By now you probably have heard that Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman shut down a new Star Wars movie, The Hunt for Ben Solo, that was moving toward development. The movie was developed by Adam Driver with Steven Soderbergh as director, working in conjunction with the Lucasfilm brain trust of Kathleen Kennedy, Carrie [...]
Adam Driver spent two years developing a Star Wars movie with director Steven Sodenbergh, script-writer Scott Z. Burns, and the Lucasfilm brain trust of Kathleen Kennedy, Carrie Beck, and Dave Filoni, only to have Disney executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman kill it. The reasoning? "They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive," Driver told [...]
If you follow Hollywood and the movie industry, you've no doubt seen some comments from Disney CEO Bob Iger in recent days that have stirred conversation. The comments I want to focus on today are those he made in a recent CNBC interview about Disney's current lull and what the studio is doing about it. [...]
By now you've surely heard people talking about Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the box office, so I thought I'd jump into the discourse. What follows are a series of thoughts about it that are somewhat connected and somewhat random, but that I hope are helpful contributions to an online discourse that [...]
Earlier this week, Disney announced an updated schedule of theatrical releases in the coming years, and among the changes is that we'll have to wait a little bit longer for Star Wars to return to theaters. Disney pushed back the Star Wars movie that was originally scheduled to release on December 19, 2025, instead filling [...]
The Walt Disney Company will soon be removing some content from the Disney+ streaming platform, and included among them is the Willow series that premiered last fall. CEO Bob Iger had indicated recently that they would be pulling some content in cost-saving measures, and the first batch of those cuts were confirmed on Thursday. Included [...]
A lot has changed at the Walt Disney Company recently. As the Company looks back and celebrates their 100th anniversary, they're also looking ahead to what the next era will look like. The most pivotal piece in that puzzle came in November, when Disney stunned everyone by ousting CEO Bob Chapek to bring back Bob [...]
Storm clouds continue to swirl at the Walt Disney Company surrounding the tenure of CEO Bob Chapek. His ascension to the post was made a more difficult transition both by the fact that he was replacing one of the most influential executives in Disney history in Bob Iger, along with the fact that the global [...]
On Friday, November 12, Disney is celebrating the first Disney+ Day, and to celebrate it the company is releasing new content from all five of the streaming service's major brands - which, of course, includes Star Wars! In a release announcing the celebration and the various content that is coming that day, Disney revealed that [...]
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