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Quinnmac000

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speaking of live action I still hate the design

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Magenta Panther

Magenta Panther

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Phil12 said:
I guess she likes to tell the truth. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/walt-disneys-grandniece-agrees-meryl-670039
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Yeah, uh huh, and Abigail Disney also thinks the animated Jungle Book movie is racist. :rolleyes: From the article:

"Racist? C'mon he made a film (Jungle Book) about how you should stay 'with your own kind' at the height of the fight over segregation!"

Abigail is an flaming left-wing extremist, and also, if you read her comments, more than a little nuts. Rumor has it she's estranged from the rest of the Disney family. She babbles what she thinks her uber-liberal friends want to hear. Regardless, the facts about Walt are at odds with her opinion of him. So yes, she's wrong.
 
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Disneyhead'71 said:
I agree with all of that.

And I didn't see Pete's Dragon. I never cared for the original.
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Despite growing up in Maine (the setting of the original), I HATED the original Pete's Dragon. Saw the new one and loved it. A great family movie with heart, and surprisingly good soundtrack. I think my favorite of the remakes so far, although I will confess to not having seen The Jungle Book yet (later this month on Netflix!).
 
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Beholder

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Earl Sweatpants said:
I know this isn't a Disney-centric problem. Its tough as a filmmaker myself to look at what the studios are producing and wondering how to get them interested in an original concept anymore.
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Hate to contribute to even more thread drift, but I think you've hit the nail on the head. This is a "Hollywood" issue, not just a Disney habit. I would imagine that at one time studios actually trusted writers to create good, solid stories. I suppose with so much money on the line it's rather hard to convince the film "moguls", or whatever they're referred to, to take a chance on original concepts. The exceptions, I imagine, would be if the narrative can be neatly put into a genre or it "stars" are rather well known. I'm guessing that may be why the horror films have enjoyed a bit of a resurgence in terms of quality and stories. They can produce wonderful films without needing a $200 million budget. It's why I enjoy noir so much, using light, or the absence of, is an art, it requires a deft hand and nuance. I don't think Hollywood or the general audiences care for either.
 
HauntedMansionFLA

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PanchitoFan101 said:
How do you know that? From what I have read, there are ZERO plans to renew that contract and he has said that many times before. He is retiring in other words.
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As Iger's exit nears, Disney takes quiet approach to succession

Aug. 5 (Bloomberg)- - Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co., comments on the company's earnings and the success of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy." He speaks with Jon Erlichman on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg)
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As Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger's scheduled retirement date looms closer, the entertainment giant's search for his replacement remains low-profile, a departure from the open process it previously employed.

It's been seven months since heir apparent Tom Staggs' abrupt departure left Iger without a clear-cut successor. The top executive recruiting firms say they haven't been hired by Disney, and Iger hasn't moved members of his executive team into newer or more prominent roles to audition them for the top spot. The company has said only that there is a process in place that the board is following which will include evaluating internal and external candidates.


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While there's still time to conduct a search before Iger's contract ends in June 2018, the quiet nature of the current succession planning stands in sharp contrast to the widely watched, five-year bake-off from which Staggs emerged as the leading contender for the job. That's fueling speculation that the board could request that Iger, 65, stay on longer than his scheduled retirement date, something it has already asked of him twice before.

"I don't think anyone -- employee, investor or director -- would be hesitant in granting him a new contract," said Anthony DiClemente, an analyst at Nomura Securities in New York. "That could happen quickly and easily. Why hasn't it happened already? That's a fair question."

Peter Crist, chairman of Crist Kolder Associates, a boutique search firm outside Chicago. "We do lots of mapping projects with the company that take months" about the qualities it wants and needs in a new CEO, Crist said.


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At Wal-Mart Stores, executive recruiter Spencer Stuart began consulting with directors about what the company needed in a new leader and who they should consider about a year before Doug McMillon was named the retailer's CEO in November 2013, according to people familiar with the situation who asked not to be identified because they aren't authorized to talk publicly. The board narrowed its search to two internal candidates, McMillon and former head of U.S. operations Bill Simon, about six months before making its final decision.

At Procter & Gamble, directors first started talking about replacing then-CEO Bob MacDonald in July 2012 and then asked A.G. Lafley to return as CEO and chairman in May 2013. Lafley, who'd already served as CEO at P&G from 2000 until 2009, immediately reorganized the company into four businesses, each headed by a president who was considered a contender for the CEO post. One of the four, David Taylor, was named global president of home care and subsequently also took charge of P&G's beauty business.

In July 2015, Lafley and P&G's other directors named Taylor the consumer giant's new CEO, concluding the two-year process.

Iger himself was promoted in 2005 after a six-month search by the board. The executive, who had led Disney's TV operations and international business and had served as president for five years, was evaluated against external candidates with help from Heidrick & Struggles, directors said at the time. He got the top job only after a high-profile campaign by some shareholders to oust then-CEO Michael Eisner. Former directors in a long-running feud with the company still criticized Iger's selection as hasty, but the board said it had been thorough and careful.

Until this year, it looked as if Disney's choice for Iger's successor would be more orderly, with a seasoned executive waiting in the wings in the COO position. Staggs had risen to the No. 2 spot at the company after a five-year period in which he and another senior manager, Jay Rasulo, competed with each other to become Iger's successor, even switching jobs to give Staggs more experience operating a business and Rasulo exposure to the executive suite. Rasulo, then serving as chief financial officer, left the company last year after Staggs's promotion to COO.

Staggs's exit, after failing to gain the full backing of Iger and the board, left no other internal candidate with both operational experience and a corporate role.

Of the six CEOs since Disney's founding in 1923, only Eisner came from the outside. Eisner, who served from 1984 to 2005, joined the company from Paramount Pictures, where he was president.

While the board contemplates who will lead the company after June 2018, Iger remains active in planning how to shape Disney's future. In recent weeks, he considered buying Twitter, but decided to pass, partly because of price and partly because of concern about bullying on the social-media site, people familiar with the matter said last month.

At an October event in Boston, Iger said it wasn't enough for the company to own key brands like ABC, ESPN and Pixar. Disney needs to have a direct connection to consumers through mobile devices, he said.

"What we're thinking about a lot is what role does technology have in distributing from us to the consumer?" he said. "How must we invest in that?"

In its search for Iger's replacement, Disney's board should be casting a wide net, looking for candidates inside and outside the company, particularly ones with high-tech chops, said Paul Winum, a senior partner at the management consulting firm RHR International and co-author of "Inside CEO Succession."

"The landscape is changing so rapidly, technology is opening up new distribution platforms, overseas markets will be a huge opportunities," he said. "The leadership skills have changed dramatically just in the last two years."

When a CEO succession plan unravels, as it did at Disney, the company usually starts thinking about the next, younger generation of executives inside, giving them bigger and different kinds of experience to prepare them for the top job, said Joseph L. Bower, a Harvard Business School professor who has studied succession planning. Disney hasn't made any major changes recently to suggest it's grooming anyone internally, however.
 
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Quinnmac000

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Sped2424 said:
I think this is genius. They were people who were CURSED into being objects. Imo for a live action film it shouldn't look cute or cuddley but again something that reflects these are people who shouldn't be objects.
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Family film though. Goal shouldn't be to terrify young children. Friends kid who i showed that pic too were terrified. Nostaglia is based on not being tramuatized by movies. Which were the faults of Henson with the Dark Crystal and Labrinyth and Disney may be doing with these live remakes. Jungle Book also had issues scaring kids.
 
Sped2424

Sped2424

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Quinnmac000 said:
Family film though. Goal shouldn't be to terrify young children. Friends kid who i showed that pic too were terrified. Nostaglia is based on not being tramuatized by movies. Which were the faults of Henson with the Dark Crystal and Labrinyth
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Lol in what way is this terrifying? They are a tad off putting but nothing more than what kids can handle and given the actors and songs and personalities attached to them nothing about their performance in the film will come off as "terrifying". Also I just showed kids the picture too they thought I was showing them a clock, and a tea pot and nothing that could move. If anything they look like antiques to children than the boogy man you are making up.
 
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Quinnmac000

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Sped2424 said:
Lol in what way is this terrifying? They are a tad off putting but nothing more than what kids can handle and given the actors and songs and personalities attached to them nothing about their performance in the film will come off as "terrifying". Also I just showed kids the picture too they thought I was showing them a clock, and a tea pot and nothing that could move. If anything they look like antiques to children than the boogy man you are making up.
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Just because things sing and dance and have personality doesn't make them less horrifying. It also isn't just myself just stating the people are know find them creepy but quite a few others have as well.

http://www.avclub.com/article/lumiere-and-cogsworth-are-lookin-kinda-creepy-live-241770
 

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