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It’s not uncommon for us to see Disney employing cost-cutting measures when the budget is tighter than it should be.
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From price hikes in the theme parks to project cancelations, Disney has used a variety of methods in the past to save money. Unfortunately, the latest round of budget tightening comes with some layoffs.
Remember when Disney+ was $6.99 a month and subscribing felt like an easy little add-on to your entertainment budget? That era has left the building.
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Disney has rolled out another round of streaming price increases in the United States, and the biggest change is hitting Disney+ Premium subscribers. The ad-free plan has jumped from $18.99 to $21.49 per month, an increase of roughly 13%. And while $2.50 might not sound enormous on its own, the bigger picture is a lot harder to shrug off. Disney+ now costs more than three times what it did when the service debuted in 2019, and plenty of subscribers are starting to wonder just how much higher this thing can climb.
Disney layoffs officially continue as several hundred employees have just been cut. If you’ve been following Disney news for the past several months, you know that layoffs and cost-saving measures have been a very hot topic for Disney Executives.
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And it looks like that pattern is continuing as hundreds more employees lose their jobs. Let’s dive into everything we know about this newest round of layoffs. [Read more…]
According to Business Insider, The Walt Disney Company is set to cut medical insurance for spouses, with other coverage options available.
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Starting next year, the company will no longer offer medical insurance plans to US employees’ spouses if those spouses have jobs that provide such coverage, a Disney spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. The employees’ other dependents won’t be impacted.
Disney World is in the middle of working on its MASSIVE expansion plans. Piston Peak and Villains Land are coming to Magic Kingdom, Monstropolis is coming to Hollywood Studios, and Tropical Americas is coming to Animal Kingdom.
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Recently, Disney executives shared their thoughts on the current expansion projects at Walt Disney World, as well as what that means for the park’s future prices. Spoiler alert… they’re going UP! Let’s talk about what was said and what we can expect.
The Walt Disney Company is certainly no stranger to using artificial intelligence (AI), especially after it was announced that the House of Mouse had partnered with OpenAI — though that partnership eventually ended up falling through.
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Now, according to Business Insider, it’s Anthropic’s Claude AI and Cursor AI — a coding platform — that Disney employees are using, oftentimes billions of times in just over one week. In fact, the company has an “AI Adoption Dashboard” that shows who is using the most AI tokens (units of data processed by Large Language Models or LLMs), or “tokenmaxxing.”
You never know what sort of Disney news will drop at any given moment!
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From iconic lands beginning to fade away to company executive change-ups and even multimonth closures, the amount of Disney news we cover each week is surprising! It can be a lot to keep up with, so we’re wrapping it all up by breaking down the three biggest news stories from this week.
The internet has been pretty torn over the announcement of Josh D’Amaro becoming the new CEO of The Walt Disney Company, which will become effective on March 18th, 2026, and current CEO Bob Iger will become a Senior Advisor until his contract expires on December 31st, 2026.
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Some people are looking forward to what changes he may implement in the company that would affect consumers in the parks and beyond, while others are nervous. But what may we actually see happen as a result of D’Amaro becoming CEO in March? We’ve done some research and chatted with our team of experts, and here are the three things we’re expecting to see pretty early on as he takes over this new position.
Buckle up, folks. Disney has just dropped some major announcements you do not want to miss.
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On February 2nd, 2026, Disney released its earnings report and held its earnings call for the first quarter (Q1) of fiscal year 2026 (FY 2026). We’ve got all sorts of updates thanks to this new information — details about just how the Disney theme parks are doing financially, what’s going on with Disney+, and much more. Let’s dive into exactly what you need to know!
As 2025 comes to a wrap, it’s time to look ahead to 2026 and beyond to see what the Walt Disney Company has in store!
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It’s no secret that Disney is poised for a couple of huge years at the box office. With movies like Toy Story 5, Avengers: Doomsday, and Frozen 3 on their upcoming slate, Disney movies in the coming years are exciting. However, some changes have been made to their upcoming movie schedule!
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