Disney Apologizes For Fining Elementary School Over Lion King Showing

Disney CEO Bob Iger apologizes to Emerson Elementary PTA for issuing a licensing fine over their use of 2019’s The Lion King in a fundraiser. Disney apologized for fining an elementary school over their screening of the 2019 computer animated remake of The Lion King. Last year’s remake of the traditionally animated 1994 classic made some significant plot alterations to the original, and has generated a lot of strange or unfortunate news since its release in July. On the stranger side of things, Disney did not submit it as an animated film for either the Golden Globes or the Oscars, possibly because Disney would prefer to classify it as a live-action film much like their 2016 remake of The Jungle Book. However, The Lion King contains no live-action human actors and was put into the animation category without Disney’s prompting.