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News Chapek FIRED, Iger New CEO
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Cmdr_Crimson
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Perhaps they now have an opening at The Horseshoe casino back in Hammond Indiana Chappie ol boy...
What is interesting in the Mickey Documentary on Disney+ Iger was on it..But, not a smiglet of Chapek at all..
What is interesting in the Mickey Documentary on Disney+ Iger was on it..But, not a smiglet of Chapek at all..
TP2000
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It's kind of you to think of me. I'm literally in the middle of unpacking and organizing stuff in my new house in a new state, and had no idea this was happening before logging on here with a glass of Malbec and two aspirin (moving is a pain, even when Bekins does most of it!).
I don't have much to say that hasn't already been said by many of us longtime fans. In short, this is GREAT news because it means Bob Chapek has left...
Mr. Chapek was a clueless and charmless dork who swam way out into the deep end of Showmanship when he should have stayed in the shallow end of Merchandising where he belonged.
I can only assume that the Board begged Mr. Iger to return temporarily and save the sinking ship, and to begin a 12 month process of vetting and sourcing a new leadership team to fix the Walt Disney Company.
Shades of 1983, if I were to be optimistic.
Elijah Abrams
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Iger better sell off 20th Century in order to cut Disney's debt!
Cmdr_Crimson
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He won't, as he was the one that bought it...
Also, all the Fox studios are churning out content for Hulu, D+, and theaters (which then go to D+ and Hulu).
Some of the Fox franchises are getting sequels, reboots, and series.
Some of the Fox franchises are getting sequels, reboots, and series.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
…so this didn’t age well
pdude81
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Maybe now Iger can bring back the branding for Fastpass. The product is dead, but I still can't fathom why they'd set an industry standard term on fire like that.
That's about the most change I can hope for. Well, I also hope they need some help negotiating a Sunday Ticket deal with the NFL
That's about the most change I can hope for. Well, I also hope they need some help negotiating a Sunday Ticket deal with the NFL
MerlinTheGoat
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As fun as hindsight is, I would like to note that Cramer's comments were a classic case of "even a broken clock is right twice a day". For the other 99% of things he spews, the guy is a feckless oaf who no one with any financial sense takes seriously (he's an "entertainer"). If that other 99% starts to pan out, you can start giving him attention.
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Inspired Figment
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Here’s to Team Imagination. Will Iger finally leave the darkside.. or will he leave as part of the darkside? Suppose only time will tell..;
GimpYancIent
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With B.I. back from his hiatus it will be interesting to see what policy and managerial adjustments occur. Interesting the board could not bring on someone not named "Bob" for a refresh.
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Smiley/OCD
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Watching CNBC…Disney stock up 8% in pre market trading…Gee, you think the market is happy?
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
It’s simply numbers…they just don’t work. And how do we know that it wasn’t IGER that killed fastpass during the early Covid shutdown? He wanted to dump plus for 5 years prior in the worst way…
That tells me they knew it was collapsing.
Disone
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It hardly had time to age at all! But even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Sirwalterraleigh
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pdude81
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The Fastpass+ model they were using was not sustainable. Had to end, and I'm sure Iger was in board with it. Genie/Genie+ is even a good name for the new system, but changing the line skip itself from Fastpass to Lightning Lane is bonehead marketing and embarrassing.
I don't think that particular mistake would have made it past Iger, though it shouldn't have made it past the pitch room in the first place.
HauntedMansionFLA
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Let the stock buybacks begin!!
are D’Amaro and Kennedy next to go…..
are D’Amaro and Kennedy next to go…..
Tha Realest
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Both ascended during Iger’s reign. Watch Kareem Daniel and McCarthy too.
Iger was known for stock buy backs and dividends. Does Wall Street like that sorta thing?
D'Amaro did what he was told. Why wouldn't anyone want to keep on a guy like that? Even the people who don't like him credit him for at least seeming to care about CMs. And that's what's needed right now, a healing of the relationship between management and employees. He's perfect for the job.
And Iger likes KK. Iger publicly took the blame off of her for locking SWL to the sequel timeline because Force Awakens made $2B, and for Solo's poor performance by pushing for too many SW movies.
KK's job was never in jeopardy and still isn't.