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Disenchantment (TV series)

Disenchantment is Matt Groening and Josh Weinstein's adult animated fantasy comedy on Netflix (2018-2023), set in Dreamland with Princess Bean, Elfo, and Luci; five parts, 50 episodes, ended September 1, 2023.

Disfrutar

Disfrutar, Catalan for "to enjoy," is a three-Michelin-star restaurant in Barcelona opened in 2014 by three former elBulli chefs, named the world's best restaurant in 2024.

Disgrace

Disgrace (1999) is J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel about David Lurie, a disgraced Cape Town professor, and his daughter Lucy on an Eastern Cape farm in post-apartheid South Africa; not the Finnish death metal band, the play Disgraced, or Robin Patchen's novel.

Disgusting (album)

Disgusting is the 2014 debut album by American metalcore band Beartooth, released June 10 on Red Bull Records; Caleb Shomo played all instruments, and it spawned the Gold single "In Between."

Disha Parmar

Disha Parmar (दिशा परमार), born 1994 in Delhi, is an Indian TV actress known as Pankhuri in Pyaar Ka Dard Hai and Priya in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 2 and 3; wife of singer Rahul Vaidya, ITA Best Actress 2022.

Disha Patani (दिशा पटानी)

Disha Patani (दिशा पाटनी), Indian actress born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh; Telugu debut Loafer (2015), Hindi breakthrough as Priyanka Jha in M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016, IIFA Best Female Debut); later Baaghi 2, Kalki 2898 AD, and a 2026 Hollywood debut opposite Kevin Spacey.

Disha Vakani (દિશા વકાની)

Disha Vakani (दिशा वकानी, દિશા વકાની), born 1978 in Ahmedabad, is an Indian actress, daughter of Gujarati theatre figure Bhim Vakani, famous as Dayaben of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (2008–2017/2020 cameo).

Dishoom (दिशूम)

Dishoom (ढिशुम) is a 2016 Hindi action comedy directed by Rohit Dhawan, starring John Abraham and Varun Dhawan as cops rescuing a kidnapped Indian cricketer before an India-Pakistan match; it earned 63.39 crore in India.

Dishwasher

A dishwasher, also called a dishwashing machine, is a kitchen appliance that cleans, rinses, and dries dishware and utensils by recirculating water and detergent through spray arms.

Disinherited

Disinherited is an upcoming FX crime drama created by Peter Gould of Better Call Saul, starring Victoria Pedretti and Kiera Allen as sisters pulled into generational wealth and buried crimes by an unexpected inheritance; ordered to series in March 2026, expected 2027.

Disintegration (The Cure album)

Disintegration is The Cure's eighth studio album, released 2 May 1989 on Fiction Records, produced by Robert Smith and David M. Allen. The dark gothic rock record sold over 3 million copies behind "Lovesong" (US no. 2) and "Lullaby" (UK no. 5).

Disiz

Disiz, also Disiz la Peste and Disiz Peter Punk, is the stage name of Sérigne M'Baye Gueye, a French rapper and singer born in 1978 in Amiens.

Disjointed

Disjointed is a 2017-2018 Netflix multicam sitcom co-created by Chuck Lorre and David Javerbaum, starring Kathy Bates as dispensary owner Ruth Whitefeather Feldman; 20 episodes, canceled after one two-part season, 19% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Disney Fairies

Disney Fairies is Disney's multimedia franchise around Tinker Bell and the Never Fairies of Pixie Hollow, launched September 2005 with Gail Carson Levine's novel, spanning chapter books, the 2008-2014 DisneyToon animated films, the Pixie Hollow virtual world, and the revived Wings of Pixie Hollow novel series.

Disney Legends

Disney Legends is The Walt Disney Company's hall of fame, begun in 1987 with Fred MacMurray; honorees receive the Andrea Favilli bronze award and, since 2009, are named biennially at D23, totaling 329 by 2026.

Disney Princess

Disney Princess is a Disney Consumer Products franchise created in 2000 under Andy Mooney, uniting eight heroines; today 13 official princesses, with Anna and Elsa excluded and $3 billion retail sales by 2005.

Disney Renaissance

Disney Renaissance: 1989–1999 revival of Walt Disney Feature Animation, from The Little Mermaid to Tarzan, driven by Eisner, Katzenberg, Roy Disney, Broadway-style musicals, and digital tools.

Disney Sing-Along Songs

Disney Sing-Along Songs: Walt Disney Home Video compilation series (1986-2006, 32 volumes) of Disney songs with on-screen bouncing-ball lyrics, hosted by Professor Owl and Ludwig Von Drake, on VHS, laserdisc, and DVD.

Disney Television Animation

Disney Television Animation (DTVA), founded November 1984 under Gary Krisel, is Disney's television animation studio behind Adventures of the Gummi Bears, DuckTales, Phineas and Ferb, and Gravity Falls, producing series, specials, and direct-to-video features from its Glendale offices for Disney channels and Disney+.

Disney Theatrical Productions

Disney Theatrical Productions, now Disney Theatrical Group, is the Walt Disney Company's stage producing arm. Founded in 1993, its 10 Broadway titles, led by The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Frozen, have been seen by 240 million people.

Disney Tsum Tsum (ディズニーツムツム)

Disney Tsum Tsum (ディズニーツムツム), also called TSUM TSUM, is a Japanese-born Disney franchise of stackable round plush launched 2013, plus the NHN PlayArt-developed, LINE-operated mobile puzzle game LINE: Disney Tsum Tsum (29 January 2014, 10 million downloads in 62 days), figures, and the Switch title Disney Tsum Tsum Festival.

Disney Vault

Disney Vault: the Walt Disney Company's home-video moratorium policy (also 'Disney Vault strategy'), withdrawing animated classics from retail for periodic re-releases from the 1980s until Bob Iger retired it with Disney+ in 2019.

Disney's Nine Old Men

Disney's Nine Old Men: Walt Disney's nickname for his core supervising animators, Les Clark, Marc Davis, Ollie Johnston, Milt Kahl, Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Frank Thomas, who shaped classic Disney character animation, wrote The Illusion of Life, and became Disney Legends in 1989.

Disney's One Too

Disney's One Too, later Disney's Animation Weekdays, was a two-hour UPN children's cartoon block (September 6, 1999 to August 2003), a spin-off of One Saturday Morning featuring Doug, Recess, Hercules, and Sabrina.

Disney's The Kid

Disney's The Kid is a 2000 American comedy-drama directed by Jon Turteltaub, in which Bruce Willis plays an image consultant magically confronted by his own 8-year-old self.

Disneynature

Disneynature is Disney's nature-documentary film label, launched April 21, 2008 after March of the Penguins, headed by Jean-Francois Camilleri from France, reviving the True-Life Adventures tradition with films like Earth, Chimpanzee, and Tiger.

Disneytoon Studios

Disneytoon Studios (originally Disney MovieToons) was Disney's direct-to-video and theatrical animation studio, active 1990-2018, known for sequel features, the Tinker Bell series, Planes, and its June 2018 closure with 75 staff.

Disobedience (2017 film)

Disobedience (2017), Sebastián Lelio's English-language debut drama adapted from Naomi Alderman's novel, stars Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams as former lovers reunited in a North London Orthodox Jewish community; premiered at TIFF 2017, grossed $8 million worldwide.

Disodium inosinate

Disodium inosinate (E 631, INS 631), the disodium salt of inosine-5'-monophosphate, CAS 4691-65-0, FEMA 3669, is a ribonucleotide flavor enhancer identified in bonito in 1913, synergistic with glutamate, permitted in the US under 21 CFR 172.535 and in the EU and Great Britain.

Disovo proleće

Disovo proleće is an annual poetry festival held in Čačak, Serbia, since 1964 in memory of poet Vladislav Petković Dis, running from March to May.