Five years ago, while chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios Jennifer Lee was finishing work on “Frozen II,” she ... calls back to “Sleeping Beauty” and “Cinderella ...

Petrana Radulovic is an entertainment reporter specializing in animation, fandom culture, theme parks, Disney ... on them in the wrong way. With Sleeping Beauty, we simply need to recalibrate ...

At first glance, Sleeping Beauty seems among the Disney Princess films least likely to live up to the modern era of feminist storytelling. The titular character, Princess Aurora, has so little ...

The film’s storybook opening pays homage to Disney’s early films: 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” 1940’s “Pinocchio” and 1959’s “Sleeping Beauty.” Directors Chris ...

Is there a more recognizable brand on earth than Disney? The studio has, of course, gone far beyond the modest dreams of Walt and Roy Disney, who began the company 100 years ago sketching away in ...