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A Zootopia-themed land based on Disney’s Oscar-winning animated film is coming to Shanghai Disneyland. Shanghai Disney Resort said the land will feature state-of-the-art technology and plenty of characters from the movie, including Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. Zootopia broke box office records in China, grossing more…

There is often much to admire about the tenacity to go tilting at windmills as today's almost total repeat attempt of an already once failed copyright suit against the Walt Disney Company over Oscar winner Zootopia charged anew into the docket. Now jousting in Los Angeles Superior Court after being dismissed in federal…

It’s a fox-eat-fox world out there, and Disney apparently has avoided becoming a meal. A California judge today threw out a big-money copyright lawsuit against its Oscar-winning toon Zootopia by the screenwriter of Total Recall, who had claimed that the studio ripped off his same-titled pitch. Gary L. Goldman’s…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Having taken the Oscar for Best Animated Feature this year and brought in more than $1 billion globally at the box office, Zootopia is now in a very different type of arena – the courts. And Disney is already fighting back. Total Recall screenwriter Gary L. Goldman’s company has hit The Walt Disney Co and a plethora…

"We are so grateful to the audiences all over the world that embraced this film with this story of tolerance being more powerful than fear of the other,"said Zootopia co-director Rich Moore onstage tonight to big applause as the Disney pic snagged the Best Animated Feature at tonight's Academy Awards. The remark by…

An Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor, with two feature directing credits to his name, Jason Bateman checked off another item on his career wish list this year, lending his voice to the critical and box office smash Zootopia—the first Disney animated film he has ever worked on. The actor brings his dry wit…

Has the Animated Feature race ever been more competitive? With the nomination ballots tallied, Walt Disney Animation Studios, LAIKA, GKIDS and Sony Pictures Classics will duke it out in phase two, each of them offering standout work ranging stylistically from the 3D formats that have ruled the day in recent years to…

Zootopia was the big winner tonight at this year's Annie Awards with six wins including a Best Animated Feature victory that seems to position the Disney pic for Oscar glory later this month. Coming into the 44th Annies with a leading 11 nominations, the film also won for Directing (Bryon Howard and Rich Moore) and a…

Despicable Me 2 co-stars Kristen Wiig and Steve Carell showed they had chemistry in their non-animated forms when presenting the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, which Disney’s Zootopia won in a crowded field. Wiig and Carell traded stories about memories of seeing their first animated movie, which then went in…

Zootopia won the Best Animated Picture for Disney as producers were competing with themselves in this category. The the filmmakers were also the creative talent behind fellow nominee Moana. From the minds of Jared Bush and Phil Johnston, in concert with a team of other writers, Disney’s Zootopia was a critical and…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. And now it is crunch time. Oscar nomination ballots went live yesterday and are due back a week from today on Friday the 13th. Hope that date doesn’t mean scary things for some contenders, but it is clear the campaigns are taking nothing for granted…