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From Animal Kingdom to animal free — Walt Disney executive chairman Bob Iger has joined the board of Perfect Day, an animal-free dairy maker based in Berkeley, California that says it's "the most well-funded protein fermentation company in the world." Iger will fill the company's first founder-designated seat on the…

UPDATED with statement from Walt Disney: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has blasted Walt Disney for deep staff cuts at its U.S. theme parks announced recently even as she said the conglomerate has reinstated pay for highly compensated senior executives. A Walt Disney company spokesperson in a statement called…

“We don't anticipate in the immediate term any of these larger parks opening until we see more stability in terms of the data.” Those are the long-awaited words of California Gov. Gavin Newsom on the fate of the state’s still-closed amusement parks. “We feel there's no hurry to put out guidelines, and we continue to…

Two days after Disney announced some 28,000 layoffs in its U.S. parks business, chairman Bob Iger has resigned from California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s task force on the state’s economic recovery. The Sacramento Bee <a…

The Walt Disney Company may be losing some of its privilege, at least when it comes to a potential pay-equity class action lawsuit against the House of Mouse, what they knew and when they knew it. As part of the ongoing action first filed back in April 2019 by two long time female employees of Disney, a Los Angeles…

REFRESH FOR UPDATES…. The death of Chadwick Boseman tonight has sent shockwaves through Hollywood at the loss of a man who was as full of grace as he was talent. The Black Panther star passed away Friday from colon cancer at age 43. Boseman had been battling the disease since 2016, the year he first appeared as…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of Beyoncé’s Black Is King film from Disney+ Mere hours after the near presidential funeral for Rep. John Lewis and days after the debut of an in-depth podcast series from Michelle Obama, Beyoncé leap into the arena of Black excellence again tonight with Black Is…

Abigail Disney, granddaughter of Walt Disney Co. co-founder Roy O. Disney, continued her attacks on her namesake company in a fusillade of tweets Thursday warning that “layoffs are coming.” The 24-part attack centered on what she called the “greed-is-good” ethos of American corporations, including Disney, a matter of…

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign got a big boost in the latest quarter that brought it into closer parity with Donald Trump’s fundraising juggernaut, as the former vice president saw major contributions from a number of industry moguls and media titans. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who hosted an event for Biden last month…

Walt Disney World, the biggest theme park on the globe and arguably the Walt Disney Company's most important asset, opened for business Saturday after being shuttered for nearly four months with a swell of hope and twinge of apprehension. The anticipation has been massive given the symbolic heft of the park, a…

It’s not often that you see iconic weaponry from a galaxy far, far away in the same clip as an Omnitrix and a classic costumed superhero, but Julian Bass just changed all that. The 20-year-old Georgia State University theater major has gone viral with a self-produced video in which he morphs through three of his…

"The recent killing of George Floyd as well as other instances of lethal attacks and harassment of unarmed black citizens in our nation continue to drive outrage and calls for action by people of all cultural backgrounds, including many of our employees," say Disney's CEO, Executive Chairman and SVP and Chief…