Glad that 30-40 years ago counts as recent history. Even that was more of a steady with the market growth.
If you study the history of companies, it isn't unusual at all for periods of prosperity and innovation to be followed by lean times. I think management gets lazy and forgets what got them the prosperity to begin with. They start thinking that it's just automatic.
Disney is still #1 at the domestic box office.
Eisner also began the practice of steadily raising the prices at the parks, which went straight to the bottom line. Sales of videos were a big earner in the mid 80s to mid 90s.
Eisner also created the gaping disparity between CEO salary and the rest of those who work at TWDC.
I agree about the remakes but sadly Disney will keep making them as long as people still pay to go see them. Lion King (gags), Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin all grossed over a billion dollars.I agree.
In my opinion, some of Disney’s “roots” include creativity and really good storytelling. In some of the movies they’ve put out the past couple of years, the storytelling has not been very good. Look at the Pixar disaster of the Buzz Lightyear movie. I saw that one IN the movie theater. It dragged on and on forever. Lacked all of the stuff that’s made Pixar movies great in the past. The live action remakes? Bleh. Come up with new stories.
Occasionally, they’ve put out some pretty awesome stuff. Like Encanto. Or all of the Star Wars TV series that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau have been putting out.
Disney needs to stay out of politics. And so do we.
What's really sad is that the opening shot of the sun rising is the ONLY part that is actually live action. Everything else was animated/filmed in the Unity engine.
Correct, it’s a current battle of which industry is dying faster. Theatrical or Linear media.
OMG...if you don't get it, then you're not going to. It's not that the mermaid was black, or white or purple...it's that the movie was trying to be so politically correct. I want a Disney movie that is not so damn concerned about what every single person from every single subgroup feels...let's not hurt anybody's feeling....just a movie that is strictly to entertain the family. I won't see any of these awful live remakes. ESPECIALLY the awful Snow White coming up. You gotta admit, that thing sounds like it will stink to high heavens.
My migraine just came back.
Lmao you think Star Wars doesn't have politics? It's THE "punch the nazi" IP.I agree.
In my opinion, some of Disney’s “roots” include creativity and really good storytelling. In some of the movies they’ve put out the past couple of years, the storytelling has not been very good. Look at the Pixar disaster of the Buzz Lightyear movie. I saw that one IN the movie theater. It dragged on and on forever. Lacked all of the stuff that’s made Pixar movies great in the past. The live action remakes? Bleh. Come up with new stories.
Occasionally, they’ve put out some pretty awesome stuff. Like Encanto. Or all of the Star Wars TV series that Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau have been putting out.
Disney needs to stay out of politics. And so do we.
See @Mexacajun ? Scoobysgirl wanted to say something and then said it! No subtext required. Thank you Scoobysgirl for admitting it out loud.
"Children's movies" have a built-in audience unconcerned with quality. Most of them will make money, many of them a LOT of money. If they're based on something the parents already know, all the better for the box office receipts.
Have you watched it? There were no more politics in this one than the original.
You're not wrong. It's why while the Mario Bros movie is a solid 6/10 experience when looking at it critically, it made over 1.3 billion dollars.
