Walt Disney Pictures is looking to charm every mother and tot daughter, not just Stateside, but across the globe with its live-action adaptation of Cinderella. With the U.S. box office in a slump over the last two weeks amid a dearth of fresh PG and PG-13 fare, exhibitors’ cash registers are expected to…

Disney dropped a trailer for its 2015 Pixar film Inside Out, but before you get excited, close to 90% of the minute 14 second running time is a “best of” sizzle reel of such faves as Toy Story, Up, Monsters, etc. before the pic’s set-up kicks in.  Inside Out follows the emotions — Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness…

Chosen from thousands of auditions, 10-year old Neel Sethi will be playing the part of Mowgli in Jon Favreau‘s version of Disney‘s The Jungle Book. Sethi was discovered after an extensive search ranging from New York to New Zealand, London to Canada, and India.  It’s Sethi’s first time up on the bigscreen and he’ll be…

A seasoned assistant film editor has filed a complaint of harassment, gender discrimination and wrongful termination against Walt Disney Pictures and Muppets movie editor James Thomas. "Defendants retaliated against Plaintiff, created a hostile work environment and treated Plaintiff differently because she was an…

EXCLUSIVE: A former Senior Financial Analyst at Walt Disney Pictures today launched a class action suit against the company over overtime pay and Labor Code violations. However, this lawsuit (read it here), filed in LA Superior Court this afternoon, could all be over very soon according to one of the plaintiffs…

EXCLUSIVE: Walt Disney Pictures has set up a remake of the 1984 film The Flamingo Kid, and it will be produced by Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment and Michael Phillips' Lighthouse Productions. Nzingha Stewart, who has directed videos by Jay-Z and 50 Cent and whose film credits include For Colored Girls, has been set…