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Beauty and the Beast 3D

Like The Lion King before it, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast gets a big-screen re-release to exploit its 3D conversion for Blu-ray. The first animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, Beauty and the Beast, along with The Little Mermaid in 1989 and The Lion King in 1994, composed the last push of classic hand-drawn cartoons before Toy Story tipped the form definitively toward computer animation. The Lion King proved there’s still an audience for generation-old animation, grossing nearly $100 million in 3D since reopening in the fall. And like Simba and his friends, Beauty and the...  read more

The 20 Best Comic Books of 2011

We look at our favorite comics of the year, from high-minded graphic novels to the serialized floppies that got us into the store every Wednesday.  read more

If Comcast Purchases a Majority of NBC Universal, Will Viewers Have to Pay for Hulu?

Pesky 30-second ads could be the least concern for Hulu's more than 18 million global viewers choosing to catch their shows online. Comcast is currently bidding for a majority stake in NBC Universal, an endeavor that, if proven successful, could turn free Hulu programming into a long lost luxury....  read more

Bolt

The era of family animation spiked with irony and winking asides for adults in the audience...  read more

Philip Glass says hi-ho to opera about Walt Disney

What to do with three Academy Award nominations, eight symphonies and a swathe of film scores and solo works under your belt? For esteemed classical composer Philip Glass, the next logical step would naturally be an opera about the life of Walt Disney, right? So it's no surprise, then, that he was commissioned to do just that....  read more