Disney is committed to remaking its animated classics as live-action films, even though they're almost always mediocre, including its latest, "Moana." ...

Like a genie from a lamp, Disney's live-action remakes continue to grant the studio's loftiest wishes. Seven years after leaving theaters, 2019's Aladdinis back on the streaming charts. The ...

Disney has made a lot of live-action remakes over the past decade, and the results have been all over the place. Some have ...

Moana is an absolute blast thanks to solid performances by Catherine Laga'aia and Dwayne Johnson, who is simply magical as demigod Maui.

Disney has gone all in on redoing animated classics. In honor of a new "Moana," we're ranking every live-action revamp since the 1990s.

It helps that half the film IS animated, that Dwayne Johnson goes full Maui, and that newcomer Catherine Laga’aia plays Moana with a beaming rapture. The opening scenes of the new “Moana,” set on the ...

10 Exact Scenes to Explain Why Disney’s Live-Action Remakes Are So HATED Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at scenes in Disney’s live-action remakes of their own animated classics that are ...

Dwayne Johnson as a live-action version of Moana's Maui—luscious flowing locks and all. What could be better than this? Though Auli'i Cravalho handed over the strong-willed titular character's sails ...

There is no doubt that Moana is beloved. The plucky heroine of Disney’s 2016 animated feature has gripped imaginations in the 10 years since she debuted with a song in her heart and a love of the ...

From "The Lion King" to "Aladdin" to "Mulan," see the ways Disney creates live-action remakes of its animated classics.

Remakes are all the rage in Hollywood, and Disney is no exception. A beloved pillar of the entertainment industry, the studio has been producing animated classics for nearly a century. In recent years ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of the annual Mosaic Journalism Program for Bay Area high school students, an intensive course in journalism. Students in the program report and photograph stories ...