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Why Is Everyone So Scared of Disney?
Variety ^ | July 14, 2019 | OWEN GLEIBERMAN

Posted on 07/14/2019 7:28:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Like more or less everyone I know, I have no desire to see a single entertainment company take over the future, dominating what had been a movie industry of multiple entities, each one fighting for their slice of your attention span. Disney, the movie studio so powerful that it ate another movie studio, looks, to many, like it could be that company. The full impact of its absorption of 20th Century Fox has yet to be felt, but now that the smoke has cleared, the mega-corporation that was formed stands before us like an unprecedented colossus, looming over all other studios, maybe over the entertainment business itself.

Yet let’s be clear: It’s not just, or maybe even primarily, the size of the company that is giving people the shakes. It’s the fact that a single film corporation now seems to own everything worth having — at least, in stark capitalistic blockbuster terms. Disney owns Marvel, it owns “Star Wars,” it owns “Avatar,” it owns the fabled animated features that it has been using to mint live-action-remake megahits as if it were printing money. What’s still on the table — “Godzilla”? The shards of “Harry Potter”? [snip]

Viewed according to the logic of 21st-century fantasy culture, Disney doesn’t just suddenly own all the properties. It owns all the mythologies. Long ago, Hollywood was called the Dream Factory. The intimidation factor of the new bulked-up, bursting-with-franchise-moxie Disney is the suspicion that a single company has become the Dream Factory. And the anxiety this has provoked is about something beyond market share. What a lot of people are wondering is: Will Disney now have the power to control our dreams?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 20thcenturyfox; 21stcenturyfox; avatar; bobiger; boring; boxoffice; boxofficemonopoly; culturalmarxism; dejavu; disney; fox; hollywood; homofascism; lionking; lucasfilm; marvel; monopoly; remakes; sequels; starwars
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To: BDParrish

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61 posted on 08/18/2019 5:34:31 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: BDParrish

Wrong thread here. ...corrected.


62 posted on 08/18/2019 5:41:30 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: EdnaMode

Disney is preverted.


63 posted on 08/18/2019 5:43:18 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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