Disney and its current CEO, Bob Iger, have secured the backing of Iger’s onetime boss, former Chairman-CEO Michael Eisner. In a statement posted to social media, Eisner didn’t name Nelson Peltz, whose Trian Fund Management is mounting an offensive to win two seats on Disney’s board at the April 3 annual shareholder meeting. But the longtime media exec wrote that “bringing in someone who doesn’t have experience in the company or the industry to disrupt Bob and his eventual successor is playing not only with fire but earthquakes and hurricanes as well.”
Former Walt Disney Co. CEO Michael Eisner’s Tornante Co. is working with a group of other former media and technology execs to launch Struum, a service aimed at helping viewers find content in an increasingly crowded streaming environment.
The former Disney chief’s newest company, Tornante, is teaming up with Sinclair Broadcast Group to produce and distribute new syndicated shows to be aired mostly during the day by local stations.
Looks like the producers of the brand new syndicated show from the bench could end up in front of a judge themselves. On Monday, Michael Eisner and his Tornante Co. were sued in a breach of contract and fraud compliant along with co-defendants Trifecta Entertainment and their CEO Hank Cohen for pushing a long time legal show director off the Judge Faith series he claims to have helped created.
The media company founded by former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, The Tornante Co., will finance films that will be distributed by Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures.
Michael Eisner, the former chairman and CEO of Walt Disney, is trying to raise $800 million for a new film and television production company, according to people who have been approached about investing.
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The Jeffersons star Sherman Hemsley, I Love Lucy’s Vivian Vance and Bill Frawley, and Real World creators Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray are also part of the 2012 class.
