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What's in a Name?

Disney raised more than a few eyebrows recently when its upcoming animated film Rapunzel was renamed the comparatively gender-neutral Tangled. "We did not want to be put in a box," said Pixar and Disney Animation Studios president Ed Catmull, still bruised from the underperforming The Princess and the Frog. "Some people might assume it's a fairy tale for girls when it's not." That's the same rationale that got Disney's in-development project The Snow Queen canned (on account of the difficulty of renaming it Snow: Monster Truck Explosion, we presume). [LAT]