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 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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Originally based on the book written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, 1941's Dumbo was the fourth animated feature film made by Walt Disney Productions, following up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ...

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 ...

Disney’s new “Dumbo” is just like the film’s flying baby elephant: an outsider who stands out from previous live-action rehashes by being something more than the same old trunk show. Director Tim ...

The subdued opening of Tim Burton's 'Dumbo' is a reminder that Disney's campaign to update its classic library of titles with live-action renderings is far from a foolproof bet. By Pamela McClintock ...