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They did Newsies live and are planning to do a live Little Mermaid in addition to the Rob Marshan't remake. I'm sure that will be next on the list. But it's still making money on Broadway and on tour, and they are sure to want to squeeze as much revenue out of that as possible before they do...

X-meets-Y-divided-by-Z story pitches notwithstanding, that's what they said about it the first time. Almost none of the animators wanted to work on it. They all thought Pocahontas was finally going to get the studio the Best Picture Oscar it had long-since been denied*; we all know which was the...

Yes, that is the critical rating, but when you limit it to just the top critics, the score is weighted even heavily in favor of the green tomatoes. Those direct-to-video sequels sold plenty of copies, too.

Both this and the new Aladdin have Rotten Tomatoes scores in the 50s. So it's obvious that even though people are going to see it, they seem to have reservations about the end result. As long as Disney gets your money, it's all the same to them. But last year's Christopher Robin proved that...

It sold based on name recognition. Just because they bought a ticket doesn't mean they liked it. You don't get a refund if you didn't like the movie, so it still counts towards the box office gross. Unlike TV ratings, it's harder to break down exactly who is buying movie tickets.

That almost sounds like the original Incredible Journey from 1963. That got remade with celebrity voice-overs as Homeward Bound around the time the original Lion King came out. The current wave of remakes isn't that current, it's just that now they want to go after the greatest hits instead of...

It looks like they turned it into a True-Life Adventure with songs. Favreau's idea of realism is basically literalism. Roger Allers' and Rob Minkoff's idea of realism was detailed and elaborate yet still stylized and cartoony at the same time.