Mickey Mouse is headed to the Middle East. In a new test for its singularly American brand, the Walt Disney Company said on Wednesday that it had reached an agreement with the Miral Group, an arm of the Abu Dhabi government, to build a theme park resort on the Persian Gulf. The property, the seventh…
You might even call it a Disney renaissance. After a period of turmoil — culture war spats, whipsawing operating strategies, layoffs, proxy campaigns by activist investors for board seats and strikes in Hollywood, to name just a few of the challenges — Disney has returned to its stable, steamrolling self. Robert A. Iger, the chief…
Over the past week, as eight wildfires destroyed vast portions of its home metropolis, Hollywood found itself violently impacted — and, at the same time, barely impacted at all. With thousands of homes destroyed, many of them in neighborhoods favored by producers, executives, agents and stars, and roughly 300,000 people under evacuation orders or warnings,…