Last year the Mouse House celebrated its 100th anniversary, which included opening Disney100: The Exhibition at London’s ExCel. The attraction, which closes in just two weeks times, features over 250 magical artifacts and 14 interactive installations from the last century. For British Disney fans, this is certainly a rare opportunity given that the studio is … Read more
A group of Florida state legislators voted on Friday to move forward with a bill that would reverse Governor Ron DeSantis’ successful effort last year to strip the Walt Disney Co. of control of a special district that oversees the company’s theme park properties. But the bill has long odds in getting very far in … Read more
Shareholders of Disney and Apple will be given the chance to vote on proposals regarding the use of artificial intelligence, the Securities and Exchange Commission has determined. As first reported by Reuters, the SEC issued notices on Wednesday saying the companies could not exclude proposals calling for an assessment of their use of AI. Neither … Read more
Jeremy Helfand, who spent the past five years as a streaming executive at Disney and Hulu, has joined Amazon to lead Prime Video Advertising. Starting later this year, scripted film and TV titles on Prime will feature ads, making the subscription platform the latest player to accept brand messages on its scripted programming. Netflix and … Read more
Sports broadcaster Pat McAfee has issued an apology for broadcasting remarks made by New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers on McAfee’s ESPN television show the previous day. During the show, Rodgers insinuated a connection between late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. On Tuesday, ESPN’s McAfee faced significant criticism after providing … Read more
“By 2022, many people in management were aware of Gonzales’s egregious conduct and what he did to Plaintiff,” alleges a sexual assault suit filed yesterday by a current Disney employee against the Mouse House, its ex-VP Distribution Nolan Gonzales and various former Fox assets. “Plaintiff overheard a chairperson at Disney say that Gonzales was a … Read more
The Walt Disney Company has struck an agreement with ValueAct Capital Management, gaining the support of the activist investor for its board nominees at the crucial upcoming annual meeting. According to Disney, the confidentiality pact will “facilitate strategic consultation during [the] company’s transformation.” It also allows Disney to “provide information to the investment firm and … Read more
On January 1, Mike Neville gave Midjourney the following prompt: “Steamboat Willie drawn in a vintage Disney style, black and white. He is dripping all over with white gel.” There’s no polite way to describe what this prompt conjured from the AI image generator. It looks, very much, like Mickey Mouse is drenched in ejaculate. … Read more
As of today, the traditionally protective Walt Disney Company will have to deal with an onslaught of Mickey Mouse parodies, mockeries and likely rather explicit variations as the iconic character slips into the public domain. Sorta. In the sober light of 2024, Steamboat Willie, the 1928 short that effectively launched the empire that Walt built, … Read more
The earliest versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse now belong to the American people. The characters as they appear in the animated short films “Steamboat Willie” and “Plane Crazy” entered the U.S. public domain Monday, along with thousands of other works from 1928. Legal experts at Duke University say the Walt Disney Company still retains … Read more
