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To: irishjuggler

You sure about that? Solo and The Last Jedi bombed badly, and A Wrinkle in Time did very poorly in the box office. Heck, the TV series Star Wars Resistance apparently got lots of downvotes for its teaser trailer. And that’s not even getting into how sales were down at Walt Disney World thanks largely to Gay Days based on what Florida Family Association reported. And speaking of gays, his promotion via ABC of When We Rise regarding the gay movement managed to decrease ABC’s viewability to being just tied with the CW (and far below FOX, CBS, and NBC), and also using the Disney Fan Club in a cynical attempt at dissuading criticism (and even THEY ended up turning against him), thus earning him a dock in pay. If anything, all of those bits would have been more than enough for me to demand for him to be fired if I had been a shareholder. It’s called the bottom line.

Besides, I know a few Disney shareholders like Justin Danhof and Tom Borelli who made no attempt at hiding their contempt to Iger for several of his actions, including pushing a far-left bias on ABC (and his cowardly denying it), his shelving Path to 9/11, his interfering on Jemele Hill’s behalf when she was about to get fired by ESPN for needlessly bashing Trump on the air, among other things.


12 posted on 01/13/2019 4:46:38 PM PST by otness_e
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To: otness_e
I'm not going to defend theme park Gay Days, as I oppose the idea. Solo was a bomb, but Last Jedi was highly profitable. Critics and many fans trashed it but it did gangbusters box office. See:
Box Office: Why 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Is Still A Big Win For Disney https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/01/28/why-star-wars-the-last-jedi-with-just-1-3b-worldwide-is-still-a-win-for-disney/#290afcf6f2d3

In any case, Disney had 6 of the Top 10 grossing movies last year. By any metric, that's incredible. They look to repeat that this year with the usual stable of animated, Star Wars and superhero flicks. As I said, they're not my cup of tea, but they're what the public wants.
13 posted on 01/13/2019 5:00:36 PM PST by irishjuggler
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