"Dumbo" is the director's fifth movie for the studio, where he's happy to be an odd fit. "Any kind of movie I do," he said, "I'm too dark." Working with “Transformers” writer Ehren Kruger, Burton was ...

The original was made in 1941. It’s by far the oldest source material of all the Disney remakes, and its plot is also the thinnest: Mrs. Jumbo gives birth to Dumbo, a baby elephant with ridiculously ...

Disney's next big live-action remake of its animated classics is here in the form of Dumbo. For the most part, Disney has had great success with both critics and fans when it comes to these remakes, ...

It's hard to think of a time when the Walt Disney Company was down on its luck, but in the early to mid-1940s, due to World War II, international box offices were cut off. While Snow White and the ...

The new trailer for Disney's Dumbo shows us that Disney, Director Tim Burton, and all of the animators and actors involved appear to be hitting the right note for bringing this 1941 animated classic ...

Disney’s new ‘live-action’ remake of Dumbo is weird. And unlike the original animated film, this time the weirdness isn’t a good thing. It all starts off decently enough. The world of Medici’s Circus ...

Dumbo, the first of four Disney live-action adaptations this year based off its animated vault, is set to take off this weekend, though not with the stomp of its previous uber-hits, Beauty and the ...

The lessons of “Dumbo” are straightforward: Your perceived shortcomings may be what makes you special, what makes you soar. And somebody’s going to call you a freak anyway. The 1941 film is the review ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Josh Weiss is a writer covering the nexus of pop culture and Judaism. The live-action Dumbo's biggest change from the original ...