Hundreds of Disney Infinity Employees May Get Fired

Wall Street Journal reports that Disney Infinity may undergo a layoff. Citing anonymous sources “close to the corporate,” the report claims that these dismissals are “expected to start when the media giant releases its quarterly financial results this Wednesday.” The Wall Street Journal offers no strong report for the mass dismissal, though it references a recently proclaimed effort to reorganize Disney Interactive by President Jimmy Pitaro. The report also mentions Disney infinity expansions based on Star Wars and Marvel Comics. All of these reports …

HBO’s HBOAcesses To Attract Diverse Emerging Filmmakers

HBO’s new four-week program titled HBO Access is said to provide project development, master classes and mentoring opportunities to emerging filmmakers, and will begin accepting applications from today. The program is open to all filmmakers who can put out their knowledge of camera and scripts, which will be evaluated and a top four will be chosen, each of whom will …

38 Studios Loan Debt Likely to be Handled with the Introduction of a Bill

38 Studios, the now-inoperative company founded by former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and developers of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, left an enormous hole of debt in Rhode Island after it went bankrupt. A $75 million loan guarantee-sized void, to be precise. Last week, the state’s legislature introduced a bill that might free them of that burden. According to a report by a famous press firm, Representative Karen Macbeth, D-Rhode Island, introduced a bill on …