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Perlmutter with a politician he supports.Photo: Andrew Harnik (AP)Earlier this week, Disney warned it would be cutting 7,000 jobs, and it seems that directive went all the way to the top. As the New York Times reports, Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, the 80-year-old chairman of Marvel Entertainment, has been let go.Ms. Marvel's Directors Talk Embiggening the Show's Superhero ActionAccording to the NYT, which described Perlmutter as “famously frugal” as well as an “irascible and unrelenting executive,” the company decided that “…

The stock proxy battle over the Disney board continues, with activist investor Nelson Peltz sending an open letter to shareholders asking them to kick out one board member and install him instead. And the Financial Times has a juicy report on Marvel head Ike Perlmutter’s involvement in the scheme. Earlier this week, Peltz’s letter via his investment firm Trian laid out his case, suggesting the board replace Mastercard’s Michael Froman, one of Disney’s longest serving board members, with either Peltz or his son, Matthew.…

Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter is one of the most controversial figures in the history of comics. A smart, if ruthless businessman, he saved Marvel from bankruptcy proceedings back in 1997, and proceeded to reign over its rebound in the Ultimate era…and its game-changing sale to Disney in 2009 for $4 billion.  However, he’s also a notorious cheapskate who also believed that action movies couldn’t star women or people of color – and there are also credible reports of homophobia as well.  Disney’s acquisition of Marvel made…

Image: Nintendo/Intelligent SystemsIf you watch anime, you’re used to intros that alternate between being deeply emotional and serious or cheesy and silly as all hell. Sometimes it’s neither of those and is purely running off of good vibes. (Usually this is after the show in question hits a new arc.) Video games don’t always get flashy intros, and it’s a shame that’s the case. Because after watching the intro for Fire Emblem Engage, that kind of cheese is something games could stand to have more of. Fire Emblem Engage is…

You can understand why Gloria Scott thought her music had been forgotten. In truth, it hadn’t attracted a lot of attention in the first place. Her career intersected with some of the biggest artists of 1960s and 1970s soul – Ike & Tina Turner, Sly Stone, Barry White, Stevie Wonder, the Supremes – but her own handful of records failed to make an impression.In the mid-1990s, she was living in Guam, in the western Pacific, singing in hotels, when a tourist said he knew her name: her flop 1974 single, (A Case of) Too Much…