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This is a shocker: Disney says that COO Tom Staggs, the heir apparent to CEO Bob Iger, will leave the company on May 6 but remain special advisor for the remainder of the fiscal year that ends in September.

 

The entertainment giant gave no reason for the change, and its announcement doesn’t say what Staggs will do next. His contract was due to expire at the end of June 2018. Disney shares are down 1.7% in post market trading after the news.

 

The company says that the board will “broaden the scope of its succession planning process to identify and evaluate a robust slate of candidates for consideration” when Iger’s contract expires in two years.

 

http://deadline.com/2016/04/disney-coo-tom-staggs-leaving-1201731822/

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2 hours ago, GiantCALBears said:

This is huge news, stock is down a couple percent AH. Why is he leaving is a major mystery, how do you walk away from the keys to the kingdom?

 

Read that the board wouldn't guarantee him CEO position when Iger leaves.  His background is more finance related and I guess they would prefer someone more like Iger who came from tv.

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Really good piece on Alan Horn in this week's Variety

 

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/alan-horn-disney-chairman-1201749971/

 

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Though Horn is too circumspect to say it, the exhilaration at his achievements must be heightened because of the long and (briefly) fraught path that brought him to this place. The man now celebrated as the rare Hollywood executive who is both successful and beloved almost got run off in his first foray into the creative side of the business more than 30 years ago. Then, after a dozen years Horn spent cementing Warner Bros. as a dominant force in the ferociously competitive film business, Time Warner boss Jeff Bewkes sent him packing in 2011, for no apparent reason other than his age. Horn was 68.

 

Horn hesitates to dwell much on the loss of his job as Warner president and chief operating officer but recalls it as “painful” and “hurtful.” In a rare break from his usual reserve, he even betrays how the episode estranged him from his longtime colleague, former Warner Bros. chairman Barry Meyer. “I was in partnership with him running the place for almost 12 years, then he went on alone. So good for him,” says Horn, with a dismissive wave of his hand. “He is now retired.”

 

Believing his time atop the Hollywood ziggurat had expired, Horn was devastated, according to one close friend. But then, a year later, Iger jettisoned studio boss Rich Ross, who had alienated many of those around him, and put Horn in charge.

 

“I had the good fortune to convince Alan to come out of retirement by sharing my belief that we could form a partnership and a friendship that would not only result in our studio doing well, but also in the two of us having a good time along the way,” Iger says. “And that’s exactly what happened. The studio’s recent success is a result of Alan’s experience, talent and great leadership.

 

 

https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/alan-horn-variety-cover.jpg?w=670

 

 

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Disney has staked out a number of primetime release dates for its upcoming live-action fairy tales, even if the studio has yet to say which movie will open when. The crop of films includes The Jungle Book 2.

The bold move comes in the wake of the success of Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book, which has earned a dazzling $533 million at the global box office in less than two weeks in release in North America and much of the world, cementing Disney's prowess in spinning classic animated titles into live-action tentpoles.

The dates claimed by Disney are July 28, 2017 (instead of Dec. 22, 2017), April 6, 2018, Aug. 3, 2018, Dec. 25, 2018 and Dec. 20, 2019. That's in addition to two dates the studio has already claimed for untitled live-action fairy tales; Nov. 2, 2018 and Nov. 8, 2019 — meaning there will be four such films in 2018 alone.

Studio insiders say one of the release dates announced Monday will almost surely go to The Jungle Book 2, which is already in the works, even as Warner Bros. preps its own Jungle Book for Oct. 19, 2018. Disney won't comment, but it's possible Favreau's sequel could be ready in time for the August or November 2018 slot, putting it in the direct path of the rival Jungle Book, directed by Andy Serkis.

 

Other Disney titles that will fill the slots include Cruella, starring Emma Stone; A Wrinkle in Time, directed by Ava DuVernay; Jungle Cruise, starring Dwayne Johnson; director Tim Burton's Dumbo; a Mary Poppins sequel from director Rob Marshall that's set to star Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda; Maleficent 2 with Angelina Jolie; and a Tinker Bell film starring Reese Witherspoon. Director Lasse Hallstrom's The Nutcracker and the Four Realms is another priority.

Jungle Book, Jungle Cruise and Mary Poppins aren't fairy tales, but fall in the same realm as the other films in terms of Disney's ambitious blueprint of reimagining classic stories.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-stakes-release-dates-jungle-887415

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2017

07.28 UNTITLED DISNEY FAIRY-TALE (live action) (moved from 12.22)

 

2018

04.06 UNTITLED DISNEY FAIRY-TALE (live action)

08.03 UNTITLED LIVE ACTION

12.25 UNTITLED LIVE ACTION

 

2019

12.20 UNTITLED DISNEY FAIRY-TALE (live action)

 

One is probably THE JUNGLE BOOK II, which means, we'll get two JUNGLE BOOK movies in 2018.

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7 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

2017

07.28 UNTITLED DISNEY FAIRY-TALE (live action) (moved from 12.22)

 

2018

04.06 UNTITLED DISNEY FAIRY-TALE (live action)

08.03 UNTITLED LIVE ACTION

12.25 UNTITLED LIVE ACTION

 

2019

12.20 UNTITLED DISNEY FAIRY-TALE (live action)

 

One is probably THE JUNGLE BOOK II, which means, we'll get two JUNGLE BOOK movies in 2018.

Could one of these be marvel/Star Wars properties?

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3 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Could one of these be marvel/Star Wars properties?

 

I don't see a SW FILM IN August. So the December 25 date is the only possibility. That could also be the date for THE JUNGLE BOOK II.

 

Let us not forget that Fox has December 2018 for AVATAR II as well.

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16 minutes ago, Jonwo said:

December 20th 2019 makes sense for Episode IX, Christmas Day 2018 I wouldn't be surprised if it's Mary Poppins Returns. Jungle Cruise I imagine April or August 2018. Cruella is probably the most likely option for July 2017.

 

Yeah, it could also be the MARY POPPINS sequel.

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2 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

 

Yeah, it could also be the MARY POPPINS sequel.

 

Depends on when they're filming it since Lin Miranda Manuel doesn't finish Hamilton until July and with his commitments to Moana, future productions of Hamilton and also it might want a break. It's unlikely it'll be ready by July 2017.

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