by Disney just announced yesterday that Bob Iger is no longer going to be CEO in a carefully worded statement. Their stocks fell pretty hard after the announcement.
This fresh off the heels of Dan DiDio’s removal as Co-Publisher at AT&T-owned DC Comics.
The latter was easy to see coming, as DC desperately needs a shakeup and to go into survival mode so they can keep their properties there for movies (and probably refocus toward movies).
The former is strange. Iger has one major failure for the Disney empire — which is Star Wars, and specifically the theme park iteration at Disneyland which has been a massive failure.
The theme parks are the only area of Disney which really has remained stable and up through the course of their IP-buying spree of the last decade. Now they own everything, so what?
My gut instinct is that Disney didn’t fire Iger, but he’s clashing with other people perhaps at the top of the Star Wars chain and doesn’t want to deal with it any longer.
But it’s all speculation. Either way, huge shakeups as we’re having major global economic warning signs with Corona-Chan. Get yourself prepared.
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