Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid” is expected to bring in big bucks at the box office — and for the real-life mermaid industry, which is an actual thing.
Leaders at Disney, which owns ESPN, say it’s an inevitability that the cable channel will migrate to streaming. Such a move would shake up the cable industry.
Sometimes a boomerang, or returning, chief executive — like Disney’s Bob Iger — means the company’s in crisis or it needs to rejigger its succession plan.
Abraham Ravid, finance professor at Yeshiva University, thinks more contract disputes like the one between Scarlett Johannsen and Disney will pop up as streaming overtakes the movie theater experience.