Many people are frustrated with Bob Chapek, CEO of The Walt Disney Company. Retired Imagineers are petitioning that he be removed from his position. A Change.org petition has more than 30,000 votes in favor of Chapek leaving. The Bob Iger power players, along with...
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Book of Boba Fett Trailer Is Astounding Success
Whereas Kathleen Kennedy's career with The Walt Disney Company is in limbo for a variety of reasons, Dave Filoni's stock just continues to soar. The newest series from Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, which is crafted without any significant input from Kennedy, is taking...
Rotten Tomatoes Hides Marvel’s The Eternals
Normally, you'd expect a huge blockbuster film to be at the very forefront of Rotten Tomatoes. The site is the popular aggregator of critic and audience ratings, although it has lost some interest after a number of controversies surrounding possibly protecting the...
China Shuts Down Shanghai Disney Resort After “One” COVID Case
Shanghai Disney Resort has been shut down for two days after a bizarre one-day experience during Halloween. Appearing more spooky than the Haunted Mansion, the China-based theme park was locked down with 30,000 guests and cast members stuck waiting for test results...
Kathleen Kennedy Extended Secretly? Answers How She Handles Criticism
Kathleen Kennedy may have received a contract extension at The Walt Disney Company for her position as head of Lucasfilm. We're working on finding out if that's the case, but it's looking more and more like that's actually what has happened. Essentially, she's...
Alec Baldwin Rust Shooting Turns Into Blame Game
Featured Image Courtesy Fox News The situation with the shooting on the set of Alec Baldwin's Rust film production is turning uglier and uglier. If I could give any of the involved parties some advice it would be this: you and your lawyers should be out a contrite,...
Supply Chain Issues and Low GDP Threaten Tourism Industry
National GDP for the United States was announced for Q3 today. It was anemic. Sitting at only 2%, Barrons' headline for the day day read "Today's GDP Report Was Even Worse Than Expected". While consumers are stacked with cash, they're finding it more and more...
Disneyland Prices Go Up Extensively
A recent increase in Disneyland ticket prices, as well as raised rates for things like parking, means that Disneyland Resort is now either as expensive -- or possibly more expensive -- than going to Disney World. What is most impressive about these price increases is...
Rumor: Major Adventureland Expansion at Disney World in the Works
Featured Image Courtesy: Theme Parks and Entertainment / Not a work of The Walt Disney Company Two sets of alleged insider information have been circulating around me for months or years in regards to changes at Magic Kingdom in Disney World. One of the bits of...
NBA Player Enes Kanter May Upend Entertainment Industry with China Criticism
There are those who say they support human rights, and then make a fortune off of the claim without much sacrifice. Celtics' center, Enes Kanter, is not one of those people. Lacking superstar status, the NBA players is risking everything by making claims against the...
Nickelodeon Ratings Hit Historic Lows — Paramount+ Sputters
In June of 2021, I brought attention to Nickelodeon's collapsing cable ratings while I was writing for Pirates and Princesses. At the time, I was covering a situation involving dislikes for a particular YouTube video from Nickelodeon. The topic was (and is)...
What Went Wrong on Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Leaving One Dead
Here at That Park Place, we've gone over the situation with Alec Baldwin and his production company on the set of Rust, a western movie. For a variety of bad actions, a tragic and avoidable accident occurred that left his director of photography shot and killed. Now,...
