ABC News is laying off dozens of employees, including some of its highest-ranking executives, as part of the Walt Disney Co.’s ongoing round of layoffs that will see 7,000 employees depart the company. In all, ABC News is expected to
In the face of an unprecedented profitability crisis and the repeated failure of its woke content, Walt Disney Co. executives seem to have settled on a solution: double down on the woke and fire rank-and-file employees.
The first full trailer for Disney’s live-action version of “The Little Mermaid” is proving to be massively unpopular, garnering more than 1 million “dislikes” on YouTube less than a week after its unveiling Sunday during the Oscars.
The Disney+ series “Willow,” based on the popular 1988 Ron Howard movie of the same name, has been canceled after just one season. Putting wokeness front and center, the series featured a gay romance between two main characters while also casting a transgender actor in a prominent role.
Disney has released the first trailer for its new, live-action movie “Peter Pan” and Wendy and the results are as woke as you would expect, with a diverse cast and girls as members of the Lost Boys.
The Walt Disney Co. went big with a new Super Bowl commercial celebrating the company’s 100th anniversary just as executives are preparing to lay off 7,000 employees.
Disney’s woke streaming services are still hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate, losing more than $1 billion a quarter at a time when CEO Bob Iger is trying to put the brakes on the company’s runaway spending habits.
The Walt Disney Co. is eliminating 7,000 jobs worldwide, or more than 3 percent of its workforce, as CEO Bob Iger aims to slash a stunning $5.5 billion in spending in an attempt to save the once formidable company.
The Walt Disney Co. went woke and now it is paying the consequences, with employees bracing for a bloodbath.
One of the stars of Disney’s upcoming Marvel series “Ironheart” has expressed hope that the show will appeal to transgender children and teens by giving them validation and something to emulate.
The Walt Disney Co. has convinced China to lift its ban on Marvel movies, securing release dates for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the upcoming Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.
The Walt Disney Co. has spent years courting China’s Communist dictators and now the company is reaping a tangible reward for its obeisance.
Wage workers at Disney World in Orlando are set to reject the company’s offer of a $1 per hour pay raise, with the unions representing them arguing that Disney’s offer is woefully inadequate at a time of soaring inflation.
Florida isn’t backing down from its intention to strip Walt Disney World of its self-governing status following Disney’s decision to pick a political fight with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) last year over the state’s anti-grooming Parental Rights in Education law.
The Walt Disney Co. saw $123 billion of its market value evaporate in 2022 as its stock dropped 44 percent amid profitability concerns, CEO musical chairs, and a suicidal embrace of woke identity politics.
The Walt Disney Co. has posted online notices asking visitors to its theme parks to “treat others with respect” and to show each other “compassion” in the wake of series of brawls that have gone viral, including the massive Magic Kingdom slugfest in July.
Whoopi Goldberg has once again walked back her comments about the Holocaust as pressure mounts for Disney’s ABC to fire her from The View.
The Walt Disney Co. is facing a box-office disaster as the new “Avatar” sequel plunged 58 percent in its second weekend of domestic release — a huge drop-off considering the first Avatar only declined 2 percent in its second weekend back in 2009.
Disney+’s new “Willow” series has gone full gay by depicting the budding romance between two female characters in its latest episode. Actress Erin Kellyman, who plays one of the characters, praised the scene, saying “this normalized representation is just so important.”
“Avatar: The Way of Water” belly-flopped on its opening weekend in China, bringing in $57.1 million, far below the approximately $120 million it was expected to earn. The shortfall has surely come as a disappointment for Disney, which is seeking to replicate the success of the first Avatar movie — the highest grossing Hollywood movie in China at the time of its release in 2009.”
A Disney investor has sued the company in an attempt to uncover internal records related to Disney’s fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over the state’s anti-grooming Parental Rights in Education law. Investor Kenneth Simone sued Disney this week in a Delaware chancery court, claiming Disney “created far-reaching financial risks” for itself and its shareholders through its public attacks on the legislation.
The Walt Disney Co. saw its stock plummet nearly 4 percent on Thursday, helping to push the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its biggest loss in three months. Shares of Apple also contributed to the Dow’s bloodbath, shedding 4.7 percent of their value.
In the past year alone, the Walt Disney Co. fought Florida over its ant-grooming Parental Rights in Education law, created multiple transgender characters for its children’s shows, put gay characters at the center of its big-budget movies, and even launched an LGBTQ-themed apparel line.
Disney’s returning CEO Bob Iger has expressed regret the company got into a fight with Florida over the state’s anti-grooming law, telling Disney’s recent employee townhall meeting he was “sorry to see us dragged into that battle.”
Disney’s old-now-new CEO Bob Iger reportedly said at an employee townhall meeting Monday the he doesn’t like seeing the company embroiled in controversies, saying he will try to “quiet things down” on the political front.
The Walt Disney Co. looks like it has another woke box office bomb on its hands with Strange World, the environmentally themed animated adventure featuring the studio’s first openly gay teen character in a cartoon feature.
Disney’s Bob Iger has been on the job for just a day and he has wasted little time in making his return to the company felt.
The Walt Disney Co. is hoping that returning CEO Bob Iger will wave his magic wand like Cinderella’s fairy godmother and make everything better following Bob Chapek’s calamitous tenure. But analysts are predicting the task won’t be so easy, saying Iger will need to slash spending and restore profitability in two years’ time — a feat of sorcery that the Disney veteran may not be able to pull off.
During his disastrous tenure as Disney CEO, Bob Chapek oversaw a near-complete wokification of the once-beloved company with his aggressive pursuit of far-left causes, including transgenderism and the sexualization of children’s entertainment.
As it faces an uncertain financial outlook and the prospect of a prolonged recession, the Walt Disney Co. has hiked the price of its admission to its Disney World parks in Orlando, Florida. The price hikes — the second increases in less than. a year — will see the price of admission to the Magic Kingdom soar as high as $189 for peak dates.
A sign-language interpreter for Disney’s “The Lion King” on Broadway has alleged he was recently fired for being white, saying he and another white interpreter were told to leave so they could be replaced with black signers.
The Chinese Communist Party has yet to reopen the Disney Shanghai Resort since shutting it down on October 31 after just one visitor tested positive – and has not made any indication it will soon allow operations to resume.
Shares of the Walt Disney Co. are down more than 60 percent so far this year and aren’t expected to recover anytime soon as the company is likely to announce a “painful cycle” of earnings cuts in the months ahead that will make the stock look even more unattractive to investors, according to a new report.
First, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won re-election in a landslide victory on Tuesday. Then Disney’s corporate earnings disappointed Wall Street, sending its stock crashing to new lows. Now the entertainment giant is reportedly planning layoffs, a targeted hiring freeze, and travel limitation on its employees.
Shares of the Walt Disney Co. plummeted late Tuesday and into early Wednesday to their lowest level in nearly a decade as concerns mount over the company’s profitability and wild spending habits on Disney+ and other streaming services.
They saved mankind in the movies. Now they want to save Wisconsin from Republican “nutjobs.” Disney-Marvel actors Mark Ruffalo and Don Cheadle are teaming up for a last-ditch fundraiser to help Democrat candidates in Wisconsin prevail over the GOP in the midterms.
Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek has pushed back on the claim that the company has become “too woke” following its whole-hearted embrace of radical transgender ideology and LGBTQ activism.
Director Tim Burton said he is finished making movies for the Walt Disney Co., describing working for the studio like being trapped in a “horrible big circus.”
The director behind the Disney+ Marvel series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law said her show is able to explore a woman’s sex life and still be enjoyed by children.
The actress who plays Mon Mothma in the new Disney+ Star Wars series “Andor” said her performance was inspired by real-world female politicians, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Liz Cheney (R-WY).
