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UPDATED with more details: Just days after the first court hearing in Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow profits mega-bite lawsuit on Disney was pushed back to March 2022, the Oscar nominee and the House of Mouse have made peace — and it was pricey for the latter. "I am happy to have resolved our differences with…

Refresh for updates: Twenty years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, America remembered the terror of planes turned into missiles, the nearly 3,000 lives lost and the courage displayed in response. From the memorial sites in New York, Shanksville, PA, at the Pentagon itself and across the land and the world, voices…

UPDATED with additional details from Disney earnings call: The revenue for Black Widow wasn't to be found in Disney's last earnings report Thursday, but the fallout from Scarlett Johansson's explosive lawsuit against the House of Mouse certainly was. Showing a surge in Disney+ subscribers from the same time last year…

It's truly the end of an era at Disney, and we don't just mean Bob Iger's departure later this year. Keeping faith with their boss, Zenia Mucha and Alan Braverman plan to retire at the end of 2021. Along with emails from Mucha and Braverman, a note from Iger and CEO Bob Chapek just went out over at the House of Mouse…

Walt Disney's outgoing executive chairman Bob Iger sold company stock worth well over $90 million in early June. According to an SEC filing late last week, Iger unloaded just over 600,000 shares with most priced between $178.74 and $179.81. A company spokesperson said the sale "is part of the diversification of Mr…

Walt Disney said Thursday it’s named two new directors to its board, Amy Chang, a veteran technology executive, and Calvin McDonald, CEO of Lululemon, effective immediately. Chang serves on the board of Procter & Gamble and Marqeta and as an advisor to more than a dozen companies including Cisco and HubSpot. From 2018…

"At this point, let's call ABC what it really is, Disney-," Jimmy Kimmel quipped in a scathing roast of all thing small screen Wednesday during Disney's Virtual Upfront. "Isn't there something to be said for dying with dignity," the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host added. "Somehow when everyone's stuck in their houses with…

EXCLUSIVE: Outgoing Disney executive chairman Bob Iger and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. are set to receive top honors from PEN America in person this fall at NYC's American Museum of Natural History, perhaps. Hoping for the coronavirus pandemic to continue to dampen domestically, PEN America planning to go…

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki indicated this week that the White House hopes to name nominees for ambassadorships "soon," a highly anticipated announcement in L.A. donor circles and among Democratic fundraisers across the country. Only adding to the chatter of who is in line for what was an Axios report this…

Disney executive chairman Bob Iger said when his tenure's up he'd love another shot as a weatherman – a first gig in his early 20s that he dearly hoped would lead to an anchor job but never panned out. "I discovered that I was not as good as I thought I was and I was never going to fulfill my ultimate goal of being an…

Walt Disney chairman Bob Iger will receive an honorary Clio Award later this month during a fireside chat as the longtime executive moves into the home stretch of his tenure at the entertainment giant. The Clios – the major award ceremony for creative advertising — said Wednesday that Iger will accept award during a…

Bob Iger, who will end his 47-year run with Disney and ABC in December, addressed his future and reflected on the company’s streaming-led resilience during Covid-19. Disney “had the foresight and had the guts and had the support at the board level to go into this new business,” Iger said of direct-to-consumer…