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Johnny Depp’s Threat Not To Make Pirates 4 Collapses On Day 10
3:21AM Brian Moylan | Johnny Depp made a big deal about making known his dissatisfaction after his friend Dick Cook was ousted from Disney last week. Apparently he’s already forgotten about that. More »
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Disney Movie Chief Out In Showbiz Shocker
3:15AM Richard Rushfield | In a move, that took all of Hollywood by surprise, Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook announced late yesterday that he was stepping down. More »
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Disney’s Marvel Deal Forces DC’s Hand
5:51PM Andrew Belonsky | In a battle between Mickey Mouse and Superman, most people would put their money on Superman. Well, that’s almost true. Sure, Superman would definitely kill Mickey, but the Mouse has Disney power, and that Disney power forced Superman’s company’s hand. More »
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Disney Buys Marvel, Now In Business With Every Hollywood Studio
12:49AM Brian Moylan | It was announced today that Disney shelled out $US4 billion for Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Not only does it now own Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Iron Man, but is also in business with almost every Hollywood studio. What a tangled web! More »
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Disney Staging Its Own, Narcissistic Comic-Con
7:10PM Andrew Belonsky | Disney sent representatives and stars to last month’s Comic-Con, but apparently the company isn’t content with collective marketing, because they’re launching their own event, the D23 Expo. More »
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Swine Flu Can Stop A Spaceship, But Not Sex And The City
12:31AM Richard Lawson | News from the Sex and the City front, a new Disney comedy sounds annoying (and already done), swine flu does its worst damage yet, and another actor picks up a trident. More »
Happy Endings Offered to Disney, Warners Execs
8:25AM Seth | The Age of the Easily Expensed Job-Perk (Assistant: “You want me to submit a receipt that says, ‘Lunch with hooker Ratner?’” Agent: “Yeah, that’s fine. Throw ‘er in there with the rest…”) are long over. More »
Ron Meyer’s Pissed: A DreamWorks and Disney Wedding Album
8:10AM STV | Disney and DreamWorks today sent out official confirmation of their shotgun wedding, issuing a release around town raising more questions about its relationship than it answers. More »
Fox Willing To Take Magical, Expensive Trip To ‘Narnia’
2:00AM Kyle Buchanan | As we predicted last month, Fox has stepped up to take the reins of the Narnia franchise steered into a costly anthropomorphic wall by Disney. Here’s the scoop from Variety (including what they got wrong): More »
