Guy Ritchie’s live-action “Aladdin” goes to great lengths not to insult the culture it’s depicting. The result is a bland missed opportunity. So what were some of those creative choices from the ...
A Baltimore County elementary school has decided to cancel the school's drama club production of "Aladdin Jr." after receiving complaints from parents saying the play promotes stereotypes of Arab ...
To find the cast for its upcoming live-action reboot of the 1992 animated classic Aladdin, Disney and director Guy Ritchie reportedly undertook a months-long, worldwide search with an estimated 2,000 ...
WEBVTT PLAY LAST MONTH. IT WAS DUE TO GO ON IN FEBRUARY. THE SCHOOL HELD A MEETING TONIGHT EXPLAINING WHY THEY DECIDED TO CANCEL. SOME PARENTS AGREE. OTHERS DON’T. AFTER THE WEST TOWN ELEMENTARY DRAMA ...
Actor Mena Massoud was cast as Aladdin in the upcoming remake of the Disney film [George Pimentel/Getty Images] Controversy ensued immediately after Disney announced that it would remake Aladdin, the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The description of Arabs as barbaric in Disney’s Aladdin Jr. is why Westowne Elementary School in Baltimore County, Md., has ...
Try to remember the most recent movie with an Arab hero and usually, after some eye-squinting and head-scratching, only one comes to mind. You guessed it: Aladdin. Our carpet-levitating friend with ...
The Arab industry is hoping Walt Disney’s live-action production of Aladdin is its flying carpet to a whole new world of opportunity and screen identity in Hollywood. Arab social media lit up the ...
Naomi Scott at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards at USC Galen Center on March 11, 2017. Getty Images/Emma McIntyre Disney is facing an intense backlash from “Aladdin” fans for casting a non-Arab ...
Citing negative stereotyping of Arab culture, a Baltimore County, Maryland, elementary school has canceled its production of Disney's "Aladdin Jr." Mother Danette Zaghari-Mask told WBAL-TV her son ...
Sharjah: Packed with impeccable narration and soulful music, the stage performance of famed Arabian fable Aladdin swept the theatre lovers off their feet as it took them to a magical journey of ...
Walt Disney World company, known as Disney, has decided to seek the stars of the new Aladdin film in the Middle East, specifically in Abu Dhabi, through the media production company Pyramedia.