Disney Fires Marvels Marketing Department

EXCLUSIVE: Everyone is attempting to keep this secret. However I’ve found that yesterday Disney cannedDana Precious,EVP of Worldwide Marketing for Marvel’s LA Galleries (she'd changed Doug Finberg in the finish of last summer time) Jeffrey Stewart, Vice president of Worldwide Marketing (he’d been introduced in by Dana) andJodi Burns, Manager of Worldwide Marketing. That’s basically Marvel’s entire marketing department. Marvel redundant jobswere at risk since Disney bought the writer/studio last year. And also the marketing department much more sothis summer time after Vital launched Thor and Captain America locally and worldwide, thus effectively ending that studio’s marketing and distribution of Marvel pictures. I’m told that on June 24th, Take advantage of Steffens, who's Marvel Galleries’ EVP Procedures, met with all the department in the Manhattan Beach offices with what was referred to like a “Disney Rules from the Road” meeting. He told staff there could be no house-cleaning through the mouse, period, so theywere to not fear for his or her jobs and flee en masse.A lot for your promise. The state line on why Marvel’s marketing team was release is the fact that Disney is going to be overtaking that function and handling the releases of TheAvengers and future Marvel movies themselves.Actually I’ve found that Marvel brings in someone inside a “project management role”. But Kevin Feige’s continuedsupervision of other nutritional foods Marvelshouldresolve any doubts by fans that Disney will screw around or screw upthe comic films.Associates let me know thatPrecious and her teamwere not well-loved by Marvel bigwig Feige along with other top executives at Marvel or byDisney and Vital. (A few of the comments I heard todayincluded: “Not as much as or possess the expertise release a this brand correctly”… “Their job ended up being to keep an eye on the folks doing the actual work”… “Paper pushers”…”Would it have wiped out these phones return a contact?”… “Disney doesn’t need anyone to cut its trailers”…) Now Marvel stafferswonder if the firings werereally to prevent copying efforts with Disney orjust petty vindictiveness.Whether it’s the second, thenjobs are secure.But when it’s the first kind,then any jobsredundantin relation to Disney’s infrastructure aren’t. Attempting to reassure the Marvel folks, one insider informs me today, “If you need to do your work and therefore are wise and comprehend the business, you shouldn’t worry.”