Tag Archives: Disney

Disney Axes Comments On Traditional Super Bowl Ad

Los Angeles’s NBC affiliate reports: Patrick Mahomes, you and the Kansas City Chiefs have just won the Super Bowl! What are you going to do next? We already know what’s next. He’s going to Disneyland … again. The quarterback won his third Super Bowl MVP award on Sunday after guiding the Chiefs to a 25-22 overtime win against the San …

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Musk Funds Fired Actress’s Lawsuit Against Disney

The Hollywood Reporter reports: In an escalation of a standoff over her firing in The Mandalorian, Gina Carano is suing Disney and Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination in a lawsuit that opens another front in the battlefield for influence over Hollywood that has drawn in corporate America. Carano, in a complaint filed on Tuesday in California federal court, alleges …

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Hulu And Disney+ To Crack Down On Password Sharing

Ars Technica reports: Hulu and Disney+ subscribers have until March 14 to stop sharing their login information with people outside of their household. Disney-owned streaming services are the next to adopt the password-crackdown strategy that has helped Netflix add millions of subscribers. An email sent from “The Hulu Team” to subscribers yesterday and viewed by Ars Technica tells customers that …

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Disney Appeals Free Speech Lawsuit Against DeSantis

The Associated Press reports: Disney on Thursday appealed a judge’s dismissal of its free speech lawsuit over what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ retaliatory takeover of Walt Disney World’s governing district, as the Florida governor separately called any appeal “a mistake.” “They were wrong and we were right,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville a day after …

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DeSantis Board: Disney Used Free Tickets As “Bribes”

Reuters reports: The board appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to oversee Walt Disney’s (DIS.N) theme parks accused the company of giving a previous local board and its employees millions of dollars’ worth of tickets, discounted hotel stays, merchandise and other benefits that were “akin to bribes of public officials.” “For years, the company treated district employees like Disney employees …

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Disney And Lionsgate Join Advertisers Exodus From X

The New York Times reports: The blowback over Elon Musk’s endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory on X gathered steam on Friday, as several major advertisers on his social media platform cut off their spending after his comments. Disney said it was pausing spending on X, as did Lionsgate, the entertainment and film distribution company. Apple, which had been on …

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Disney Cites DeSantis’s Prison “Joke” In New Filing

Inside The Magic reports: A bizarre, alleged “joke” that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made about building a prison near Walt Disney World has ended up being part of Disney’s federal lawsuit against him. In April, DeSantis said, “Come to think of it, now people are like, what should we do with this land? People have said maybe create a state …

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Disney District Sees Mass Exodus Of Top Management

WDW Magic reports: In what marks a significant upheaval to the former Reedy Creek Improvement District, over thirty employees have resigned from the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, the governing entity responsible for Walt Disney World. This mass exodus includes almost half of its senior leadership and follows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ controversial takeover of the district, raising serious concerns …

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Universal Orlando Awarded Special Taxing District

The Street reports: Disney’s battle against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just got a little more interesting after the theme park operator’s rival Universal Orlando Resort was awarded a special benefit that was taken away from Disney World. The House of Mouse may have obtained some ammunition in its battle against DeSantis as the theme park operator’s rival Comcast’s Universal Orlando …

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DeSantis’s Disney District Board To Compensate Staff With Annual Stipend After Doing Away With Park Perks

The Associated Press reports: Facing a backlash, Walt Disney World’s governing district will pay a stipend to employees whose free passes and discounts to the theme park resort were eliminated under a policy made by a new district administrator and board members who are allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The stipend will be $3,000 a year, which is around …

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Disney World’s Firefighters Turn Against DeSantis

Mediaite reports: The firefighters who protect Walt Disney World made headlines when they controversially backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) takeover of the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID), the special taxing district on Disney property. But now that alliance seems to be turning sour. At the CFTOD board meeting this week, a budget proposal was presented that would eliminate the …

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FL Projects $6.5M In Legal Fees For Battle With Disney

Politico reports: The state board that controls the land housing Walt Disney World expects to more than triple what it spends in legal fees next year following a high-profile battle between the entertainment giant and Gov. Ron DeSantis. New figures released Wednesday find the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District anticipates it’ll spend $4.5 million in legal fees in 2024, after …

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DeSantis’s Disney Oversight Board Moves To Strip District Employees Of Free Park Passes And Discounts

Fortune reports: Already involved in two lawsuits with Disney, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointees to a board that oversees Disney World’s governing district on Monday launched a battle against the company on a new front — free passes and discounts for district employees. Board members of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District submitted a complaint to the state Inspector General, claiming …

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Disney Countersues Oversight Board For “Retaliation”

Courthouse News Service reports: The Walt Disney Company shot back late Thursday against the authority claimed by a Florida-backed oversight board to void agreements giving Disney control of the special district where its theme park is located. It contends that the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District is essentially the same entity as the previous board, the Reedy Creek Improvement District, …

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DeSantis Claims He’s “Moved On” From Disney Feud

“Look, my wife and I, we got married at Walt Disney World. And so it’s not like we’re opposed. We’ve appreciated working with them over the years, but I would just say, go back to what you did. But where we are today, you know, we basically moved on. They’re suing the state of Florida, they’re going to lose that …

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Disney’s ESPN Enters Sports Gambling With $2B Deal

ESPN reports: ESPN has signed a licensing deal with Penn Entertainment to create ESPN BET, a sportsbook for audiences in the United States. Penn will rebrand its current sportsbook to ESPN BET later this fall in the 16 states where it is licensed. The rebrand will include a mobile app, website, mobile website and mutually agreed upon retail locations. Penn …

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Republicans Back Disney In Lawsuit Against DeSantis

The Associated Press reports: Saying Gov. Ron DeSantis has followed the autocratic examples of governments in Russia and China, a group of mostly Republican former high-level government officials has called the Florida governor’s takeover of Disney World’s governing district “severely damaging to the political, social, and economic fabric of the State.” The group of former governors, U.S. House members and …

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Oversight Board Defunds Disney Police Protection

Orlando’s ABC affiliate reports: During a Wednesday meeting, officials said the previous board spent $8 million every year on law enforcement overtime on Disney properties. Now, the board is doing away with that spending and cutting $8 million used to pay law enforcement officers in off-duty shifts, saying the cost of fighting Disney in court has caused it to have …

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The Cult Melts Down Over Fake “Snow White” Photos

The Daily Beast reports: A Daily Mail article featuring what the publication claimed were set photos from Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow White sparked a storm of conservative backlash on Friday, surrounding the “politically correct” “dwarf actors” pictured. The only problem? The photos aren’t legit. When asked by The Daily Beast for comment on the Daily Mail’s article, which touts photos …

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Disney Seeks Dismissal Of Suit By FL Oversight Board

Reuters reports: Walt Disney Co will ask a Florida judge on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit by a state oversight board as part of the entertainment giant’s effort to pursue its case against Governor Ron DeSantis, the latest in a year-long feud between the two. Disney wants Judge Margaret Schreiber in Orlando to dismiss a lawsuit filed in May by …

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