Blog: Bob Iger

2023 was supposed to be about the 100thanniversary of the Walt Disney Company and the celebration of a media major driving streaming and intellectual property (IP) innovation. Instead, it has become a year of firefighting and expectation management led by the returning CEO Bob Iger.

On Sunday, the New York Times broke the story that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are launching a new production company called Artists’ Equity. The production venture is backed by RedBird Capital Partners (who have committed $100 million to fund the venture) and aims to expand profit participation al...