Executive summary: several days after a Navy SEAL team excised Osama bin Laden, the Disney Corporation applied to trademark the term … “SEAL Team 6,” on the grounds that there’s money in it it’s an integral and necessary part of the Disney gestalt. … fight over copyright law and the public domain by the end of the decade, and if comes down to a public relations fight between Disney…
COCO – $9.8m
Performing nicely for Disney/Pixar this curious decision to feature the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday has found global … The takeover by Disney will call that into question now.
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The Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox is primarily being made to set up its own competitive streaming outlet. … facing a dual-edged wand (as it were) in that it will have new competition, and losing much streamable titles and shows from the Disney-Fox…
Disney was the studio leader, drawing more than $2 billion and earning $1 billion on just the top two titles of the year. … The force is remaining strong for the Disney property.
… GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: VOL. 2 – $389.81 Million
This frothy space opera from Marvel/Disney outperformed the original and was given…
After all, the goal of the Congress over the last 40 years seems to be to give Disney an unconstitutionally perpetual copyright on … But instead, Orrin Hatch (R-Disney) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT, currently challenged by Len Britton) want to expand government yet again … dirty work enforcing their rights in civil court the way it always was, they want to subsidize these massive media giants like Disney…
To fans of the all-things Disney, one of the unions that represents workers at Disneyland (located in Anaheim, California) may have … As thousands of guests flocked to the Resort Friday night for Mickey’s Halloween Party, union representatives dressed as Disney characters…
Earlier this week I covered how not only Disney was relying heavily upon existing properties this summer but all the studios are following … (Of those half dozen, Universal’s “Jurassic World” is the only non-Disney property.)…
With a handful of titles this year expected to explode Disney has hit on each one to this point. … Disney is having quite the weekend. … This means that Disney has four titles in the top-10 this weekend.
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With the exception of Disney dominance the summer saw mostly challenges for studios, relying as they did on the familiar and flooding … This weekend has the Disney remake streaking past $430 million in just 3 weeks.…