MOVIEGOERS pining for a return to the lush moon of Pandora in James Cameron’s film Avatar will finally get their chance — first-hand.

The Walt Disney Co said that it has agreed on an exclusive deal to build attractions based on James Cameron’s 'Avatar' at its theme parks, starting with Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida.

Sydney: Walt Disney Co and Viacom Inc’s Paramount Pictures are among Hollywood’s biggest movie studios that lost a piracy lawsuit in Australia as an appeals court upheld a ruling that a local internet provider wasn’t responsible for customers illegally downloading films.

TIME zone differences will cause America’s “soccer” fans to watch the World Cup live on cell phones and computers.

FILMS about psychopaths, greedy oilmen and corrupt lawyers failed to click with moviegoers, and they proved a turnoff to US television viewers as this year’s Oscars show hit record low ratings.

Euro Disney plans to sell new stock and debt as part of an agreement with Walt Disney Co and creditors to avert default on $2.9 billion of borrowings, the second bailout in a decade for Europe’s largest theme-park company.

The top prize at the Cannes Film Festival was today awarded to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, a scathing indictment of White House actions after the September 11 terror attacks.

Rising concern over violence in the Middle East gave US investors yet another reason to sell today, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down 135 points despite another batch of solid earnings reports.

Walt Disney Co directors’ decision to strip chief executive Michael Eisner of his chairman role stops short of what some investors said is needed to boost the company’s shares, which have fallen 25% in five years.

FORMER US senator George Mitchell, who helped broker peace in the North, has been chosen to oversee the strife-torn Walt Disney Co as its chairman.

Wall Street stumbled through a mostly lifeless session today as bargain hunters gave technology stocks a moderate lift but struggling defence contractors kept blue chips under pressure.

A sharp drop in consumer confidence gave US investors another excuse to sell today, sending most stocks moderately lower in what some analysts are starting to call a market correction.

An all-time record US trade deficit and a surprising drop in consumer confidence sparked profit-taking on Wall Street today, sending stocks lower despite the week’s bullish economic news from the Federal Reserve.

THERE may be a palace coup afoot in the Magic Kingdom.

Investors sent US stocks surging today, propelling the Dow Jones industrials up more than 115 points and into the shadow of 10,000 after a pair of reports showed better-than-expected growth in the manufacturing sector and construction spending.

Two Hollywood studios are in a race to be first to the screens with a film based on the events that led to the 1979 horror hit The Amityville Horror.

Destino, a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney, has finally been completed – 58 years after work on it began.

Although trailers and advertising posters have been promoting a Christmas Day release, the Walt Disney Co has taken the unusual step of postponing the opening of The Alamo, saying the much-anticipated film needs more work.

Executives at the Walt Disney Co are reportedly concerned at the violence in Quentin Tarintino's Kill Bill and are considering ending their relationship with Miramax, the film’s producer and Disney subsidiary.

The technology-dominated Nasdaq composite index suffered its biggest one-day point loss in nearly 15 months today after Opec’s surprise decision to cut oil production sent stocks tumbling. The Dow Jones industrials plunged 150 points.

Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan's script for his next film, The Woods, is so top secret that the only copy is being kept in a safe at the Walt Disney Co offices so that details do not leak out before the film is released next year.

British Airways yesterday plunged to its worst-ever loss of £45 million in the first quarter, and said the cost of last week’s wildcat swipe card strike could be £40 million.

The Walt Disney Co is planning an aggressive marketing campaign to give Mickey Mouse a hipper image and make him more appealing to a new generation of teenagers.

The British pop trio Atomic Kitten have crossed the Atlantic week with a self-titled album, hoping to do what few British acts have done since the early 1990s – conquer America.

Pixar Animation Studios Inc said it will from Monday, December 23 become a component of the Nasdaq 100 index of leading non-financial stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

The author of a novel made into the 1988 comedy film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, in which British star Bob Hoskins interacted with cartoon characters, has sued the Walt Disney Co over access to merchandising documents.