When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the record, this runtime wasn't a sign of the times. RKO Pictures initially balked when ...

The best scene in Steven Spielberg’s 1979 comedy 1941 has Robert Stack as an Army general crying while sitting in a theater. He’s watching the poignant scene in Dumbo where a caged Mrs. Jumbo rocks ...

"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 ...

Director Tim Burton’s live-action repurposing of the animated 1941 feature “Dumbo” offers more of many things: more mayhem, more angst, twice the unethical-treatment-of-animals pathos and five times ...

Disney kicks off another crop of live-action remakes of cartoon classics with “Dumbo.” Thankfully before slapping us with realistic singing lions and an indigo Will Smith later this year, the House of ...

Tim Burton's remake of "Dumbo" -- a live-action and CGI version of Disney's 1941 classic about a flying baby elephant -- is more an expansion of the original than simply a souped-up retread. For one ...