"SAVING MR. BANKS"..P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), left; Walt Disney (Tom Hanks), right, in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks"...Ph: François Duhamel..©Disney Enterprises ...

When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins,” he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his ...

“This world is just an illusion,” alcoholic Travers Goff told his daughter Helen. That little girl never forgot those kind but strangely melancholy words, and she never forgot her father, either.

Tom Hanks is Walt Disney and Emma Thompson is writer PL Travers in Saving Mr Banks, a story recounting the tumultuous and highly emotional journey that brought Mary Poppins to the big screen. François ...

As we look forward to the holiday season — and major movies begin to open at theaters — the Reel Dad checks out the nutritional value of the releases. This week’s pick is Saving Mr. Banks, the new ...

For people who love love love Disney — Disneyland, DisneyWorld, Disney Channel, Disney movies, Disney princesses, Disney resorts, etc. — what could be better than a Disney movie about Walt Disney ...

John Lee Hancock, director of “Saving Mr. Banks,” is used to making movies about real people. He adapted the screenplay for the nonfiction “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” made his ...

“It’s about bloody time!” said Clare Stewart, the BFI London Film Festival’s Artistic Director, in her introduction to the first woman to give the festival’s annual industry keynote address, the ...