Hasta La Creative!

Mr. Thomas was ubiquitous in Hollywood, covering its stars and moguls from 1944 to 2010 for The Associated Press, and writing a number of biographies about them, as well.

Writers based in the United States will team up with Chinese writers and filmmakers to develop stories and scripts that incorporate Chinese themes in Disney movies, the studio said.

Walt Disney Animation won its first animated-feature Oscar on Sunday for “Frozen,” and with it a new lease on life after a difficult transition to computer-aided filmmaking.

An effort to grab viewers’ attention and send them to the movie theater may have worked a little too well for Comcast, Viacom and Disney.

The Disney Movies Anywhere online service will link to consumers’ iTunes accounts and is intended to encourage digital movie sales, rather than rentals.

Bolthouse Farms, which produces things like juices and smoothies, has developed a playful website to promote nutritious food.

If there is a rivalry between the two, it is by many measures a mismatch. But that hasn’t stopped the salivation at the story line: Netflix, the Silicon Valley interloper, taking on HBO, the establishment player.

The campaign presents nine athletes from various groups, and asked viewers to decide how to distribute $500,000 among the groups in increments of $10 a click.

NBCUniversal announced it extended the contract of Donna Langley, chairwoman of Universal Pictures, through 2017 and handed her oversight of worldwide marketing and overseas production.

The console game that lets players mix and match Disney characters has sold 3 million starter packs worldwide, the company said.