After directing The Lion King, director Roger Allers also made the heartbreaking and extremely underrated short, The Little ...

A Disney fan who once “flew” off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a ...

Roger Allers, the Oscar-nominated animated filmmaker credited with developing stories for "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roger Allers, the Oscar- and Tony-nominated animated film director best known for helming 1994’s The Lion King, died Saturday. He ...

Producer and frequent collaborator Dave Bossert shared the news of Allers’ death in a statement on Sunday morning. “I am deeply saddened by the news that our friend Roger Allers has passed on to his ...

Allers, who received an Oscar nomination, worked on other Disney films including 'Aladdin,' 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'The Little Mermaid.' By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Roger Allers, the Oscar- ...

The credentialed class uncovered more reasons to be outraged as a new analysis claims animated films from Disney and others promote white privilege. In the age of DEI, anti-racism and woke politics, ...

Three professors argue that animated Hollywood films promote White privilege and "racist cultural narratives," according to their new academic analysis. Natalie Khazaal, director of the Middle Eastern ...

NEW YORK (OSV News) – Last spring, Angel Studios released “The King of Kings,” a fine screen version of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens’ recounting of the life of Jesus. With “David,” the company ...

Magudulela succeeds Mukelisiwe Goba, who played her final performance as Rafiki on tour on January 4, 2026. The North American tour marks Magudulela’s eighth production of The Lion King, having ...