Dana Walden, Chairman & CEO of Fox Television Group, has joined Hulu’s Board of Directors. She succeeds Randy Freer, former president and COO of Fox Networks Group, who was named Hulu CEO following Mike Hopkins departure last month. The makeup of the board of Hulu, which is co-owned by 21st Century Fox, Disney, Comcast and Time Warner, consists of three seats for Fox, held by Peter Rice, Walden and Brian Sullivan, and three for Disney, Kevin Mayer, Ben Sherwood. Bruce…...
- 11/17/2017
- Deadline TV
Well, as much as I don't want to subscribe to another stupid streaming service, it seems like Disney is going to make me. We already knew that Disney would be killing off their deal with Netflix and Hulu and that all of their films and TV shows, including all of the Star Wars and Marvel stuff, will exclusively stream on their upcoming streaming service.
Now, it seems like any future Marvel series that would normally be developed and streamed on Netflix will be moving to the Disney streaming service in the future. I know this was a safe assumption, but hearing confirmation of their plan for it in the Wall Street Journal was still a little jarring.
It kinda sucks to hear that we eventually won't be seeing any Marvel shows on Netflix anymore. I love those shows! Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Punisher!? Yeah, now...
Now, it seems like any future Marvel series that would normally be developed and streamed on Netflix will be moving to the Disney streaming service in the future. I know this was a safe assumption, but hearing confirmation of their plan for it in the Wall Street Journal was still a little jarring.
It kinda sucks to hear that we eventually won't be seeing any Marvel shows on Netflix anymore. I love those shows! Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Punisher!? Yeah, now...
- 11/9/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Courtney Holt, who has served as the top executive at Maker Studios for roughly one year, is leaving that post to take on a new role within parent company Disney. The move comes as Disney has folded Maker Studios into a different division of its Consumer Products And Interactive Media (Dcpi) arm, Variety reports.
Upon its acquisition in 2014, the Maker team initially reported to Disney CFO Jay Rasulo, but was folded into the Dcpi division last year, and will now exist within Dcpi’s Content & Media area, according to Variety. Andrew Sugerman, who is Evp of Content & Media for Dcpi, will replace Holt as Maker’s top executive. Holt has now been named Evp of media and strategy at Disney, reporting to senior Evp and chief strategy officer Kevin Mayer.
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Upon its acquisition in 2014, the Maker team initially reported to Disney CFO Jay Rasulo, but was folded into the Dcpi division last year, and will now exist within Dcpi’s Content & Media area, according to Variety. Andrew Sugerman, who is Evp of Content & Media for Dcpi, will replace Holt as Maker’s top executive. Holt has now been named Evp of media and strategy at Disney, reporting to senior Evp and chief strategy officer Kevin Mayer.
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- 12/20/2016
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Ashton Eaton said that he was prepared to wind up in the hospital Thursday night, if that’s how hard he had to run to stop France’s Kevin Mayer from finishing more than seven seconds in front of him — thus, denying Eaton the gold medal — in the tenth and final event of the Decathlon at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 1,500 meters.
RelatedBlind Item: This Fall’s Biggest Casting News Has Not Been Announced
Turns out, Eaton took the top spot on the podium, with no ambulance required.
With 300 meters left, the defending champ from 2012’s London games surged mightily from midpack,...
RelatedBlind Item: This Fall’s Biggest Casting News Has Not Been Announced
Turns out, Eaton took the top spot on the podium, with no ambulance required.
With 300 meters left, the defending champ from 2012’s London games surged mightily from midpack,...
- 8/19/2016
- TVLine.com
The Walt Disney Company hierarchy has named Christine McCarthy senior executive vice-president and Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Mayer senior executive vice president and Chief Strategy Officer, effective immediately.
McCarthy succeeds James A Rasulo as CFO and most recently served as evp of corporate real estate, alliances and treasurer.
She will now oversee investor relations, corporate planning and control, tax, corporate treasury, corporate real estate, facilities, integrated supply chain management, and corporate citizenship. She reports to chairman and CEO Bob Iger.
Mayer has served since 2005 as evp of corporate strategy and business development. He rejoins the studio from L.E.K. Consulting and reports to Iger and COO Thomas Staggs.
McCarthy succeeds James A Rasulo as CFO and most recently served as evp of corporate real estate, alliances and treasurer.
She will now oversee investor relations, corporate planning and control, tax, corporate treasury, corporate real estate, facilities, integrated supply chain management, and corporate citizenship. She reports to chairman and CEO Bob Iger.
Mayer has served since 2005 as evp of corporate strategy and business development. He rejoins the studio from L.E.K. Consulting and reports to Iger and COO Thomas Staggs.
- 6/30/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Christine McCarthy has been named senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Walt Disney Company, while Kevin Mayer has been named senior executive vice president and chief strategy officer effective immediately, the company announced Tuesday. As CFO, McCarthy will now oversee investor relations, corporate planning and control, tax, corporate treasury, corporate real estate, facilities, integrated supply chain management and corporate citizenship. She succeeds Jay Rasulo as CFO. In McCarthy’s most recent role as executive vice president of corporate real estate, alliances and treasurer, she developed a finance team responsible for treasury, corporate finance, capital markets, financial risk,...
- 6/30/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Emerging tech firms can apply now for a spot in this year’s Disney Accelerator program, the company said Tuesday.
The program is run with the assistance of the Techstars network and is open to technology-based start-ups with a vision for making an impact on the world of media and entertainment. Participants will be offered $120,000 in investment capital along with mentor support from top Disney executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other notable business leaders from the entertainment and technology communities.
Disney Accelerator will select a class of 10 companies for the three-month mentoring and investment program. It will begin on July 6 and...
The program is run with the assistance of the Techstars network and is open to technology-based start-ups with a vision for making an impact on the world of media and entertainment. Participants will be offered $120,000 in investment capital along with mentor support from top Disney executives, entrepreneurs, investors and other notable business leaders from the entertainment and technology communities.
Disney Accelerator will select a class of 10 companies for the three-month mentoring and investment program. It will begin on July 6 and...
- 1/27/2015
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
If you have a fledgling consumer media or entertainment product company, then this is for you: The media giant says its new Los Angeles-based program — called Disney Accelerator — will pick 10 companies to receive $120,000 in investment capital and three months of mentoring help from execs including CEO Bob Iger. The initiative will be “powered by” Techstars, which runs similar programs to identify investment opportunities at companies including Barclays, Nike, and Sprint. Disney has an April 16 deadline for applications to its program (check here), which begins June 30, and ends in September with an Investor Demo Day where teams introduce themselves to industry leaders and investors. “Disney Accelerator offers a unique collaboration between some of the best creative minds in the entertainment industry and the modern-day visionaries who are starting businesses on the strength of exciting new ideas,” says Disney Evp of Corporate Strategy and Business Development Kevin Mayer. Innovation Svp Michael Abrams will oversee the program.
- 2/12/2014
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor
- Deadline TV
A Michigan officer's decision to look through old files on fugitives led investigators to a woman who escaped from a Michigan prison 37 years ago and was living in San Diego, authorities said Wednesday. Judy Lynn Hayman, 60, will be returned to Michigan to complete her sentence for attempted larceny. San Diego police on Monday went to an apartment where a woman matching Hayman's description answered the door. She identified herself as Jamie Lewis and produced government documents with the name, San Diego police Lt. Kevin Mayer said. Officers, however, remained suspicious because of inconsistencies in her story and her resemblance to...
- 2/6/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
There's been a lot of talk about the possible return of Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII. There's been all kinds of confirmations, denials, and people just playing coy with it all. We all know it's going to happen, but, according to George Lucas all three of the actors will return in the seventh episode, in fact he said they were already signed on to do it before Disney bought Lucasfilm! Here's what he had to say in an interview about it with Businessweek,
"We had already signed Mark and Carrie and Harrison—or we were pretty much in final stages of negotiation. So I called them to say, ‘Look, this is what’s going on.’ He pauses. ‘Maybe I’m not supposed to say that. I think they want to announce that with some big whoop-de-do, but we were negotiating with them.
"We had already signed Mark and Carrie and Harrison—or we were pretty much in final stages of negotiation. So I called them to say, ‘Look, this is what’s going on.’ He pauses. ‘Maybe I’m not supposed to say that. I think they want to announce that with some big whoop-de-do, but we were negotiating with them.
- 3/7/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Since George Lucas sold his company, Lucasfilm, to Disney back in the fall of 2012 (along with the rights to the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” universes), few details have emerged about how things exactly went down and what will become of the “Star Wars” franchise now that Disney has it (besides, of course, “Star Wars: Episode VII,” which Jj Abrams will direct). Thankfully, a lengthy piece on Bloomberg BusinessWeek today sheds light onto both the process of acquiring “Star Wars” and what will happen going forward. First off, the Lucasfilm sale was never a sure thing -- it took a lot of doing, even with a long history between Disney chief Bob Iger and Lucas. Then when it did, Lucas was, not surprisingly, very protective of the framework he had laid out for the next three "Star Wars" movies. At first Lucas wouldn't even turn over his rough sketches of...
- 3/7/2013
- by Drew Taylor
- Moviefone
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