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In 2009, The Walt Disney Company rejected a merger offer from Comcast. What if Disney had agreed to merge with Comcast? What would be the effects of the entertainment industry from 2009 onwards?

And The Award for Best picture at the 46th Academy award goes to......Beauty and the Beast!! How does Disney's Beauty and the Beast beat Silence of the Lambs? And what does this win do for animated films in the American film industry?

While it may be hard to believe nowadays, there was a time when former Disney CEO Michael Eisner was universally hailed as one of the film industry's true greats. Brought in by Roy E. Disney and Sid Bass to save The Walt Disney Company and replace Ron W. Miller, he turned the company's fortunes...

With Disney’s live-action Mulan remake in the headlines I thought this might make an interesting discussion. It’s inspired by posts from a few months ago: So what if the basic plot of the 1998 animated film was instead transplanted to 1930s Kingdom of Ethiopia? Thus instead of Mulan being...

Like him or loath him, Kevin Feige’s influence helped shaped the DC Entertainment Universe probably more then anyone else. But what would the DCEU look like where Kevin Feige never walked away from Marvel and joining the Distinguished Competition? And by extension, how would the MCU fair with...

OTL, Disney had a terrible nineties and even worse 2000s, with their failures to buy Pixar and constant commercial failures, the house of mouse finally went under in 2010. The parks were sold off to various other companies back in 2008, but the influx of cash just wasn't able to turn back into...

what if Gargoyles wasn't cancelled and the Goliath chronicles wasn't made and instead Disney let it continued for 12 seasons ending in 2006

A Hippie in the House of Mouse The Incredible Story of Jim Henson’s Amazing Tenure at the Walt Disney Company Image courtesy of @Nerdman3000 Part I: Froggy Went a’ Courtin’ Chapter 8, Frog Eats Mouse? Excerpt from Where Did I Go Right? (or: You’re No One in Hollywood Unless Someone Wants...

During the late 2010s, Disney, in special through their made-to-TV movies, started to show some rather dramatic (some may say, more mature) movies, like the studies in race relations made in Z-O-M-B-I-E-S and the Descendants Trilogy; the musical inspired by Freaky Friday that was basically a...

Howard Ashman, whom many may know for his contributions to Little Shop of Horrors and Disney's The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Pocahontas, has become known for his role in AIDs awareness ever since he first confirmed that he was suffering from the condition in 1987. In 1991, he had barely...

Michael Eisner changed everything. When he became CEO of Disney in 1984, he transformed the company from another family-oriented film studio to the enormous corporate media behemoth that it is today. It is due to Eisner that the studio went through its renaissance in the 1990's, and expanded its...

Well we know how the story goes. Disney sought to expand into the gaming industry and hasn't stopped ever since. They successfully competed with Activision to buy out Blizzard, thus giving them control over the world's largest MMO. This was followed by their 2009 buyout of Pandemic Studios...

As you may or may not know, Walt Disney’s Pinocchio (the second film in the WDAC) premiered on February 7, 1940 before being widely released in the USA February 23 that same year. The next country where it was released was in the UK that spring (premiered in March and wide release in May). After...

As i'm sure most of us know by now, Mickey Mouse was not the original small, loseley animal based ink blot Walter Disney made into a star. That honor went to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. After a few years of successful shorts published by Universal, Walt didn't like the offer they gave for the...

OK, I asked this question a while ago on Reddit and the response was...mixed at best, So I figured I'd re-ask it here and see what comes of it. In 1967, National Periodical Publications, the company that in a decade would officially become DC Comics, was bought by a Car Parking and Cleaning...

So, fun fact. Back in the 1980s, Disney bought the rights to John Carter of Mars to compete with Conan the Barbarian and Star Wars. In fact, Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio were hired to write, while John McTiernan was approached to direct and Tom Cruise was offered the star role of John Carter...

Immediately after George Lucas sold Lucasfilms to Disney, Disney announced they would be rebooting the franchise, eventually culminating with 2014's Star Wars: The New Hope, helmed by Gennedy Tartovsky, followed by Rian Johnson's Grip of the Steel Order and the upcoming Jedi Rising, directed by...

At the 64th Academy Awards, Beauty and the Beast became the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture. What if it claimed the Oscar?

The recent drama surrounding the acquisition of 21st Century Fox's media assets by The Walt Disney Company made me very interested in the topic of media mergers generally, and reading up on the history of such deals revealed some very interesting proposals that ultimately never went through, and...

Its been seventeen years since the Walt Disney Company announced they have bought the Japanese film company Daiei Film for $990 million, to some outrage in Japan from nationalists but pretty much next to no fanfare in America. It wouldn't be until fourteen years later with their reboot of Gamera...