Well, I’ve seen worse things from Marvel I have to give it that. Disney knew they had a bomb on their hands with this one. They tried to find a way to take the tax write-down and just make it vanish. Sadly, for Marvel pre-sales had been made and they couldn’t get out of it. Consequently, they dumped it on Disney+ all at once rather than draw it out week after week.Imagine my horror going into this thing. It’s so bad...
Mando and Cub exploding out of the wreckage of the Halcyon seems unusually on the nose for Disney. I am positive this movie didn’t exist last week. As far as I can tell the “artwork” was an AI image slapped together by an intern and crammed into the announcement on the official Star Wars website.Normally, this big of a movie would have the groundwork carefully laid. There would be leaks to reliable shills about this new project. Then it would be...
John Favreau woke up this morning certain he'd made a disastrous decision. His mouth felt like dried and tanned leather His own pulse, a staccato of agony every time his heart beat. When he opened his eyes it felt like someone had stabbed through the socket with icicles that through to the back of his skull. None of that bothered him really. He'd had hangovers before.What scared him to the core of being was that he felt a heavy weight resting on his arm."Oh no,...
I'd put the odds of that happening this year at eight to five. Candle Media is run by two executives who were at one time or another odds-on favorites to succeed Iger on the Golden Mouse Throne. Tom Staggs and Kevin Meyer were both strong candidates to become CEO at Disney before Iger stacked the BOD and quietly made it known this was a "from my cold dead hands" kind of thing.Candle Media was founded by these two Disney ex-executives and...
Marvel knows they've got a bomb in the making with this one. According to sources I trust, Marvel tried to cancel Echo but due to international contract commitments they couldn't.Consequently, they went with the stand Hollywood practice of dumping a failed project that they have to show in the month of January. Normally this is a rather sound approach, although if they'd launched it all at once at the end of December Aquaman 2 and Rebel Moon would have completely buried it. I...
Bad news my Darklings. Iger has probably blocked Nelson Peltz and James Rasulu from getting on the Disney Board of Directors, at least for this year.When ValueAct threw its hat in the ring, I had said at the time that Mason Morfit was going to be backing Bob Iger’s play. I was right.Iger has also recruited Blackwells Captial’s CIO Jason Aintabi into his camp. Take note: This is not Black Rock or Black Stone, this is yet another finance...
Five years ago I wrote an article called “Begun the Streaming Wars Have” (Baby Yoda was a big thing at the time). I made some observations as well as some projections, prognostications, and predictions.I looked it up because I was a little curious as to how well my guesswork had stacked up against history. It turns out I did surprisingly well, I only had one real goof and that was due to a drastic change in circumstance.“I started on Netflix...
Question: How does a company stay in business for a century?Answer: By attracting a new generation of customers every time a new generation comes along.Sure, you can make lots of noises about consistent standards of quality, and high customer satisfaction but at the end of the day, if you stop attracting new generations of customers, you will be joining the ranks of the Pullman Railroad Cars Company and Blockbuster Video.This is unbelievably important. Now sometimes it can’t be helped. Pullman...
As of today Mickey Mouse is in the Public Domain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzO--ox7X0 I realize all you super smarty smart boys are rushing to your keyboards to explain in Gamma autistic detail that it's only the very first iteration of Mickey who has made it over the wall. And thanks to Disney using the opening notes of Steamboat Willie as a movie opener for the past fifteen years, that iteration is throughly trademarked.Bugger off!The fact that Disney wasn't able to prevent any part...
