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Walt Disney, Mahindra group officials join USISPF Board of Directors

Walt Disney and Mahindra group officials have joined the Board of Directors of US India Strategic and Partnership Forum, which the organisation said is testimony to the success story of American companies in India and a growing presence of Indian conglomerates in the US. The two officials are Dorothy Attwood, senior vice president of Global Legal, Policy and Compliance for The Walt Disney Company, and Amarjyoti (Amar) Barua, Executive Vice President (EVP) of Group Strategy at the Mahindra Group to the Board of Directors, the US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) said in an announcement. Attwood, in her current role, is responsible for the company's international legal and government affairs functions around the world, outside of the US, and leads strategic public policy initiatives as well as ESG and Sustainability globally across all business segments. Attwood also leads the Privacy Legal Department and the Government Ethics and Compliance Group enterprise-wide. Barua

Reliance, Disney start antitrust diligence on India media merger: Report

Reliance has appointed Indian law firm Khaitan & Co and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, while Disney has roped in AZB & Partners, the people said

In public domain, early Mickey Mouse version will star in horror movies

The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage, barely two days in the public domain. Slashed free of Disney's copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from "Steamboat Willie" is already the focus of two horror films. On Monday, just hours after the 1928 short entered the public domain, a trailer for "Mickey's Mouse Trap" dropped on YouTube. Another yet-to-be-titled film was announced Tuesday. "Steamboat Willie" featured early versions of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, it was the third cartoon featuring the duo they made but the first to be released. In it, a more menacing Mickey, bearing more resemblance to rat than mouse, captains a boat and makes musical instruments out of other animals. It's perhaps fitting, then, that the first projects announced are seemingly low-budget and campy slasher movies and not unprecedented. Winnie the Pooh sans red shirt entered the public domain in 2022; scarcely a year later, he was notching up a

Disney's Mickey Mouse enters public domain as 95-year-old copyright expires

Mickey Mouse's first screen release in the 1928 short film 'Steamboat Willie', featuring both him and Minnie Mouse, became available for public use from January 1

Disney, Reliance Industries close in on deal to merge India media ops

Plans for a step-down subsidiary of RIL's Viacom18 are being floated to absorb Star India through a stock swap

Elon Musk lashes out again at Bob Iger after Disney pulls ads from X

In a series of posts Thursday, Tesla's CEO appeared to refer to the box-office performance of some recent Disney films, saying Iger "drops more bombs than a B-52

After Elon Musk tirade, X faces prospect of more advertisers fleeing

Walt Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery suspended advertising on X earlier this month following Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic post

CEO Linda Yaccarino's memo to X staff calls Musk 'candid and profound'

"Our principles do not have a price tag, nor will they be compromised - ever," Yaccarino wrote Thursday, a day after Musk told former advertisers including Walt Disney Co. to go "f--" themselves

Disney to keep TV stations, says CEO Bob Iger, in reversal from July

Back at the DealBook Summit, Iger said Disney regularly evaluates its holdings to see whether they still fit with the company's plans

Disney names Morgan Stanley's Gorman to board ahead of expected fight

Earlier this month, ValueAct Capital Management became the second activist investor to amass a stake in Disney

Have no regrets about returning, despite challenges, says Disney's Iger

Iger, who came back as CEO a year ago after the dismissal of his hand-picked successor Bob Chapek, said the company has emerged from a year of "fixing a lot of things"

Disney tops profit estimates, seeks extra $2 billion in cost savings

Runaway expenses and the missing dividend were two key issues raised by activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is once again seeking board representation at the comany

Disney taps CFO Hugh Johnston who fended off Peltz at Pepsi, beat forecasts

"With Hugh there, Pepsi did a nice job convincing the Street that it had a growth plan," said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Ken Shea

Walt Disney Co names PepsiCo's Hugh Johnston as chief financial officer

Johnston has served a variety of roles at PepsiCo beginning in 1987. He left to become the CFO at Merck and Co. from 1999 to 2002, then returned to the Purchase, New York snack and beverage giant

ESPN could be valued at $24 billion, likely buyers Apple and Verizon

Disney begins appraisal process for Hulu stake Walt Disney said it plans to buy Comcast's one-third of the Hulu streaming service, kicking off an appraisal process that will extend into next year

Here's why Disney's deal to sell Indian ops will follow Murdoch's logic

The Star India business came to Disney as part of a $71 billion global acquisition of 21st Century Fox Inc.'s entertainment assets

Blackstone in discussion with Disney to acquire India streaming, TV assets

Sources said that there is still no guarantee that negotiations between the two will result in a transaction

Weekend Bites: RBI kills one bird with one stone, future of 50-over cricket

In which we munch over the week's platter of news and views

Disney shares Fall over 3% after doubling park spending to $60 billion

Disney said it has seen record growth in customer spending at parks over past two years, and significant decrease in number of tickets it sells at a discount, compared with before pandemic

Byron Allen submits $10 billion bid for ABC, other Disney networks

Allen is basing his offer on the assumption that the properties generated $1.25 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization over the past 12 months