Disney ‘repeatedly misled investors' about streaming losses, lawsuit alleges

Shut up and praise the political grandstanding in kids' movies

They've been dead to me ever since they abandoned Atlantis the Lost Empire.

Bob Iger has been open about having presidential ambitions for years. One theory (dunno if true) I've seen batted around is that Iger intentionally hired a bunch of wokies as part of a plan to build up to a democratic presidential run. Which isn't a bad strategy in theory…have republicans love you for being a successful CEO, have lefties love you for being the guy who liberalized a big media company. Makes sense on paper.

But talk about a plan backfiring if true.

Mmm media does it because someone calculated that grandstanding for whatever we're mad about this week (Lizzo being recast as Arwen, probably) gets a higher CLV out of more people than just casting the traditional role.

Once they stop getting massive publicity or people stop watching them, they'll stop.

As the 2023 Little Mermaid remake took home $567.51 million from the global box office ($297.19 million domestic and $270.32 million international), the movie will likely turn an extremely thin profit depending on its home release sales.Aug 16, 2023

They spent 250mm on the movies, after netting out all other costs, they have a profit in the wake of shit inflation and poor investment options. That may be a good project and a bonus for whoever green lighted it.

There's other factors the get taken into account, when redditoids say something is a failure or not, they have no access to various aspects of the decision making process. They poll focus groups, they conduct market research, they take strategic decision-making into account.

Maybe Disney will use live action films as a cause to litigate and drive to canadian healthcare anyone who tries to use their expiring copyright.

Although they can't extend copyright (lol yes they can, they're laws my dude, that's why there are politicians—coincidentally, the same ones who love your shitlibbery), they can say that the derivative work in a new medium represents a new creation—Because, due to changing social norms, many of the items from old Disney cartoons like the Siamese Cat, Ching-Chong Chinaman song, from the Lady and the Tramp are non-starters, as is Snow White being 14 in the old cartoon, and all kids will now be familiar with whatever Disney made = the valuable IP is the one they have currently.

The customer lifetime value calculation can make these to be reasonable choices, even in situations where people think they're destroying their brand. Because they know boomers are on the way out, but zoomoids will continue to eat the bugs

I mean, it's also possible that they're running the company into the ground, but we're talking about a company that's managed, among others, to have extended copyright protections curiously before their properties become public works.

Some of the people who work there are certainly turbo shitlibs, but not everyone and probably not the actual people making decisions because business will burn that out of you quickly.

They might appear to care, but they'll bulldoze an Eskimo orphan's igloo to make a buck if no one hears about it, they just pretend

The people that do care aren't successful. Or they have a change of heart like Smedley Butler

(I'm not comparing Smedley Butler to any Disney freaks, to be clear)

Word on the street is that some people who work at Chic-Fil-A aren't even religious

When a child molester runs a company, you get shitty business practices!

>Everyone stopped watching our starshit and capeshit shows we were pumping out

>Let's raise the price!

Hollyweird am I right?