#robert iger

[unladyboss]

AT THE SAME TABLE. ACADEMY MUSEUM GALA 2025 JEREMY ALLEN WHITE AND AYO EDEBIRI

Ayo/She's not pictured here but I'm sure they were all at the same table

Because last year...

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[ourquietman]

It goes without saying, but the Kimmel episode represents yet another example of a major media corporation bending the knee to Trump—and it comes at a time that the president appears more emboldened to target speech he dislikes. Earlier this week, Attorney General Pam Bondi bluntly threatened that the administration would “absolutely target” those engaging in what she described as “hate speech," in the wake of Kirk's killing. She quickly attempted to walk it back, but Trump himself then threatened ABC directly, singling out journalist Jonathan Karl as a possible target. The irony, of course, can’t be missed. For years, Republicans cast themselves as the party of free speech, railing against what they derided as “cancel culture” from the left. Yet what we are witnessing now is a full-scale cancel campaign led from the right, with the force of federal government power behind it. The same voices that once claimed to defend open expression are now actively weaponizing regulatory threats to silence critics. And Kimmel is hardly the only casualty. Paramount abruptly canceled Stephen Colbert’s program earlier this year, citing financial concerns, but the decision—coming against one of Trump’s sharpest critics—was obviously related to his politics. Now Disney has benched Kimmel. The result is a media landscape where critics of the president are vanishing from broadcast television one by one, not because audiences have turned away, but because executives fear government retribution. The message is chilling: in Trump’s America, even the most powerful media companies will silence their own talent if it keeps them in the administration’s good graces. It is a remarkable, and deeply alarming, moment for free speech.

Oliver Darcy in status.news

[kpeww]

Okay- That Funny Feeling- song by Bo Burnham- "Surgeon General's pop up shop, Robert Iger's face" I SWEAR I remember googling it and it was a guy with bad plastic surgery and yet all I can find now is Bob Iger the CEO of Disney and I can't find this plastic surgery guy-- does anyone else have any memory of this at all or am I completely losing it or having a mandella effect happen to me right now. I could've sworn the song wasn't referencing Disney CEO Bob Iger but this other guy seems to be completely gone from the internet. Please help me, I'm losing it.

[ultimateanna]

The Most Annoying Personalities in the Hollywood Industry 2024 (part 1)

Amandla Stenberg

Bob Iger

Cynthia Erivo

J.J. Abrams

Jodie Turner-Smith

Joe Locke

Kathleen Kennedy

Leslye Headland

Voting ended onNov 4, 2024

[acerosedrop]

So recently, I’ve been noticing a lot more people starting to call Disney out on their bullshit, which is really awesome because Goddamn have they just gotten worse and worse as time goes on, but there’s one thing I’ve started to notice about these posts that I think warrants a really important addition that needs to be made to all future callouts.

You see in a lot of these cases the consensus is “Fuck Disney” and while that’s very true, in reality your kinda being extremely broad here, as the company is broken up into at least 8 different studios, split into different divisions like ones for the theme parks and resorts, one for the cruise line etc, and has hundreds of thousands of employees under its belt. A lot of times when companies like Amazon and Tesla are called out, people are also making sure to specifically calling out their CEOs and founders, in this case Bezos and Musk, and making it very clear that they are also very much so in the wrong here, rightfully so placing the responsibility onto them.

But I rarely ever see this happen with Disney, and I thinks it’s important we start to change that a bit. Right now Disney as a whole is being helmed by two men, Bob Iger and Bob Chapek, as even though Chapek has officially been named the CEO and Iger was on his way out, he decided to step back into the role for a bit due to the pandemic, so he’s still very much at fault for a lot of this as well. You might know Iger as the man responsible for buying up, well, pretty much every hot ticket property Disney has right now including Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel as well as plenty of other shady deals. He’s even made it clear that’s he looking to take up a Presidential bid sometime in the next few years which is just Absolutely Yikes. Chapek on the other hand, is so notorious that even die-hard Disney fans more often then not will say they despise him, mainly due to his massive budget cuts in the theme parks that have not only dulled down the overall experience, but more importantly have resulted in thousands of cast members, even before the pandemic, being laid off because he didn’t see them as being “necessary”. His most common nickname is Lex Luther for a reason. And what’s worst, while they both agreed to cutting off their salaries completely at the start of the pandemic, they’ve since gone back to being paid-in full, and they’re still laying off massive amounts of their workers while their parks are being reopened, which I can tell you from personal experience is exactly what Chapek wanted all along.

There’s plenty more about these two guys that I could talk about, but the point here is it’s time to put faces and names to a lot of the shit the company has being trying to get away with over the years, and I wanna keep this post relatively short. So, just please remember, make sure whenever you say “Fuck Disney” that you also make sure to say “Fuck Bob Iger” and “Fuck Bob Chapek”. Make their names just as known as Bezos and Musk for all the wrong reasons, and maybe we can stop another fucking millionaire from having one of the highest seats in the US government.

Edit: I do want to make this clear since this has been gaining traction again, but I wanna stress that I’m not trying to tell people not be mad or angry or hold Disney accountable for what has happened with the company, but that I think it’s important that alongside that, people are aware of who’s at the top of this particular corporate ladder, because if there’s one thing I’ve learned from making this post it’s that not a lot of people were aware of who either of these men are, despite the massive influence they’ve had on not only Disney but other companies as well, of which they will likely continue to have. I have an issue with the company itself and what’s its become over the years, as well as the two people who are currently at the head of said company.

[rawyld]

My boys

[tomorrowusa]

Disney Pulls Plug on $1 Billion Development in Florida

A new office complex, and relocation of a division from California, would have created more than 2,000 jobs but was scuttled as the company and Gov. Ron DeSantis continue to feud.

The misconception that Republicans are “good for the economy” or “good for business” survives among some people despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

Ron DeSantis’s feud with Disney is going to cost the state roughly $1 billion and will have a ripple effect further down the line.

On Thursday, Mr. Iger and Josh D’Amaro, Disney’s theme park and consumer products chairman, showed that they were not bluffing, pulling the plug on an office complex that was scheduled for construction in Orlando at a cost of roughly $1 billion. It would have brought more than 2,000 Disney jobs to the region, with $120,000 as the average salary, according to an estimate from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.

The project, near Lake Nona Town Center, was supposed to cost $864 million, but recent price estimates have been closer to $1.3 billion. Disney had planned to relocate as many as 2,000 employees from Southern California, including most of a department known as Imagineering, which works with Disney’s movie studios to develop theme park attractions.

If you were a Disney employee in California, would you want to move to the homophobic, book-banning, gerrymandered hellhole which DeSantis is attempting to create in Florida?

Most of the affected employees complained bitterly about having to move — some quit — but Disney held firm, partly because of a Florida tax credit that would have allowed the company to recoup as much as $570 million over 20 years for building and occupying the complex.

Disney felt that despite the tax credits from Florida, it would be a bad move overall.

While Disney, so far is not exactly disinvesting in Florida, it is clearly investing less than anticipated there.

Disney is also in the midst of cutting $5.5 billion in costs as it seeks to improve profitability, pay down debt and restore its dividend. Later on Thursday, for instance, Disney said it would close an underperforming luxury hotel at Disney World. The 100-room property, announced in 2017 and opened last year, simulated a two-night trip on a “Star Wars” spaceship. 

Meanwhile, Gov. DeSantis signed a slew of homophobic bills into law on Thursday.

Tampa Pride on the River cancelled after DeSantis signs 4 anti-LGBTQ laws on 1 day

DeSantis and other Florida Republicans are setting the tone for homophobia across the state.

Digital traffic sign in Orlando displays anti-gay hate message

Homophobia should always be bad for business.

[avatarmovies]

jonplandau

These pictures span the more than two decades that I have known Wes Studi. I have admired his career (both on and off the screen) for even longer. Congratulations to my friend on receiving yesterday an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Board of Governors. Wes Studi, well deserved.