2019-05-01 Fortune

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ON THE MID-APRIL DAY that Disney hosted a
show-of-force presentation for invest-
ment analysts, the entertainment giant converted its
cavernous Soundstage 2 in Burbank, Calif., where
Mary Poppins and Pirates of the Caribbean came to
life, into an auditorium for knowledge workers. Wall
Street types sat rapt as Disney opened with a video
splicing its decades-old film and TV library with that
of 21st Century Fox, recently acquired for $71 billion.
The key dramatic moment: a shot from the stunning
rock climbing documentary Free Solo—from
formerly Fox-owned National Geographic—with the

D i s n e y ’s L a t e s t

Blockbuster

Isn’t in Theaters
Robert Iger enlists Stormtroopers and
X-Men in a bid to win the streaming wars.
By Adam Lashinsky

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