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...The pictures featured people’s pets in the style of posters made by Disney’s Pixar studio, leading influencers to encourage others to prompt the artificial intelligence tool to generate their own versions...
...A spokesperson for ESPN told the Financial Times on Tuesday that the network has started providing secure logins to The Walt Disney Company app to some US Open players who have requested access, including...
...Iger has also drawn endorsements from heirs of company founders Roy and Walt Disney in recent weeks....
...Sean Bailey is stepping down after 15 years as president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production, a tenure that produced successful remakes of The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, the...
...The valuation multiple now ascribed to ESPN may be too low for Disney’s business, which includes theme parks and the movie studio....
...It lost more than $1.6bn from its streaming businesses in the first nine months of 2023, during which its Disney+ service gained 8mn subscribers....
...Bob Iger, Disney chief executive, said the launch would be “a significant moment for Disney and ESPN, a major win for sports fans, and an important step forward for the media business”....
...Bob Iger defeats Nelson Peltz by wide margin in Walt Disney board clash The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino....
...Lee is co-writer, in addition to her current day job as chief creative officer at Walt Disney Animation Studios. However high your corporate perch, there is usually still someone above you....
...A similar picture of what is going on inside of Disney’s streaming business is absent, and much needed....
...But the entrance of Disney — the entertainment giant behind Mickey Mouse and Pixar animation studios — into gambling, a product linked to addiction, is not without risks....
...Walt Disney and Charter Communications have agreed to resolve a dispute over fees and terms, ending a 10-day stand-off that left millions of customers without premium live sports at the start of the autumn...
...Disney claims that its content remains the centrepiece of the cable bundle. There must be a creative solution....
...Additionally, Disney will get warrants on Penn shares. If the new “ESPN Bet” meets certain market share targets, Disney receives a fifth of Penn’s stock....
...An advertiser exodus from Elon Musk’s X gathered pace on Friday, with Apple, Walt Disney, Comcast, Paramount and Warner Bros all pausing spending on the social media platform amid concerns about antisemitic...
...Disney on Wednesday said it would cut its spending on content by another $2bn next year to about $25bn — well below the $30bn it spent in 2022....
...The prompt for Winfrey’s soul-searching is a high-profile dispute with Walt Disney, which at the end of August pulled its TV channels from Connecticut-based Charter’s cable services after the two failed...
...Streaming tears Growing headwinds in India are forcing The Walt Disney Co to consider selling off a portion of its streaming business in the market, write Nikkei’s Rei Nakafuji and Ryosuke Hanada....
...But even when it has criticised boards over executive pay, as in a case involving Walt Disney two decades ago, the court has not acted with similar force....
...ESPN remains a closely watched component of the Walt Disney empire as chief executive Bob Iger weighs options for the future of its media networks....
...Disney is scheduled to report quarterly results on Wednesday....
...That’s when Florida governor Ron DeSantis tried to end the company’s 50-year-old right to run its own government around Walt Disney World....
...For all the golden moments its animators have conjured, there is a reason Disney has never won a Best Picture Oscar under its own banner....
...Now, people could find other AFOLs all over the world, connect, start going to these events together, start sharing pictures of what they were doing....
...That was 20 years ago, when it criticised the directors of Walt Disney for waving through a $140mn pay-off for Michael Ovitz when he was ejected as its president....
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