The Incredibly Satisfying Death of Disney

[dazzer87]

Apple will come in and purchase Disney…..

[FultzNationRISE]

Inflation helped corporate giants like Disney more than anyone else, all of their assets inflated.

Inflation split the haves and the have-nots. Rich got richer and the poor got poorer.

Yes but some of these businesses that got richer in the short term, like Disney, have a general profit model that requires a broad middle class to do business with. You cant sell things to people with no money.

Youre talking short term, not long term. Short term is your brain releasing a bunch of dopamine and suddenly you feel good. Long term is it’s because youre drowning and about to die.

[Nanners]

Disney has been on fire lately... the recent little mermaid remake was one of the best movies of the year, and their upcoming live action film "Yellow snow and the 7 lgbtqia+ bipocs of average height" looks like a film people will be talking about for decades to come

[FultzNationRISE]

Looks like the line at a Starbucks bathroom.

[Nanners]

Looks like the line at a Starbucks bathroom.

these photos were actually taken in front of a gender reassignment clinic

[Phoenix]

Is there a realistic company out there that can make Disney an offer for their LucasFilms projects? Primarily their Star Wars projects. I mean, selling off the LucasFilms wing of Disney would be a huge embarrassment to them, but it will allow them to focus on other projects they're actually good at and perhaps not be stretched too thin.

Funny enough I've heard rumblings of George Lucas buying it back, but I can't imagine at this stage in his life he'd have any interest in creative control. Star Wars was always at its best when it came out then went away for a number of years. As far as a company buying it, it would probably have to be something on the scale of Amazon ( which, I can't say actually improves the perception of the IP at this point).

[Nanners]

Funny enough I've heard rumblings of George Lucas buying it back, but I can't imagine at this stage in his life he'd have any interest in creative control. Star Wars was always at its best when it came out then went away for a number of years. As far as a company buying it, it would probably have to be something on the scale of Amazon ( which, I can't say actually improves the perception of the IP at this point).

It would be beyond hilarious if Amazon bought star wars and then gave it the rings of power treatment...

[Phoenix]

It would be beyond hilarious if Amazon bought star wars and then gave it the rings of power treatment...

Funny I was thinking that when I mentioned them...

[warriorfan]

Looks like the line at a Starbucks bathroom.

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[Baller234]

Funny enough I've heard rumblings of George Lucas buying it back, but I can't imagine at this stage in his life he'd have any interest in creative control. Star Wars was always at its best when it came out then went away for a number of years. As far as a company buying it, it would probably have to be something on the scale of Amazon ( which, I can't say actually improves the perception of the IP at this point).

This is just a wild conspiracy theory of mine and I have no evidence to back this up, but part of me thinks Lucas was extorted when it came to selling Star Wars.

I don't know what they had on him, but I always thought it was strange that he donated the $4 billion he received from the sale to some education reform charity. Like huh? That is why you sold your media empire and life's work? You're that much of a philanthropist? I don't buy it. Probably some dummy company set up by Disney so that he could "donate" the money back to them.

In the initial announcement video featuring him and Kathleen Kennedy, he said he just wanted to retire and didn't want to run a corporation anymore. Okay fine, but why do you have to sell everything? Why not just stay on as a silent partner? It's just really, really weird.

Then you take into account how vocal he was in Disney's mishandling of everything, and how he referred to them afterwards as "white slavers". Lots of animosity there for someone who was so gung ho about selling to them.

[Spuddywebby]

Disney has been on fire lately... the recent little mermaid remake was one of the best movies of the year, and their upcoming live action film "Yellow snow and the 7 lgbtqia+ bipocs of average height" looks like a film people will be talking about for decades to come

Is that Lebron23 in the front of the line?

[Patrick Chewing]

Is that Lebron23 in the front of the line?

[Nanners]

This is just a wild conspiracy theory of mine and I have no evidence to back this up, but part of me thinks Lucas was extorted when it came to selling Star Wars.

I don't know what they had on him, but I always thought it was strange that he donated the $4 billion he received from the sale to some education reform charity. Like huh? That is why you sold your media empire and life's work? You're that much of a philanthropist? I don't buy it. Probably some dummy company set up by Disney so that he could "donate" the money back to them.

In the initial announcement video featuring him and Kathleen Kennedy, he said he just wanted to retire and didn't want to run a corporation anymore. Okay fine, but why do you have to sell everything? Why not just stay on as a silent partner? It's just really, really weird.

Then you take into account how vocal he was in Disney's mishandling of everything, and how he referred to them afterwards as "white slavers". Lots of animosity there for someone who was so gung ho about selling to them.

I wouldnt be surprised if there was some sort of extortion or other pressure that forced him to sell star wars, but disney at the time of the sale (2012) was not the disney of today.

It doesnt seem that strange for him to donate the $4 billion, he was already worth like ~$10b before the sale, he had zero need for this money.

The aspect of the sale that was strange to me is the fact that he relinquished total creative control to disney. I guess maybe he trusted their creative choices at the time since they were doing a pretty good job with marvel at that point

[Patrick Chewing]

Elon should expand his portfolio again.

[Facepalm]

I don’t even really care about the work stuff, at least in movies. If they want a black Snow White and no dwarves, don’t care, the market will tell them if it was a good idea or not. What does bother me about Disney (and Apple and Tesla and…) is their insistent genuflection in front of the Chinese altar.

Musk did an interview recently and was asked about Taiwan/China. He responded that we don’t need to read between the lines, China is telling us that they will reunite Taiwan with the Mainland so it’s only a matter of time. So knowing this and again, so do a bunch of other very large American companies, they still bow down to China and change movies, give up technology, put cash in the government coffers etc. You can make the case that Taiwan Semiconductor is one of the top 5 most important companies in the world. Why are these American companies happily enriching a government that does what China does? Will Musk and Tim Cook be on the front lines defending Taiwan when the time comes? In the last 10 years or so, the Chinese military has grown 5x. We are basically funding a military that we may one day need to face. That’s a bit of a bigger problem than woke movies.