He is a small, green creature, but Jiminy Cricket had a big heart. It’s this Disney character that guided Pinocchio on his adventure to become a real boy. He also appeared in several other Disney ...

In the latest episode of “We Call It Imagineering,” Disney revealed several exciting details of the upcoming “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away” parade, including the news that the parade will ...

Briar Rose, a.k.a. Princess Aurora, grew up with only three well-meaning fairy guardians to talk to. So it’s not surprising that she would be so conversation-starved that she’d turn to a flock of ...

Pioneering animator Ward Kimball, who helped modernize Mickey Mouse’s look in 1938 and created the character Jiminy Cricket for the Disney classic “Pinocchio,” died Monday of natural causes in Arcadia ...

Disney's upcoming live-action Pinocchio movie has cast more of its main roles, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Batman) lined up to voice Jiminy Cricket and Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) playing the Blue Fairy.

Ward Kimball, the Oscar-winning animator who made Jiminy Cricket wish upon a star and who remade Mickey Mouse into a kid-friendly icon, died Monday in California. The 88-year-old Kimball was one of ...