Disney sees fractured fairy tale as next franchise
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The Walt Disney Co. is hoping a fractured fairy tale that swaps Manhattan for a magic kingdom, a divorce lawyer for a prince, and roaches and pigeons for wholesome forest creatures will turn into its newest film franchise.
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NEW YORK A Walt Disney executive says it&#39;s &quot;unlikely&quot; the company will strike a new distribution deal with Pixar Animation Studios.
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Walt Disney Co. said it will follow up on the success of its "High School Musical" made-for-TV movie and franchise, by releasing a big screen movie, "Haunted High School Musical" in 2008.
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The principal cast  members of Disney Channel's two "High School Musical" movies  will reunite for the first big-screen entry in the company's  lucrative franchise.
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M-I-C? See Disney act like recessionary Teflon.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Narnia" fans will have to wait an extra year to see the third film in the fantasy franchise because of a delay in the start of production.
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The Walt Disney Co. has started production on an animated musical fairy tale called "The Frog Princess," which will be set in New Orleans and feature the Walt Disney Studio's first black princess.
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Walt Disney Studios is actively proceeding with a second sequel to Pixar Animation's "Toy Story" franchise, a move that could make it more difficult for the two companies to extend their rocky relationship.
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The Walt Disney Company and its home video division, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, said yesterday that they would release films in the next-generation high-definition DVD format being developed
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Walt Disney teams up with a Bollywood film company to make animated films using the voices of Indian stars.
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Their movies are for kids, but Disney and Pixar are headed toward a parting of ways thatâs decidedly adult. When their partnership agreement dissolves in 2005, the aging House of Mouse
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LOS ANGELES  - Warner Bros. Pictures, whose "Harry Potter" series is past the halfway mark, may have found its next big all-ages franchise. The studio has come out on top of a bidding war for the rights to upcoming children's book series "Skulduggery Pleasant" by Irish author Derek Landy.
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That&#39;s the case with Disney (DIS:NYSE - news - research) CEO Michael Eisner, who reportedly plans to retire in Sept. 2006. The longtime and often embattled boss of the media company plans to step down when
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A movie about a rat in a kitchen may not appear to be the best hook for a high-end merchandising campaign, but Walt Disney Co. is using the upcoming film "Ratatouille" to expand its move into upscale branding.
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Walt Disney Co.  music label  Hollywood Records is offering a new CD format with extra  features to encourage compact-disc purchases in a bid to  reverse declining CD sales.
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Disney plans to publish Indian-language story books for the first time.
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Disney president says studio is pushing forward with sequels to popular animated films, Pixar or no. New York (CNN/Money) - The Walt Disney Company is pushing forward with plans to capitalize on the blowout