Thursday, November 10, 2016
Construction of Toy Story Land has begun at Shanghai Disneyland, the giant theme park and resort that opened in mainland China in June. The land will be the seventh at the park and is set to…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:17AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
MUMBAI — The Walt Disney Company India has reappointed Mahesh Samat as Managing Director. Samat had left Disney four years ago to establish Epic Television Networks and was founder and…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:28AMMonday, October 17, 2016
China’s Dalian Wanda has hired former Disney executive Andrew Kam Man-ho to a senior position in its expanding theme park division. Kam was previously managing director of Hong Kong Disney…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29PMThursday, September 1, 2016
Disney Thursday confirmed plans to cease film-making in India, one of the few territories in the world where its local-language production business had a sizeable market share. Its film bu…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Disney hierarchy Bob Iger, Andy Bird and Bill Ernest were joined by stage and screen director Julie Taymor in Shanghai for the opening of the Mandarin-language version of “The Lion King”…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:53AMThursday, April 21, 2016
Disney's strategy of localization has helped propel 'Jungle Book' to hit status in its Indian home market.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:13AMFriday, September 4, 2015
Director Wang Chao announced regulators' decision on his microblog.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:25AMMonday, June 15, 2015
Cirque du Soleil, the avant garde circus group, is to open an office in China and launch its first permanent show in the country by 2018.
SOURCE: Variety at 10:35PMFriday, November 14, 2014
New theme park will include Disneytown and Toy Story Hotel
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01AMFriday, August 1, 2014
HONG KONG – Frenchman, Philippe Gas has been appointed as general manager of the new Shanghai Disney Resort. Gas joins from Euro Disney in Paris, where he was President of Euro Disney S.A.…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:20AMFriday, June 20, 2014
Original version of show has played over 20 seasons in Korea.
SOURCE: Variety at 06:14AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Kevin Spacey has been tapped to give a master class at the International Indian Film Academy Awards weekend.
SOURCE: Variety at 09:23AMSunday, February 23, 2014
Australian director Baz Luhrmann took to the streets of Sydney Sunday to organize a dance extravaganza teasing the launch of “Strictly Ballroom: The Musical.”
SOURCE: Variety at 11:39PMThursday, January 2, 2014
Chinese multi-millionaire Chen Guangbiao is preparing a takeover bid for the New York Times, according to media reports.
SOURCE: Variety at 12:25AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
Endemol India will to make its feature film producing debut having joined Fox Star Studios on upcoming Hindi-language thriller “Traffic.”
SOURCE: Variety at 05:13AM 
