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Roy E. Disney, the 78-year-old nephew of Walt Disney, is the third-largest shareholder in the Disney Company, the last family member to be involved in its operation and a hidden power in the boardroom who has served as the company conscience since hi...

Flex your jazz-hands, kids: "High School Musical 3," the latest installment in Disney's smash-hit franchise, arrives in theaters on Friday. For those uninitiated in the intricacies of the "HSM" world (such as me, until last weekend), here's a primer:

WHAT do J.K. Rowling and Jamie Lynn Spears have in common? Well, for one thing, their fortunes are tied to companies (Scholastic Corporation and Viacom respectively) whose chairmen have been...

Media mogul Sumner Redstone, caught in the vise-like grip of the credit crunch, may be forced to sell his prized Viacom Inc., home of MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount Studios. A sale of Viacom, or...

RUPERT Murdoch has lashed out at British competition regulators.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has admitted that some legitimate news and blogging sites have been blocked by filters designed to stop offensive material reaching UAE computers. Those blocked included Arab Times, which the TRA has asked Etisalat to unblock.

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed to fine Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications for moving some channels from their broadcast lineups to switched digital video groups — rendering that programming inaccessible to non-operator...

Bertelsmann completed the sale to Sony of its 50 percent stake in music venture Sony BMG in a US$900 million deal. The transaction gave Sony full ownership of a roster of artists and an enhanced ability to sell music on an array of electronic devices...

Here's a media/marketing mystery: Why the hell is Zac Efron, of all people, one of the biggest stars in the world right now? First, let's acknowledge just how weird it is that so many grown-ups know who Efron is. Even if you've never seen "High Sch...

LOS ANGELES — Movie-goers elected a "W," but it was Mark Wahlberg, not George W. Bush. Wahlberg's action flick "Max Payne" debuted with $18 million to outdo Oliver Stone's film biography of George W. Bush, according to studio estimates Sunday.