Disney CEO Bob Iger, previously a vocal Trump critic, has been quiet on the election, but the company still faces legal and political risks.

Disney CEO Bob Iger adopted a trading plan to exercise options granted 10 years ago, currently worth more than $40 million. According to Disney’s 10-K filing Thursday with the SEC, on Aug. 14, Iger adopted a trading plan that provides for the potential exercise of 372,

Bob Iger adopted a plan to sell as many as 372,412 shares by Dec. 17. The stock options covered in the plan expire on Dec. 18.

The results show that a turnaround started by Iger was paying off. Since he returned, Disney has cut back on original content for its streaming service after a spending spree under predecessor Bob Chapek that led to streaming quarterly losses of $1.5 billion in November 2022.

Old Hollywood is finally doing what Netflix Inc. has been doing for over a decade: making money from streaming.

The head of Disney and Reliance Industries’ newly merged $8.5bn Indian entertainment titan plans to invest and “revitalise” television in the world’s most populous country even as western media organisations increasingly see it as a dying medium.

Reliance Industries and Walt Disney on Thursday completed the $8.5 billion merger of their Indian media assets, which have been split into three divisions, with each unit having its own CEO. The companies said the newly formed divisions are entertainment,

India’s entertainment landscape shifted Thursday as Reliance Industries and Disney completed their long-awaited media merger, creating an Indian powerhouse valued at $8.5 billion. The deal combines Disney’s Star India with Reliance’s Viacom18 and streaming platforms JioCinema and Hotstar.