Several media outlets and critics’ organizations announced they would boycott the studio’s films until the ban was lifted.
The Walt Disney Company, facing mounting backlash, is backing off an earlier ban of sorts against the Los Angeles Times.
The conglomerate is still upset about what it considered a biased story critical of taxpayer money going to Disneyland in Anaheim, but it is now rescinding a directive that had shut out L.A. Times reporters from Disney movie screenings.
“We’ve had productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at he Los Angeles Times regarding our specific concerns, and as a result, we’ve agreed to restore access to advance screenings for their film critics,” Disney said Tuesday in a statement.
Disney’s reversal of strategy comes as journalists and filmmakers express their solidarity with the L.A. Times. Several reporters, for example, have said they’ll refrain from reviewing Disney movies for as long as Disney’s boycott is in place, a development that prompted helmer Ava DuVernay to tweet: “Saluting the film journalists standing up for one another. Standing with you.” DuVernay directed the upcoming A Wrinkle in Time for Disney.
Also, the New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critic Association and Boston Society of Film Critics issued…
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