Could Bob Chapek return to a leading role in the entertainment industry? The Walt Disney Company has dealt with several employment-based blows as their people go off and bring magic–and profits–to the competition, and perhaps the most significant example is Jeffrey Katzenberg. After helping spearhead the Disney Renaissance, driving Walt Disney Animation Studios to deliver instant classics from The Little ...

Cost-cutting efforts at The Walt Disney Company appear to have secured a privacy win for fans and Theme Park Guests. Recently, we at Disney Fanatic reported that the “Disney Prime” membership was going the way of the dodo. This would have essentially combined the many different Disney products, from the Disney+ streaming platform to the MyDisneyExperience app, into one lump ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited California, the home of The Walt Disney Company, on his book tour and echoed his government’s decision to reign in the corporate autonomy found at the Reedy Creek Improvement District. “I can tell you this,” he said. “Disney may have gotten everything they wanted in Florida for the last 60 years, but there’s a new ...

Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger — who recently returned from a well-paid ‘retirement’ position to take the lead role from now-former CEO Bob Chapek — does not seem to be very popular with his co-workers; however, the Disney CEO’s leadership style and plans for Disney (which he recently shared amidst some controversies and in-house shakeups) apparently appealed to at ...

According to this report, at least one Wall Street analyst still thinks that the Walt Disney Company is a good ‘horse’ to bet on in the stock market — even though morale among Disney employees is low, Disney Resort and Disney Park Guests are complaining extensively about their experiences on Disney vacations, and Disney’s CEO Bob Iger has just announced ...

Disney has repeatedly hammered the point home that the Bob Chapek Era is over. But this begs the question, what does this mean for the current state of the Walt Disney Company? As Disney Fanatics know, the February 8 earnings call brought a lot of news—some good, some grave—for Disney fans to process. Post the earnings call, the continued trickle ...

The Infamous Chapek Era has officially come to an end, and Bob Iger is back with what he recognizes and the third massive transformation he has led the company through. Speaking at the Company’s Q1 2023 Financial Earnings Webcast, Iger laid out a brand new structure for The Company. “After a solid first quarter, we are embarking on a significant ...

It appears Disney CEO Bob Iger is keeping to his goal of setting right the immense losses of the Walt Disney Company with strategy changes. It seems the dust is settling after a dramatic end to the year for the Walt Disney Company in 2022. When the final numbers came to, it was clear that Bob Chapek had made decisions ...

It seems former Disney CEO Bob Chapek isn’t quite out of the news just yet… Disney’s annual meeting notice filing has revealed some unfortunate truths about the pay disparity between high-level executives and “median employees.” Bob Chapek can’t seem to catch a break. The former CEO was embroiled in controversy after controversy until his ousting in November of last year; ...

With every new year that rolls around, the act of making New Year’s resolutions is a fairly common practice among many. Folks naturally want to resolve to do better in some area of their lives, feeling that the start of a new year offers a time for a fresh start over. Disney fanatics are no exception to the scores of ...