Claudia Eller

It’s alive! Horror flicks are helping to restore pulse at the box office

August 21, 2021 at 3:21 p.m.

After a frightening drought, Hollywood is finally scaring up some business at the box office. Official tallies confirmed that the video game-based thriller "Silent Hill" led last weekend with $20.1...

Next Disney CEO, Iger, has task of smoothing ruffled feathers

August 22, 2019 at 10:30 p.m.

Bob Iger has a message for Steve Jobs: Let's talk. Yesterday, the day after he was named the next chief executive of Walt Disney Co., Iger said a top priority...

Disney names new chief executive

August 22, 2019 at 10:30 p.m.

BURBANK, Calif. - Walt Disney Co. directors tapped President Robert A. Iger yesterday to succeed Chief Executive Michael D. Eisner, writing the final chapter for an often stormy 21-year reign...

Sony wins MGM bidding war with offer of $4.8 billion

August 19, 2021 at 3:51 p.m.

Sony Corp. struck a tentative deal on Monday to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. for about $4.8 billion, promising to spell the end of MGM's 80-year run as a stand-alone Hollywood movie...

Deal would likely produce Eisner’s exit

August 19, 2021 at 8:01 p.m.

On the chessboard of corporate politics, Michael Eisner may be staring at the endgame. Comcast Corp.'s surprise $50 billion offer Wednesday for Walt Disney Co. presents Eisner, who has spent...

‘Treasure Planet’: A Disney dud in the making for a long time

August 20, 2021 at 4:45 a.m.

This is no Cinderella story. For nearly two decades, Walt Disney Co. filmmakers Ron Clements and John Musker dreamed of making an animated movie based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic...

`Spider-Man’ grosses shake Hollywood’s money tree

August 20, 2021 at 4:47 a.m.

"Spider-Man" has set himself up to be either the Joe DiMaggio or Mark McGwire of Hollywood films. With a three-day take of $114.8 million at the box office -- making...

Animation drawing new respect in Hollywood

April 5, 2019 at 10:26 a.m.

In the beginning, there was Snow White. Walt Disney's lovely songbird made history in 1937, debuting in Hollywood's first movie-length cartoon. It was an instant creative and financial sensation. Today,...

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