What I’m Hearing: The Bob vs. Bob Violence

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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing, coming at you from my secret Thanksgiving-week bunker where I’d hoped to not work all Sunday. Oh well…

Before we get to that: Another big week on The Town podcast: Lucas Shaw and I drafted 5-person filmmaker teams for the next 20 years (I’m winning, for sure); Scott Feinberg and I updated the Oscar race, and Marvel’s Nate Moore explained in detail how the hit factory actually operates.

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Discussed in this issue: The Bobs, Donna Langley, James Wan, Craig Erwich, Stephen Hill, Norah Weinstein, Jason Blum, Taylor Swift, and the “beauty sandwich” facial.

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The Iger Shocker

Notes, intrigues, and analysis from across Hollywood on Iger’s un-retirement, Chapek’s defenestration, and the future of Disney after the corporate shakeup of the decade.

MATTHEW BELLONI

So… was it the beard? By now you’ve seen the legitimately shocking news that Bob Chapek, the embattled and recently hirsute Disney C.E.O., has been replaced by Bob Iger, the 71-year-old former weatherman and mostly beloved Disney C.E.O. A Sunday night dagger of a press release thanked Chapek for his service and promised that Iger would lead for two years to “set the strategic direction for renewed growth.” That’s the C-suite version of death by firing squad. Truly amazing stuff.

First, a number of readers have asked if I knew what was brewing when I wrote on Thursday about Iger’s persistent trash-talking of Chapek in private, and how the company’s recent stock slide had...

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