Decisions impacting the long-term health and vitality of the media and advertising business are being impacted by executives who have little at stake beyond short-term financial goals.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green
WALL-E's anti-consumer, anti-corporate message is undermined by the regrettable array of cheap, mass-produced WALL-E tchotchkes destined for the garbage heap.
Orlando Sentinel | Scott Powers and Jason Garcia | Posted 07.04.2008 | Business
Walt Disney World employees won't be packing any heat in the company parking lots anytime soon. The giant resort has declared that much of its sprawl...
Alex Remington | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment
After billions of dollars of box office revenues and over a decade of unbroken blockbusters, Pixar might just be making the world a better place.
Gawker | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment
CLICK THROUGH TO LISTEN Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has always resented the fact that peers made more money than him with what he deemed to be infer...
Matt Budd | Posted 07.01.2008 | Entertainment
It's the music along with the amazing Pixar animation that makes you want to connect to this little trash compacter. Maybe this tells us a little something about the power of music and nostalgia.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.30.2008 | Entertainment
It strikes me as no accident that the best film I've seen all year is WALL-E, created by a cadre of fiercely independent filmmakers at a studio that values independence.
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.18.2008 | Entertainment
You know a movie is special when people in opposite camps of a polarizing issue claim it speaks for them. That's what has happened with 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
Ken Levine | Posted 06.16.2008 | Entertainment
I have always loved Disneyland. I'm not ashamed to say it. Even as a five year-old curmudgeon I marveled at the imagination, scope, and vision of this wondrous (albeit highly profitable) world.
Daniel Holloway | Posted 06.09.2008 | Entertainment
Disney's plans for hand-drawn animation are unclear, with only one project currently announced: The Princess and the Frog, a musical set in New Orleans that is scheduled to premiere in December 2009.
Posted 06.06.2008 | Entertainment
The star of Disney's latest hit, Wizards of Waverly Place, Selena Gomez, revealed to "Extra" that she plans to abstain from sex until marriage. The 1...
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
Think of it as the Big Bang of Video.
Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business
By playing its aggressive game with Yahoo, Microsoft has dominated the dialogue, and has painted the Yahoo brand as an overvalued poser and an insincere tease.
Al Norman | Posted 05.18.2008 | Home
Developers Forced To Pay For Their Empty Boxes By Al Norman At any point in time, some of the biggest names in American retailing have left hundre...
Fortune | John Simmons | Posted 05.06.2008 | Business
Summer's almost here. So, when it comes to looking at the strength of the Walt Disney Company, it's natural to zero in on the media conglomerate's dom...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media
Cyrusgate could just be a massive publicity stunt. There's nothing like a controversy to drive sales. But, I don't think anyone in marketing at Vanity Fair is that smart. So what is this really about?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.28.2008 | Entertainment
This is a major wake-up call to American parents. I have to ask, where are Miley's parents in all this? Have they not seen what happened to Britney Spears?
AP | Posted 04.28.2008 | Business
Mickey and Minnie Mouse were on hand Friday when Michael Eisner got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Eisner gained fame in Hollywood as presiden...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 04.26.2008 | Media
While media in the Muslim and Arab worlds have opposed the war in Iraq and in other Muslim countries, their reports and editorial lines can hardly be viewed as monolithic.
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business
LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Co. expects to collect $1 billion in revenue from online content this fiscal year, a significant rise from estimat...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.07.2008 | Media
Disney is going to raid the TV archives, a move that may allow viewers to watch 50s-era series like "Zorro" and "Davy Crockett" via ad-supported strea...
New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.06.2008 | Media
A half-dozen media companies have signaled that they plan to bid for the Weather Channel, which is up for auction, people involved in the talks said W...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.04.2008 | Business
In December 2007, entertainment powerhouses Activision and Vivendi announced a merger that would put them atop the heap in the video game business. T...
New York TImes | Brooks Barnes | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
When Michael D. Eisner left the Walt Disney Company in 2005 and set about remaking himself in new media, investing in a video-sharing Web site and sta...
Variety | Michael Schneider | Posted 03.03.2008 | Media
ABC is finally getting a piece of Disney's "High School Musical" franchise. Net is developing a multiepisode reality competish themed to the "High Sc...
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BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
A chimp in Japan escaped the sweltering confines of his cage, and a zookeeper with a tranquilizer gun...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Jack Myers | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media