Word: disneyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sony Corp. president doffed his jacket and donned a Men in Black T shirt for his big entrance. "Just a little marketing gimmick," jokes Idei. "But the guests congratulated us." Idei got hoots of approval for Sony Pictures Entertainment's biggest film of the year from the likes of Disney CEO Michael Eisner, Intel boss Andy Grove, Seagram's Edgar Bronfman Jr., Time Warner's Jerry Levin and DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg, to name...
Idei's quest is for Sony to combine Japan's technical wizardry with America's creative panache and thus become the global multimedia entertainment company. "Something," says Idei, "like a Disney or Time Warner with our manufacturing base in Japan." That means bridging technology and entertainment, not to mention the cultural chasm between Japan and America. Ultimately, Idei aspires to create a global wireless network, a world in which satellite communications bring interactive entertainment to every living room and den. Says he: "Convergence is happening not only between audio and video but between computers and communication. There is a fundamental...
...this impatience strikes Calley and colleagues as hardly fair. Once pathetic Sony Pictures is flush these days, having just become one of only two studios ever to gross $1 billion in a year (Disney has done it three times). Even without a cartoon lion, Sony reached that nice, round number in record time (Aug. 31, beating Disney's best date--Nov. 23--by a stretch). And Sony expects to surpass the industry record of $1.22 billion, if it can scrape up the remainder on films such as Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi thriller Starship Troopers (a picture it's splitting...
...Bill Murray shriek, but instead we only see the unrelenting self-assurance which seemed to have disappeared after Ghostbusters. It's heartening that the same old funny is still there, while other "Saturday Night Live" grads in Murray's matriculating class continue to turn out mediocre family films for Disney...
Next month the much anticipated lawsuit by DreamWorks SKG partner JEFFREY KATZENBERG against his former employer, Walt Disney Co., goes to court. Katzenberg says Disney owes him 2% of all profits generated by his work. Disney denies this, and a loss will be costly for the studio. Early estimates from the plaintiff's camp put that amount around $250 million. Now, following court-ordered discovery detailing Disney's finances and profits, projections run between $300 million and $500 million--much more than the $125 million payout to ousted executive Mike Ovitz...