Disney found itself at the center of another controversy this week after fans took to social media to complain that a Halloween costume based on one of the studio’s upcoming animated films appropriates Polynesian culture and is “basically full-body brownface for kids.”
Walt Disney World is planning on giving park-goers free insect repellent as soon as Sunday due to the increased threat the Zika virus poses to Florida. Universal Orlando and SeaWorld are following suit.
A man visiting from India has been arrested and accused of fondling half-a-dozen teenage girls at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando, Florida, officials say.
Pacific Islanders are upset over Disney’s portly depiction of demigod Maui in the studio’s upcoming animated film Moana.
Disney princesses and other fictional film and television characters that boast unrealistically skinny body types can negatively impact young girls’ self-esteem and body confidence, a study claims.
A forgetful blue tang fish vanquished the universe’s most menacing aliens at the box office as Hollywood’s disappointing summer continues.
Disney released the trailer for its much-anticipated animated film Moana last week.
“Blending a U.S. business with the beauty and rich cultural heritage of China, this resort captures the promise of our bilateral relationship,” Obama said in a letter to Walt Disney Chairman Bob Iger that was read aloud at the opening of the $5.5 billion Shanghai Disney resort.
Disney/Pixar’s upcoming film Finding Dory features a transgender stingray who transitions to become “Sting-Rhonda,” the film’s star Ellen DeGeneres revealed in an interview.
Executives at Disney have reportedly ordered four weeks of re-shoots on the upcoming Star Wars film Rogue One, with an anonymous source close to the situation claiming the studio is not satisfied with director Gareth Edwards’ first cut of the film.
Beauty and the Beast fans got their first look this week at Disney’s live-action remake set for next year, even if it was just a brief teaser.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike are lambasting Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert McDonald for playing down the fatal impact of the wait times at VA medical centers by comparing them to lines at Disneyland.
President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs expressed “regret” for comparing VA hospital wait times to the lines at Disneyland — 30 hours after making the comments during a breakfast with reporters in Washington D.C.
Disney is finally done with gaming, and given the trail of shuttered studios it left in its wake, that’s probably just fine.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald does not think that measuring the number of days it takes for a veteran to receive a medical appointment is a valid assessment of success for the Obama administration’s VA.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts discriminated against children with autism and their families by depriving them of “full enjoyment” of the company’s theme parks, a Florida civil rights commission ruled this week.
State legislators from across America are fighting back against the LGBT agenda and their activist’s retaliation against states over religious liberty legislation. Forty Texas state legislators joined with over one-hundred legislators nationally in writing to business leaders who are threatening action against states who have passed such bills.
Disney insisted on a female lightsaber wielding character in “The Force Awakens,” according to a spokesperson, as part of an effort to add more female characters to the Star Wars universe.
A bizarre editorial in China’s PLA Daily newspaper accuses Disney’s animated film Zootopia of being subtle propaganda for American values and Western strategies for world dominance. The film’s role reversal of natural predators and prey, where the bad guy is
On Saturday, the Washington Post opined that North Carolina lawmakers have rushed “to bigotry” in passing a new non-discrimination law.
More than two dozen entertainment industry leaders — including Anne Hathaway, Rob Reiner, Lee Daniels, Aaron Sorkin and Seth MacFarlane — have joined in threatening to never work in the state of Georgia again if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto a religious freedom bill that passed the state Legislature last week.
Disney and its Marvel Studios subsidiary have threatened to boycott the state of Georgia if Gov. Nathan Deal does not veto a religious freedom bill that passed the state legislature last week.
Freeform network, formerly known as ABC Family, is developing a drama series that follows a transgender student’s fight to use the girl’s bathroom at school.
MIAMI, FL– Ahead of Florida’s Tuesday primary, new attention is being paid to Rubio’s personal and financial scandals.
At Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison City Stadium, two of Marco Rubio’s own constituents–former Disney workers Leo Perrero and Dena Moore–detailed on camera and to the entire crowd why they are endorsing Donald Trump for President.
MADISON, Alabama — At Donald Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison City Stadium, Sen. Marco Rubio’s own constituents—two displaced Disney workers—publicly denounced Rubio for prioritizing the interests of his big business donors over the interests of his own constituents. The two
Disney offered fans a sneak peek at the live-action remake of 1977’s Pete’s Dragon this week.
A Disney IT worker who was laid off and replaced by foreign workers along with hundreds of his colleagues, broke down in tears before a Senate panel Thursday while telling his story.
Political commentator, author, and former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton Dick Morris has a warning for Republican Party elites who are buoying Marco Rubio’s campaign.
When Disney’s “Girl Meets World” actress Rowan Blanchard interviewed Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards for Paper Magazine, the 14-year-old star called the woman running America’s largest abortion provider her “role model.”
ABC entertainment president Paul Lee resigned Wednesday after reportedly losing a power struggle with Disney-ABC Television Group chairman Ben Sherwood. The network’s top drama development chief Channing Dungey has been named as his successor. Dungey becomes the first black female
Microsoft Corp. will be providing the technology to count the votes of Iowa caucus-goers, according to a new report.
Conservative commentator and best-selling author Michelle Malkin slammed Fox News on Twitter for the network’s decision to allow someone who entered the country illegally to participate as a questioner in tomorrow night’s Republican presidential debate. Malkin tweeted: “FoxNews debate questioner Dulce Candy
Young Disney Channel star Rowan Blanchard opened up about her sexuality over the weekend, publicly revealing in a series of Twitter posts that she identifies as queer.
Disney’s Maker Studios has decided to bankroll the Internet’s favorite guy-who-screams-into-a-microphone, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg.
In an interview with Charlie Rose last weekend, George Lucas used the word “breakup” to describe how he felt about being left out of the process in creating the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise, “The Force Awakens,” and likened Disney’s acquisition of the brand to “white slavers” taking his children.
Not every reviewer walked away feeling impressed with J.J. Abrams’ first Star Wars film. The reviewer for the Vatican’s daily newspaper felt the villains in George Lucas’ earlier films were better.
A Facebook group of hardcore “Star Wars” fans has threatened to unleash a “spoiler jihad” campaign against Disney by ruining the plot of the new “Force Awakens” film if their demands are not met.
Quentin Tarantino joined Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show Wednesday morning for a good old-fashioned venting session, where the director complained that Disney muscled his film “The Hateful Eight” out of Los Angeles’ Cinerama Dome theater in order to screen the new “Star Wars” there instead.
The superfans that run Star Wars Action News, a podcast devoted to Star Wars toys and memorabilia collecting, fell afoul of their Lucasfilm idols by purchasing and posting to Facebook a picture of an action figure which shouldn’t have been released for sale yet.
