The Disney Thread | Iger will be with us until 2026

[dudalb]

10 minutes ago, John Marston said:

but the studio heads  who make all the bad decisions stay 

Not really , Just takes longer, and they have nice Golden Parachutes the workers do not.

But if a studio loses money or has really low profits over a period of time,, the stockholders and the Board of Directors will rebel, and that is when  Studio execs find themselves "at liberty",

Holllywood has, compared with other industries, a very high rate of executive turnover.

[Sckathian]

9 hours ago, MovieMan89 said:

Bullshit tbh considering Pixar’s whole struggle to be successful in recent years has been stupid execs devaluing the brand and greenlighting crap like Lightyear. They could probably have great box office clout rn with the push WDAS got for movies like Luca and Turning Red. 

I disagree. People complain about high budgets them bemoan layoffs. Pixar is too expensive and need to outsource more of their work. Or die.

 

Also amazing to see some online still blame Chapek for this.

Edited January 12 by Sckathian

[AniNate]

When people complain about high budgets they're typically doing it from a place of simplistic armchair box office analysis, not from thoughtful consideration of where that money actually goes. And studios like Illumination and Sony have much different circumstances that I would prefer Disney not try to emulate unless absolutely necessary.

 

But if that article is to be believed, the issue was mainly the ramped up production pipeline based on rosy streaming ROI expectations that didn't end up happening. I do think Chapek is definitely to blame for that. Elemental brought some of the studio's cache back but they still probably weren't going to be able to maintain the kind of pace Disney had expected of them, which is further supported by Elio getting delayed to next summer and taking the place of whatever was supposed to be coming out then. That slowing of pace down does sadly mean people getting laid off.

 

 

Edited January 12 by AniNate

[MightyDargon]

See, high budgets and innovation are actually good. Pixar had the highest budgets in animation when they were making stuff like WALL-E. Problem is their scripts aren't really very good now though.

[ChipDerby]

7 hours ago, Sckathian said:

I disagree. People complain about high budgets them bemoan layoffs. Pixar is too expensive and need to outsource more of their work. Or die.

 

Also amazing to see some online still blame Chapek for this.

 

As many have said before, Pixar is not "too expensive". Their budgets encompass the cost of the studio.  It would be like if Disney reported the budget of The Marvels was the cost to run Disney during production.

[SpiderByte]

This...isn't unprecedented. Star Wars Infinities was basically exactly that idea.

 

Plus if they wanted classic characters back that'd be an easier way to do them for sure.

[robertman2]

13 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

This...isn't unprecedented. Star Wars Infinities was basically exactly that idea.

 

Plus if they wanted classic characters back that'd be an easier way to do them for sure.

I hope they adapt Yoda doing a colony drop on Corusant using the Death Star

[4815162342]

2 hours ago, SpiderByte said:

This...isn't unprecedented. Star Wars Infinities was basically exactly that idea.

 

Plus if they wanted classic characters back that'd be an easier way to do them for sure.

 

Sure this is nice but keep on rolling out seasons of Visions

[MysteryMovieMogul]

19 hours ago, Sckathian said:

I disagree. People complain about high budgets them bemoan layoffs. Pixar is too expensive and need to outsource more of their work. Or die.

 

Also amazing to see some online still blame Chapek for this.

I'd rather they die than start outsourcing work.

[Sckathian]

2 hours ago, MysteryMovieMogul said:

I'd rather they die than start outsourcing work.

“I would prefer 100% layoffs rather than 25%” - quite the take!

[Sckathian]

5 hours ago, SpiderByte said:

This...isn't unprecedented. Star Wars Infinities was basically exactly that idea.

 

Plus if they wanted classic characters back that'd be an easier way to do them for sure.

It makes sense. The original cartoons draws were the characters. Star Wars TV is slowly becoming a live action Big Finish and that’s fine by me.

 

I personally would be interested in What If being a brand for different series though. Like, I don’t care for one offs - give me a limited series.

[SpiderByte]

5 hours ago, Sckathian said:

It makes sense. The original cartoons draws were the characters. Star Wars TV is slowly becoming a live action Big Finish and that’s fine by me.

 

I personally would be interested in What If being a brand for different series though. Like, I don’t care for one offs - give me a limited series.

I'm assuming thisd be animated like What If is.

[Liiviig 1998]

What if starwars show though similar to visions is a good idea and would get there creative juices flowing which is sorely lacking on live action side of things.

[cannastop]

It makes me very sad that they could lay off 250 or more people from Pixar.

[Alexander]

This will be the year of layoffs everywhere anyway so...

[Morieris]

19 hours ago, SpiderByte said:

This...isn't unprecedented. Star Wars Infinities was basically exactly that idea.

 

Plus if they wanted classic characters back that'd be an easier way to do them for sure.

 

I will be seated for a "What if Padme survived and went into hiding / led the Resistance / or even turned to the dark side herself."

 

Or 'What if Finn's story arc was allowed to properly be planned and play out on the big screen."

[TwoMisfits]

14 minutes ago, Morieris said:

 

I will be seated for a "What if Padme survived and went into hiding / led the Resistance / or even turned to the dark side herself."

 

Or 'What if Finn's story arc was allowed to properly be planned and play out on the big screen."

 

If I was gonna go prequel, original, and sequel, I want the "what if Jar Jar was actually a Sith", "what if Lando stayed a coward and didn't save Leia" and "what if Finn really died a hero"...

Edited January 13 by TwoMisfits

[4815162342]

The obvious prequel What If is what if Qui-Gon lived

[MovieMan89]

What If… George Lucas let an actual writer do the prequel screenplays, their biggest issue was fixed, and fans never turned on him back in the 00s? 

[cannastop]

I just bought a ticket to Soul in Dolby Cinema AMC. Looking forward to Monday morning!