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Disney Signs Deal With Walden Media

By Richard Verrier
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Walt Disney Studios has signed a two-year film distribution deal with Walden Media, a subsidiary of Anschutz Co. of Denver.

The deal includes two films, the award-winning children’s property “Holes” and James Cameron’s 3-D underwater exploration adventure “Ghosts of the Abyss.” Both are scheduled for release early next year.

Walden was founded by Chief Executive Cary Granat, former president of Miramax Films Dimension Label, and Michael Flaherty, an entrepreneur in the education field.

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Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Richard Verrier is investigations editor for Arts and Entertainment at the Los Angeles Times. He has been with The Times since 2001 and has run our Company Town since 2016. After stints at the St. Petersburg Times and the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, Verrier joined the paper as a reporter, and for many years covered all aspects of the entertainment industry before turning to editing. He oversees the Company Town coverage while working to guide and edit investigative and enterprise reporting across the entertainment team, collaborating with writers and editors from all departments. He is a native of Montreal and a graduate from the University of Toronto and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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