It could have been Dwight Howard. Instead, Mickey Mouse was chumming it up with Los Angeles Lakers’ star Kobe Bryant as they rode down Main Street U.S.A. together. Disneyland in Anaheim, Ca., hosted a victory parade Thursday for Kobe and the...

The Walt Disney Co. will report fiscal third-quarter earnings just after 4 p.m. this afternoon, which will show just how tightly Walt Disney World and the rest of the company's theme parks are being squeezed by the recession -- and, perhaps, give an...

The Walt Disney Co.’s year-end financial filing reveals how significantly Disney Vacation Club was affected by tight credit conditions during the year. Early on in Disney’s 2009 fiscal year, in December 2008, banker Citigroup stopped buying...

The Disney Dream, the first of two new 4,000-passenger ocean liners being built by Disney Cruise Line, is inching closer to its maiden voyage in January 2011. And that means more bills are coming due. Payments for ship construction helped...

Spending on tickets, food and merchandise at Walt Disney World fell in 2009, the first annual drop at the Orlando resort in nearly a decade and yet another example of how it has been squeezed by the global recession. Guests...

There is yet another new player in Orlando's theme-park business. Cable-TV giant Comcast Corp. said Thursday that it had completed a long-discussed deal with General Electric Co. to acquire NBC Universal, the media conglomerate that co-owns Universal...

After months of near silence, Universal Orlando is starting to sell Harry Potter. The theme-park resort has in recent weeks ramped up advertising for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the highly anticipated addition scheduled to open next spring in...