Most hourly and salary employees at The Walt Disney Company will find a little extra cheese in their paychecks this year. The company is making two $500 bonus payments to its 125,000 employees. Additionally, Disney will launch a new higher education tuition assistance program for… Read More »Disney offers 125,000 employees $1000 bonus and more tuition assistance.
The talks between the Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox for the mouse to acquire many of the fox’s assets are nearing final stages. Variety reports that both sides are working with bankers to arrange what could be a $74 Billion deal. That’s ten… Read More »Disney and Fox in final stages of mega-deal
If you ever make it to San Francisco you owe it to yourself to visit the Walt Disney Family Museum. In order to maintain the high quality of exhibits, special programs, and its fantastic building in the Presidio area, the organization holds a special fundraising… Read More »Walt Disney Family Museum honors John Lasseter in gala event
As we reported last month, The Walt Disney Company is planning to spin-up it’s own Disney-branded streaming service in 2019. Actually, there will be two separate services, one for ESPN and one for Disney’s movie studio and television products. Disney CEO Bob Iger initially played… Read More »Disney to add Star Wars and Marvel to its streaming service after all
I’ve been reluctant to get into the reasons Phil Lord and Chris Miller were removed from the Star Wars anthology untitled Han Solo film. If you’re interested, there is some excellent reporting on the matter on THR. Meanwhile, the newly hired director, Ron Howard, has… Read More »Will Star Wars Han Solo film be delayed? Disney CEO won’t answer
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Walt Disney Chair and CEO Bob Iger talks about the first anniversary of Shanghai Disneyland and the great “likelihood that Disney will build another theme park in China,” and that there’s a good chance it will be in a… Read More »Disney CEO Bob Iger teases another theme park in a new Chinese city
Disney’s Chair and CEO Bob Iger has joined what is sure to be a long list of corporate leaders, it already includes Tesla and Space X head Elon Musk, in withdrawing from the White House Advisory Councils he sits on. President Trump’s decision to withdraw… Read More »Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns from White House Advisory Council
Today was the quarterly earnings call for The Wat Disney Company. There is always a little bit of news of interest to theme park fans, but today was a bonanza. Shanghai Disneyland has welcomed 7 million guests and is on track to greet 10 million… Read More »Disney announces opening date for Pandora – The World of Avatar, other new lands