Just one week after touting its strength to advertisers and declaring it wasn't worried about new competition from Fox Sports, ESPN is cutting its staff.    

It's a well-known fact that Walt Disney World is the most magical place on earth. From the Magic Kingdom to Epcot, the Orlando, Fla. theme park was planned in exquisite detail by both Walt Disney and his creative designers — "The Imagineers." B

LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Reuters) - Disney said on Monday it will produce a new "Star Wars" animated series to air on television in the fall 2014, giving fans of the science-fiction franchise fresh stories before the next live-action film hits theaters i

Lucasfilm announced a new animated "Star Wars" series coming to television. "Star Wars Rebels" will premiere fall 2014 on Disney XD and take place in between "Star Wars" Episodes III and IV. We knew that Disney was working on a new TV series, but th

In the media business, more than in most others, relevance and success goes hand in hand with scale. Three giants in particular, Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) , Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), and News Corp. (Nasdaq: NWSA), offer very interesting investment prosp

Given the more generous subsidies offered in other states and countries, major studios including NBCUniversal, Paramount and Disney all have large-scale, long-term expansion plans.    

"Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." gets the green light.

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The family entertainment giant raises the bar on television streaming.

Some stuff you just can’t make up.

Disney's Iron Man 3 was expected to have earned a total of $1 billion this week.

In Disney and Pixar's "Brave" the main character Merida doesn't care that she's a princess.  She hates wearing dresses and doing her hair. Instead, she much rather be scaling mountains, riding horses, and shooting bow and arrows.  And unlik

After "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Iron Man," this new film could very easily be Disney's next big thing.

May 16 (Reuters) - Walt Disney's ESPN sports juggernaut said it signed an 11-year contract to exclusively show all rounds of the U.S. Open tennis tournament on its channels in North and South America, giving it coverage of the sport's four major tour

J.J. Abrams will prove to be out of this world at reinventing two galaxies.

S&P 500 snaps 4-session winning streak; Disney, Wal-Mart hit Dow

For those who have never been to Atlantis on Paradise Island, the sprawling megaresort can be daunting. Like Disney World, there is nothing quite like it anywhere in the world. And like DisneyWorld, Atlantis has the power to strike fear in the h

J.J. Abrams stopped by "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to discuss his new film, "Star Trek Into Darkness." Of course, Abrams is also directing Disney's new "Star Wars" film, too.  While we don't know much about the film set for a 2015 release, Abrams told

Ever wondered what Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" would be like if acted by animated cats instead of Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan? Guyism has done a mash-up of the 2013 film and the animated Disney classic "The Aristocats" —&nbs

Sunday, ABC revealed its first 30 second promo for new fall show, "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."   Now, an extended 2:30 promo has been released.  The series will be a spinoff of Disney's hit "Avengers" film with Clark Gregg reprising his ro

Walt Disney's ABC is thinking outside the four-cornered, single-screen box.

It’s a smaller world for some of us than for others, apparently. The New York Post reports that the latest “must have” for wealthy parents,...

Disney's ABC will consolidate its flagging dance-competition show "Dancing with the Stars" into a single night next season, opening up Tuesdays for the launch of a new slate of shows.

No, it's not a "Modern Seinfeld" episode.    

No, it's not a "Modern Seinfeld" episode.    

A handful of rich Manhattan mothers are hiring disabled people to pose as family members so their children can jump to the front of the lines at Disney World, The New York Post reports today. The paper points its finger at Dream Tours, a company that

Last night, J.J. Abrams appeared on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" to discuss his film "Star Trek Into Darkness" out this week in theaters. Abrams will also be directing Disney's next "Star Wars" film in 2015, and Stewart is a fan of both. The con

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Like its six predecessors, Star Wars: Episode VII will be filmed in the United Kingdom, Lucasfilm announced today. “We’ve devoted serious time and attention to revisiting the origins of Star Wars as inspiration for our process o

Last weekend, we reported that Disney (NYSE: DIS) had to be doing the collective happy dance after Iron Man 3, the third installment in the Iron Man franchise brought in an impressive $175 million do

Harsh critics didn't have any effect on "The Great Gatsby."  The Baz Luhrmann directed film had a massive opening weekend.  Though it didn't beat out Disney's powerhouse "Iron Man 3" in its second box-office weekend, the adaptation of F. Sc

By Ronald Grover LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Disney's ABC network will become the first broadcast network to stream its shows live online through an ongoing...

LOS ANGELES, May 12 (Reuters) - Disney's ABC network willbecome the first broadcast network to stream its shows liveonline through an ongoing service, starting with viewers of itsTV stations in New York and Philadelphia on May 14 and expandingto its

LOS ANGELES, May 12 (Reuters) - Disney's ABC network will become the first broadcast network to stream its shows live online through an ongoing service, starting with viewers of its TV stations in New York and Philadelphia on May 14 and expanding to

LOS ANGELES, May 12 (Reuters) - Disney's ABC network will become the first broadcast network to stream its shows live online through an ongoing service, starting with viewers of its TV stations in New York and Philadelphia on May 14 and expanding to

Marvel subsidiary reclaims rights to Ghost Rider, Blade.

True to form for the network, many of the shows are aimed at women, and two have ties to ABC’s parent, the Walt Disney Company.    

LOS ANGELES, May 10 (Reuters) - Filming of the new "StarWars" movie will take place in England, returning the franchiseto its British roots, Disney's Lucasfilm said on Friday.

LOS ANGELES, May 10 (Reuters) - Filming of the new "Star Wars" movie will take place in England, returning the franchise to its British roots, Disney's Lucasfilm said on Friday.

Walt Disney World's unofficial "Gay Days" tradition is coming under fire from a conservative and notoriously anti-gay group. One Million Moms, a division of the...

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Walt Disney Co.'sESPN sports network has held talks with at least one major wireless carrier to subsidize the costs to mobile users who stream ESPN content, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing unnamed source

Disney just announced "Big Hero 6" will be its first animated film from Marvel studios. The action comedy is based on the Marvel comic of the same name following Hiro Hamada in the fictional city of San Fransokyo a hybrid of San Francisco and Tokyo.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When Lalo Alcaraz saw a tweet this week that Disney was seeking to trademark "Dia de los Muertos," the name of the...

(Reuters) - Netflix Inc's U.S. streaming video service added five children's shows from Walt Disney Co's Disney Junior and Disney XD cable networks under a...

Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) and The Disney/ABC Television Group (NYSE: DIS)today announced a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflixthe exclusive U.S.

* Disney profit beats expectations, Whole Foods raises outlook

* Disney profit beats expectations, Whole Foods raises outlook

* Disney profit beats expectations, Whole Foods raises outlook