itsy bitsy spider
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I have but we'd have to start jumping into politics if I mention it
LOL, that's true. It's best not to get into it too much.
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News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!
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LOL, that's true. It's best not to get into it too much.
drod1985
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You must not follow Twitter.
These are intertwined. What's the point in park reservations if you've restored full day park hopping? Scrap them both together.
The master plan wasn't really evident for the general public till the end of The Avengers, when that post credits scene got everybody asking "Who is Thanos?"
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is meant to do this with Kang. We got a soft intro to Kang in Loki, but this will be the first villainous version of the character we've seen. We'll see if this is a success in February if more people are asking "Who is Kang?"
They didn't though. The OT and PT had a ~31% drop in box office from the first film to the second film. Then the OT and PT had a 34% and 21% increase respectively from their second films to their third films. Meanwhile the ST had a 35% drop from first to second film and then another 19% drop for the third film. The most objective way to look at these is box office performance, and it's clear the ST did not trend with the PT and OT. And I say all this as a massive fan of Force Awakens and the world it tried to build.
Chip Chipperson
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I'll disagree about Peacock. They don't have a major draw in terms of a drama series, but they do have things like Premiere League Soccer and WWE pay-per-views to get people to stick around. The WWE events are monthly and the service (with ads) is half the price that the old WWE Network was (which itself was much less than half the price of a PPV through cable providers), so there's no point in canceling for a few months to save money. While both of those are niche markets to some extent (moreso the soccer), they do draw people in (WWE Network had over 1.1 million subscribers in the US before it moved over to Peacock).
FigmentFan82
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This is so inaccurate it's hilarious. HBO Max has one of the deepest and impressive back catalogue collections of all the streamers between HBO shows and WB films. They just simply need to stop screwing with something that is working just fine
21st Century Fox is defunct. At the time of purchase of 21st Century Fox, the divisions not being bought by Disney were spun off into Fox-branded divisions still owned by Murdoch.
The divisions of 21st Century Fox that Disney did get, were spun off or merged into existing divisions. All divisions with "Fox" in the title that were bought by Disney began to have the Fox-brand removed (by the terms of the agreement, all things Fox-branded had to be removed by 2024).
Disney now uses "20th Century" branding for some things that were once "20th Century Fox" or "21st Century Fox."
Murdoch's organization started to use 21st Century Fox as the over-all holding company, which included the 20th Century Fox studios which retained its legacy-name.
Disney bought a big chunk of 21st, which included 20th.
Neither Disney nor Murdoch uses 21st anymore. Disney uses 20th (without 'Fox') and Murdoch slaps 'Fox' onto what he has left, including new Fox studios that produce content.
DCLcruiser
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We like Apple TV+. There are some very good shows.
Give your guests no reason to leave and they will stay no matter how easy it is to go elsewhere. Thats what imo he needs to do issue is to accomplish that they literally need to expand all 4 park w capacity and i just cant see this company being able to pull it off. Ill be hopeful he has seen his mistakes and the board steers him in that direction but end of day he started this mess gonna take some soul searching to admit he was wrongā¦
DCLcruiser
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Out of all of those, the only one that interests us is Schitt's Creek, which we watched all of on Netflix already.
Dranth
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I know it is a small group but I really donāt understand the people who are not happy about this. Iger is an improvement, not a savior, not perfect, not even ideal, not someone I EVER thought I would want to see again but absolutely an improvement. Can anyone, with a straight face, tell me that Chapek was a better CEO than Iger?
Even if they have the exact same ideas and strategies (which they donāt as we are already seeing), doing them in a way that doesnāt p*** off all your employees and customers is a large bonus. Additionally, saving the other divisions that have struggled under Chapek will stop them from using the parks to cover losses/underperformance elsewhere and that will help all aspects of the company.
Even their management style can make a big difference. Chapek seems to have been a control freak while Iger put people in charge to do a job and let them do it. That means the parks have a chance to get better now. It isnāt going to change overnight and who knows, maybe it wonāt change at all, but now it has a chance.
Sure, I would have rather them gone out and found the next Walt but given how things played out, this is the best we could realistically hope for and it will at least start to put out the raging dumpster fire Chapek was overseeing.
Even if they have the exact same ideas and strategies (which they donāt as we are already seeing), doing them in a way that doesnāt p*** off all your employees and customers is a large bonus. Additionally, saving the other divisions that have struggled under Chapek will stop them from using the parks to cover losses/underperformance elsewhere and that will help all aspects of the company.
Even their management style can make a big difference. Chapek seems to have been a control freak while Iger put people in charge to do a job and let them do it. That means the parks have a chance to get better now. It isnāt going to change overnight and who knows, maybe it wonāt change at all, but now it has a chance.
Sure, I would have rather them gone out and found the next Walt but given how things played out, this is the best we could realistically hope for and it will at least start to put out the raging dumpster fire Chapek was overseeing.
Sirwalterraleigh
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That picture was taken at 7:59ā¦Is it even necessary for Disney+ to ever turn a profit?
The service is basically a 24/7 stream of advertisements for Disney's merchandise, media, parks, and other products.
All of Disney's income streams are dependent on broadcast/streaming media to create public knowledge about them.
At 8:15 after the store opened, everything was on the floor and it hasnāt been cleaned up since.
Those target sections are a disgrace.
Horrible move longterm
CaptainAmerica
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Every bad thing about Chapek, other than style, started with Iger.
You're reading waaaay too much into Joe's comment (one made when he was still an employee, so if you asked him now, he may have a different response). The problem with the yeti was unexpected and unforeseen and was very complex. It's not timely to replace the yeti, because it's not going to be something they do overnight, it would be months of downtime. But at least one potential replacement was designed years ago. The yeti has been removed a few times in the years after the ride opened, according to a few people around here I trust with such information, so it's not like they are in uncharted territory (or maybe they are, if all of the people who know about the yeti AA are gone).
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I am going to annoy (more than usual) everyone with what I call āthe gareth edwards principleā
In short: they need a hands on parks leaderā¦someone that actually has set foot in a park and eaten a hot dog. That doesnāt mean run it like the movie Bigā¦but they have a chance to actually build some things without the shelf lives of what they have been doing of late.
castlecake2.0
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Posted today in a group of former Disney Store cast members of a āDisney Store shop in shopā. Really hope this is something that is reconsidered.
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Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
And this is what the fansā¦and Wall Streetā¦seemed to have realized when he went away.
That is a real improvement. Check 3 years Ago and all the mindless defenders there were of CMBā¦and it never passed the eye test.
It was my understanding that Powell was very much liked by DLP cast members because she did exactly that - and spent time with and knew her cast members.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Okā¦.I was standing there on Sundayā¦
And itās actually worse than it looks here