Johansson sued Disney for breach of contract, claiming that the company's release tactic had "lured" viewers away from theaters and cut into her earnings from the movie. Typically, actors get a percentage share of a movie's box office receipts.
Johansson sued the studio in 2021, alleging Disney breached her contract by releasing “Black Widow,” a 2021 Marvel film she starred in, on home streaming platform Disney+ the same day it was released in theaters.
But through it all, Johansson has been able to separate the personal from the professional. She sued Disney to hold power accountable, and even though that fight got ugly, she's not bitter about it. “I think it's because I could separate the creatives at Disney from their business affairs department,” she says.
In 2021, Scarlett Johansson — star of many a Marvel team-up movie — sued the company over its release strategy for her standalone feature “Black Widow,” which saw the film come out in theaters and on Disney+ simultaneously for viewers willing to pay a fee to watch at home.
Disney balked at that, arguing that Charter was devaluing services that it was spending billions of dollars on. Under the new terms, Disney has agreed to provide its streaming services to Charter's TV subscribers at a wholesale rate, giving Spectrum subscribers an additional incentive to stick with the cable bundle.
The Real Reason Scarlett Johansson Is Suing Disney
What is Disney losing the rights to?
According to US copyright law, the rights for a character expire 95 years after the publication of the original work. Disney will lose the Mickey Mouse copyright for Steamboat Willie in 2024, since the short animated film was produced and distributed in 1928.
This movie is so offensive that Disney wants to erase it from memory. Even in 1946, "Song of the South" was considered shocking and controversial by many. It was blasted for its racist depiction of Black Americans, and for putting a rose-tinted lens on plantation life.
According to him, some poor, thankfully unnamed, soul at Pixar was in the internal file servers doing some standard file clearance, when they mistakenly put in a deletion command on the root folder for the film.
Unfortunately, his John Carter was the biggest live-action failure Disney has ever had. The movie had a huge budget of $250 million, and it even eventually crossed the $300 million mark before tax deductions (via Forbes).
The fact of the matter is, Disney has to abide by the law just like any other company and individual. They can and should be held liable for accidents that occur on their premises due to their own careless or negligent actions.
The Walt Disney Company agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the entertainment giant of “deceptive business practices” in regard to its Disneyland annual pass program, according to a court filing Thursday.
The Hernando County School Board has closed its investigation into a Florida teacher who showed the Disney film “Strange World” to her fifth-grade class, according to a copy of the district's final report provided to CNN by Jenna Barbee, the educator.
Scarlett Johansson and Disney have reached a settlement over her blockbuster lawsuit that accused the studio of sabotaging the theatrical release of “Black Widow” to prop up Disney Plus. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Johansson had sought a $50 million payout from the studio.
Scarlett Johansson and the Walt Disney Co. have quietly settled their contract dispute over Marvel's Black Widow, with the actress withdrawing her $50 million lawsuit over a theatrical release that she felt was undermined by the company's simultaneous streaming service debut.
Arguably the darkest film in the entire Disney animated canon is the 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The movie opens with Frollo killing Quasimodo's mother and attempting to kill an infant Quasimodo before he's forced to stop. He attempts to atone for the sin of murdering Quasimodo's mother by taking the boy in.
Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull wrote in his book Creativity Inc. that disaster struck the production of Toy Story 2 when an unnamed employee was doing a routine spot of server cleaning when they accidentally put in a command to delete the root file for the movie.
The story of how a Pixar employee accidentally deleted the entire Toy Story 2 film has resurfaced on twitter. In 1998, Pixar was getting ready to release Toy Story 2. The film was nearly complete and final edits were being made, but when someone hit the wrong button, the movie's files began to disappear.
Leonardo DiCaprio had the chance to play the lead role of Max Dennison in 1993 cult classic fantasy comedy movie Hocus Pocus, but ultimately turned it down.
After the film, particularly the climactic "cauldron-born" sequence, proved to be too intense and disturbing for the children in the audience, the newly appointed Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg ordered certain scenes from The Black Cauldron be cut, as a result of the length and the fear that their nature ...
It made a good amount of money ($591M WW) but on a ridiculous budget of $260M. Apparently $100M of that is from a cancelled 2D animated version. But applying the standard 2.5x rule, it would need $650M WW to break even.
CEO Bob Iger suggested on a call with investors that the cuts would come primarily from its struggling linear TV business. Meanwhile, the company continues to lose money in its Disney+ streaming business, but it managed to significantly reduce its losses in that division. It has never turned a profit on Disney+.
Disney is owned by many shareholders, as it's a publicly traded company. According to CNN Business News, the Vanguard Group, Inc. is the largest shareholder of Walt Disney Co. with a 7.49% stake.
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The cuts to Disney's global workforce are part of a multibillion-dollar cost-cutting initiative aimed at streamlining the company's operations in a period of media industry turmoil. In a memo to staff obtained by CNN, Iger said the layoffs would come in three waves.
