A&e And Lifetime Cable Channels Merge
28th August 2009
In a somewhat complicated reorganization of their ownership and management structure, the A&E cable channel and the Lifetime channel are...
Osha Investigates Deaths Of Disney Employees
20th August 2009
A federal investigation was launched Wednesday into three recent fatal accidents involving employees at the Walt Disney Co.'s Disney World...
It's A (Finally) Done Deal Between Dreamworks And Reliance
18th August 2009
In a deal that seemed to take forever-and-a-day to conclude, Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks and India's Reliance ADA Group finally signed...
Actress Davis Dies At 90
18th August 2009
Former child star VIRGINIA DAVIS, known as WALT DISNEY's first movie star, has died. She was 90 years old.The actress...
Disney Claims Success With "Combo" Packs
13th August 2009
Amid reports that consumers are holding off buying DVDs as they consider upgrading to high-definition home-theater set-ups, the Walt Disney...
Miyazaki's Ponyo To Get Full Court Press
12th August 2009
The Walt Disney Company, which holds the distribution rights to the films of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki but has never...
Disney Profits Plunge 26 Percent
31st July 2009
Add the Walt Disney Co. to the list of media conglomerates reporting big second-quarter losses. Its profit fell 26 percent...
Movie Reviews G-force
24th July 2009
Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times heaps faint praise on G-Force , describing it as "pleasant, inoffensive." "It will possibly...
Hong Kong And Disney Plan $465-Million Disneyland Expansion
13th July 2009
Hong Kong and the Walt Disney Co. have agreed to give the struggling Disney theme park Hong Kong Disneyland an...
Jobs Back On The Job
23rd June 2009
Apple CEO Steve Jobs was spotted by a Reuters reporter at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, CA Monday, lending credence...
Banks Finally Show Spielberg The Money
12th June 2009
Nearly nine months after Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks closed a $325-million deal with India's Reliance Big Entertainment to partially finance its...
Comcast Extends Video-on-demand Service To Two Days
3rd June 2009
Warner Bros., Walt Disney Studios, Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment have agreed to allow customers of Comcast's video-on-demand service to have...
Voice Of Mickey Mouse Dead At 62
21st May 2009
Wayne Allwine, a Disney sound-effects technician who became the falsetto voice of Mickey Mouse in 1977, died Monday in Los...
Disney Drops Again
6th May 2009
For its shareholders, the Walt Disney Co. was not the happiest place on earth Wednesday as the giant media conglomerate...
Cyrus Admits Clooney "Crush"
25th April 2009
Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus has admitted she has a celebrity crush on fellow actor George Clooney.Cyrus was in London...
Nato Down Close Window
6th April 2009
Wrapping up its ShoWest convention in Las Vegas last Friday, the National Association of Theater owners warned studios against further...
Eisner Takes "Subtle Jab" At Successor Iger
1st April 2009
Michael Eisner will take what today's (Wednesday) New York Post describes as "a subtle jab" at Robert Iger, who succeeded...
Abc To Join Nbc And Fox On Hulu?
30th March 2009
ABC may join NBC and Fox on Hulu.com, the website paidContent.com and the Los Angeles Times reported over the weekend,...
Disney Halts Talks On Expanding Hong Kong Disneyland
17th March 2009
The Walt Disney Co. has pulled out of talks with the Hong Kong government on plans to expand its theme...
A President's Day Like No Other At Box Office
18th February 2009
It's now official the Friday the 13th/Valentine's Day/President's Day weekend produced the biggest February weekend in box-office history. According to...
Disney Launching A Boys' Channel
13th February 2009
Saying that it plans to focus on "tween" and younger boys but include girls, the Walt Disney Company on Thursday...
Dreamworks Completes Deal With Disney
10th February 2009
DreamWorks fittingly will become part of the enterprise that promoted wishing upon a star. The company headed by Steven Spielberg...
Disney And Dreamworks Team Up Over Bollywood Vision
10th February 2009
Walt Disney and DreamWorks have announced a long-term distribution deal aimed at bringing Bollywood movies to the States.Under the terms...
Dreamworks Falls Out With Universal; Heads For Disney
9th February 2009
Four months after announcing that they had reached a tentative agreement, DreamWorks and Universal have failed to finalize the deal....
Mouse Caught In Financial Trap
4th February 2009
The Walt Disney said on Tuesday that its profit during its first quarter plummeted 32 percent to $845 million vs....
No Shanghai Disneyland Yet, Says Disney
26th January 2009
Denying reports that appeared in China's state-run press last week, the Walt Disney Co. said today (Monday) that it has...
Disney In Deal To Build Disneyland In Shanghai
20th January 2009
The Walt Disney Co. and the government of China have reached an agreement to build the first Disneyland theme park...
Iger Weathers Recession
20th January 2009
The Walt Disney Co. reported in its annual proxy statement that CEO Robert Iger received total compensation of more than...
Mamma Mia! Helps Universal Rule UK Box Office
13th January 2009
The huge success of Mamma Mia! has helped Universal Pictures International in being named the UK's most successful film distributor...
Second Baby Girl For Jennifer Garner And Ben Affleck
7th January 2009
Hollywood couple Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck have become parents for the second time, it has been revealed.The actors, both...
