Don Hahn

They're words that echo at the back of my consciousness, as deep as an embedded memory or a recessive gene: It's a world of laughter, a world of tears It's a world of hopes and a world of fears That simple tune with dozens of children's voices...

Richard Bare is a veteran of the Hollywood studio system, when those fortunate enough to have a job could rely on a steady paycheck. But he also knows something about being an unknown filmmaker trying to slip a foot in the door. The 99-year-old...

Highlights for Sunday at the Newport Beach Film Festival: Pilot Picks In Your Dreams: Stevie Nicks Documentary about the venerable rock star by Nicks and Dave Stewart. 4:30 p.m.; Island Cinema 7. Love, Marilyn Documentary by Liz Garbus about the...

Disney's frenetic live-action/animated comedy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was the second-highest-grossing film of 1988, earning more than $156 million. The comedy won three Academy Awards and transformed its lead, British actor Bob Hoskins, into a bona fide...

Poof, in a blink of an eye Santa and his magical day has evaporated. Of course the toys that he brought will be played with each day throughout the year. The little children in my family were bedazzled as they placed the cookies they had baked from their...

While playing polo on the fields of Southern California in the late 1930s, Mel Shaw met Walt Disney and was soon playing on his team, the Donald Ducks, that took on the president of Mexico's personal team in 1938 — and won. "He called me a wild...

It’s a long way from the comforts of Burbank to the wilds of the remote Ivory Coast in Africa, and Don Hahn, executive producer of Disneynature’s new film, “Chimpanzee,” laughs at the comparison. “Luckily for me, I got to...

Academy Awards producer Brian Grazer and producer-director Don Hahn definitely had host Billy Crystal's back on the red carpet before the show started....

Nobody really knew Matthew Broderick could sing, back in the early '90s. Still, it's a little bit of a surprise to recall that Disney used somebody else to do his crooning in 1994's “The Lion King.” A year later, Broderick would storm Broadway...

Robert Chapek, head of distribution for Walt Disney Studios, has been promoted to president of Disney Consumer Products group....