News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!

durangojim

durangojim

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So do any of the trades have the behind the scenes story yet on how this all went down? Also will Iger be brining his team back like Zenia Mucha?
 
Communicora

Communicora

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CaptainAmerica said:
I mean it was a TV-14 Marvel show, so... no.


Most likely scenario is BLANK wins the primary, BLANK runs 3rd party, and BLANK BLANK wins 400 electoral votes.

As a BLANK-BLANK BLANK, this is all deeply depressing.
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No politics, please

No Way Baby GIF by MOODMAN
 
ctrlaltdel

ctrlaltdel

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durangojim said:
So do any of the trades have the behind the scenes story yet on how this all went down? Also will Iger be brining his team back like Zenia Mucha?
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CNBC said that Chapek was only informed last night (presumably time enough to craft a statement on his exit) and that Iger was reached out to on Friday. Incredibly quick but this was clearly brewing with the Board for some time.
 
MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

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el_super said:
Just read the note that Wall Street is hoping Iger brings some of that parks strategy to Disney+:

Nathanson then outlined possible changes under Iger. “We would hope and expect that Mr. Iger examines the investment plans at Disney+ and re-focuses their investment on areas of franchise strength and away from broader general entertainment content,” he wrote. “In other words, Disney+, and Disney’s shareholders, could probably do better with fewer end-state subscribers made up of super fans willing to pay high revenue per user, which would generate much higher margins.”
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kingdead said:
I know I'm in the wrong place to ask but... is this a brand that's actually trying to appeal to CHILDREN anymore?
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Originally, D+ was going to be for the niche family market. Then D+ blew through its four year projection in one month. Both Bobs were astounded that over half of the D+ subbers were households without children.

And so, they pivoted. D+ wasn't going to be a 2 quadrant streamer, but a 4 quadrant. So, they started to put more mature content on D+. Added a child lock. Decided to eventually merge D+ with Hulu rather than have them go after different markets.

This made them adjust their goal to be one of the big streamers after the streaming wars were over.

And those who were subbed to D+ were telling them in surveys that they wanted more "general audience" (i.e. 'adult') content.

So, D+ (along with the eventual Hulu merger) will be a 4 quadrant streamer.

Recommending them to double down on going back to being a niche market streamer is crazy.
 
MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

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CaptainAmerica said:
A yaaas queen fourth-wave feminist fable featuring internet fanboys as the primary antagonist is an unforgivable premise when your job is to sell content to internet fanboys.
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Funny thing is that She-Hulk get pretty good ratings from critics. But general audience (self-selecting at RT and IMDB) give it a 44%.

It's almost as if half the population couldn't get on board.

;)
 
matt9112

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MisterPenguin said:
When Iger was questioned on stockholder calls accusing him and the company of being 'too woke,' his response was, to paraphrase, "We don't see these issues as a right or left issue, we see it as a human issue."

A far cry more diplomatic than the hot water Chapek got himself in.

And the Scarlett Johansson debacle would have never happened under Iger.
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He’s more personable for sure.
Ismael Flores said:
So you mean the circle of life?
Every time humanity has tried to be the ones to control things we end up creating a new disease or throwing things off balance and eliminate a species.
-Introduce a mosquito to eliminate
something then we got a new mosquito spreading virus.
hunting for sports should not be necessary for animal or disease control if we let nature take care of it.
If we hadn’t decimated certain animals that hunt and help species population we wouldn’t have that problem instead some prey over populate and spreads disease

It’s the same issue in many contries where hunting for sports or hunting because someone decides to move somewhere where there is wildlife and are surprised that they might kill their stock or pet.
Hunting should be done as a means for survival not as a means for sport or to prove to someone that they big cojones.

I have a neighbor that gets so annoyed because raccoons, possums, deer go in his property and eat their plants. I told him once, you are the idiot that moved next to a nature reserve. LOL
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Why does he not shoot the critters? Legitimately what suppressed 22LR is for.
 
DCLcruiser

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MisterPenguin said:
Originally, D+ was going to be for the niche family market. Then D+ blew through its four year projection in one month. Both Bobs were astounded that over half of the D+ subbers were households without children.

And so, they pivoted. D+ wasn't going to be a 2 quadrant streamer, but a 4 quadrant. So, they started to put more mature content on D+. Added a child lock. Decided to eventually merge D+ with Hulu rather than have them go after different markets.

This made them adjust their goal to be one of the big streamers after the streaming wars were over.

And those who were subbed to D+ were telling them in surveys that they wanted more "general audience" (i.e. 'adult') content.

So, D+ (along with the eventual Hulu merger) will be a 4 quadrant streamer.

Recommending them to double down on going back to being a niche market streamer is crazy.
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I have Hulu w/ Live TV and D+. I like that they have different content (besides DWTS, which is a crossover from ABC). Anything that is not PG13 should stay on Hulu.
 
DonniePeverley

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Chapek didn't get a great hand with the pandemic and nflation hitting - but he's been desperately disappointing.

Furthermore, yes his main priorities were the investors, he didn't help himself by alienating Disney fans (a term that has popped up in the last few years).

He dithered and was perhaps overly conservative during the pandemic - especially in Florida where there were little restrictions. Universal opened quickly when they were allowed, but Disney dithered for no apparent reason and remained closed for a period. Why? Why weren't they ready to go. Any savings they made from getting rid of workers was negated by being closed.

As a new CEO there seemed no confidence to plan for a big investment, the next big takeover, the next big attraction, the next big theme park.

As a theme park fan, i don't see anything to get excited about for the future (maybe like investors are feeling). Epcot is a mess with half the park having being behind a construction wall for a decade when it's finished. Everything become tacky and cheap, and the dreaded reservation system. And worst of all there is no plan for new attractions being in the horizon, just fluff about 'what we might do' which insults it's fans.
 
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