Ben Fritz

'Disney Fairies' beats 'Magic Mike' on DVD

Fairies are beating strippers in DVD sales. Walt Disney Studios' new direct-to-DVD title "Disney Fairies: Secret of the Wings" was the No. 1-selling DVD and Blu-ray disc for the week ended Oct. 27, according to research firm Rentrak Corp. It...

Tags: Channing Tatum, Los Angeles Times, Blu-ray Discs, Magic Mike (movie), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (movie)

Disney adopts new paper policy after protest

Walt Disney Co. is implementing a new policy to use less paper from environmentally threatened areas, a year after it was targeted by environmental protesters. In May of 2011, activists from the Rainforest Action Network hung a banner outside Disney's...

Tags: Los Angeles Times, The Walt Disney Co., Indonesia

Stan Lee Media sues Disney for billions over Marvel characters

Stan Lee Media, an Internet company that shut down more than a decade ago and has been mired in litigation ever since, has filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Walt Disney Co. The complaint was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Colorado,...

Tags: Los Angeles Times, Marvel Entertainment, LLC, Stan Lee, Spider-Man (fictional character)

DreamWorks replaces Disney with new international partner

Walt Disney Studios will no longer release movies from its partner DreamWorks Studios around the world. The two companies have renegotiated their longstanding agreement. Going forward, Disney will only release movies produced by DreamWorks, the...

Tags: War Horse (movie), DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, The Help (movie), Los Angeles Times, Walt Disney

DreamWorks Animation signs five-year deal with 20th Century Fox

Shrek and Po have found a new home. DreamWorks Animation, the Glendale studio behind such hit animated franchises as "Shrek," "Kung Fu Panda" and "Madagascar," has signed a five-year deal with 20th Century Fox, which will distribute its movies...

Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Los Angeles Times, Richard Verrier, Sony Corp., Economy, Business and Finance

DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg discusses new Fox deal

Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Los Angeles Times, Richard Verrier, Kung Fu Panda (movie), Shrek (fictional character)

‘Wreck-It Ralph’: Disney animators zip around in video game realms

DreamWorks Animation down to the wire in talks with Sony and Fox

With just three weeks to go until a self-imposed Labor Day deadline, DreamWorks Animation is coming down to the wire in talks for a distribution deal with 20th Century Fox or Sony Pictures. Those two studios are now the top candidates to replace...

Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Los Angeles Times, Richard Verrier, Sony Corp., Paramount Pictures

Low-budget knockoff movies benefit from Hollywood blockbusters

Last year's "Puss in Boots"was made on the lush 13-acre DreamWorks Animation campus in Glendale by 300 people working for four years at a cost of $130 million. Its knockoff was made on the second floor of an office building just two miles away—...

Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Los Angeles Times, Salma Hayek, Puss in Boots (movie), Antonio Banderas