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 remake of “Dumbo” – a live-action and CGI version of Disney’s 1941 classic about a flying baby elephant – is more an expansion of the original than simply a souped-up retread. For one ...

Tim Burton’s remake of the Walt Disney cartoon classic, Dumbo, is coming down the track towards theaters. And although early reviews and box office predictions have been mixed, we’ll say this about ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The original "Dumbo" was released so long ago, in 1941, and the cartoon ran only about an hour. So director Tim Burton was free to completely re-imagine a new version and filter the ...

In 1941, Walt Disney was at a crossroads, breaking box office records with his first feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), but losing money on both “Pinocchio” (1940) and “Fantasia” (1940) ...

If one were to rank the Disney animated classics that haven’t aged well, “Dumbo” would probably take home the gold. The 1941 cartoon, about a deformed baby elephant who learns that he can fly, sends ...

A curiously self-loathing exercise in corporate brand extension, Disney’s live-action remake of their 1941 animated classic “Dumbo” is the latest of the studio’s vault-plundering blockbuster rehashes.

Who is the target audience for Disney's new "live-action" remake of Dumbo? It remains baffling that Disney is continuing to do these "live-action" (quotes because they're mostly CGI) remakes instead ...

For Tim Burton’s live-action re-imagining of “Dumbo,” his Oscar-winning, go-to production designer, Rick Heinrichs (“Sleepy Hollow”), had a field day with Dreamland, the Coney Island-inspired theme ...