Late Thursday night into Friday morning (around 11:30 pm–12:00 am ET, October 30→31, 2025), all Disney-owned linear networks, including ABC (and local ABC stations), ESPN’s suite of channels, FX, Freeform, Disney Channel, and National Geographic, were removed from YouTube TV after the companies failed to reach a new carriage agreement before the prior deal expired. Viewers reported the channels going dark just before the midnight deadline.
Could the U.S. government shutdown ultimately harm Hollywood?
The government shutdown threatens to take away food stamps (discretionary income) and could gravely damage family movie money as a result. With Avatar: Fire and Ash coming in late and Stranger Things mostly playing on New Year’s in 2026, can the domestic box office even match the horrible totals for last year?
Note: This article presumes the accuracy of the TEA 2024 Report for the purposes of reporting attendance numbers. Magic Kingdom was recently declared the winner by the Themed Entertainment Association for attendance in 2024. But what if we told you the Walt Disney...
The Themed Entertainment Attractions report was released for 2024 and Magic Kingdom was, once again, the most visited theme park in the world according to the analysis. However, it wasn’t by much, and now, with some deep investigation into the numbers, there’s something true Disney afficionados (and perhaps investors) just have to see. It turns out, that when we apply the likely calculations TEA is using to determine the attendance, Magic Kingdom actually dropped in per session ticket sales.
In the world of theme parks, travel and tourism, being #1 is a very big deal. So it should be no shock that Walt Disney World executives know how to pull out all the stops to stay in first place.
Recently, the entertainment media buzzed with headlines proclaiming that Rachel Zegler will play Gloria Estefan in a forthcoming biopic of the Cuban-American music legend. Yet a closer look reveals a more cautious, qualified reality: while Estefan has publicly spoken of the project and of Zegler’s involvement, there is no official studio green-light at this time.
There’s a new report out of Deadline about how much money noted box office flop Tron: Ares will lose for Disney, but we’re afraid it may have “de-rezzed” the true statistics just a bit. Whereas Deadline is claiming the movie will lost $132M+ for The Walt Disney Company, the total could come all the way up to more than a quarter billion dollars. And the reason for it is a cute little smoke-and-mirrors accounting trick we’re excited to expose for you!
Disney has worn its share of very expensive bruises at the box office. Prior to the post-pandemic trend of losing money on major blockbusters, Disney would often react strongly to a public failure. John Carter and The Lone Ranger are the two canonical examples that triggered boardroom autopsies and strategy pivots.
The Walt Disney Company appears ready to drop “Diversity Equity and Inclusion” in favor of “belonging.” After a tumultuous upheaval at the House of Mouse following the last presidential election, in which controversial programs like “Reimagine Tomorrow” were purged from the entertainment juggernaut, Disney is retooling employee outreach next week with a program all about “belonging” rather than DEI.
Things might be getting a little desperate for Disney looking to fill hotel rooms this holiday season. In one of those rather rare moves for the Magic Kingdom, Georgia residents are now getting in on some serious discounts. Yes, you read that right... Georgia...
In 2025, The Walt Disney Company is enduring what might go down as its darkest theatrical year in memory—accumulating a cascade of box-office disappointments that arguably outstrips any distributor in a single calendar year. In fact, Disney has likely broken the record for most financial failures at the box office in a single year… beating its own previous record in 2023!
In October 2025, the media landscape was shaken when Paramount Skydance announced that it had acquired Bari Weiss’s media company, The Free Press, and appointed Weiss as editor-in-chief of CBS News: a newly created position meant to redefine the network’s editorial...