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Disney has finally unveiled the date for its annual meeting of shareholders, a virtual event to be held at 10 a.m. PT on Monday, April 3. It’s been a hotly awaited bit of information amid a flurry of SEC filings as activist investor Nelson Peltz of Trian Group is looking for a seat on the board in op…

Florida lawmakers unveiled a bill on Monday for state control of a special district set up to let The Walt Disney Co. largely self-govern much of the area around Walt Disney World. The bill, expected to be considered during a special session of the state Legislature this month, would allow Gov. Ron D…

With Nelson Peltz angling for a seat on Disney’s board, the company on Thursday blasted the activist investor, his firm Trian Group, and his son, Matthew Peltz, whom Trian is proposing as a possible alternate candidate. Related Story Disney Proxy Battle: Who Is Nelson Peltz And Why Does…

With this year’s domestic box office expected to rise to $9 billion, of course the major Hollywood studios are taking Super Bowl LVII ad spots seriously. The big game, which last year attracted 112 million viewers, remains an enormous bullhorn when it comes to drawing attention to your tentpole…

Earlier this week, James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water became the No. 5 highest-grossing movie ever worldwide, and, as expected, has now surfed to the No. 4 position on the all-time chart. In so doing, it leaves Star Wars: The Force Awakens in its wake with nearly $2.075B globally.  Through…

The initial exuberance and relief following Bob Iger's return as Disney CEO has been replaced by anxiety as speculation about a pending corporate restructuring is intensifying — and with it, rumors about the layoffs that are likely to follow. Rumblings of a new org-chart unveiling are growing louder…

The Oscar nominations this week set off a new round of speculation about corporate image: Does it matter that Netflix's potential Oscar take had dropped to 16 from 36 in 2020? "I don't give a f*ck about my corporate image and companies shouldn't waste…

Disney/Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania arrived on tracking today with a projected 4-day $120M opening per industry sources. The threequel arrives in theaters on Feb. 17 and is the first in an avalanche of largely weekly tentpole fare which has been absent from the marketplace since the…

Disney Advertising and measurement firm EDO, whose founder and chairman is the actor and director Edward Norton, have expanded their relationship into the streaming realm. The companies have reached a new agreement to apply engagement data from EDO to Disney’s streaming platforms, starting with Hulu…

Disney CEO Bob Iger has joined with four other prominent investors to take a small stake in venture firm Thrive Capital. Before returning to Disney in November, Iger briefly became a partner at Thrive before stepping down upon the move back into the corner office. The firm was founded in 2009 by Josh…

A24’s multiverse-spanning Everything Everywhere All at Once scored a leading 11 Oscar nominations Tuesday, helping the indie to 17 noms, the most of any individual distributor this year. Netflix, behind its nine-nom juggernaut All Quiet on the Western Front, had a total of 14 in the feature-length…

Disney has scheduled an in-person upfront May 16 at New York’s Javits Center, joining a growing cohort betting on the upside of wooing advertisers in the flesh. The annual pitch on behalf of the company’s many linear and streaming platforms is again on the move after the company decamped from its…