Exclusive | Top Disney exec miserable over reporting to No. 2 Dana Walden after major corporate reshuffle: sources

Disney isn’t the happiest place on Earth, after all — for at least one of its top execs.Disney’s entertainment chairman Alan Bergman is “miserable” and “sad” after getting the news that he will report directly to his C-suite rival, Dana Walden, the Mouse House’s new president and chief creative officer, insiders told The Post.Bergman and Walden — who were co-chairs of the entertainment unit reporting to outgoing CEO Bob Iger — had been in a bake-off for the role of Disney CEO until last month, when theme parks chief Josh D’Amaro clinched the top job.Walden was instead promoted to run Disney’s entire TV, film, streaming and gaming divisions — which includes overseeing Bergman.A Disney insider with knowledge of the matter said Bergman was “very upset and very distressed about reporting to her.”“They were co-chairmen of entertainment and now she’s one level above him,” the person added, noting that despite outward niceties, they “don’t like each other at all.”“She won and he lost,” the source said.

“Alan has been miserable and has let everybody know it.”Bergman’s burgeoning discontent comes as Walden has set her executive team for the struggling entertainment unit, which now faces shrinking TV viewership and streaming profits as well as fatigue at its Marvel and “Star Wars” franchises.Meanwhile, legendary Disney boss Iger is retiring at the end of this year to make way for D’Amaro, Disney’s former theme parks and cruises boss.A Tuesday press release revealed the new management tree, with Bergman’s continuing to oversee Disney’s film studios while sharing oversight of its streaming business with Walden.The announcement did not explicitly say that the 59-year-old exec will now report to Walden — an effort to avoid rubbing yet more salt in the wound, one insider claimed.A source close to the company denied that the release was intentionally vague, pointing out that in a note to staff Walden called Bergman ...