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 ...

BAXTER — Being bad never looked quite so good. “Cruella” is the live-action prequel to the Disney animated classic “101 Dalmatians.” The new release is an origin story about a young Cruella de Vil, ...

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 ...

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's policy about smoking on-screen left Emma Stone's take on Cruella de Vil without her famous prop. She may not be the title character, but there’s no question that Cruella de Vil is a bigger ...