Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Working with “Transformers” writer Ehren Kruger, Burton was attracted to the sad but joyful tale of a post-World War I circus with ...

Disney is remaking a lot of its animated classics as live-action features. It's already happened with "Jungle Book" and "Beauty And The Beast." In a few months, we'll see a new "Lion King" and ...

Disney kicks off another crop of live-action remakes of cartoon classics with “Dumbo.” Thankfully before slapping us with realistic singing lions and an indigo Will Smith later this year, the House of ...

WORKING FOR PEANUTS Farrell costars with a disturbingly winsome digital elephant in Burton’s new version of the animated classic. Many adults remember Disney’s Dumbo (1941) mainly for its misery. Like ...

Tim Burton’s new Dumbo lands in the multiplex big top with a dull thud. It is a flightless pachyderm of a film that saddles itself with 21st-century shame at the idea of circus animals, ...

The onslaught of “live action” Disney adaptations of their animated films is a confounding one in many ways. They seem to be committed to remaking only their most popular films, which people already ...

To make people fall in love with an outcast is not something that director Tim Burton hasn’t done before. He could humanise a corpse bride and even a man with scissors for hands. And yet, when it came ...