Disney lifts ban from Los Angeles Times Film Critics for advance screenings
The giant media studio, Walt Disney, has been a subject of some scrutiny recently due to its conflict with a certain publication, the Los Angeles Times. In effect, journalists and other movie critic groups have decided to cease coverage of Disney's works to sympathize with the plight of the Los Angeles Times, which led Disney to subsequently lift the ban.
In a report by the Los Angeles Times, Disney has released a statement saying that there have been ongoing discussions regarding "newly installed" leadership at the publication. Furthermore, Disney has also claimed that their concerns have been resolved, which is why they have granted the publication access to advance screenings in order to cover their films once again.
Before the ban was lifted, however, there was a group effort to send a message to Disney. Critics from the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics, National Society of Film Critics, and the Toronto Film Critics Association banded together to boycott the advanced screening of Disney movies to show their support for the Los Angeles Times Critics Association.
In fact, the Los Angeles Times did not even review "Thor: Ragnarok." According to Vox, the publication had even released a public statement to explain why it would not be reviewing the Marvel movie, as well as "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" during its Holiday preview. Disney lifted the ban after just four days of implementing it.
The cause of Disney banning the Los Angeles publication was due to an article that was published last September that put the media company's business ties with the Disney Land theme park in Anaheim under the microscope. Disney had decided that the published article was "unfair," and this is what caused them to ban the publication in the first place. However, Disney failed to expound publicly as to how "unfair" the article was.
