Spirited News & Observations II -- NGE/Baxter

[Cosmic Commando]

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I thought The Amazing Spider-Man did a lot more things right then it's predecessors. The most obvious would be Andrew Garfield playing Spider-Man. I hope they get him involved in Avengers 3 but they would have to explain why he wasn't in the battle at the end of The Avengers

I don't think it was a bad movie; I think I liked it better than Spider-Man and Spider-Man 3. But $$$$$$. Domestic, worldwide, opening weekend... Amazing Spider-Man was 4th place out of 4 movies moneywise in that franchise. Without any inflation or 3D price adjustment.

 

[disney fan 13]

@WDW1974 Have you seen this?
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/b...heir-hand-drawn-animation-division-81043.html

 

[Genie of the Lamp]

It seems the Disney layoffs were tied to the LucasFilm and Marvel acquisitions according to analysts that corresponded with the LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...-marvel-acquisitions-20130410,0,6214905.story

(O and by the way, my favorite unit of the company is/was the WDAS (specifically the 2d unit of this studio). With what took place just now as Tom Bancroft told us over his twitter, I have seriously just reached a new low and hatred point with Iger and his possy. I have reached @HMF level with Iger and I am seriously flipping out that they are letting more talented animators out the door. At least Eric Goldberg and Mark Henn are staying, but my hunch is that their jobs were/and still are in jepordy. I'm so done with this company until new management comes in. I just want to say to Mr. Iger face to face "UP YOURS"! I wish these animators the best and hope they find work with maybe a studio like Katzenberg's Dreamworks and shove it up Disney's &$$. Walt and the Nine Old Men would be rolling over in their graves now.) Hope you enjoy that salary bonus Iger! I want to get Lasseter's take on this. Save Disney 2d animation can't come soon enough!

 

[MattM]

See I do find it sexist and offensive and I agree stupid. But in fairness I do not rebrand people because of their gender, sexual orientation, race or religion either.

Mommy bloggers have turned into an industry of their own, quite lucrative in many cases. They even have a massive annual convention. They coined the term "mommy bloggers" themselves I believe.

 

[articos]

The layoffs in Animation were more brutal than anyone expected. I don't think Lasseter knew beforehand. Sad, considering hand-drawn is fast becoming extinct. This was pure numbers with no regard to talent, tenure or art.

 

[HMF]

I call on John Lasseter to resign in protest like Roy did. That is likely the only way to get the attention of Wall Street. As Disney Fans we must do everything in our power realisticly speaking to remove Iger from office.

 

[Yensid1974]

I call on John Lasseter to resign in protest like Roy did. That is likely the only way to get the attention of Wall Street. As Disney Fans we must do everything in our power realisticly speaking to remove Iger from office.

For the change you are looking for (and I suspect several others here as well) you would need to go far beyond Iger. You need to get to the heart of the matter and start looking at the Board. Start replacing some of them with more MAGICal people and you would have the change you're looking for. It has to start there...

 

[ThemeParks4Life]

The Spiderman reboot didn't make as much money as the original trilogy films but pretty close. I can see Disney and Sony doing a joint production if they want Spiderman in Avengers 2 or 3.

 

[flynnibus]

If men write on that blog they seem to be referred to as mommy bloggers themselves. I have been trying to get the whole mommy blogger thing changed to "People who blow pixie dust up your orifices" but that is a no go for some reason.

Mi thought your name was bob... Not george

 

[luv]

Dear Bob -

Please take down the nets.

Thanks,
luv

 

[Gabe1]

Mommy bloggers have turned into an industry of their own, quite lucrative in many cases. They even have a massive annual convention. They coined the term "mommy bloggers" themselves I believe.

And the topic is back again, I thought we moved on but OK we digress.

As I said, I really hate the classification of Mommy Blogger and especially in the context it was used when initially posted. It was in a demeaning manner. Many words and phrase start out innocent and turn ugly. I have read some interesting blogs by women, who happen to be Mothers and slam they are put down by being labeled a Mommy blogger. So no matter the origin I don't personally care for it.

Disney demonstrated some class by moving away from the condescending term Mommy Blogger and yet seeing it flipped back and rebranding the Panel here to Mommy Blogger wasn't done out of respect for the people on the Panel quite the contrary. I do not believe the Mom's Panel is part of the Mommy Bloggers affiliation you speak of, so why go there? To use Mommy Blogger in a post as a Dig and then complain about hating having to be politically correct is only demanding permission to be ignorant. That is the interesting part about words, it isn't how the word was originally intended to be used, it is when it is often misused to belittle a certain demographic, the word or phrase then looses its original intent and becomes unacceptable to be used publicly.

 

[John]

I think you may have meant to quote another post.

Shoot.....your right......my bad.

 

[Darth Sidious]

If Disney can get Sony to let them use Spider-Man for the Avengers sequel, I will be one, very happy girl. I also hope to see Wolverine in the film as well. If they can get Spidey and Wolverine in the sequel, I will be first in line for tickets. That would seriously be AMAZING.

If they can use SM universe characters they can roll with a storyline based on the comics. Having The Green Goblin/Norman Osborn is huge too. Then they can roll the storyline of Osborn becoming the leader of The Avengers and kicking Tony out. Then they can fight... Just a good villain character to roll with.

 

[Darth Sidious]

The movie rights for Spider-Man were traded basically in perpetuity in exchange for Disney to get the rights to the Spidey movie merch. But that might not be a bad thing. It means that Sony and Disney are on friendly terms regarding Spider-Man; Disney and Fox (Fantastic Four, X-Men) reportedly do not get along well. Whatever IM3 does, Avengers will get a lot of blame/credit. If Avengers turns IM3 into a mega-movie whereas the previous ones were just really really really big movies, Sony may offer Spidey up for Avengers 2. Amazing Spider-Man did not really improve (may have declined?) from its predecessors.

Totally could see Sony wanting to be a part of Avengers 2. It would be like Mattel wanting Barbie in Toy Story 2 after the first movie's success.

 

[Cosmic Commando]

The Spiderman reboot didn't make as much money as the original trilogy films but pretty close. I can see Disney and Sony doing a joint production if they want Spiderman in Avengers 2 or 3.

Nah, it wasn't really close.

http://boxofficemojo.com/search/?q=spider-man

 

[MattM]

And the topic is back again, I thought we moved on but OK we digress.

As I said, I really hate the classification of Mommy Blogger and especially in the context it was used when initially posted. It was in a demeaning manner. Many words and phrase start out innocent and turn ugly. I have read some interesting blogs by women, who happen to be Mothers and slam they are put down by being labeled a Mommy blogger. So no matter the origin I don't personally care for it.

Disney demonstrated some class by moving away from the condescending term Mommy Blogger and yet seeing it flipped back and rebranding the Panel here to Mommy Blogger wasn't done out of respect for the people on the Panel quite the contrary. I do not believe the Mom's Panel is part of the Mommy Bloggers affiliation you speak of, so why go there? To use Mommy Blogger in a post as a Dig and then complain about hating having to be politically correct is only demanding permission to be ignorant. That is the interesting part about words, it isn't how the word was originally intended to be used, it is when it is often misused to belittle a certain demographic, the word or phrase then looses its original intent and becomes unacceptable to be used publicly.

Sorry to have forcefully made you respond, I was catching up with the thread. Like I said, mommy bloggers themselves call themselves mommy bloggers. So they don't seem to have a problem with it. They even have a mommy bloggers network.

 

[MattM]

(P.S. - you don't have to respond)

 

[George]

Mi thought your name was bob... Not george

Be quiet. I'm going in deep in this message board thing. First job - get @Genie of the Lamp to like me again and convince him that those animators weren't a valuable addition to the company. I may have to pay my impersonators more, since I really need someone to take all these virtual flames.

 

[ThemeParks4Life]

Nah, it wasn't really close.

http://boxofficemojo.com/search/?q=spider-man

I meant that it's worldwide total was close to Spiderman 2's.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Be quiet. I'm going in deep in this message board thing. First job - get @Genie of the Lamp to like me again and convince him that those animators weren't a valuable addition to the company. I may have to pay my impersonators more, since I really need someone to take all these virtual flames.

Well, make believe Bob, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen! One has to have broad shoulders to come through the constant critiquing from people that barely know how to get into a theme park, much less run one. But when you come through on the other side standing upright and taking nourishment...then you become a leader. It's almost embarrassing for me to have to say, but, there it is.