Say this for Disney: It may have merchandised its animated characters into oblivion, but it's been extremely cautious with the films in which those characters appear. The Warner Brothers cartoon ...

Like Justin Timberlake and Brittney Spears after her, Annette Funicello rose to prominence as a singer and actress on the back of The Mickey Mouse Club in the late 1950’s. The Club’s daily television ...

EXCLUSIVE: Before he created Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney was an animator and businessman who spent a decade shrugging off failure in order to build the studio that would turn him into an icon. The indie ...

This review originally ran March 19, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at SXSW. It is easy, perhaps, to take Mickey Mouse for granted, both as an icon and a character. His image, as ...

Those of my generation grew up in the sense the second of three waves in a long-held reign over animated filmmaking by Disney. The beloved and well-known classics like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and ...

If you didn’t enjoy the Disney Company’s make-believe version of Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks, fret not, an independent company has now produced their own fantasy Walt biopic: Walt before Mickey.

Walt Disney gets all the credit for creating Mickey Mouse, but it was actually his best friend Ub Iwerks who first brought the iconic character to life in 1928. Kansas City takes a lot of pride in ...

Mickey Mouse's creation was not as straightforward as popularly believed, as it involved previous characters like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and the Perform-O Toys' Micky. Walt Disney's initial sketch of ...