In the original animated Lion King, the hyenas were depicted as crass lowlifes that many interpreted as thinly veiled stand-ins for minorities. The new version goes in a different direction. In case ...

Maybe not as seriously as the hyena researchers that filed a lawsuit against Disney upon the release of the animated film The Lion King back in 1994. While Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed — the three main ...

Long before Whoopi Goldberg was dicing it up in the often-controversial talk show "The View," the actress showed she could survive in the jungle – as part of a trio of hyenas in 1994's "The Lion King.

The upcoming live-action-that's-not-live-action Lion King has kept a lot of things the same, but there's one element of the 1994 original that has been almost entirely changed. Ahead of Disney's ...