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SAG-AFTRA members and their supporters picket outside Netflix during their strike against the Hollywood studios, in Hollywood, California, on November 8, 2023. The union representing striking actors said on November 6, 2023, it could not agree to studios’ “last, best and final offer” issued over the weekend in a bid to end a months-long stalemate that has crippled Hollywood. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Hollywood actors tentatively agree to new contract with studios that would end strike that has shuttered film and TV production for months

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 12, 2023 – Disney President Robert Iger, center, CEO of The Walt Disney Company,.attends the University of Southern California’s 140th commencement ceremony in Los Angeles on May 12, 2023. Iger was there in support of keynote speaker Kevin Feige, producer and president of Marvel Studies. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Disney’s Bob Iger plans an extra $2 billion in cost cuts as he tries to fend off activist investor Nelson Peltz and his crusade against big spending

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

Bob Iger

Bob Iger hails ‘one of the best CFOs in America’ joining Disney: Hugh Johnston of PepsiCo

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

MADDALONI, CASERTA, ITALY – 2023/08/16: Barbie model doll known as “fashion Doll” marketed by the Mattel company starting on March 9, 1959. Since the release of the film in July 2023, there has been an increase in the sale and prices of the doll, especially those for collectors. (Photo by Vincenzo Izzo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Barbie doll sales boom for Mattel after the namesake’s movie became a global blockbuster

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 28: (L-R) Pedro Pascal and Katee Sackhoff speak onstage during the Mandalorian special launch event at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 28, 2023. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney)

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Disney hikes streaming prices as much as 27% to narrow losses for those services that totaled $512 million in just the latest quarter alone

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

MADRID, SPAIN – JULY 19: Detail of the Barbie doll in its box is seen on the stand of a toy store on July 19, 2023 in Madrid, Spain. The demand for the doll has increased by 17% among Spanish consumers, according to a recent study by the online price comparator, idealo.es. (Photo by David Benito/Getty Images)

Mattel’s shares have soared 33% in the run up to ‘Barbie.’ But the doll’s new Hollywood stardom isn’t expected to lift the company’s sales until later this year

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

Members of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild walk the picket line outside Disney Studios in Burbank, California, on July 19, 2023. Tens of thousands of Hollywood actors went on strike at midnight July 13, 2023, effectively bringing the giant movie and television business to a halt as they join writers in the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Disney is considering delaying some movie releases because striking actors refuse to promote them

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

AMC cancels plans to charge more for best cinema seats after a test with moviegoers turned out to be a box office bomb

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

SUN VALLEY, IDAHO – JULY 12: Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, walks to lunch at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 12, 2023 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every July, some of the world’s most wealthy and powerful figures from the media, finance, technology and political spheres converge at the Sun Valley Resort for the exclusive weeklong conference. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Disney extends boomerang CEO Bob Iger’s contract, giving him 2 more years to find another successor

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 18: Robert Iger attends the Stella McCartney “Get Back” Capsule Collection and documentary release of Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” at The Jim Henson Company on November 18, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)

Disney is starting its second round of massive job cuts as Bob Iger tries to save $5.5 billion a year

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

Bob Iger

Disney is laying off 7,000 workers and restructuring to reduce costs in a major shakeup following the return of CEO Bob Iger

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

Hasbro Inc. Power Rangers for sale in the Toys “R” Us section of the Macy’s flagship store on Black Friday in New York, US, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. US retailers are bracing for a slower-than-normal Black Friday as high inflation and sagging consumer sentiment erode Americans demand for material goods. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Hasbro to cut 1,000 jobs as the pandemic-era toy-buying boom cools now that kids are back in school

By Kelly Gilblom, Thomas Buckley, and others

Bob Iger

Bob Iger just put his foot down and told Disney employees to come back into the office 4 days a week as the remote work wars rage on

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

‘Avatar 2’ vaults ahead of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ as 2022’s biggest grossing blockbuster with $1.5 billion in global sales

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg

Commuters walk past a large commercial advertisement banner

Avatar: The Way of Water hits $1 billion in global ticket sales in just two weeks—but it needs to make even more at the box office to break even

By Thomas Buckley and Bloomberg