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Disney goes 'transmedia' for iPad generation

12.09.11
Advertising and marketing: Young consumers are not just embracing the internet, smartphones and video on demand. They have never known anything different ... more

Disney aims to turn a million memories into £1million for Great Ormond Street

26.07.11
A host of stars including Sir Michael Cane, Thandie Newton, Lewis Hamilton and Julie Walters have joined Disney Junior in a bid to collect a million Disney memories in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity... more

The London shop that combines everything

18.07.11
Music, food, romance - today's shops have to offer something extra, reports Helen Kirwan-Taylor... more

Watch Me Move is absorbing and thrilling

17.06.11
The Barbican's enormous and excellent survey brings many of its incarnations together, taking us from the earliest photographic experiments and forays into stop-motion techniques to the latest in CGI technology... more

Disney to open biggest store in Europe on Oxford Street

25.05.11
Disney has unveiled its new showcase store in Oxford Street, which will be the biggest in Europe when it opens ... more

Celebrities hope to foster love for poetry in children

04.05.11
Stars like Billy Connolly and Catherine Tate are hoping to make more children love poetry in with readings set to scenes from classic Disney films... more

Chance to see Disney's entire cartoon catalogue

23.11.10
Disney's entire back catalogue of animated movies is to be shown in London in a celebration marking the premiere of its 50th feature film, Tangled... more

Great ideas for half-term fun

19.10.10
It’s not just kids who get to enjoy the school holiday — there are great activities in the capital and beyond for all ages this month... more

Fantasias to remember from National Youth Orchestra

09.08.10
While professional orchestras have to ration their resources, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain boasts an almighty gathering of talent... more

Toy Story 3: The film that is making grown men cry

13.07.10
Manly adult critics have been leaving screenings of Toy Story 3 in bits. Richard Godwin and other Standard stalwarts put themselves to the test.... more

'Disney to sell Miramax for up to $700m'

09.07.10
Construction magnate Ron Tutor and investment firm Colony Capital have reached a deal in principle to buy Walt Disney's film making division Miramax, it is claimed... more

Tim Burton hails Odeon cinema deal to screen his 3D Alice in Wonderland

25.02.10
Director Tim Burton speaks of his relief after Disney reached a deal with the Odeon cinema chain to screen his new 3D fantasy adventure Alice In Wonderland... more

Alice in Wonderland on show at Vue

24.02.10
Cinema chain Vue announced that it had reached a deal with Disney today which will see new movie Alice In Wonderland screened in all its cinemas.... more

Alice in Wonderland will not be shown in Odeon cinemas

23.02.10
Tim Burton's new 3D blockbuster Alice In Wonderland will not be screened in Odeon cinemas in the UK follow a dispute over its DVD release ... more

Disney finds its simple charm in The Princess and The Frog

29.01.10
Anyone who, as a child, cried their way through Dumbo and adored Bambi and Snow White will welcome Disney’s The Princess and The Frog.... more

Disney sued over 'Pooh Bear Royalties'

13.11.09
Latest: Winnie-the-Pooh is at the centre of a legal storm over his adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood... more

Disney paves the way for the death of DVDs

21.10.09
New technology being touted by Walt Disney will allow consumers to ditch DVDs for permanent access to films across a range of platforms — from the internet to mobile phones ... more

Dates for your diary in London

20.10.09
From Disney on Ice to the MPH The Prestige and Performance Motor Show here are some of the best events for your calendar.... more

Jim Carrey to turn on Oxford Street Christmas lights

13.10.09
Jim Carrey, who voices Scrooge, in Disney's A Christmas Carol, will push the button for the Oxford Street's Christmas lights.... more

Jonas Brothers flirt to camera in The 3D Concert Experience

29.05.09
The three Disney-backed, Christian cuties that are the Jonas Brothers seem very conscious of the camera in their 3D movie... more

Best DVDs of 2008

19.12.08
From The Dark Knight to Curb Your Enthusiasm, here are DVDs not to be without.... more

My money's on the cunning little vixen

10.12.08
My money tree tried to commit suicide the other day, of which more later, because it's the Disney hawthorn in Kew Gardens that gets top arborial billing this week... more

How green was my Wall-E?

23.07.08
Wall-E has been criticised for preaching green politics to kids. So is the battered yellow robot the world's first ecological superhero?. ... more

London's must-see musicals

09.07.08
The hit West End shows to see this summer, by Daralyn Danns.... more

Disney's dog goes walkies

31.01.08
Those who think that Disney has found itself a new lease of life will be either disappointed or comforted by Underdog.... more

School's in for summer

28.01.08
High School Musical, the blockbuster children's TV film, is coming to the London stage.... more

Disney Rhino gets a second chance

15.10.07
Dropped from The Jungle Book in 1967, Disney character Rocky the Rhino is set to get another chance to grab the limelight.... more

It's the Bear Necessities

28.08.07
When the big songs arrive, this free production of The Jungle Book seems just about worthwhile, says Kieron Quirke.... more

Dangerous Book For Boys to become a film

07.08.07
Best-seller The Dangerous Book For Boys is to be turned into a film. Disney has snapped up the rights after a fierce bidding war.... more


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