Disney's latest Star Wars movie disaster just received more bad news, and this time the numbers are even worse than originally reported. When early estimates for the film's second weekend arrived, The Mandalorian and Grogu appeared headed for a painful 69% box office...
Walt Disney World news sites lit up Thursday morning with a sudden wave of announcements ranging from attraction reopening dates to steep resort discounts, creating what appears to be one of the largest coordinated information drops from Disney Parks in months. The...
The new movie from Pixar, Hoppers, may be performing worse than last year's Snow White, the media refuses to say so. The theatrical debuts of Disney’s live-action Snow White (2025) and Pixar’s animated Hoppers illustrate how dramatically the tone of media coverage can...
Disney’s Frozen films have proven to be among the studio’s most profitable and culturally significant properties, with two Academy Award wins and several nominations. The franchise’s songs, memorable characters, and themes have left a lasting mark on pop culture, inspiring stage adaptations, merchandise lines, and even viral social media trends. Part of the appeal may have been the films’ voice cast, which includes Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, and Idina Menzel. Even then, early reports alleging that they signed deals for salaries worth more than $60 million apiece to return for two additional Frozen movies were met with some shock. These reports quickly went viral, illustrating how celebrity pay stories capture public attention.
The Walt Disney Company’s latest proxy filing is raising fresh questions about whether the entertainment giant is quietly backing away from the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) posture it once promoted so prominently. A close comparison between Disney’s 2025 and...
Just when you thought the milk at Disney Parks' Star Wars lands couldn't get any worse, they totally went for the meme. You can almost hear an executive saying, "hold my blue beer." The unpopular blue and green milk beverages at both Walt Disney World and Disneyland...
The Walt Disney Company’s evolving approach to the upcoming LA 2028 Olympics is raising eyebrows. After the company previously cited the Paris Games as a headwind, it now prepares internally to capitalize on the 2028 Los Angeles Summer games. During prior earnings...
Disney’s decision to shut down The Hunt for Ben Solo is raising new questions about the company’s long-term strategy for the Star Wars sequel era — and whether the studio has quietly moved on from those characters altogether. According to director Steven Soderbergh,...
For most of Hollywood’s history, copyright disputes were fought studio to studio, or studio to platform, over distribution, windowing, and piracy. Generative AI shifted the battleground. Now the question is not just who distributes a movie or a song, but whether a...
A wild rumor lit up the comic book world this week — one that, on paper, felt almost inevitable given modern franchise cross-pollination — but according to industry trade reporting, fans may want to pump the brakes at least for now on the Star Wars galaxy meeting the...
Disney sent a cease and Desist letter to the Chinese company ByteDance over its Seedance 2.0 AI generation tool that has created a slew of viral videos over the last week. For years, The Walt Disney Company bent over backwards to expand its footprint inside China —...
The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has censured The Walt Disney Company over an advertisement for the film Predator: Badlands. Disney has been banned from using the digital poster, which features the Predator alien holding the severed torso of what appears to be a small human. The ASA ruled that it was likely to “cause fear or distress for young children.”
This May, The Mandalorian & Grogu will mark the first Star Wars film in seven years to hit theaters. The theatrical debut of Pedro Pascal’s bounty hunter and alien sidekick—introduced on the successful Disney+ series—achieves what few industry experts expected. It has the lowest production budget of any Disney Star Wars film to date.