Despite dubbing itself the “Happiest Place on Earth,” guests at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, are expressing on social media that the resort appears to be in decline.
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger recently explained why the entertainment giant abandoned plans to buy Twitter in 2016, noting that a “substantial number” of the platform’s users are bots and fake accounts.
Disney is set to cancel both ESPN Classic and ESPN 2.0, according to a report from Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand.
Entertainment giant Disney is reportedly looking to ax ESPN, which has been bleeding subscribers for years.
While many Americans lost jobs and income, were evicted from their homes, shuttered their businesses (many forever), and turned away workers and patrons, a majority of Hollywood’s elite executives and CEOs enjoyed a pay hike during the pandemic.
In the latest example of corporate complicity through silence, the Walt Disney Co. has refused to comment on a recent report that China is overseeing the systematic rape of ethnic minority women in the western Xinjiang region. The BBC News reported earlier this month that women in China’s concentration camps for Uyghurs have been repeatedly raped, sexually abused, and tortured.
Bob Iger, chairman of the Walt Disney Co., has expressed interest in becoming ambassador to China under Joe Biden, reportedly making overtures to people in the president-elect’s team about the plum diplomatic post.
Hollywood executives added diesel fuel to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign during the second quarter, with Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman, Steven Spielberg and Bob Iger each donating six-figure sums in the hopes of propelling the 77-year-old former vice president into the White House.
Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Walt Disney legacy, slammed the Walt Disney Company for slashing workers’ pay while doling out massive executive bonuses in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Senior Disney executives are reportedly bashing plans to reduce their salaries between 20 and 30 percent amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, with no firm date as to when the cuts would end.
Meghan Markle’s debut as narrator of a new Disney documentary about elephants in the African wild has been dismissed as a dramatic misfire by critics, with observations she is “over-eager to please” through “schmaltz and cheesiness” being just two of the more unkind pieces of analysis.
Disney will not be adding the 1946 animation Song Of The South to its Disney+ streaming service because it is “not appropriate in today’s world,” the company’s executive chairman Bob Iger said this week.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Walt Disney Co. has named Bob Chapek CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective immediately.
Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos said he’s very interested in striking an Obama-like deal with Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Meghan Markle after the pair announced they would be quitting royal duties and moving to Canada.
A video showing Prince Harry begging the head of Disney for voiceover work for his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been deleted from Twitter for allegedly violating the platform’s “copyright policy”.
Disney gave a dying Star Wars fan a huge last wish, Friday, by reaching out to a British hospice care center to set up an advanced screening of the studio’s highly anticipated upcoming film The Rise of Skywalker.
Disney’s big new streaming service, Disney+, has already been hacked and the personal information of thousands of customers have been stolen.
The Walt Disney Company has apologized to subscribers of the new Disney+ streaming service following reports that many users were experiencing outages on the service’s first day.
The Walt Disney Company chairman and CEO Bob Iger continues to tip-toe around questions concerning China, saying that “caution is imperative” and that taking a position that could harm the company would be “a big mistake.” Bob Iger made the comments
How about making an actual case, Bob Iger…??? How about explaining to us why we will still be watching Marvel movies in a hundred years.
The Walt Disney Company chairman and CEO Bob Iger avoided talking about the controversy surrounding China and pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong in a recent sit-down interview with CNBC, saying that the recent backlash against the NBA represents “a cautionary tale.”
Barack and Michelle Obama have been named for the first time among Hollywood’s most powerful people in the annual 100 list published by The Hollywood Reporter.
Disney CEO Bob Iger recently said that his decision to fire Roseanne Barr from her own hit TV show was an “easy” one to make.
She may not be running for president herself but it appears that Oprah Winfrey has found one person who she thinks could make a great president: Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Disney will offer its upcoming Disney+ streaming service, as well as ESPN+ and Hulu, in a new subscription bundle for $12.99 per month, prompting “RIP Netflix” to trend on Twitter late Tuesday.
Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, described Disney’s support for “pro-abortion ideology” as contrary to the company’s business interests given their focus on creating entertainment content for children.
Film industry giants Disney and Netflix are threatening to boycott the state of Georgia over its new “heartbeat” abortion law, but have continued and even stepped up filming in countries in which abortion is entirely illegal or highly restricted.
Leaders of a local chapter of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE Local 479) are reassuring their members that, despite a call for a boycott of Georgia by Hollywood elites over its new “heartbeat” abortion law, the union “expects continuing job stability.”
WarnerMedia, the parent company of CNN, HBO, and TNT, among many other television networks, released a statement Thursday threatening to “reconsider Georgia as the home to any new productions” if the state’s new law restricting abortions is held up in court.
Bob Iger’s remarks put him in lockstep with the abortion lobby led by Planned Parenthood, the Hollywood left, and political activists who’ve endorsed everything from sex strikes to boycotts in protest of Georgia’s law.
Disney can only hope that to meet its goal of signing up 12 million subscribers over the next five years. But if the trends hold, over those same five years a lot more than 12 million will cut the cord.
The Walt Disney Co. was hit with a class action lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the media giant routinely pays its male employees more than females.
Disney has closed its $71 billion acquisition of Fox’s entertainment business, putting “Cinderella,” ″The Simpsons,” ″Star Wars” and “Dr. Strange” under one corporate roof.
After years of denials, Disney CEO Bob Iger is finally on record admitting that ESPN went too far to the left by saturating their coverage with liberal politics. And ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro agrees with him.
Disney’s Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger admitted in a revealing interview released Thursday that ESPN became too political, an issue Hollywood’s most powerful man says the sports network’s president is trying to fix.
Comcast announced Thursday it is pulling out of the bidding war with Walt Disney Co. for film and television operations of 21st Century Fox.
Disney is eager to fire and replace Kathleen Kennedy over her disastrous handling of the Star Wars franchise, reports Grace Randolph of Beyond the Trailer.
John Lasseter, the Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation and Pixar Animation, is leaving his role at the end of the year in wake of misconduct allegations.
Conservative Commentator S.E. Cupp shared a letter that her mother wrote to ESPN re-hire Keith Olbermann, in response to a tweet from Olbermann in which he suggested that S.E. Cupp was “a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.”
“Iger, where is my call of apology? You and ABC have offended millions of people, and they demand a response,” Trump wrote. “How is Brian Ross doing? He tanked the market with an ABC lie, yet no apology. Double Standard!”
