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Who Was Most Popular, Class Clown, Biggest Mean Girl? The 2023 Hollywood Yearbook
Class Superlatives PROM QUEEN AND KING Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce The most talked-about entertainer of the year and the Super Bowl-winning podcaster combined their forces — and audiences — to forge the kind of four-quadrant cultural phenomenon the industry hasn’t seen in ages. Well, except for … MOST POPULAR Barbenheimer Combined global box office gross: $2.4 billion […]
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Disney Claims Proxy Fight Driven by Vendetta From Ousted Marvel Mogul
Disney will have to deal with a new proxy fight, as activist investor Nelson Peltz will seek board seats at the company. Peltz’s Trian Partners said Thursday morning that, having not received a warm welcome from Disney’s board of directors or from CEO Bob Iger, “Trian intends to take our case for change directly to […]
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Disney Taps James Gorman and Jeremy Darroch as New Board Members
The Walt Disney Co. is beefing up its board of directors. The company says that Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman and former Sky CEO Sir Jeremy Darroch will join the board in early 2024. The studio conglomerate cited Gorman’s experience with Morgan Stanley’s acquisition of E-Trade in 2020 to note that the exec will “provide […]
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Bob Iger Says He’s Been Conducting Succession “Postmortem,” Explains Pulling Ads From X
Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger says that he is focused on not repeating the same succession mistake he made last time. “I’ve tried hard to conduct my own postmortem, just so that we as a company don’t do it again,” Iger said Wednesday. “What did we do wrong? And we discovered certain things that […]
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At Town Hall, Bob Iger Tells Disney Employees “I’ve Never Second Guessed” Coming Back
Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger told employees of the company that his second turn as CEO has been more challenging than he anticipated, but that he is nonetheless “optimistic” about the entertainment giant’s future. “I knew that there were myriad challenges that I would face coming back,” Iger said at an employee town hall […]
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‘The Marvels’ Star Iman Vellani Isn’t Concerned With Box Office Discussion: “That’s for Bob Iger”
Iman Vellani would rather celebrate positive feedback to her film The Marvels, as opposed to focusing on its performance at the box office. The actress spoke to Yahoo Entertainment about the recent release in an interview published online Thursday. During the conversation, Vellani referenced Disney CEO Bob Iger when asked about the financial return for […]
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Disney Has ‘Frozen 4’ Movie in Development, Says Bob Iger
Disney CEO Bob Iger gave Frozen fans a strong hint that two sequels of the studio’s animated juggernaut may be in development. “Well, I’ll give you a little surprise there, Michael. Frozen 3 is in the works and there might be a Frozen 4 in the works too,” Iger told Good Morning America co-anchors Robin […]
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Marvel Studios Taking Stock of Strategy Amid ‘The Marvels’ Meltdown
The anything-but-marvelous performance of The Marvels is a moment of reckoning for Marvel Studios, the production house that has been the superhero of the box office for much of the past 15 years, since Iron Man burst onto the scene in 2008. Over the Nov. 10-12 weekend, The Marvels debuted to $46.1 million in North […]
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Disney Now in “Building” Phase, Bob Iger Says, Outlining New Areas of Focus
The Walt Disney Co., having restructured its operations, is now moving on to its next phase under CEO Bob Iger’s second turn leading the entertainment giant. Iger, of course, rejoined the company a year ago with a mandate to “set a new strategic direction.” In commentary tied to Disney’s latest quarterly earnings report (its fiscal […]
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Kevin Mayer Says Bob Iger Enlisted Him to Advise Disney Because He Needed “Part of His Team Back”
Disney CEO Bob Iger has “his hands full” with challenges, from an activist investor in Nelson Peltz, to big strategic decisions regarding Hulu and Disney’s linear channels, to setting a strategy for the future of the company. It is with that context in mind that Candle Media CEO and former top Disney executive Kevin Mayer […]
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Inside the A-List Pressure Campaign and Powerful Call That Brought SAG-AFTRA and Studios Back to the Table
A call from Disney CEO Bob Iger to SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on Saturday, Oct. 21, set in motion the long-awaited return to negotiations between the union and Hollywood studios later this week. During that conversation, Iger expressed the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers’ desire to get back to bargaining and […]
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Disney Donates $2M to Support Humanitarian Relief in Israel After Hamas Attack
The Walt Disney Co. is donating $2 million to humanitarian relief efforts in Israel following the devastating terror attacks that hit the country over the weekend. The company is donating $1 million to Magen David Adom, an affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies that provides emergency medical and blood […]
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