P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson)—the irascible author of Mary Poppins—frets and complains bitterly throughout Saving Mr. Banks that her beloved story will lose its realistic edge in the hands of Walt ...

“Saving Mr. Banks” tells the story of the making of 1964's “Mary Poppins,” one of Walt Disney's most well-known, and profitable, films. The struggle by Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) to gain the rights for P ...

LOS ANGELES - Jason Schwartzman didn't realize until he was cast as songwriter Richard M. Sherman in "Saving Mr. Banks" how familiar he was with his work. "If you had asked me a week before being cast ...

On the first day of rehearsals for “Saving Mr. Banks,” Jason Schwartzman was running 20 minutes late. By the time he got to the tableread with Emma Thompson and the rest of the actors, he was in an ...

From "Sunset Boulevard" to "Barton Fink," we've often had the writer's perspective on the painful life of movie scripting. Now, in Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks," we have the studio's. The movie is based ...