The CEO of Disney

BEFORE THE MAGIC: BOB IGER’S JOURNEY TO BECOMING DISNEY’S POWERHOUSE

The Bob Iger-successor search is well underway — again — and while Hollywood has its own parlor game re: the race for Disney’s top job, we’re taking our chips to Antigua.

 

1. To some degree, this is all a crapshoot — remember when Tom Staggs was a shoo-in? — so let’s take a minute from parsing the daily industry news cycle for clues about who’s ahead in the succession race and talk to the oddsmakers. The Hollywood Reporter asked BetOnline.ag (the “ag” is for Antigua, where the online sports book is registered — less regulation in paradise) for a decidedly outside Los Angeles perspective on who will next sit in the TV and film industry’s iron throne.