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Driving the news: Walmart said Friday that McMillon, CEO since 2014, would step aside early next year in favor of long-time lieutenant John Furner. The Financial Times reported late Friday night that Apple's board is accelerating plans to replace Cook, CEO since 2011, as early as next year. Disney is working toward replacing Iger as CEO (again) early next year, and he's been more vocal about the coming change in recent days, discussing his impending exit on a British podcast.

According to The Hollywood Reporter , Disney CEO Bob Iger said in the company's latest earnings call that it is "in the midst of rolling out the biggest and the most significant changes - from a product perspective, from a technology perspective - since [Disney+] launched." Part of this is a licensing agreement with developer Epic Games to add "a number of game-like features" to the streaming service, and the other is working with unnamed AI companies to allow subscribers to create short-form video content based on Disney properties.

The campaign is meant to bring the world of Zootopia to life both on and off the Snapchat app. Included in the effort are out-of-home activations across Los Angeles along with a Sponsored Snap that will feature characters from the movie. Snapchat users can also unlock seven different augmented reality (AR) lenses inspired by the film's characters through a branded AR Bar.

It's finally, officially, over. On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to end the longest (43 days) U.S. government shutdown in history by a vote of 222-to-209, echoing the verdict of the U.S. Senate that voted 60-to-40 on Monday to do the same thing. When President Trump signed off on the law late Wednesday evening, the shutdown ended.

"The two of us are half-smart so I think the dynamic is we need two of us to just get to a baseline that most people have," Bush joked. "That's right," agreed Howard. "Left brain, right brain, yeah, it's a good point. In all honesty, we are a really good partnership because we trust each other and we share our sense of humor, our sense of storytelling."

And each evening, the Oxford Street store will stage a Disney-themed display every 15 minutes from 5pm to 9pm, with soundtracks and animations triggered by Tinker Bell's trail of pixie dust The display covers more than 100 metres of frontage and features 40 illuminated stars, the Jolly Roger from Peter Pan and Cinderella's carriage before culminating in the unveiling of the castle on the corner of Oxford and Duke Street.

Stitch is back, and this time he's joining Mickey on a new adventure in "Mickey+"!

The trailer teases a daring quest filled with action, friendship and heart along with new monsters, magic and higher stakes than ever. It also spotlights the return of Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase and Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood. The season premieres December 10 with a two-episode debut on Disney+ and Hulu, followed by new episodes every Wednesday.

A rumor circulating online that Disney World and Disneyland are planning to remove all villainous characters, like the Evil Queen, from the park and only have them appear during the Halloween season moving forward isn't accurate, according to Disney representatives. Earlier this month, people online began sharing clips of the Evil Queen at the Disney parks telling guests to complain to management over her seemingly being removed or replaced.

Disney+ has started streaming movies and shows in the HDR10+ format. Support is somewhat limited for now. Only certain content from Hulu, which The Walt Disney Company acquired in June, is available in HDR10+. In an announcement today, Samsung said that "over 1,000" Hulu titles are available in HDR10+ and that "additional Disney+" content will support HDR10+ "in the future." Previously, Disney+ only supported the HDR10 and Dolby Vision HDR formats.

Earlier this year On The Red Carpet caught up with the actor at D23 where he shared how he loves to embarrass his family while waiting in line for "Soarin'" attraction. "Before I come on screen, I might turn around to everybody in line and ask them politely if everyone can please be quiet. We're going to get some very important safety information from a very young dynamic actor," he explains.

The Disneyland Resort will in 2026 be getting a little more patriotic. Soarin' Around the World at Disney California Adventure will in 2026 be converted to Soarin' Across America, a move timed to the 250th anniversary of the United States of America. The makeover is planned for next summer at both California Adventure in Anaheim and in Florida at Walt Disney World's Epcot.

From Apple TV Plus to Peacock, a number of streaming services have recently increased their pricing - and Disney Plus is no exception. Starting on Tuesday, October 21st, the standalone plan with ads will jump from $9.99 to $11.99 a month, while the ad-free Premium tier will increase by $3 to $18.99 a month. The ad-free annual plan is also going up by $30, at which point it will cost $189.99 a year. Ouch.

"Tron: Ares" powered up the box office grid in the top spot this weekend, but Disney's third entry in the sci-fi franchise fell short of expectations. Despite some favorable reviews - including a three-out-of-four-star one from The Associated Press - the new "Tron" film starring Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Jeff Bridges earned $33.5 million, according to Comscore estimates on Sunday. The big-budget project, reported to cost around $150 million, arrived 15 years after "Tron: Legacy" opened to $44 million before grossing more than $400 million globally.