Disney Motion Pictures President Exits
Mark Zoradi, president of Walt Disney Co.’s motion pictures, group, is leaving after 29 years with the studio, as Disney pushes ahead with restructuring of its marketing and distribution operations. By...
View ArticleDisney’s Movie Unit Looks To Turn The Page
Disney chief Robert Iger calls the fourth-quarter financial results of Walt Disney Studios “extremely disappointing,” as the company takes a write-down on its “A Christmas Carol” and posts a loss for...
View ArticleDisney Studio Drama Might Alter The Industry
In its review of Rich Ross’ first 50 days as head of Walt Disney Studios, the Los Angeles Times speculates on how the marketing and distribution shake-up at the studio could lead to industry-wide...
View ArticleLightcap Succeeds Ross At Disney Channels
Carolina Lightcap has been named President of Disney Channels Worldwide, filling the opening created by Rich Ross’ recent move to the Walt Disney Studios. Lightcap has been with Disney since 2000, most...
View ArticleDisney Eyes Q4 For 3D Films On Blu-ray
The Walt Disney Studios plans to start releasing 3D content for the home on Blu-ray beginning in the fourth quarter of 2010 with “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” as well as a 3D showcase disc. Via PR Newswire
View ArticleExecutive Shake-Up Continues At Disney
Oren Aviv, head of film production at The Walt Disney Studios, is the latest executive to resign from the studio under the new leadership of Rich Ross. Disney did not immediately announce a...
View ArticleDisney’s Ross Scopes Beyond Hollywood For New Marketing Head
Walt Disney Studios Chairman Rich Ross has met with his executives and told them that he plans to hire someone outside of Hollywood's usual movie circles to replace former marketing President Jim...
View ArticleDisney Credits Home Entertainment For Studio’s Income Surge
A rise in home entertainment profits helped Walt Disney’s studio division post a 30% increase in operating income for its first quarter, the company announced Feb. 9. The studio recorded operating...
View Article‘Alice In Wonderland’ Might Get Shorter Theatrical Window
Following news that UK exhibitors are being asked to accept a tightened theatrical window on Disney’s spring tentpole “Alice in Wonderland,” The Hollywood Reporter says that U.S. theater owners have...
View ArticleDisney: Early ‘Alice’ DVD Release An ‘Exception’
Extending an olive branch to theater owners, Walt Disney Studios president of distribution Bob Chapek on Thursday assured exhibitors that the studio supports maintaining theatrical windows. "We remain...
View ArticleUK Theater Chain Settles With Disney Over ‘Alice’
The UK’s Vue cinema chain has agreed to show “Alice In Wonderland” despite its 13-week release window, after Disney agreed to make a formal pledge to retain a 17-week standard for most of its films....
View ArticleDisney Taps Ad Exec For Top Marketing Post
Some five months after the ouster of longtime marketing president Jim Gallagher, Walt Disney Studios has found his successor: advertising executive MT Carney. The Wrap reports that Carney, a founding...
View ArticleDisney Delivers Strong Quarter On ‘Alice’ Box Office
Disney’s film studio drove the company’s 55% year-over-year increase in net income during its fiscal second quarter. The 3D “Alice in Wonderland,” released in theaters March 5, surpassed $960 million...
View Article‘Alice’ Tops DVD Sales In First Week
Sales of Walt Disney Studios’ “Alice In Wonderland” bested other new releases such as Universal’s “The Wolfman” and Fox’s “Burn Notice: Season Three” for the week ended June 6, according to Rentrak....
View ArticleBombs Or Blip? Debate Over Box Office Trendlines
Following several high-profile disappointments at the box office, the debate is on as to whether movie studios are in a slump. The New York Times spends 1,200 words on whether studios can win back...
View ArticleWarner’s Sanders Remains DEG President; Disney’s Chapek Steps Down
The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) named its new board of directors for the coming fiscal year (Aug. 1 – July 31), while announcing that its chairman, Bob Chapek, was stepping down. Chapek, who was...
View ArticleDisney’s Iger Muses On ‘Premium’ Rental Window For Films
Walt Disney Studios plans to be “aggressive” in tweaking its home entertainment release windows, with the possibility of offering early premium access to films, Disney CEO Robert Iger said yesterday in...
View Article‘Toy Story 3’ Crossing $1 Billion Mark
Premiums for 3D screenings are helping to propel a second Disney film, “Toy Story 3,” past the $1 billion sales mark today, according to Deadline Hollywood. The studio becomes the first to release two...
View ArticleDisney’s ‘Alice’ To Make 3D Blu-ray Debut With Sony Products
Walt Disney Studios and Sony Electronics are teaming in a U.S. to provide both consumer and retail education, promotion and marketing support for in-home 3D devices and content. The co-promotion...
View ArticleIger Waxes on Home Entertainment Business with Charlie Rose
“I had the whole Beatles collection anyway,” laughs Bob Iger when Charlie Rose prods the Disney chief executive about his recent iTunes spending. “I ripped — legally — my Beatles CDs to my Apple...
View ArticleAnalyzing the 3D Numbers of Disney’s Fourth ‘Pirates’ Film
Stereoscopic screenings of Disney’s fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film, “On Stranger Tides,” represented 46 percent of the film’s $90.1 million domestic opening-weekend gross — even as 3D claimed...
View ArticleAnalysts Debate 3D Box Office Receipts
With 3D screenings accounting for less than half of the opening-weekend revenue for DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda 2,” some financial analysts fear that consumers have begun to tire of 3D films’...
View ArticleJob Cuts Loom at Disney’s Distribution Operations: Report
Walt Disney Studios plans to eliminate as many as 25o jobs, or 5 percent of its global workforce, as early as next week, the Los Angeles Times reports. Many of the cuts, according to sources with...
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