New York TimesAndrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday announced that Walt Disney and Marvel Studios would spend some $200 million filming four live-action television series in New York City. At least 60 episodes of the new…
Roughtail dishes lesson on customer service, owning social mediaNewsOK.comI really love good customer service. Maybe that’s not even a sentence worth typing, because really, who doesn’t like good customer service? As a Disney addict —…
Ten snubs and surprises from Oscar nomination morningUSA TODAYWalt Disney is in the Academy Awards mix with the popular musical Frozen. Just not Walt Disney himself. A lack of Oscar love for Saving Mr. Banks…
Independent OnlineMeryl Streep accepts the Icon award for ‘August: Osage County’ at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala on January 4, 2014. London – Meryl Streep has blasted Walt Disney for being a…
Hollywood ReporterThe actress accused the mogul of being sexist, racist and anti-Semitic, but experts who have dug in to the icon’s controversial legacy say the truth is more complicated. Meryl Streep caused eyebrows to raise…
USA TODAYBeyoncé’s hot, but Frozen is hotter. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the soundtrack’s sales jumped 55%, making it a grand total of 165,000 in the week ending Jan. 5. It climbed from No. 4 to…
Bloomberg“Frozen,” Walt Disney Co.’s animated movie about two princesses in an icy world, returned to the top spot in ticket sales in its seventh weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters. “Frozen” generated $20.7 million for…
Wall Street JournalWalt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger’s compensation declined 15% in the fiscal year ended Sept. 28 to $34.3 million, according to a regulatory filing. Mr. Iger’s cash bonus fell to $13.57 million,…
Salt Lake TribuneA half-century after the author P.L. Travers worried that her best-known character, Mary Poppins, would receive the Disney treatment, Travers herself is getting her rough edges sanded down in the Disney-approved biopic “Saving…
Los Angeles TimesAs the respective creators of Mickey Mouse and Mary Poppins, two of the most cheerful, beloved characters around, it’s odd to imagine studio head Walt Disney and author P.L. Travers quarreling. But that’s…
Boston HeraldLOS ANGELES — As Tom Hanks researched his role as Walt Disney for “Saving Mr. Banks,” he found he was never at a loss for source material. Richard Sherman, who with his late brother…
USA TODAYBEVERLY HILLS — Call it unusual casting. No, not the choice of Tom Hanks, for the mustachioed Walt Disney. But the method. “I got the call from (Disney CEO) Bob Iger, which is a…
Reuters(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co has gained marketing and distribution rights for any future “Indiana Jones” films under an agreement with Paramount Pictures, the studio that released the first four movies in the blockbuster franchise….
My issue with what “Geek Culture” has become, today, is that it has little to do with science and space exploration and colonization, and too much do with mindless, selfish, fantasy. It used to be…
The 2013 Golden Globe Awards is history, and aside from Jodie Foster’s heartfelt speech (this blogger’s commentary here), the show contained a few surprises. Foremost among them was Argo taking both Best Director for Ben…
Disney under Robert Iger has become the only true media giant. It owns Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, Cap Cities / ABC, ESPN, whatever small company this blogger can’t think of, and now Lucasfilm. Disney is fully…
Tim Burton, the famous and famed producer and director of iconic movies like Batman, is coming to Comic Con 2012 to present his upcoming 3D black-and-white stop motion-animated science fiction movie Frankenweenie, and what Disney…
Iron Man / Tony Stark returns to Comic Con for 2012 with a special panel introducing Iron Man 3. The panel will assemble in the famous Hall H on Saturday, July 14 from 6:00pm to…
AMPAS, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has finally hired a replacement for the last communications director, Leslie Unger, who was released last fall in what Deadline’s Nikky Finke called “housecleaning,” and didn’t…
