Disneyland Park is about to feel a little more like stepping straight into the original Star Wars trilogy—and longtime fans are going to notice the difference almost immediately. Credit: Disney For years, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has leaned heavily into the sequel-era timeline. That meant characters like Rey and Kylo Ren defined the experience, while classic icons were mostly left ...

There is a version of corporate sustainability that lives entirely in press releases. Lofty pledges, distant deadlines, glossy renderings of solar panels on rooftops nobody ever sees. Disney, for all of its scale and spectacle, has been doing something a little different lately. Quietly, and with a level of detail that tends to get lost in the Earth Month noise, ...

There is a tradition at Disney’s theme parks that most guests walk past every single day without fully understanding what they are looking at. The windows lining the upper facades of Main Street, U.S.A., at Magic Kingdom are not decorative details meant to make the street feel more like a turn-of-the-century American town. They are a roll call of the ...

Disney has been moving its executive chess pieces with notable frequency over the past several months and the pattern of promotions, departures, and structural reorganizations that has been playing out at the company’s highest levels tells a story about where Disney’s leadership is headed and how the organization is being rebuilt around the people Bob Iger and his team have ...

Josh D’Amaro hasn’t even had time to settle into his role as CEO fully, and yet the pressure is already building. Less than a month into the job, he’s facing growing frustration from fans, critics, and even some within the company itself. It’s not just one issue driving the conversation—it’s a combination of decisions, policies, and directions hitting at once. ...

Walt Disney Imagineering has announced a job opening for an artificial intelligence platform engineering executive to lead the development of an “AI-first platform” aimed at transforming how Imagineering creates. This move follows OpenAI’s shutdown of Sora, prompting Disney to build its own internal AI capabilities. The new executive will oversee the architecture of the AI platform that enhances design workflows ...

For Disney fans, D23 is the closest thing the company has to a convention built entirely for them. Credit: D23 Every two years, Anaheim becomes the center of the Disney universe for a weekend, with announcements, panels, exclusive merchandise, celebrity appearances, and the kind of behind-the-scenes access that does not exist anywhere else in the calendar. The event has grown ...

Walt Disney Studios has promoted Erin Barrier to Senior Vice President of Communications amid ongoing organizational changes during what has been called Disney’s smoothest CEO transition in decades. With Bob Iger stepping down and Josh D’Amaro stepping up as CEO, Barrier, who previously served as Vice President of Communications, replaces Paul Roeder, now the Chief Communications Officer. In her new ...

Josh D’Amaro hasn’t even had time to settle into his new office, and yet, the conversation around his leadership is already heating up in a big way. March 18 marked his official first day as CEO of The Walt Disney Company—a moment that should have felt like a fresh start for fans hoping for a new direction. Instead, within just ...

The Walt Disney Company has appointed Josh D’Amaro as its new Chief Executive Officer, after his tenure as Chairman of Disney Experiences, the company’s largest segment, which generated $36 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2025. D’Amaro’s priorities as CEO focus on merging human creativity with cutting-edge technology to enhance storytelling and strengthen connections with fans. He led significant expansions ...