to begin with this calendar week , Disney warned it would be thin out 7,000 job , and it seems that directive went all the way to the top . Asthe New York Times reports , Isaac “ Ike ” Perlmutter , the 80 - twelvemonth - old chairman ofMarvelEntertainment , has been have go .
allot to the NYT , which described Perlmutter as “ magnificently frugal ” as well as an “ irascible and unrelenting executive , ” the company adjudicate that “ Marvel Entertainment , a small variance centered on consumer products and move separately from Marvel Studios , was redundant and would be shut down into larger Disney stage business unit of measurement . ”
His departure from the party comes after only his most late controversy , this time affect an attempted and finally unsuccessful shake - up of Disney ’s board . It ’s worth noting he ’s the one behindthe 2009 sale of Marvel(which he took over in the late ‘ 90s ) to Disney , but he has n’t had a hand in Marvel motion-picture show “ since 2015 , when when a feud with [ Kevin ] Feige over costs related to Doctor Strange boiled over , ” or a hand in Marvel TV shows since 2019 . Per the Times , his field of control had thereafter contract to comics and “ Marvel game licensing , certain consumer product and superhero arena shows . ”
Perlmutter with a politician he supports.Photo: Andrew Harnik (AP)
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