EXCLUSIVE: Tricia Wood has been hired by Walt Disney Studios as EVP & Head of Casting. She joins Disney after serving as EVP of Casting at Paramount Pictures, where she worked since 2020 overseeing casting across the studio's feature film slate.

Disney has hired veteran casting executive Tricia Wood as its new head of casting and EVP, reporting to David Greenbaum.

For a company so closely connected with fantasy it is deeply ironic that Disney's stock price has been far from a fairytale since summer last year. It has led some observers to think the unthinkable.

After completing its merger earlier this year, Paramount Skydance acquired the seven-year rights to UFC from TKO Group Holdings (NYSE:TKO). The $7.7 billion deal landed the rights away from The Walt Disney Company's (NYSE:DIS) sports unit ESPN. A potential ...