So maybe time will soften “La Belle’s” references, but for a ballet created just 15 years ago, the optics feel problematic, particularly when the end result is still to live happily ever ...

Jacqueline Durran re-imagined Belle and the cast of fairy tale characters. — -- The tall order of reimagining "Beauty and the Beast" as a live-action movie was a task made easier by the deft ...

The first Disney tour since 1995, this production revives much of the original stagecraft, brought to dazzling life by an ...

As a self-described queer, plus-sized Black woman, she hadn’t expected to be seen as right for Belle, the fairy-tale heroine who’s an ivory-skinned size 2 (or so it looks) in Disney’s 1991 ...

Belle, the latest anime feature from director Mamoru Hosoda — best known for films like Summer Wars and Mirai — is a fairy tale about the metaverse, which hits US theaters starting January 14th.

This cutting-edge fairy tale is the most ambitious work yet from Mamoru Hosoda, the director of animated films including "Mirai," "Wolf Children" and "Summer Wars." ...

Hosoda’s latest, “Belle,” which opened in theaters Wednesday, is more complicatedly sketched. It’s an ultra-modern take on “Beauty and the Beast” that transfers the fairy tale to a ...