The Deadline Team of Nikki Finke, Pete Hammond, and Mike Fleming have spent recent days interviewing the studio moguls to gauge their perspective on this very close Oscar race: WALT DISNEY STUDIOS 12 Nominations: 5 Toy Story 3, 3 Alice In Wonderland, 1 Tron: Legacy 3D, 1 The Tempest, 1 Tangled, 1 Day & Night DEADLINE’s…

This is the first movie release which Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross greenlighted:

BURBANK, Calif. – January 31, 2011 – Chuck Viane, president of Global Distribution for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, announced today that he will retire in July after 25 years with The Walt Disney Company. "Chuck is one of the most knowledgeable and savvy individuals in the film industry," said Rich Ross…

EXCLUSIVE: “We're going for the Best Picture win. We wanted to have the best movie and the reviews have clearly said that and it's the number one box office hit of the year so I'm not sure why we would not go for it all,” the Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross told me in a phone conversation this week. He's…

EXCLUSIVE: I heard that yesterday the Disney Theatrical Group, which is the theatrical production arm of Walt Disney Studios that puts shows like The Lion King and Beauty & The Beast, The Little Mermaid, and Mary Poppins and Tarzan and Aida on Broadway and on tour, is shrinking. It’s closing the Glendale office where…

There is one element in Paul Lee’s background that in my opinion makes him well equipped for his new job as ABC Entertainment Group president. It’s not his 6-year tenure as president of ABC Family, he will find soon enough that broadcast TV is a whole new ball game. It’s not his degree from Oxford either, it is…