Disney Irish
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As has been mentioned already, this is standard Hollywood accounting, corporate accounting really. So no real sleight-of-hand going on as its done right out in the open and by all studios and is accepted.The compulsory part and the stage already being set for D+ to be a loser for the company, at least up to 2024 is what sets this apart, to me.
On the other side of the forum a bunch of us have been grumbling for years now about how it's been a money pit and how that seems to impact our favorite part of the company - how it "sponsors" a day at the parks for instance with money they are siphoning off the parks to help prop it up among other things...
But now it seems like at least a part of that "pit" could be a little bit of accounting sleight-of-hand, to me.
Maybe Netflix would have passed on She Hulk.
Did D+ have a choice?
They probably would have lapped up everything Star Wars good and bad but would they have been receptive to a series based on a single movie by the same studio that most younger people have never heard of?
Doesn't matter because it got made and LFL got paid, right?
Given this conversation, it seems like the potential for D+ losses (in the short term, only) may have been more of a potential opportunity for the company than a problem, especially given COVID.
Then again, I'm not discounting that I may be losing my mind.
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I feel like this could be the plot of a movie if I can figure out how to get someone to die in the middle of all of this under suspicious circumstances.
Also the Parks have been propping up different parts of the company for decades, so nothing new there.
In reality, and this is what some can't accept, Disney is in a real good position with D+ as the profit is about to start rolling in here in the next couple quarters.