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Disney delves into its own history in "Saving Mr. Banks," a movie about the difficult birth of the classic film "Mary Poppins," wrenched from a tale by a reluctant British author.

• 20 декабря 2013, 18:10

Disney animated musical "Frozen" extinguished the box-office flames of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" to take top spot as the highest-earning movie in North American theaters this weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday.

• 09 декабря 2013, 14:49

Disney has given a chilly makeover to a traditional fairy tale in its latest animated release "Frozen," which could be in the running for an Oscar.

• 29 ноября 2013, 11:04

"Little Red Riding Hood" may have been heading to her grandmother's house -- but anthropologists wanted to know where she came from and just how her story spread.

• 14 ноября 2013, 14:25

A villa near Florence that inspired the author of Pinocchio is on the market for 10.5 million euros ($14 million) -- a world away from the humble workshop where the marionette is born in the book.

• 13 ноября 2013, 11:11

A Danish researcher has stumbled across the first fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in Denmark's national archives.

• 14 декабря 2012, 12:29

Yuriy Serebryanskiy won in the The Russian Prize literary contest under Short Prose category.

• 29 апреля 2011, 17:47