The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney after Walt lost the rights to his first co-creation with animator Ub Iwerks, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, to Universal. From ...

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From weak theatrical intent to cultural controversy, Disney animation faces major challenges even as it experiments with fresh formats and new IP. Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register ...

The Walt Disney Company set the gold standard for animated storytelling and, over the years, has created iconic films that blend fantasy and the human heart in ways that feel intimately timeless.

As Disney’s Zootopia 2 enjoys a massive box office debut, director and writer Jared Bush is already looking toward the future of Walt Disney Animation Studios, and his recent comments have sparked ...

Conor McShane has been writing about movies and TV in one form or another for 15 years, since starting his first Wordpress blog in 2009. During his 10 years living in Chicago, he wrote theatre reviews ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...