This yr marks the top of Bailey’s decade-old journey with Disney. A visit down Disney lane is becoming, because the manufacturing firm bids farewell to the one and solely Sean Bailey. Listed here are all of his contributions from 2010 to 2024.

Sean Bailey; the title rings, quite blare a bell, when related to Walt Disney Studios Movement Image Manufacturing. He served because the president of Disney Studios Manufacturing for nearly a decade and a half. The newly vacant presidential place, in addition to that of 20th Century Studios, is crammed by David Greenbaum, the President of Searchlight Photos. 

Though Disney appears to be hush-hush in regards to the sudden swapping of presidents, it’s no secret that it has one thing to do with the current underperforming field workplace releases, just like the 2023 live-action remake of the 1989 animated traditional function, The Little Mermaid, that hardly made it to the half-a-billion-dollar membership, amongst others. 

Sean Bailey isn’t a stranger to manufacturing. From 2001 to 2007, he has executively produced a few of the most famous initiatives together with Mission Greenlight (2001), The Emperor’s Membership (2002), and as a producer for movies Greatest Laid Plans (1997), Matchstick Males (2003) and Gone Child Gone (2007). In 2008, Bailey grabbed the golden ticket and teamed with Disney to provide Tron: Legacy (2010). 

In 2010, Sean Bailey was named the president of Walt Disney Studios Movement Image Manufacturing. As president, he ignored the making and launch of hit options, Alice in Wonderland (2010), Maleficent (2014), Cinderella (2015), The Jungle Ebook (2016), Pete’s Dragon (2016), Magnificence and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (2019), The Lion King (2019), and The Little Mermaid (2023). 

Throughout Sean Bailey’s presidential tenure, he additionally oversaw a number of movies coming into the billion-dollar membership. The pentad of Disney live-action remakes that independently grossed over $1 billion, embrace Alice in Wonderland (2010), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) in partnership with Jerry Bruckheimer Movies, Magnificence and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (2019) and The Lion King (2019). This hit pattern was short-lived, nevertheless, as a result of the dominos of success quickly toppled out of line with the discharge of Cruella (2021) and The Little Mermaid (2023), which solely grossed $233.5 million and $569.6 million, respectively. 

Sean Bailey’s breakthrough as President of Disney Productions is actually the inclusion of women-empowering roles and ripping the “damsel in misery” label off. The starring of Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid, Yara Shahidi, Storm Reid, and Rachel Zegler in upcoming Disney remakes is extraordinarily promising for all Hollywood gals of shade/lineage. 

Earlier than stepping down as president, Sean Bailey handed a number of live-action movies by means of the pipeline of completion and people embrace Snow White (2025), Mufasa: The Lion King (2024), live-action remake of Moana and Lilo and Sew, presently in improvement. 

The final bow of Sean Bailey in the end precipitated more-than-marginal ripples and Steamboat Willie felt the wobbles. Let’s see how David Greenbaum will deal with the reins of Disney Productions.