"My back-of-the-envelope math, in which I gave the benefit of every doubt to Disney's Star Wars revenues, indicated that the company had spent $7.35 billion acquiring and producing Star Wars entertainment but generated just $6.41 billion in revenues."
"They're losing money on Star Wars. That, to borrow Bill Clinton's inelegant-but-ever-so-apt description of his wife's presidential campaign, is like failing to sell p**** on a troop train."
The last great “Star Wars” movie was “Revenge Of The Sith”. Everything made after that was just crummy.
Sounds like a class action lawsuit is necessary to strip Disney’s board away in favor of people who want to make money not rape kids...............
SW franchise goes on a fire sale.
Elon buys and sets up his own production studio. Jedi Productions or something...
Reboots franchise.
First trilogy to come out based on the Timothy Zahn Thrawn books.
Opening credits come up with familiar sound track and yellow letters...
“The horrors of the last few years are over.
Luke’s nightmares of what could have been have stopped.
Here is what really happened...
... a long time ago, in a Galaxy far, far away...”
“Moichandising! Moichandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!”
Well not really. I mean the buyout was $4 billion, so right off the bat they’re big in the hole (though nearly half of that was stock). Plus of course making more product costs money. So if they’ve made $6.4 billion with only $3.3 billion more invested they’re well on their way to profitable on that acquisition. You throw 4 bills down and you make it all back plus 60% in 10 years, that’s not a bad investment.
Disney doesn’t make movies they make “The Message” and it doesn’t sell ,LOL
They did not include the costs of the acquisitions that made Disney a conglomerate company that just gobbles up its indepenedent competitors and does so in ways that make the whole Disney enterprise no longer “Disney”. To be real honest “Disney” should have been removed from the name long ago.
George Lucas supported Disney management over the other guys
I’ve enjoyed Star Wars when I was a kid. It’s great escapism cowboy fantasy in space.
All the current offerings are female centric. Not interesting to a 12 year old boy
All are painfully woke. One recent show I watched with my youngest has a boy Jedi another Jedi kept calling “they/them”.
“Put a woman in it and make her gay” is not a winning business plan.
ROTF! What kind of accounting is that? You just ignore your acquisition costs? Well hell. I can make any financial model look fantastic and generate a stratospheric ROI if I get to just ignore the cost to buy the damn thing to begin with.