According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney will resume paying dividends to its stockholders following a three-year freeze instituted due to COVID. They will pay out $0.30 per share as of December 11, 2023, compared to the $0.88 they were giving out prior to COVID. The payments will begin in January...
Read MoreMarvel doesn’t care if you’re tired of Kamala Khan. In an interview with The Direct, Ms. Marvel actress Iman Vellani talked about the upcoming Disney+ animated series Marvel Zombies, and she revealed that Kamala will be the lead. “There are a lot of cool characters in the Marvel Zombies show. ...
Read MoreAt the New York Times’ DealBook Summit earlier today (via CNBC), Bob Iger talked about Disney’s recent failures and what caused them, and his scapegoats probably won’t surprise you. They’re a mix of streaming, the pandemic, Bob Chapek, and executives not exerting enough control over film pr...
Read MoreTurkey Day is over, so it’s time to switch to cooking goose, and Doctor Who’s is in the oven. The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special debuted the first of its three episodes on Disney+ on Saturday, and it’s what a lot of people probably expected if the scenes making the rounds on Twitter are...
Read MoreIn an exclusive interview with The Direct, Katee Sackhoff clarified that her character Bo-Katan Kryze will not replace Din Djarin as the titular Mandalorian in the show of the same name. Fans (myself included) have suspected just such a switcheroo following season 3, which focused heavily on the ...
Read MoreDave Filoni got himself a promotion at Lucasfilm. The producer behind Star Wars series like Rebels, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka told Vanity Fair that he is now “what’s called chief creative officer of Lucasfilm.” This position will give him a bigger say in the develo...
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