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DeSantis Can Keep Fighting Disney While Running for President

The Florida Legislature just passed a bill this week that will essentially allow Governor Ron DeSantis to keep up his fight with The Walt Disney Company, as well as his other duties as Governor, while he runs for the White House. Up until this point, the State of Florida was one of the few states with a “resign to run” rule. Meaning that any standing Governor would have to first resign

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Disney/ESPN Exec. Let Go After 43 Years While Wife Battles Cancer

Round Two of the bloodbath began today. What Disney CEO Bob Iger promised months ago has now come to fruition. The first round of layoffs at the Walt Disney Company started last month, and now, the second round of cuts began today, hitting Disney-owned ESPN the hardest. This week, the Disney Company is expected to lay off “several thousand” people to get closer to the 7,000 employees I

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With So Many Live-Action Remakes, Analysts Wonder ‘Is Disney Out of Ideas?’

Stop me if you've heard this before; Disney is taking your favorite animated film and turning it into a live-action remake. So far, Disney has done it with Beauty and the Beast (2017), Lion King (2019), Pinocchio (2022), Little Mermaid (2023), and just announced this past week, Moana. And this list is only scratching the surface of the number of live-action remakes Disney has made of its animated

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How Exactly is Disney Planning on Filling 13,000 Jobs?

You've probably noticed something about the surrounding area if you've left the Walt Disney World bubble in Orlando. It is in a perpetual state of construction. There are new shops, restaurants, hotels, and apartments/condos. And that doesn't include the seemingly never-ending highway construction. Just stay away from I-4. At the Walt Disney Company's earnings meeting this week, Disney CEO Bob Ige

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The Beauty and the Misery of the Walt Disney World Easter Parade

It was at some point in the early 90s. It had to be the 90s, as all great things happened then. I wasn't quite a teenager, but I was pretty close. It was probably the second or third time I had ever been to Walt Disney World, and my family was staying at Disney's Beach Club for the first time ever. This was before Extra Magic Hours or anything like that, so you got into the Parks at the same time

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Sequel Announced for Beloved Animated Film

Chris Meledandri, CEO of Illumination and creative partner of DreamWorks Animation, gave an exclusive interview about the new Super Mario Bros movie to Variety Magazine. Shockingly the headlines coming out have nothing to do with Mario but with SHREK! Meledandri announced Shrek 5 is in the works. He shared: “It’s not that dissimilar to the process that we went through with ‘Mario,’ where you look

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China Market is Softening on Iger and Disney

When Bob Iger returned as CEO, it was widely believed that his return would warm the relationship between Disney and China that had soured under his predecessor, former CEO Bob Chapek. A mere two days after Iger’s return, Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water (2023) received permission from the Chinese government to be released in the Communist nation. Avatar even received a release extension, a rarit

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We Need to Talk About Animal Kingdom. You Should Skip It in 2023.

The only constant is change. No matter how much Disney fans complain about loving all the “older” stuff, we always want something new every time we go. That’s the odd irony of being a Disney fan; we love the classics but need change. Just look around Walt Disney World. There is change everywhere. Magic Kingdom has the new Tron Lightcycle/Run opening next month. Hollywood Studios has a new BBQ join

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