It feels like beginning of the end. Last week, there were rumblings online that Disney had plans to discontinue its release of physical media overseas. Today, we learned that those rumblings are true. According to the Australian news outlet 7news.au, Disney has confirmed that it will no longer sell physical DVDs and Blu-rays in Australia
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This year, the Walt Disney Company will celebrate its 100th anniversary. As such there’s sure to be plenty of big news regarding the future for the company ranging from the parks to the movies and so on. But despite the studio now being a century old in all that time there’s still one major thing
Another week, another insane story centered around Disney CEO Bob Chapek. In a new report from Business Insider (no relation to The DisInsider), former Disney CEO Bob Iger calls the hiring of Bob Chapek to CEO his worst business decision. Bob Iger was set to walk away from the role of CEO on good terms,
Beginning this July 1st, Bob Chapek will enter a new deal at Disney. Not only will he continue to serve as the company’s CEO, but he’ll remain in charge for at least another 3 years. The news will most certainly surprise most, especially members of the LGTBQ community, considering his handling of Florida’s “Don’t Say
Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis passed the controversial “Don’t Say Bill.” The bill, which would limit discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, has been the subject of debate since its inception. Despite CEO Bob Chapek’s conflicting public responses over the course of the last few weeks and reports of internal turmoil –
As we reported earlier this week, numerous Disney employees all across America are planning to walk off their jobs today. This massive movement comes as the Walt Disney Company – and especially CEO Bob Chapek – continue to face backlash for their public response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The bill, which would limit
Last week, a group of Pixar employees sent a statement to the Walt Disney Company that both voiced their concern and sounded the whistle about the animation studio’s active attempts to censor “overtly gay affection” in feature-length products. The timing of the statement came just as Disney faced mounting criticism for its public response to
The Proud Family reboot series may have premiered less than two weeks ago, yet Disney has already decided to keep director Latoya Raveneau around for future projects. According to Deadline, the writer, producer, and director has signed an overall deal to develop and produce more projects for Disney Television Animation and its still relatively new
With all the stress in the world these days, it’s so much fun to talk about something that brings joy to all. That is the D23 Disney Expo in Anaheim this fall. D23 Expo, the largest Disney fan event in the world, celebrates all the wonderful worlds of The Walt Disney Company under one roof,
Following its exclusive premiere for D23 members last June, the mysterious and long-awaited documentary The Adventures Thru the Walt Disney Archives will finally be accessible to fans via Disney+ next month! This news comes courtesy of Collider, who first broke the story. The John Gleim-directed film follows Disney legend Don Hahn as he explores the
I had the privilege of talking with author and Disney veteran David Bossert about some of his work including his upcoming book on Disney Legend Claude Coats. In addition to a 30+ year career in Walt Disney Animation, Bossert is an accomplished author writing numerous books about the company including Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The
4406 West Kingswell Avenue is now a “Los Angles Historical Cultural Monument” Firstly, I am a huge fan of Disneyana and love tracking Walt’s whereabouts during major moments in his life. And, back in the day, Walt and his brother Roy Disney made many stops in and around Los Angeles. Secondly, you can visit many
On the heels of the announcement that it would be restructuring and expanding its Digital Media & Entertainment Distribution team earlier this week, it appears that yet another major corporate decision has been made at Disney. Thursday, The Walt Disney Company appointed veteran entrepreneurs Amy Chang and Calvin McDonald to its Board of Directors. This
Monday, Disney announced that it would be restructuring and expanding its Media & Entertainment Distribution Technology team to support its ongoing and exponentialy digital growth. According to Deadline in addition to hiring new executives, the Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) office also promoted several workers. Originally responsible for a handful of operations, the new
Disney has announced that they will be taking bigger steps when it comes to their Inclusion Key. As part of this key, they have made changes to their “Disney Look” guidelines so cast members can have more flexibility and be able to express themselves more freely. Here is the statement from Disney. Read: David Beckham
After a year full of lockdowns and zoom calls, there is some normalcy on the horizon for Walt Disney Company employees. While the domestic theme parks are all at some stage of a phased reopening, the latest news concerns those who work at the Walt Disney Company in their US offices. According to an internal
This is a non-spoiler review of the first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier BUT it does contain mild spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. When Marvel released the first trailer for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, I thought it looked good, but I wasn’t excited about it. I was
After the horrific and deadly events of Wednesday January 6th, 2020, Bob Chapek, CEO of the Walt Disney Company, released a statement: “Yesterday was a sad and tragic day for our country, one unlike any other in our history. What we saw was an egregious and inexcusable assault on America’s most revered institution and our
Let’s just cut to the chase, the stock market is loving Disney right now and it is showing up in their stock price. Once again Disney’s stock price hit an all-time high today, breaking $180 a share for the first time and peaking at a new record high of $183.40 earlier on Wednesday 12/30. While
Our friends over at the Illuminerdi have learned that Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) has joined Disney’s new animated film, Encanto. The trade is reporting that Beatriz will play Maribel, the films main character. READ: Disney Films Hitting Theaters in 2021 Earlier this year we reported that following Raya and the Last Dragon, Walt Disney Animation Studios will be
When Bob Iger stepped down as Walt Disney CEO, it was a matter of time before Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn made a similar move. Now, that time has finally come. Horn has named Alan Bergman the new studio chairman. Bergman will help guide the company’s push into the world of streaming with Disney+ and
Thirteen short months ago Disney released their major foray into the streaming wars, Disney+. While they had an ownership interesting in Hulu and ran ESPN+, this was the flagship service everyone was waiting to see. Disney, along with Wall Street analysts, forecasted a modest growth for Disney+. Their five year forecast gave Disney+ 60-90 million
Disney’s shares have been rising this week in anticipation of their big Investor Day 2020. The stock hit all-time highs multiple times over the past few days. There is a lot of speculation regarding what Disney will announce at the event tomorrow (Thursday December 10th), there seems to be unanimous agreement that it will be
Disney’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Christine McCarthy, has extended her contract with the company until the end of 2022. The news comes as stocks for the company begin to surge after recent parks and streaming news. McCarthy has been a key communicator with Wall Street about Disney’s streaming pivot and efforts to
This Thursday The Walt Disney Company will make their annual presentation to their investors at their “Investor Day 2020.” While Disney tends to make its splashiest and more exciting announcements regarding theme parks, major film franchises, and their most popular properties at their D23 Expo. These investor presentations are aimed more for… well, investors, and
I thought, as a huge fan, it would be fun and fitting to do a brief story on the man himself Walt Disney, seeing that today would have been his 119th birthday. So let’s take a trip down memory lane and look at some of the remarkable highlights of one the one and only –
Today, December 3rd, at 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific, the Walt Disney Co stock NYSE: DIS, hit $154.14 a share, the second highest the stock has been in the company’s history, missing the record by a few cents. After seeing the steepest drop in the company’s history earlier this year, due to Covid-19, the company has worked
After 25 years, Radio Disney will be closing operations in the first quarter of 2021, as the Walt Disney Company continues to reevaluate their business model. The move is related to the effort to have Disney Branded Television focus more on upping the production of kids’ and family content for Disney+ and Disney Channels. Here
Earlier today The Walt Disney Company released their fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020 earnings report. With a simple passing glance the numbers might appear to be bad news, but in context with the COVID-19 pandemic, the news was actually very good and the investment community responded appropriately. As usual, Disney released their earnings report
Following yesterday’s news that Disney would be laying off numerous individuals at ESPN, there are reportedly more jobs being cut within the company’s studio division. From Disney’s theatrical stage team in New York – which has been particularly hit hard due to the Broadway shutdown – to members of its own marketing department, the company
As the future of the movie theater industry – and moviegoing as a whole – becomes increasingly uncertain, all eyes have turned to streaming services. Not only do they offer the easiest way to consume content, but they also encourage the safest way to consume it amid the ongoing global pandemic. For those reasons, one
If you follow Disney news you likely saw reporting that Disney is being sued by Evel Knievel’s son over the Duke Caboom character from the 2019 Toy Story 4 film. I decided to take a closer look at the lawsuit to give you a better understanding of what is being claimed and why. So, let’s
Last month, during the Walt Disney Company’s quarterly earnings call, CEO Bob Chapek announced that the company would be hosting another Investors Day event in the coming months. Today, LiveStorm revealed that the event will be taking place on Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 at 10:00 AM (AST). For those unfamiliar, LiveStorm is the streaming site that
The Walt Disney Company is the biggest spender when it comes to advertising on Facebook in the first half of 2020, and now they’ve made the decision to spend advertising for Disney+ and Hulu on the social media giant. According to the Wall Street Journal, Disney decided to scale back on advertising on Facebook amid
It was announced Monday that former NFL player and prominent American activist Colin Kaepernick struck a first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company. As a part of the deal, Kaepernick will be the focus of a docuseries produced and distributed exclusively by ESPN Films. The deal includes a partnership Kaepernick’s very own production company, Ra
