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Disney stories: 93 news summaries

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 Miley Scandal
 a Matter of Brand Name 

Simple break with Disney image caused uproar

May 3, 08 7:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The brouhaha over Miley Cyrus' Vanity Fair photo shoot is a “simple misunderstanding” stemming from a clash of brand names, writes Mark Feeney in the Boston Globe. Cyrus’ Hannah Montana is an established Disney brand--and when Hannah met Vanity Fair, a sudden change in that image was the result.... More »

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Vanity Fair • pop culture • Disney • photograph • Hannah Montana • Miley Cyrus • Billy Ray Cyrus • Annie Leibovitz

 Teen Panty Ad Shocks Disney 

Speechless execs say Chinese billboard will be removed immediately

Apr 30, 08 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Red-faced Disney execs paused their Miley Cyrus finger-wagging yesterday when asked about a billboard showcasing an underage model in Disney-themed skivvies above a Beijing subway station, Slate reports. The ad, paid for by the squeaky-clean cartoon empire, features a pig-tailed pubescent girl lounging in mouse-logo bra and panties playing with... More »

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Beijing • Disney • advertisements • Miley Cyrus • scandal

 Meet the
 Next Miley 

Disney to promote lesser-known good girl Selena Gomez over Miley Cyrus

Apr 30, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - With tween queen Miley Cyrus' squeaky-clean image taking a drubbing, E! Online reports that Disney execs may be shopping for a new fresh face--and may have found one in lesser-known and untainted Selena Gomez. “Selena sings and acts…She is going to be the next Miley Cyrus,” an... More »

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Disney Channel • Disney • Miley Cyrus • Selena Gomez

 Call Her Hannah Karenina 

Cyrus scores 7-figure book deal

Apr 22, 08 5:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus, 15, has signed a seven-figure deal with Disney-Hyperion for a memoir, the New York Times reports today. The book will focus on her childhood in Tennessee and the positive influence of her mother on her career. It is scheduled to be released in spring 2009,... More »

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entertainment • Disney • memoir • Hannah Montana • Miley Cyrus • The Hannah Montana Movie

 Racy Miley Bra Pics Hit Internet 

15-year-old Disney star's good-girl image called into question

Apr 21, 08 11:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don't tell her achy-breaky dad, but risque photos of squeaky-clean Miley Cyrus have found their way to the Internet. The tween queen flashes a green lace bra and canoodles with a mystery teenage boy whose hands had better not travel any farther in photos likely to make Disney and dad... More »

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Disney • photograph • Internet leak • Hannah Montana • Miley Cyrus

 Miley Cyrus
 to Outsource
 Autobiography 

Disney tween will hire ghostwriter for tell-all

Apr 17, 08 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Miley Cyrus has inked a multimillion-dollar deal with Disney Books to pen an autobiography of her short, sweet life, according to Ok! magazine. But don't think it'll read like some 15-year-old's homework assignment. The "hush-hush" tween queen is looking for a ghostwriter to put the young superstar's life... More »

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Disney • ghostwrite • autobiography • Miley Cyrus • nonfiction books

OBIT

Pioneering Disney Animator Dead at 95

Bambi's creator Johnston was last of   Disney's 'Nine Old Men'

Apr 16, 08 2:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The last surviving member of Disney's legendary "Nine Old Men," who pioneered character animation, has died at the age of 95, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ollie Johnston's many creations, often in collaboration with Frank Thomas, included sequences and characters in Pinocchio, the Jungle Book, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty,... More »

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obituary • Disney • animation • Bambi • Walt Disney • Frank Thomas

OPINION

 Networks Wrangle 
 Over Project Runway 

Show's switch is Buffy all over again

Apr 14, 08 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The upcoming switch of the smash hit Project Runway from Bravo to Lifetime could be Buffy the Vampire Slayer all over again, Andrew Wallenstein writes in the Hollywood Reporter. Buffy's switch from the WB to UPN "spelled the death knell for a once-mighty brand." Meanwhile, Bravo parent... More »

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reality TV • Walt Disney Co. • ABC • NBC Universal • Disney • Heidi Klum • Bravo • Project Runway • Scrubs • Lifetime

Web Videos
May Be Ad
Gold Mine

Market expected to explode as media companies retool

Apr 4, 08 3:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - TV networks, major news organizations, and independent producers are all scrambling to create Web videos that will let them snag a portion of the ad dollars flowing online. Ad spending on Internet videos will grow to $4.3 billion by 2011, say researchers—a 455% increase over today. "It's... More »

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Internet • NBC • independent film • CBS • advertising • online advertising • online videos • Disney • video • LonelyGirl15

Disney Looks to Earn $1B from Internet

Company says Lost, Grey's Anatomy online ads paid big dividends

Mar 11, 08 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disney is ramping up its Internet efforts and expects to reap greater returns thanks to hit shows being streamed online, such as Lost and Grey’s Anatomy, reports the AP. The company expects to earn $1 billion in fiscal 2008, a sizable jump over last year, said CEO Robert Iger... More »

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Google • YouTube • ESPN • ABC • Bear Stearns • Disney • Robert Iger

 Warners Swallows New Line

Studio falls in latest Hollywood cost-cutting move

Feb 29, 08 3:06 AM CST
(Newser) - New Line Cinema, the studio that created the Lord of the Rings blockbuster franchise, will be folded into the Warner Brothers unit of Time Warner, reports the Los Angeles Times. It's a cost-cutting move and part of a trend that has seen DreamWorks swallowed by Viacom, and Miramax downsized... More »

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Viacom • Time Warner • Comcast • Sony • Disney • DreamWorks • New Line Cinema • Lord of the Rings • Warner Brothers • Miramax • MGM • Austin Powers • Bob Shaye • Michael Lynne • Richard Bewkes

Cyrus: 'I Really Have to Be Good'

'Hannah Montana' shows she's just a regular teen

Feb 4, 08 4:55 PM CST
(Newser) - As their 3D concert film's weekend box office domination shows, the craze for Hannah Montana and alter ego Miley Cyrus isn't even close to slowing down. In a Q&A with the AP, Cyrus talks about the pressures of performing on tour: "I really have to be good. Especially... More »

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Disney • Hannah Montana • Miley Cyrus • Billy Ray Cyrus • 3D movie

Clean, Kindly Jonas Bros. Are Suddenly Stars

Boy band poised to become America's next heartthrobs

Jan 27, 08 4:49 PM CST
(Newser) - The Jonas Brothers may rock 'n' roll, but they're also sons of a minister and avowed virgins until marriage. Their lack of bad-boy behavior isn't killing sales, though: An upcoming Jonas tour is already almost sold out. Where did these gentle boy banders come from? An appearance on "Hannah... More »

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music • Disney • tour • Hannah Montana • Miley Cyrus • Jonas Brothers

NEW RELEASE

Little Mermaid a Titanic Flop

Disney's latest blunder is a $15M beached whale

Jan 11, 08 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The verdict on Disney's latest Broadway musical, The Little Mermaid, is grim. "Loved the shoes. Loathed the show," Ben Brantley of the New York Times says of the "merblades" the cast uses to glide across a stage "soaked in that sparkly garishness that only a very... More »

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Broadway • Disney • The Little Mermaid • musical

Studios Want Piece of Bollywood

Big names want in on the Indian film industry

Jan 2, 08 10:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Big studios such as Sony, Paramount Pictures, and Disney will be doing their best to make it big this year in Bollywood, India's increasingly profitable film scene, the Financial Times reports. As the India business becomes less mystifying to outsiders, big international studios want a piece of the world's most... More »

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Viacom • India • Bollywood • Sony • Disney • film studio • Saarwariya

Things That Won't Shake
The Media World in 2008

BusinessWeek columnist takes a stab at '08 predictions

Dec 28, 07 7:36 PM CST
(Newser) - Overloaded with prediction lists, Business Week polishes the crystal ball and looks ahead to see what won't happen in the media world  in 2008.
  1. The writers won't win the current strike
  2. DreamWorks isn't going to leave Paramount after all
  3. Apple won't reinvent TV viewing
  4. "Juno" won't win
... More »

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media • Google • Indiana Jones • Katie Couric • Apple • list • Pixar • Disney • Fox Business Network • DreamWorks • Paramount • predictions • Hollywood writers' strike • Juno • MGM

TV Run for Web-Dud 'Quarterlife'

NBC hopes made-for-web show can defy so-so traffic numbers

Dec 24, 07 9:47 AM CST
(Newser) - YouTube buzz is tough to manufacture, and so far NBC’s “Quarterlife,” the network's experiment in TV-quality production for the web, hasn’t managed. The last dozen episodes have each drawn around 100,000 views between MySpace and YouTube combined, which isn’t many eyeballs in the TV... More »

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television • Internet • YouTube • NBC • Disney • Quarterlife • web traffic

Disney Monorail Gets a Facelift

First of many '08 cosmetic upgrades set for February

Dec 22, 07 8:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Disney's once-futuristic elevated train has gotten its first facelift in 20 years, with the arrival at Disneyland Thursday of the first new cars in a series of planned upgrades to the monorail. The cars, to be unveiled in February, feature blue glass windows and red stripes that change color in... More »

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Walt Disney Co. • Disney • Orange County, California • theme park • Anaheim • Disneyland • monorail

Court Indeed
a Mickey Mouse Operation

Cartoon characters summoned in Italy counterfeiting case

Dec 5, 07 9:10 PM CST
(Newser) - A man is on trial in Italy for counterfeiting Disney and Warner Bros. merchandise, and a surprising set of witnesses has been summoned: Tweety, Mickey Mouse, and Donald and Daisy Duck. Prosecutors in Naples blamed a clerical error for the summons, in which the Italian iterations of the cartoon characters—... More »

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Italy • Disney

America's Still Enchanted

Disney pic holds at top spot as Jessica Alba's debuts a tepid fourth

Dec 2, 07 6:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Jessica Alba's Awake slept this weekend as Enchanted kept top spot and the African American family pic This Christmas nabbed second, Variety reports. Three-D glam film Beowulf snatched third, and Awake met expectations by banking $6 million in fourth. Hitman shot up $5.8 million in sales and took fifth... More »

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Sony • Disney • Denzel Washington • Coen brothers • Jessica Alba • movies

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