Disney CEO Grilled on Gina Carano ‘Mandalorian’ Firing, Lucasfilm Chief’s Future at Shareholder Meeting

The world has officially gone digital now that we are in the era of NFTs or Non Fungible Tokens, which basically means ownership of digital items. The craze surrounding NFTs has been on an increase and after "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban sold an NFT of a motivational quote, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey too has entered the market.

Actor Ray Fisher has been quite content of late on social media, promoting the HBO Max feature Zack Snyder’s Justice League cut.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWarnerMedia Studios CEO Ann Sarnoff says that the release of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” will complete the director’s superhero trilogy, reinforcing the studio’s desire to move past the social media campaign to hand back control of the DC film universe to the filmmaker.Instead, Sarnoff believes that the future of DC is more than just movies.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“The Heist,” the true story of the theft of Willem de Kooning’s iconic “Woman-Ochre” from an Arizona art museum, is in the works from “The Love Bugs” director Allison Otto. Nonfiction studio XTR will back the new documentary in partnership with Roots Productions’ Jill Howerton and Josh Kunau, the team behind “Biggest Little Farm,” Museum + Crane’s Caryn Capotosto, the maker of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.

The Walt Disney CEO is weighing in on Gina Carano‘s firing.

Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek on Tuesday addressed the firing of Gina Carano from the Disney+ show The Mandalorian.The executive was asked about the situation during an annual shareholders' meeting.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek has responded over the firing of The Mandalorian actor Gina Carano.Carano played bounty hunter Cara Dune in the first two seasons of the hit Disney+ show before being axed.She was ousted after reportedly posting an Instagram Story in which she compared being Republican in the current US political climate to being Jewish during the Holocaust.Chapek was questioned about the move at the entertainment giant’s annual shareholders meeting today (March 9), according to

Disney CEO Bob Chapek responded to a shareholder on Tuesday who accused Tinseltown, as well as the multimillion-dollar company, of a double standard in firing Gina Carano due to her political affiliation.

Disney CEO Bob Chapek defended the Gina Carano firing on Tuesday, insisting the company doesn’t characterize itself as “left-leaning or right-leaning.”He added that the company stands for universal values and that, “we seek to have not only how we operate, but the content we make, reflect the rich diversity of the world we live in.”Carano was dropped from “The Mandalorian” after the actress posted comments Lucasfilm said it considers “abhorrent” on her social media.More to come…

Disney CEO Chapek Bob Chapek Tuesday said he doesn’t “really see Disney as characterizing itself as left-leaning or right-leaning” – responding to a shareholder who accused Hollywood and the company of a double standard in firing Gina Carano from The Mandalorian because she’s a conservative.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNick Robinson, the wholesome, all-American-seeming star of “Love, Simon” and “Jurassic World,” plays an unlikely drug trafficker in “Silk Road.”The film tells the true story of Ross Ulbricht’s unlikely rise to fortune and infamy as the founder a dark web market.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIt was a very rough year for AMC Entertainment, the world’s largest theater chain. Its theaters were dark for months as coronavirus spread around the world, and when some cities and states gave the green light for its cinemas to open back up, Hollywood opted to delay many of its highest profile releases or send them to streaming services.

Bill Burr has some thoughts about Gina Carano’s firing from The Mandalorian!

who was recently fired from the Disney+ show over controversial tweets. The 38-year-old mixed martial arts pioneer — who played ex-stormtrooper Cara Dune on the “Star Wars” spinoff — had tweeted in February that the treatment of conservatives in Hollywood was akin to that of Jews in Nazi Germany.

The Mandalorian actor Bill Burr has defended Gina Carano, who was fired from the show after sharing a series of offensive and controversial social media posts.Carano played bounty hunter Cara Dune in the first two seasons of the hit Disney+ show before being axed.She was ousted after reportedly posting an Instagram Story in which she compared being Republican in the current US political climate to being Jewish during the Holocaust.In a recent episode of The Bill Bert Podcast with Bert Kreischer,

Bill Burr is speaking out about his former co-star Gina Carano after she was fired from "The Mandalorian" due to controversial posts on social media.  Burr, 52, stars as Mayfeld in the "Star Wars" series on Disney+. "It’s a weird time.

Stand-up comedian Bill Burr isn’t a fan of cancel culture and he’s made that known before, most recently during his October Saturday Night Live monologue.

Unless you’re a fan of MMA or Steven Soderbergh’s not-so-great films, you may not have been aware of who Gina Carano is before her appearance as Cara Dune on “The Mandalorian.” However, over the first two seasons of the “Star Wars” spinoff, Carano became a lightning rod for controversy on social media where fans saw that the actress shared some politically-charged, transphobic, anti-Semitic, and conspiracy theory-laden messages.

Bill Burr is the first actor from The Mandalorian to defend his former co-star Gina Carano after she was fired from the Disney+ show.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJean-Rene Zetrenne has been named chief people officer at UTA, where he will lead human resources operations across the company. He will also serve as a partner at the talent agency.