Disney restyles 'Rapunzel' to appeal to boys
March 09, 2010   Los Angeles Times
With 'The Princess and the Frog' coming up short at the box office, the studio retools its next animated feature to lose the girly taint. Now it's called 'Tangled,' with a swashbuckling male lead.Disney is...

Disney May Pull ABC From Bigger Cable Rivals Next (Update1)
March 09, 2010   Bloomberg
March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co., which blocked some viewers from the first 13 minutes of the Oscars last night amid a dispute with Cablevision Systems Corp., may be about to do it again with bigger cable operators, ana...

Ousted 'American Idol' Haeley Vaughn: I'd love to work with Disney
March 09, 2010   Reality TV World
Haeley Vaughn believes that "doors will open" for her now that she's had a chance to showcase her singing ability on American Idol, and she hopes Disney is behind one of them. "I'm a really big fan...

Ahead of the Bell: 'Alice' success good for Disney
March 09, 2010   AP via Yahoo! Finance
NEW YORK (AP) -- Analysts see "Alice in Wonderland" as a much-needed hit for The Walt Disney Co., but note the returns from one movie aren't enough to move the needle on its financial results.The adventure throu...

The Walt Disney Company Disney (DIS) President and CEO Robert A Iger sells 400,000 Shares
March 09, 2010   Guru Focus
President and CEO of The Walt Disney Company Disney (DIS) Robert A Iger sells 400,000 shares of DIS on 03/05/2010 at an average price of $33.07 a share. The Walt Disney Company Disney has a market cap of $64.37 billion; its s...

Disney Sells ‘Brand XD'
March 09, 2010   MultiChannel News
Retooled Channel Hopes to Click With Advertisers at UpfrontsOne year after its rebrand, Disney XD is poised to battle with the big boys for a share of advertising dollars targeted to young men due to a strong 2009 ratings per...

Disney/Pixar's "Up" wins best animated film Oscar
March 08, 2010   Reuters via Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Disney/Pixar's balloon adventure blockbuster "Up" won the best animated movie Oscar on Sunday, as the studio continued its dominance of cartoons at the Academy Awar...

Disney, Cablevision reach deal on ABC as Oscars begin
March 08, 2010   Los Angeles Times
They settle a dispute over a new contract in time for 3.1 million New York-area subscribers to catch most of the awards show.A week of brinkmanship ended Sunday when Walt Disney Co. and Cablevision Systems Corp. settled their...

'Alice in Wonderland' is No. 1 at the box office
March 08, 2010   Washington Post
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp took a trip down the rabbit hole -- and huge crowds followed, as "Alice in Wonderland" earned a whopping $116.3 million in its opening weekend. The surprising total easily surpassed all o...

Nicole Kidman , 42, replaced by Selena Gomez, 17, as leading lady in upcoming movie
March 08, 2010   New York Daily News
Selena Gomez, 17, is replacing Nicole Kidman, 42, as the star of upcoming movie "Monte Carlo." But since Kidman is also a producer of the comedy-in-development as well as its former star, the swap can only hurt so m...

Disney pulls TV signal off New York cable system
March 07, 2010   Los Angeles Times
Walt Disney Co. silences WABC-TV for many New York City-area viewers on the eve of the Oscars, part of an ongoing dispute with Cablevision Systems Corp. over carriage fees.Potentially leaving millions of New York City-area ho...

Disney’s ‘Alice’ May Set Record for Month, Quarter
March 07, 2010   Bloomberg
March 6 (Bloomberg) -- “Alice in Wonderland,” the classic Lewis Carroll tale re-imagined in 3-D by director Tim Burton, earned $41 million yesterday on its way to possibly posting $100 million in receipts thi...

"Alice in Wonderland" opens strongly at box office
March 07, 2010   Reuters via Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – "Alice in Wonderland" set a new record for a March release at the weekend box office in North America, earning an estimated $41 million on its opening day, distributor Walt Disney Co s...

Adventure in Wonderland'
March 07, 2010   Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Director Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which opened Friday, promises to be a curiously creepy take on Lewis Carroll’s classic tale. The buzz surrounding the film has been fueled by Disney’s...

L.A. Times sells Disney front page for movie ad
March 06, 2010   Reuters via Yahoo! News
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Times' critic may have panned the film, but that didn't stop Disney from paying top dollar to turn the newspaper's front page into a special advertisement on...

Haeley Vaughn: 'Being on Disney would be awesome'
March 06, 2010   USA Today
Even as reporters grilled her Friday about how it felt to get voted off American Idol, Haeley Vaughn came across as a nice kid with her head on straight."More experience and more time working on my vocals would be good; ...

Are days numbered for 'Give a Day, Get a Disney Day'?
March 06, 2010   Orlando Sentinel
Indications show that the “Give a Day, Get a Disney Day” promotion, which encouraged volunteerism with the prospect of free admission to a Disney theme park, is coming to an end. Last month, the company boasted th...

Disney's new 'Wonderland' film wanders far from its roots rootsProvo Daily Herald
March 06, 2010   Provo Daily Herald
Imagine yourself being distracted by thinking about termites, or Michael Bublé, or the cost of a gallon of milk, and walking face-first into a brick wall. Now imagine yourself woozily sprawled on your backside, st...

'Alice in Wonderland': A wacky wonder
March 06, 2010   Chicago Tribune
In the new "Alice in Wonderland," the wonderfully well-chosen Australian actress Mia Wasikowska embarks on her character's quest to recover her "muchness," while director Tim Burton wages a war against...

'Alice in Wonderland': Lost in Burtonization
March 06, 2010   The Buffalo News
You've no doubt seen the "Alice in Wonderland" hype. And the, uh, marketing. And now a brief word from the news: It stinks. OK, that classically blunt American vulgarism may be a bit excessive in its minimali...

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