Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney Getty Images for Disney Shares in Walt Disney Corp. opened at $118.04 today, an increase of 5.6% over yesterday’s close of $110.78 after returning CEO B...
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Disney Stock On Track For Worst Year Since 1974
(Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Takeaways Disney stock has plummeted almost 45% so far this year, which is looking set to be the worst performance since 1974. The latest fall has come...
The Walt Disney Company Had Significant Changes In 2022, Here’s What That Means For 2023
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 18: Disney Executive Chairman Bob Iger attends the Exclusive … [+] 100-Minute Sneak Peek of Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back at El Capitan The...
DeSantis Denies Reports That Florida Lawmakers Are Backtracking On Punishing Disney
Topline Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office denied a bombshell report Friday morning claiming that state lawmakers were considering reversing their earlier fight with Walt Disney World, insisting the state will...
The Disney CFO Who Raised Concerns About Bob Chapek Has Respect on the Street
Christine McCarthy, Walt Disney Co. ’s longtime finance chief, took an unusual step when she expressed a lack of confidence in the chief executive to directors of the entertainment giant. Finance chi...
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger Is Back Again And Shareholders Are Loving It
| Getty Images Key Takeaways Bob Iger led Disney as CEO from 2005 through 2020, turning the company into a media juggernaut. Under ex-CEO Bob Chapek, the company continued to grow until the most recen...
Succession Planning Is No Fairy Tale For Bob Iger And Disney
FILE – Robert Iger arrives at the world premiere of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” in Los … [+] Angeles, on Dec. 16, 2019. The Walt Disney Company announced late Sunday, N...
Can Bob Iger Fix Disney In Two Short Years?
Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney. Getty Images for Disney In one of the wildest management shake-ups in history, Bob Chapek—who has been widely praised by insiders and investors for ste...
Robert Iger Returns As Disney CEO After Successor Bob Chapek Is Ousted
Disney on Sunday announced that Robert Iger will return to lead the company as its CEO in a stunning move that comes just two and half years after he stepped down from the role and handpicked his succ...
Insights On The Midterms, Marketing And Musk’s Terrible Week
Debating the future of marketing with (L to R) Ashley Haynes-Gaspar of Microsoft, Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor, Square CMO Lauren Weinberg, and Sherry Phillips, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer ...
ESPN To Make Bold Move Into Sports Betting
Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for ESPN. Getty Images for ESPN Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek said mysteriously at the D23 Expo held over the weekend that he had big plans for ESPN, but didn’t ...
Poor ‘Lightyear’ Box Office Highlights Disney’s Increasing Reliance On Marvel
SCI-FI ACTION ADVENTURE – The definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans), the hero who inspired the toy, “Lightyear” follows the legendary Space Ranger on an intergalactic advent...
‘Same-Sex Kissing’ Warning Sign For ‘Lightyear’ Removed From Oklahoma Theater After Backlash
Topline An Oklahoma movie theater came under fire this week after it posted a sign warning parents of a “same-sex kissing scene” in Pixar’s Lightyear—which it has since removed—becoming the latest bat...
Quarter Two 2022 Reveals A Strong Year Ahead For Disney
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 14: A logo for The Walt Disney Company is displayed on a trading post during the … [+] opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), May 14, 2019 in N...
Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Gets A Disney+ Trailer
Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney Coming amid Bob Chapek’s controversial comments (or non-comments) about Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and handwringing over Pixar’s Turning Red going straight to Disne...
‘Turning Red’ Again Shows That The Pixar Slump Was Just A Myth
TURNING RED PIXAR Turning Red 2021 98 minutes Rated PG Debuting on Disney+ March 11 Turning Red is yet another Pixar triumph. It is yet more evidence that the so-called Pixar slump, which became a fas...