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  • Activist investor Nelson Peltz sells entire Disney stake after proxy battle loss

    05/30/2024 3:57:17 AM PDT · by C19fan · 10 replies
    Yahoo ^ | May 29, 2024 | Alexandra Canal
    Activist investor Nelson Peltz has sold his entire Disney stake, according to a source familiar with the matter. Peltz sold his position at a price of around $120 a share, which yielded a return of about $1 billion, the source said. The development, first reported by CNBC, comes after Disney successfully fended off Peltz in his quest to secure board seats at the company, officially ending a highly contested proxy battle that plagued the entertainment giant for months.
  • ‘Little Mermaid’ Director Says Disney Needs ‘Course Correction’ From Woke Message

    05/26/2024 11:18:29 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 26, 2024
    Legendary Disney filmmaker John Musker called out The Walt Disney Company for putting political messages ahead of story in its recent films. Musker, who co-directed some of the studio’s most popular films in recent decades, like “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin” and “Moana,” commented on the state of Disney in a recent interview, saying the company needs to steer away from pushing a woke message and focus on characters and story above all. “I think they need to do a course correction a bit in terms of putting the message secondary, behind entertainment and compelling story and engaging characters,” Musker told...
  • 10 Jobs Being Eliminated At Pixar

    05/26/2024 6:05:27 AM PDT · by Twotone · 8 replies
    Babylon Bee ^ | May 23, 2024 | Staff
    Times are tough at Disney subsidiaries, with even the one-time animation powerhouse Pixar being forced to make significant layoffs. With so much happening, knowing just which positions are being done away with can be helpful. The Babylon Bee has obtained the inside scoop and put together the following list of jobs being eliminated at Pixar: 1. Assistant Grooming Director: Though the lead Grooming Director still has a job, he will now have to groom without an assistant. 2. Gay Cartoon Intimacy Coordinator: In charge of overseeing all gay cartoon love scenes. 3. Senior Lame Narrative Developer: This was the person...
  • Richard Sherman, Oscar-Winning Songwriter on ‘Mary Poppins,’ Dies at 95

    05/25/2024 11:48:35 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 34 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | MAY 25, 2024 | Mike Barnes
    The Disney legend and his late brother, Robert, also worked on 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' and they wrote more songs for movie musicals than anyone in history.Richard M. Sherman, the Oscar-winning songwriter who partnered with his late brother to craft tunes for such Disney classics as Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Jungle Book, died Saturday. He was 95. Sherman, who also co-wrote “It’s a Small World (After All)” — considered the most performed song ever — as well as “You’re Sixteen,” a chart-topper for Ringo Starr, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of age-related illness,...
  • Pixar is laying off 14% of its workforce as Disney scales back content

    05/25/2024 11:39:30 AM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    CNBC ^ | MAY 21 2024 | Sarah Whitten
    Pixar Animation Studios is laying off about 14% of its workforce, or around 175 employees. The cuts are part of Disney CEO Bob Iger’s overarching mandate to focus on the quality of its content, not the quantity. Pixar will refocus on theatrical releases and move away from short-form series for Disney+. ... Pixar will lay off about 175 employees, or around 14% of the studio’s workforce ... Layoffs hit other Disney businesses last year, but Pixar’s cuts were delayed because of production schedules ... Iger, who returned to the mantle of CEO in late 2022, has been working to reverse...
  • Gay ‘Dr. Who’ actor may have driven away half the show’s audience

    05/18/2024 4:06:39 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 88 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 18 May, 2024 | Andrea Widburg
    It was inevitable that when Disney took over the venerable British sci-fi show, it would use it to advance the LGBTQ+ agenda. In 1963, the BBC debuted Dr. Who, a show about an earth-friendly alien who zooms around time and space in his “Tardis,” a spaceship disguised as a 1960s-era police callbox. In every episode, he has exciting adventures with his female sidekick and often saves mankind from bad aliens. The original show was retired in 1983, only to be rebooted in 2005. Along the way, the Doctor periodically “regenerated,” allowing new actors to replace the old ones. The latest...
  • Disney World cuts classic character from meet-and-greets amid scrutiny

    05/09/2024 11:04:19 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 32 replies
    Disney World has quietly axed one of its classic characters from doing meet-and-greets at the park, which is a move that comes after the character was flagged internally for its controversial portrayal in films. Tinker Bell, a character from Disney's (DIS) 1953 "Peter Pan" movie, first disappeared from Disney World during the Covid pandemic, along with every other character, as closures shut down the entire resort. When the theme park reopened, Tinker Bell never returned, and now her signage has reportedly been removed from Town Square Theater at Magic Kingdom, the only location where she used to conduct meet-and-greets with...
  • Disney’s New ‘Star Wars’ Shows Push LGBT Insanity On Your Kids

    05/07/2024 10:26:29 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/07/2024 | Shawn Fleetwood
    If you thought losing hundreds of millions of dollars would deter The Walt Disney Company from continuing its embrace of leftist politics, think again.On Saturday, Disney’s Lucasfilm released “Star Wars: Tales of the Empire,” an anthology series highlighting different characters from across the Star Wars universe. While the show is clearly marketed to children, that didn’t stop showrunners from featuring a character using “they/them” pronouns.In one of the episodes, the Galactic Empire dispatches two Inquisitors — force-wielding dark-side users — to hunt down a Jedi spotted on a distant world. Upon arriving at the planet, one of the Inquisitors asks...
  • Disney LIED to Shareholders About Star Wars

    05/07/2024 8:53:35 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 05/07/2024 | Stephen Green
    Now that Disney management has won its proxy battle with activist investor Nelson Peltz, let's take a look at the Big Lie the company told to help keep shareholders on management's side. Last month, the Mouse House released a detailed, 67-page report for investors "singing the praises of its chief executive Bob Iger in a bid to convince stockholders to side with him in a battle with activist investors," as Forbes' Caroline Reid put it. I included the link because Reid did in her write-up, but the PDF file is no longer there, perhaps flushed down the memory hole.Reid's article...
  • Embattled ABC News President Kim Godwin steps down after tumultuous run

    05/06/2024 2:03:40 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 17 replies
    CNN ^ | 5/5/24 | Oliver Darcy
    Kim Godwin, the embattled president of ABC News, abruptly announced Sunday evening that she will exit the network, capping a tumultuous three-year run at the outlet after staffers said her polarizing leadership led to plummeting employee morale. I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism,” Godwin told staffers in a memo that rocked the ABC News newsroom. “I have been fortunate and blessed enough to have done almost every job there is in this business,” Godwin added. “But after considerable reflection, I’m certain it’s the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what’s most important...
  • Chaos at ABC News as Embattled Boss Kim Godwin Steps Down

    05/06/2024 1:17:27 AM PDT · by Libloather · 48 replies
    Daily Beast via Yahoo News ^ | 5/05/24 | AJ McDougall, Justin Baragona, Corbin Bolies, Fletcher Peters
    After a tumultuous weekend at ABC News, Kim Godwin, the first Black president of a network news division, announced she was stepping down, according to an internal memo sent to staff and obtained by The Daily Beast on Sunday night. Godwin’s resignation is a severe public relations blow for Disney CEO Bob Iger, who until recently was publicly backing her despite numerous reports of growing discomfort within the ranks. Critics said she spent more time promoting herself than she did in the newsroom, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported her Sunday announcement that she planned to “retire...
  • ‘The Chosen’ TV Show is Coming to Disney+ and Hulu in Major ‘Partnership’

    05/03/2024 8:22:32 PM PDT · by Morgana · 49 replies
    Protestia ^ | May 3, 2024 | staff
    When ‘The Chosen’ Director Dallas Jenkins isn’t purposefully tweaking and antagonize Christians by posting videos of his crew members wearing the LGBTQ flag or insisting that he loves the same Jesus that his Mormon friends do, demonstrating again and again his false understanding of Jesus and the gospel, he is announcing new ‘partnerships’ regarding his show, sharing that the first three seasons of ‘The Chosen’ will soon be on Disney+ and Hulu. According to Inside the Magic: From a crowd-funded indie darling to a multi-platform underdog story, The Chosen is easily one of the most successful and popular TV dramas...
  • Pro-abortion politician mistakes Disney promo mailer for pro-life ‘hate mail’

    04/25/2024 10:11:41 PM PDT · by Morgana
    Live Action News ^ | April 25, 2024 | Cassy Fiano-Chesser
    A pro-abortion politician received a promotional mailer for the upcoming Disney movie “The First Omen,” and has told the media she receives so much hate mail, she immediately mistook it for a pro-life threat. Business Insider reported that Amanda Taylor, a film critic currently running for office in Missouri, received a mailer that she assumed was a threat from angry pro-lifers. In the letter, there is a floating child surrounded by women in black, with their faces scribbled over. “Right away, I was thinking, ‘Ah, this has something to do with abortion,” Taylor told Business Insider. “The day before I...
  • An Unexpected Evil Queen: Disney World Appears To Allow Biological Men To Play Female Characters

    04/24/2024 5:24:24 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 32 replies
    THAT PARK PLACE ^ | April 23, 2024 | Jonas J. Campbell
    A family attending an expensive dinner at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World Resort had a character experience they were not expecting. According to the father, they complained after the Evil Queen was not what they anticipated. The Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Walt Disney Productions In 2023, The Walt Disney Company faced criticism from conservatives and some moderates when photos and videos surfaced of a biological male cast member wearing a dress while working as a “Fairy-Godmother-in-training” at the Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boutique princess boutique for little girls at the Magic Kingdom. This biological male had...
  • Bill Maher's 'Pedophiles in Hollywood' Remarks Go Viral

    04/24/2024 1:26:47 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 34 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Apr 22, 2024 | Rachel Dobkin
    Comedian Bill Maher's "Kid 'N Prey" segment on Friday went viral on social media after he criticized the child entertainment industry. On Friday's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher reacted to the recently released documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which exposed the sexual abuse and hostile work environment that child actors faced at the hands of adults at Nickelodeon. The comedian posted the segment from his show on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday night with the caption, "It turns out for pedophiles in Hollywood, 'It's A Small World After All.'" It has amassed...
  • Bill Maher taps the sign. This monologue on the sexualization of kids is something you HAVE to watch!

    04/20/2024 3:13:00 PM PDT · by grundle · 12 replies
    Not the Bee ^ | April 20, 2024 | Harris Rigby
    his monologue from last night's Real Time with Bill Maher is the definition of a must-watch. The guy who came out pro-baby murder (in his own words) last week made it his mission this week to protect kids. This guy doesn't even like kids, but he sees what we've been pointing out for years. After the video, I'll summarize Maher's points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGtseVUw-_MGuys, this monologue has EVERYTHING! Like, I think he may have stumbled across Not the Bee before putting this monologue together. Maher goes through the recent Quiet on Set documentary, highlighting sexual abuse that happened at Nickelodeon. Something that's...
  • Bill Maher rages at Hollywood for putting kids at risk, calls Disney an aphrodisiac for pedophiles and slams Drag Queen Story Hour trend

    04/20/2024 12:31:26 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 36 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | April 20 2024 | KAMAL SULTAN
    Bill Maher has hit out at Hollywood for putting kids at risk and called Disney an aphrodisiac for pedophiles. The HBO host, 68, used his show Real Time with Bill Maher to talk about child safety and insisted it is 'every adult's job to protect them.' He insisted that Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was not wrong in his attempt to crack down on the 'creepy stuff' at Disney.
  • Disney Lays Off Marvel Employees as Wokeness Hits Its Bottom Line

    04/16/2024 8:41:43 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    Red State ^ | 04/16/2024 | Jon Del Arroz
    Disney's been in a magical world of trouble over the last several years, ever since the company decided to pick a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the culture war and go all-in on diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of its core programming at the expense of its longtime customers, traditional American families. A string of movie failures hit Disney's bottom line in 2023 and 2024, most notably with "The Marvels," which opened as their worst-performing box office film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They also experienced flops within Pixar, with their latest, "Elemental," performing terribly at the...
  • Ron DeSantis has worse favorable ratings than Bob Iger in national poll

    04/12/2024 3:56:08 PM PDT · by backpacker_c · 103 replies
    Floridapolitics ^ | April 10, 2024 | A.G. Gancarski
    In a YouGov survey of 1,795 adult citizens conducted between Apr. 6 and Apr. 9, Iger is at -9 net, with 15% viewing him favorably and 24% unfavorably. Meanwhile, DeSantis is better known, but at least for some respondents, familiarity breeds contempt. The second-term Republican stands at -13 net; 34% view him favorably, with 47% regarding him unfavorably. DeSantis is in negative territory with most age, gender and racial cohorts, with only respondents 65 years of age and older regarding him favorably, albeit by a slender 48% to 44% spread.
  • This is when tickets for Disneyland’s Pride Nite after-dark event will go on sale

    04/05/2024 3:00:11 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 27 replies
    KTLA ^ | Apr 5, 2024 | Iman Palm
    Tickets for Disneyland’s second annual Pride Nite after-dark event will go on sale later this month, the theme park announced Friday. The separately ticketed event will be held at Disneyland on June 18 and 20. Tickets for the event go on sale for Magic Key holders on April 9 and April 11 for the general public. Ticket sales are expected to begin no earlier than 9 a.m. PT.