CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Let’s be clear about Disney’s new live-action “Aladdin” -- there’s no Marvel-like post-credits scene that sets up “The Return of Jafar” or shows Abu coughing up an Infinity Stone.

The Disney live-action-remake-of-animated-classics train keeps on rolling, and “Aladdin” has done quite well at the box office despite the cynical outlook a lot of folks had for it. It’s pulled in ...

Princess Jasmine sang only one song in Disney’s 1992 animated version of “Aladdin.” And it was a duet. Sure, it was “A Whole New World,” arguably the film’s most famous song. But it wasn’t her own.