Posted on 09/14/2005 4:44:24 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday said its movie studio division would post a loss of up to $300 million in the current quarter, hurt by weak box office ticket sales and higher marketing expenses from a larger slate of Miramax releases.
Disney Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs also told investors at a Merrill Lynch conference in Pasadena that the company could have to write off $100 million in Delta Airlines aircraft leases as the carrier filed for bankruptcy.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/050914/media_disney.html?.v=1&printer=1 longer story here!
"ould have to write off $100 million in Delta Airlines aircraft leases"
They should take the planes back and create Disney Airlines. The female stewardesses could dress up like Minnie Mouse and the gay male stewardesses could dress up like Minnie Mouse.
Stay away from the theaters, and Napster, Napster, Napster, freeps!
Heh - and just wait until china nationalizes that new park...
I was living in Southern California when Disneyland opened -- a young kid, needless to say. That place has been a huge money-mill, and fantastic success for so many decades, it is hard to feel sorry for the owners at all...they have done VERY VERY well.
Earth to Mickey Mouse, Earth to Mickey Mouse: Miramax junk don't sell.
They already did that? Twice? So what?
They haven't received the message yet? American's are so not in to being lectured by stars -- many of whom are under-educated at best and pompous as all get out.
Happiness would be seeing Disneyworld in Whore-lando close and returned to Orange groves. I can dream, can't I?
I know someone who just quit in their Disney Studio Purchasing Department....said it is quite a mess over there...and too much gay favoritism....
Lots of little male assistants given lots of power...then they disappear when the executive wants to change flavors the next month. Of course, a lawsuit flies and is settled.
Sound like certain Catholic seminaries I have heard of. The lavendar mafia is not a myth.
Boo hoo....NOT
That Fundraising Telethon was a dud too....more people watch CSI than watched the Telethon on 24 CHANNELS!!!
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) The multi-network "Shelter from the Storm" benefit special raised millions of dollars for victims of Hurricane Katrina, but it didn't draw nearly the audience of a similar effort following the 9/11 terrorist attacks four years ago.
U.S. viewers of the Friday (Sept. 9) telethon donated $30 million to the American Red Cross and Salvation Army; money raised internationally hasn't been totaled yet.
While the money raised is clearly the most important thing about "Shelter from the Storm," the relatively small number of viewers is worth noting. Airing on 29 broadcast and cable networks, the one-hour special, featuring a number of celebrity appearances and performances by U2 with Mary J. Blige, Kanye West, Paul Simon, Doctor John and others, averaged about 24 million viewers
That's fewer people than watched an average episode of "American Idol" or "CSI" last season. By comparison, about 89 million people watched the post-9/11 benefit "America: A Tribute to Heroes," which did air on a wider range of networks than the Katrina benefit.
A telethon for Katrina victims on BET, which partly overlapped with "Shelter from the Storm," averaged 1.2 million viewers; the network says it raised an additional $11 million.
What Disney has become is laughable. They have no creative talent left. I really don't want to spend $40 to be preached from the liberal leftists in Hollywood. I just don't buy anything that says DISNEY ever!! In the future Disney anything will be a joke to our kids, how sad and in most cases now people in Hollywood are completely cluless to how us "little people" live and think. ARRRGH! Oh for one good earthquake and lots of New Ocean view property.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I don't go to movies populated by "stars" of the I hate America verity.
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