The Disney Thread | Iger will be with us until 2026

[dudalb]

On 2/21/2024 at 9:35 AM, AniNate said:

Point remains that Disney is being targeted just because they're Disney and everyone knows them. People may claim they hate them in polls or on social media, but they still buy their toys and plushies for their kids and go to the parks. It's empty words and that was evidenced as much by the last quarterly earnings.

 

 

THIS, Disney has been the dominant studio in the Business for along time, and the downside of that is you become automatically the Number One Target. Has Little to do with politics.

 

[Youngstar]

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/disney-reliance-have-signed-binding-media-pact-bloomberg-reports-citing-sources-2024-02-25/

 

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Feb 25 (Reuters) - Walt Disney (DIS.N), and industrial conglomerate Reliance Industries (RELI.NS), have signed a binding pact to merge their media operations in India, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The media unit of Reliance, controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, and its affiliates are expected to own at least 61% of the merged entity, with Disney holding the rest, the report said.

 

Edited February 25 by Youngstar

[AniNate]

https://deadline.com/2024/02/disney-sean-bailey-exits-david-greenbaum-searchlight-1235838865/

 

Sean Bailey exits

Edited February 26 by AniNate

[ZeroHour]

1 hour ago, AniNate said:

https://deadline.com/2024/02/disney-sean-bailey-exits-david-greenbaum-searchlight-1235838865/

 

Sean Bailey exits

Seems like we’re seeing some consequences from last year’s box office disaster. Disney finally realizing they’re live action movies can’t all be animated remakes and theme park ride movies, maybe?

[dudalb]

The inevitable happens: Major shake up at Disney after last year box office disasters:

 

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/disney-sean-bailey-exits-movie-studio-1235923336/

 

When a film studio does as badly as Disney did in 2023, heads are going to roll. Surprised it just took this long.

[JWR]

 

 

[Boxx93]

15 hours ago, JWR said:

 

 

There's only one movie that needs to exist Mr. Greenbaum...

 

Alita Battle Angel 2

[Hades]

5 hours ago, Boxx93 said:

There's only one movie that needs to exist Mr. Greenbaum...

 

Alita Battle Angel 2

 

Nah...The world needs a Young Avengers movie more..

[AniNate]

1 hour ago, Captain Obvious said:

Quality is a primarily issue but alot of people believe disney's main priority has been to be inclusive lately rather than making the best film possible and it's noticeable. If you put hurdles in the way, you're more likely to trip.

 

Well, you're setting yourself up for cynical derision from all sides when you make remakes, sequels, and franchises your primary business model. I can only hope the promotion of the Searchlight head is an effort to move away from that.

 

 

Edited March 3 by AniNate

[YM!]

I think Lightyear being a boring slog was the key reason why OW crumbled with WOM being pretty mediocre for both kids and families, and less so because of a brief gay moment that happens for like 30 seconds. Lightyear was a concept that did have intrigue but that was due to interest of the concept itself rather than interest of the film, it happens to a lot of blockbuster. KFP4 had record trailer views for Dreamworks and it might not even open to 50m.

[filmlover]

"Does this movie need to exist?"

 

This could apply to 99.9% of movies that have ever been made lmao.

[SpiderByte]

 

Edited March 5 by SpiderByte

[filmlover]

Accidentally posted this in the MCU thread when it should belong here:

 

 

[Porthos]

44 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Accidentally posted this in the MCU thread when it should belong here:

 

 

 

Not a Disney decision, but Disney deciding to raise the profile of Mando and Baby Yoda more and more and more (really does look like a SW film is finally happening, for instance) makes it all the more bizarre/short sighted that EA decided to nuke the Respawn Mandalorian FPS game allegedly for "lack of Jedi/lightsabers" in it.

 

Yes, cutbacks have probably a bit more to do with it, but only as much as "gonna axe something and something without lightsabers is gonna be on the chopping block first."

 

Just incredible timing on EA's part, really.

 

(and plausibly a massively own-goal one should the very Jedi-less Outlaws blowup on Ubisoft)

Edited March 5 by Porthos

[Reddroast]

36 minutes ago, Porthos said:

 

Not a Disney decision, but Disney deciding to raise the profile of Mando and Baby Yoda more and more and more (really does look like a SW film is finally happening, for instance) makes it all the more bizarre/short sighted that EA decided to nuke the Respawn Mandalorian FPS game allegedly for "lack of Jedi/lightsabers" in it.

 

Yes, cutbacks have probably a bit more to do with it, but only as much as "gonna axe something and something without lightsabers is gonna be on the chopping block first."

 

Just incredible timing on EA's part, really.

 

(and plausibly a massively own-goal one should the very Jedi-less Outlaws blowup on Ubisoft)

I mean EA and short-sighted business decisions go together like PB&J

[dudalb]

On 3/3/2024 at 9:57 AM, filmlover said:

"Does this movie need to exist?"

 

This could apply to 99.9% of movies that have ever been made lmao.

Come on, we all know that real question is "Will this movie make money?'

[PlatnumRoyce]

3 hours ago, Porthos said:

Not a Disney decision, but Disney deciding to raise the profile of Mando and Baby Yoda more and more and more (really does look like a SW film is finally happening, for instance) makes it all the more bizarre/short sighted that EA decided to nuke the Respawn Mandalorian FPS game allegedly for "lack of Jedi/lightsabers" in it.

 

Yes, cutbacks have probably a bit more to do with it, but only as much as "gonna axe something and something without lightsabers is gonna be on the chopping block first."

 

Just incredible timing on EA's part, really. (and plausibly a massively own-goal one should the very Jedi-less Outlaws blowup on Ubisoft)

Disney promised a "Mando-verse" movie about 7 months ago so some of the benefits to Mando & Grogu should have been baked in prior to the game's cancellation (granted, that version of the movie would have involved 1-2 shows featuring jedi/force stuff). Knowing absolutely nothing about this, I'm wondering if there were some "what do you have the rights to do with Mandalorian" roadblocks given live action tv shows exploring that a bit more and the existing lore about them seemingly being contradictory. 

Edited March 5 by PlatnumRoyce

[dudalb]

On 3/3/2024 at 2:40 AM, Hades said:

 

Nah...The world needs a Young Avengers movie more..

I would give a Young Avengers movie a lot more chance of being greenlit then  ALita 2.

Edited March 5 by dudalb

[Porthos]

30 minutes ago, PlatnumRoyce said:

Disney promised a "Mando-verse" movie about 7 months ago so some of the benefits to Mando & Grogu should have been baked in prior to the game's cancellation (granted, that version of the movie would have involved 1-2 shows featuring jedi/force stuff). Knowing absolutely nothing about this, I'm wondering if there were some "what do you have the rights to do with Mandalorian" roadblocks given live action tv shows exploring that a bit more and the existing lore about them seemingly being contradictory. 

 

Nope.  Game was abruptly cancelled about five, six days ago.  

 

 

 

Was part of EA laying off over 600 employees

 

Now not exactly an unbiased source, but looks like if Respawn was allowed to cook, it would have been quite the tasty meal.

 

This is pretty much EA Being EA.

 

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As I check, if there is a conspiratorial aspect here, it's perhaps repurposing development back to Titanfall, as Respawn is going back to that well, apparently.  Which is somewhat ironic as I seem to recall hearing that the SW RTS from Respawn was using assets from the abandoned Titanfall 3.  Might be grapevine stuff talking there, though.

 

Either way, this ain't on LFL/Disney. 

 

[SpiderByte]

To be clear I don't think it was ever said if the game was a Mandalorian franchise game or just a game about Mandalorians