Disney beats 3rd-quarter profit forecast on studio, parks performance, but revenue falls short full story ![]()
May 7 - Walt Disney is expected to post higher profits thanks to stronger advertising at its ESPN network and the successful Wizard of Oz movie.
reuters.com (1 month and 11 days ago)

Writer-director Joss Whedon is hard at work writing the follow up to last year's box office smash hit The Avengers.
standard.co.uk (2 months and 5 days ago)
As most of you know, Disney/Marvel's Iron Man 3 has made $680 million in twelve days of worldwide play, besting even the $641 million respective twelve-day total of The Avengers last summer during this same period. Iron Man 3 is towering over the prior Iron Man pictures, which topped out at $585 million and $622 million respectively. The question becomes what does it mean...
forbes.com (1 month and 10 days ago)

Alas, though he was burdened with glorious purpose, Tom Hiddleston's Loki won't be in The Avengers 2. Joss Whedon slipped the tidbit into a podcast chat with Empire on Friday, saying: "Everyone is going to be looking for the Loki-Hulk smash moment and you'll be looking for [a 'quim' moment]. ...
vulture.com (2 days ago)

Just a few years after Disney bought Marvel, the merger is having a distinct effect on some of each company's most beloved characters... In one artist's imagination, at least. In work posted on deviantART, Christopher Stoll has reimagined Disney princesses (and the Sultan from "Aladdin") as characters from "The Avengers" -- for instance, transforming Pocahontas into an...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 6 days ago)
Walt Disney posted a 32% rise in quarterly profit on strong growth in its parks and resorts business and a move into the black by its movie-studio division.
wsj.com (1 month and 11 days ago)

Hulk smash rumors! Mark Ruffalo took to Twitter to dispel recent reports that Marvel had a stand-alone movie starring the walking green anger management issue he portrayed in last year’s “The Avengers.”
nydailynews.com (3 months and 13 days ago)
Filed under: Investing Looks like the reviews were right: Iron Man is officially golden. According to the latest box office figures, Walt Disney's Iron Man 3 earned $195.3 at the international gate this weekend, about $10 million better than the overseas opening for Marvel's The Avengers, last summer's top-grossing film at $1.5 billion worldwide. Source: Marvel.com. Shares...
dailyfinance.com (1 month and 20 days ago)
The Disney unit has partnered with Feld Entertainment, the company behind "Disney on Ice," to launch a show in July, 2014 that will feature the likes of Spider-Man and the Avengers.
hollywoodreporter.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The Walt Disney Co. wants you to believe that it's different, and quarterly earnings from the world's largest entertainment company are sure to show a big gain for its movie studios, a stark contrast to declines at the film units of rivals Viacom Inc.and Time Warner. The anticipated gain for Disney's Studio Entertainment unit will be mostly due to a...
thestreet.com (1 month and 11 days ago)
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