One movie that kind of slid under the radar at the D23 expo in Anaheim this weekend was Disney’s reboot of the 1977 musical “Pete’s Dragon.” A small amount of footage was debuted on stage ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Some traits of the cuddly cartoon star from 1977's live-action/animated hybrid Pete’s Dragon remain in the DNA of the new one: Elliot has a gut ...

Pete's Dragon ... too closely to the 1977 live-action and animated musical hybrid of the same name to great success. The new Disney film rebuilds the story of Pete's Dragon from the ground up.

There is still the question, though, of where the idea for the 1977 version of Pete's Dragon came from. And it's a story that started several decades before the film's release. The original Pete's ...

"Pete's Dragon" would still be a good film. It's a fairly radical reboot of the 1977 animated film "Pete's Dragon," much like this year's equally pleasing early summer child-raised-by-animals-in ...

In making a new version of “Pete’s Dragon,” Dallas director David Lowery didn’t keep much from Disney’s original — and still very weird — 1977 film. He kept the title, he kept a kid ...

Photo: Walt Disney Pictures The clearest difference between Disney’s remake of “Pete’s Dragon” and the 1977 original is the evolution of Pete’s almost-constant companion, a dino-size ...

The idea was to remake "Pete's Dragon," Disney's 1977 live-action/animated hybrid about an orphaned boy who is befriended by a sweet, sometimes invisible dragon. Once upon a time, that might have ...