Disney CEO Bob Iger set to step down in July 2019

Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed that he will step down in July, 2019. Iger spoke this week at Vanity Fair's New Establishment conference and said, "This time I mean it. It's time." The Disney boss had previously planned to leave the company in 2016, and then again in 2018, but those plans were pushed…

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Today in Disney History: Treasure Island

  On July 19, 1950, Walt Disney Productions released Treasure Island, the studio's first completely live-action film. This pirate tale was based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel of the same name.   The film stars Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins, a young boy who is given a treasure map belonging to buccaneer Captain Flint. Jim…