2004-01-25 04:00:00 PDT New York-- Backstage on Broadway, the "Lion King" puppet department is like an attic in a "Twilight Zone" episode -- it feels as if its inhabitants might suddenly come to ...

Behind the Scenes Secrets and Lasting Impact of The Lion King. Some quirky facts made the movie unforgettable. Pumbaa was Disney’s first character to fart on screen, adding a cheeky humor layer.

Long-running Broadway mega-hit THE LION KING is currently playing around the world, as well, with a new production opening in Sydney, Australia, next month and in honor of the opening Disney has ...

The opening scene shows Indiana and his sidekick, played by a young Alfred Molina, searching for an ancient relic deep in cave in the jungle of Peru filled with booby traps.

For Lion King, they took to the floors on hands and knees to walk through scenes themselves. “It’s almost like method acting,” said Ruben Aquino,, supervising animator for the adult Simba.

Disney's 'Lion King' remake continues to wow at CinemaCon, with a gorgeously animated recreation of the "Everything the light touches" scene. ... As with 2016's The Jungle Book remake, ...

Specifically, it’s the set of Disney’s new version of The Lion King: a reworking of the 1994 hand-drawn masterpiece that still stands as the high watermark of the studio’s late-20th-century ...

With The Jungle Book grossing nearly $1 billion at the global box office, The Lion King may be primed to make as much if not more as just one of the studio’s three planned remakes (along with ...

Favreau’s Jungle Book threw its hero into a buffalo stampede overtly reminiscent of The Lion King’s wildebeest stampede. (Notably, the 1994 stampede sequence incorporated computer animation.) ...

From the stirring first moments of Disney’s upgraded “The Lion King” — a turbocharged animal fable that, like 2016’s “The Jungle Book,” uses photorealistic CGI animation to add ...