Walt Disney’s daughter dead at 79
NAPA, Calif. — Diane Disney Miller, Walt Disney’s daughter and one of his inspirations for building the Disneyland theme park, has died at her Northern California home. She was 79....
View ArticleDisney trashes ‘Poppins’ author in ‘Saving Mr. Banks’
As a film reviewer, a young British woman named P.L. Travers, writing about the movie “Snow White” in 1937, pronounced Walt Disney a shameless purveyor of cheeseball crap: “There is...
View ArticleMouse House touts Maker Studios as the next Marvel
Disney is betting that Maker Studios will be the Marvel of tomorrow. The Mouse House gave investors sticker shock earlier this year when it agreed to pay at least $500...
View ArticleMexican president, Disney and GM heads to be honored
The Mexican president, along with the heads of General Motors and The Walt Disney Company, will be honored this month in Manhattan by a prestigious inter-faith coalition of business and...
View ArticleSpider-Man will team with Marvel characters in new movies
Sony and Disney’s Marvel are finally bringing Spider-Man and the Avengers back together. The studios announced a deal late Monday in which the next installment of Sony’s $4 billion Spider-Man...
View ArticleDisney beats Street, boosted by networks, theme parks
Disney’s quarterly revenue beat analysts’ expectations, helped by increased spending by visitors at its theme parks and higher ad sales and affiliate fees in the company’s media networks business....
View ArticleHow Walt Disney’s obsession with futurism inspired ‘Tomorrowland’
Back in 1972, when New York City was a post-apocalyptic hell hole overrun by crime and on the verge of bankruptcy, architect Peter Blake opined that to save it, the...
View ArticleThe plot for ‘Tomorrowland’ came from this mystery box
It's the $190 million film that began with a dusty box. In a classic bit of marketing razzle dazzle, Disney claims Friday’s “Tomorrowland” began with the discovery of a mysterious...
View Article‘Tomorrowland,’ Disney and their links to the 1964-65 World’s Fair
Disney’s new sci-fi adventure “Tomorrowland” is very loosely inspired by its namesake sections in the Disneyland theme parks, which I’ve never visited. But the film does have a 10-minute prologue...
View ArticleViacom shares plunge as pay-TV woes pummel media firms
It looks like Jon Stewart picked the perfect time to retire. Viacom’s underwhelming earnings gave media investors yet another reason to sell, though the process was already well under way...
View ArticleDisney World boasts a network of secret tunnels
There’s a little secret in Florida’s Walt Disney World that most people wouldn’t know. Lying underneath the famous theme park is an entire underground city made up of a network...
View ArticleDisney, Marvel want no part of Times Square mess, Bratton says
A battle of City Council super-egos has stymied legislation that would allow corporate giants like Disney, Marvel and DC Comics to battle the phony superheroes and characters in Times Square,...
View ArticleClassic Bette Davis film and more on TV this week
1. “The Mindy Project” Tuesday, 3 a.m., Hulu “The Mindy Project” moves Hulu for Season 4, and the action picks up right where the show left off when it was...
View ArticleThis 81-year-old got fired from Disney — and refuses to stop working
He worked on “Sleeping Beauty,” “Mary Poppins” and “The Jungle Book.” But while those Disney films are ageless, their animators are not — which is why Floyd Norman found himself canned because of his...
View ArticleTwitter tanks as company struggles to find a buyer
Twitter shares were tanking 13.5 percent in Monday afternoon trading as investors are losing confidence that the company is likely to get sold. The struggling social network’s shares plunged as low as...
View ArticleHere’s what Disney wants in its new CEO
SAN FRANCISCO — Find someone with the creativity to keep studios cranking out hits — and you have the basic traits of the next Walt Disney chief executive, Bob Iger, the current CEO, said Wednesday....
View ArticleDisney is having trouble finding a new CEO
Bob Iger’s favorite song must be Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The Walt Disney CEO looks set to extend his contract at the Mouse House once again because, sources say, the board can’t find...
View ArticleMexican president, Disney and GM heads to be honored
The Mexican president, along with the heads of General Motors and The Walt Disney Company, will be honored this month in Manhattan by a prestigious inter-faith coalition of business and religious...
View ArticleSpider-Man will team with Marvel characters in new movies
Sony and Disney’s Marvel are finally bringing Spider-Man and the Avengers back together. The studios announced a deal late Monday in which the next installment of Sony’s $4 billion Spider-Man franchise...
View ArticleDisney beats Street, boosted by networks, theme parks
Disney’s quarterly revenue beat analysts’ expectations, helped by increased spending by visitors at its theme parks and higher ad sales and affiliate fees in the company’s media networks business....
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