Disney’s Infinity video game, presented at a recent fan gathering, is viewed as a make-or-break effort to turn around the company’s gaming and Web division.
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Walt Disney Studios got more thumbs up than down from the crowd as it previewed projects like “Maleficent” and “Frozen,” the latter a likely Oscar contender.
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The ill-fated, computer-animated “Foodfight!” took multiple food-brand corporate mascots and made them characters.
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While working on a resolution, the China Film Group has held up payments to American studios for the distribution in China of blockbusters like “Skyfall.”
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Net income fell 36 percent in Disney’s fiscal third quarter, to $201 million, in part because of marketing expenses for the flop “Lone Ranger.”
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The five broadcast networks sold an estimated $9 billion worth of commercial time before the season starts, about the same or a little less than last year’s sales.
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A Breakingviews analysis suggests the studio’s value to the Magic Kingdom falls short of the $7.4 billion purchase price.
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Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who was elected head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, started her presidency talking to the producers of the Oscars.
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The team behind “Elysium,” starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, promises that it has taken an imaginative detour from the familiar blockbuster formula.
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Putting aside past acrimony, Harvey Weinstein, the prominent producer, will team with Disney to make a movie adaptation of the book series “Artemis Fowl.’’
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A Jewish group’s complaint against the magazine Der Landser has added to the debate over the balance between free speech and efforts in Germany to eradicate the neo-Nazi movement.
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The Real Tooth Fairies site raised the ire of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood for commercializing a rite of passage.
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The movie “2 Guns,” adapted from the comic books from Boom Studios, opens this week. Thanks to Boom’s “creator share” model, both the publisher and comic’s writer reap benefits.
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Netflix has given a good shaking to the settled world of television: it has provided its own series, streamed them over the Internet and made them available all at once everywhere.
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The statistician who writes the FiveThirtyEight blog for The New York Times is said to be moving that franchise to ESPN.
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Outlets like Nickelodeon, the Cartoon Network and Disney are well represented at the convention. But so too is R-rated entertainment — when pornographic or violent.
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To compete with Netflix, Hulu is expanding its original programming and creating an animated series.
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Apple’s steps to reimagine television, like teaming up with ESPN, stand in stark contrast to efforts by Google to compete with established companies.
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The move to bring back Keith Olbermann, a former co-anchor at ESPN, was the result of 14 months of intense discussion within the network and its parent, the Walt Disney Company.
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The company has begun talks with major media companies about licensing TV channels, according to people with knowledge of the meetings.
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