Posted on 09/14/2005 4:44:24 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
American's don't like to be lectured. We don't like to be lectured by other American's and certainly not by American's who are overseas bad mouthing our country; and I won't willingly give my hard-earned money to people I consider anti-american.
Did they look behind the sofa?
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but I just got back from 7 days there and the wife and I had a fantastic time.
I never thought I'd say this, but the entire place made me feel as happy as I used to when I was a kid spending the day at Palisades Amusement Park.
That's the case with me. I don't consciously boycott but, I've been simply not going to the movies because I'm sick of giving my money to people who haven't earned a position of moral superiority - but utilize the fame they've garnered from being professional make-believers to lecture me in huffy, overanxious tones about the righteousness of their point of view on the particulars of the world at large.
If your business isn't politics, keep your politics out of your business. How hard is that to understand? If I owned a coffee shop here in Seattle, I wouldn't have a picture of President Bush on my wall.
That's funny!!!!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
That didn't take long.
Disney was making money hand over fist with Pixar.
Disney provided distribution for the films and got more of the profits and owned the rights to all the films.
Pixar was doing the actual film making work and wanted more money, but Disney won't pay. It seems they chose poorly.
From January 29 2004: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068013/posts
Pixar Sees End to Its Disney Partnership
Under their current arrangement, Disney distributes all of Pixar's films in exchange for 12.5 percent of the box-office revenue, and the two companies split the profits. In addition, Disney owns the rights to all movies made by Pixar, which lacks its own distribution arm.
I was living in Southern California when Disneyland opened "
I used to get in for $1.00 general admission.
Yeah, I'd say that's a fair comment...Disney Expects
Its Movie Studio
To Post Big LossBy MERISSA MARR Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL September 15, 2005; Page B3
In another setback for its movie business, Walt Disney Co. said its studio would post an unexpectedly large loss of $250 million to $300 million in the fiscal fourth quarter because of flops and a "challenging marketplace."
Disney Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs blamed falling box-office sales and a fast-changing DVD market for denting the studio's sales. More important, though, some of the studio's titles haven't performed as well as Disney had expected, including its Miramax titles "The Brothers Grimm," "Underclassman" and "The Great Raid" and its Touchstone movie "Dark Water."
"Current results are considerably worse than we anticipated," Mr. Staggs said at a media conference in Pasadena, Calif. "In fairness, the difficult results at the studio have more to do with the performance of our titles than the marketplace as a whole."
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