In Disney’s latest live-action reimagining, “Cruella,” a villain’s origin story is once again retold. But in the end, it’s actually more of a direct prequel to “101 Dalmatians” than you might’ve ...

Disney loves to do live-action remakes of their animated classics, but they also like something else: renegade origin stories for once-feared villains. It worked with Maleficent, sprung from Sleeping ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's Cruella! The Disney villainess made her grand entrance 60 years ago in the 1961 favorite 101 Dalmatians. (Photo: Walt ...

For a character that gets a little less than nine minutes of screen time in her 1961 screen debut, Cruella de Vil has an outsized legacy. Over the years, the villain of Disney’s original animated “101 ...

Disney tried to do away with Cruella de Vil as we knew her. She was a deranged and unhinged character who (at least for me) sometimes made 101 Dalmatians too scary to watch as a kid. WARNING: we're ...

Director Craig Gillespie's 101 Dalmatians prequel is very different from the story it sets up. On the contrary, watch closely and you'll see tons of 101 Dalmatians references in Cruella that not only ...

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Stone and costume designer Jenny Beavan participated in Zoom press conferences for Cruella on May 15. The film is in theaters and on Disney+ with Premiere Access on May 28. “As she is Cruella from 101 ...

After becoming an orphan at a very young age, Cruella slowly starts to learn that her family origins are much more sinister than she was originally led to believe. Following all the wild events in the ...

For 60 years, since Disney cornerstone 101 Dalmatians debuted in 1961, villainess Cruella de Vil has hardly been described as endearing. Enter: Emma Stone. Walt Disney Studios unveiled the first ...