By Drew Grant 11/16/12 4:06pm

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It Is a Small World After All: Barney’s Scales Down Window Display for Minnie Mouse

There’s been much to-do over the Barneys holiday windows that were unveiled this week. While last year’s amazing and somewhat controversial Lady Gaga collaboration pushed the envelope, this year, for some baffling reason, the retailer decided to partner with Disney.

Luis Fernandez, senior vice president of creative for Disney Consumer Products, had said that concept behind this collaboration made total sense from a retail perspective. “We thought, ‘A huge force in fashion and a huge force in animation,” he said in a recent interview. “What better than for these two companies to get together and do something for the holidays?’” Read More

By Drew Grant 7/13/12 11:26am

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James Franco Reveals Inner Huckster in Oz: The Great and Powerful (Video)


It’s great that Disney and Sam Raimi finally sorted things out with Warner Bros. (who hold the old MGM copyright to The Wizard of Oz) so that the prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful, could finally be released in theaters as it was meant to be seen.

If you weren’t aware, Warner Bros. claimed that the new film couldn’t make the Wicked Witch green, since that was something specific to their film, and not L. Frank Baum’s children’s books. So instead we get a Glinda-riffic Michelle Williams all in white, a fashionably red Mila Kunis, and a darkly chic Rachel Weisz (channeling Charlize Theron in Snow White and the Huntsman) as the hottest witchy witches since Idina Menzel took the stage as Elpheba in Wicked. Read More

By Rex Reed 4/04/12 10:03am

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Jordan, center, leads the Newsboy Strike. (Deen van Meer)

New Newsies Is Newsworthy: Watch All About It!

From their vast catalog of whimsical mermaids, flying nannies, royal lions, talking cars, sleeping beauties and singing teapots, the folks at Disney have plucked another gang of family-friendly folk heroes and landed them on Broadway, and if the performance I saw of Newsies the Musical is any evidence, the Disney marketing geniuses will make it a solid success. There wasn’t one available seat, not even in the men’s room, and the Nederlander Theatre was packed like a jar of maraschino cherries with school groups, parents, teachers and ticket buyers young and old, desperate for good old-fashioned entertainment. They left with sore throats and callouses on their hands from screaming so loud and applauding so long. They got their money’s worth, and so will you. Read More

By Laura Kusisto 4/14/11 4:44pm

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The End of the Conde Nast Building as We Know It?

For at least half the population, the mourning over the shuttered ESPN Zone was short and sweet. On, we hope, to better things, as the Durst Organization has put the 45,000-square-foot Times Square mega-space back on the market. 

Though ESPN’s testorone-fueled hub at the base of 4 Times Square shuttered last spring, Disney has been Read More

By Josh Wright 11/24/10 4:30pm

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Those Naughty, Naughty Disney Stars!

At her 18th birthday party the other night, the barely legal Miley Cyrus was caught in a compromising position with Avan Jogia, a fellow teen star (from a competing network, no less!). Of course, going bad has become something of a cliché for former Disney stars. Uncle Walt has a lot to answer for, Read More