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Disney Entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden is among the business executives named to the President’s Export Council, which advises Joe Biden on international trade. Walden was appointed along with two dozen other executives, including Qualcomm CEO Cristiano R. Amon, Citi CEO Jane Fraser, Ford CFO…

Disney Entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden is setting out her stall and it includes more responsibilities for John Landgraf and Simran Sethi. The news Tuesday comes after Walden was elevated to her new role earlier this month alongside film chief Alan Bergman. Related Story Dana Wa…

Disney Entertainment, the new division run by Dana Walden and Alan Bergman, will oversee the main streaming services including Disney+ as details of the company’s strategic restructuring emerge. Related Story Dana Walden & Alan Bergman To Oversee New Disney Entertainment…

In Dana Walden’s first personnel move since being upped to Chairman of Disney General Entertainment three months ago, she has promoted three executives: Eric Schrier, who is taking on a new, larger role, as well as Craig Erwich and Shannon Ryan, who are expanding their current responsibilities. The biggest surprise is…

The relationship between Dana Walden and John Landgraf has long been subject of corporate intrigue. The superstar TV executives had run on parallel tracks at Fox and continued to do so after they both made the transition to Disney following the 2019 acquisition. Until this past June. The shocking dismissal of Peter…

In her first public comments since she was elevated to Chairman of Disney General Entertainment, Dana Walden sent a memo to staff Monday morning. In it, she expressed her “immense appreciation to Bob Chapek for giving me this opportunity of a lifetime,” noting that “is enormously proud of what we do.” She also praised…

In 2004, Disney’s cable networks executive Anne Sweeney was named co-chair, Disney Media Networks, and president, Disney/ABC Television Group. The promotion, announced by then-Disney CEO Bob Iger, to whom Sweeney reported, set off a decade-long reign of Sweeney as one of the most powerful women in entertainment, with…

UPDATED with more details: Disney has confirmed the exit of Peter Rice and the ascension of Dana Walden. Release — which barely mentions Rice or any reason he got sacked — is below the story we revealed at 8:18 AM PT. Disney has fired Peter Rice from his post as chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content. The…

UPDATE, 8:27 PM PT: About $1 million was raised at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser headlined by Vice President Kamala Harris and held at the Brentwood home of Dana and Matt Walden. About thirty people were at the event, including Ryan Murphy, J.J. Abrams and Reggie Hudlin. Harris started her remarks by…

FX boss John Landgraf deftly tried to thread the corporate needle today in his executive session today at the virtual Winter TCA. FX Day @ TCA: Deadline’s Complete Coverage  Pivoting from heralding the opportunities of FX on Hulu, the cabler being part of the Disney empire the past two years, and conceding to…

Dana Walden has seen a lot of major changes during her time in the entertainment industry and she doesn't see things slowing down any time soon. The Chairman of Entertainment at Walt Disney Television talked up the new opportunities for smaller production companies and young, diverse voices over the next ten years in…

It might not entirely be Bob Chapek's Disney yet, but Thursday’s virtual Disney Investor Day event made it clear that Baby Yoda is boss. Pulling out every trick, IP and franchise in the book, the nearly four-hour extravaganza emphasized that Disney is almost all about streaming less than a year after Disney+ launched…