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I wonder if streaming on +50 inch TV's at home is keeping people from going to the theaters even for blockbuster movies.

That is why Disney is not seeing big box office gains as most people will just wait until it is available on Disney+, Netflix, or Amazon Prime.

Who has gone to a movie in the last year? Especially after covid. I'm pretty sure it was 2018-19 roughly for me and didn't go for 5 years prior either. Can't even remember the movie. They all suck of recent vintage. There hasn't been a movie I've stayed awake for at home watching all the way through for 10 years.

It's all just the same plot lines, shitty acting. The only ones that I'll stay tuned to are the ones with hot women even if the acting is shit.

I've taken my kids to a few movies since covid, Top Gun 2 only movie that I liked. If you go to Fathom Events you can find old movies replaying, this July they are doing Close Encounters I think.

Hollywood cannot make original content anymore, it's so bad all they can do is make exact same movies except with worse actors, race swapping, and lgbt+p woke propaganda.

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Hollywood cannot make original content anymore, it's so bad all they can do is make exact same movies except with worse actors, race swapping, and lgbt+p woke propaganda.

YEP.

Interesting take on Disney-Lucasfilm from a long time insider named "Knee Payne" who left a few years into the Kennedy era.

It's not just Kennedy and Headland and their handpicked C-sitcom/romcom inexperienced lesbian of color writing staff, it's the BohoBourgeois Coastie Fanboy Animators working at Lucasfilm. The kind where if they had somebody raping a pile of dogshit in a Darth Vader Helmet, they'd say it's the best Star Wars they ever made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9mK6wUfaGA

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/pedosteria-best-woke-disney-movie-memes

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I ran an internet query and Disney appears to only release 3 movies this year, Inside Out 2, Moana 2 and another Lion King movie.

Moana 2 and Lion King are coming out later this summer.

Inside Out 2 has made about $1.01 billion worldwide since its release 10 June 2024 on a budget of $200 million. So I figure it has made a profit of at least $300 million so far.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2024/?ref+=bo_hm_yrww

Maybe Bob Iger (Disney's CEO) is cutting back on Woke movie releases and looking to recover a lot of lost earnings from the recent previous years.

I wonder if that means Disney had to lay off people in their movie sector or they have them working on Disney+ shows.

But it looks like Disney (with Bob Iger in charge) is no longer going to be losing hundreds of millions of dollars each year from its movie studios sector.

Disney stock price is around $98 and same price as it was in January 2015, and still with a very very high PE of 106 :-/

Iger has a lot of work to get Disney out of a major financial hole especially with a cooling economy.

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Guru Focus shows it is modestly undervalued. Its around $98 and Guru Focus values it around $113.

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I am going to have faith in Iger as far as at least doing enough damage control to improve Disney's profitability.

He has the credibility to force some longstanding reforms without having too much of a revolt by the Woke masses working in Disney's various segments like Disney Studios, etc.

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Disney is around $86 a share and at July 2014 levels :-(

Its all time high of $197 was in March 2021.

How much more bloodletting will Disney undergo ? Bidenflation is about 25% since early 2022 to present day. Its taken a bite out of Disney park sales.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/disney-makes-a-profit-in-streaming-but-parks-business-feels-spending-pressure-5f7c30b9

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Disney comes out with plan to increase earnings

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/10/disney-is-hoping-for-a-box-office-rebound-built-on-sequels-prequels-and-pixie-dust.html

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Disney comes out with plan to increase earnings

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/10/disney-is-hoping-for-a-box-office-rebound-built-on-sequels-prequels-and-pixie-dust.html

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Have you SEEN WTF they did to Snow White?

They filmed it like two years ago. The dwarves were not woke. Then they replaced them with 'little magical people'. Then they replaced those with CGI dwarves.

And they look awful.

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Disney comes out with plan to increase earnings

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/10/disney-is-hoping-for-a-box-office-rebound-built-on-sequels-prequels-and-pixie-dust.html

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Have you SEEN WTF they did to Snow White?

They filmed it like two years ago. The dwarves were not woke. Then they replaced them with 'little magical people'. Then they replaced those with CGI dwarves.

And they look awful.

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Yep :-/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White%20(2025_film)#Controversies

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I cancelled my subscription a while ago. Kids haven’t complained.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Not enough interest yet in non-binary and transgender Jedi shows

Need to dial up the left wing programming in public schools, go more heavy on Tim Walz woke indoctrination handbook

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I suspect also this cancellation of Acolyte relates to what Disney CEO Bob Iger has been stating as far as Disney focusing more on entertaining content to appeal to all groups, and not political messaging.

Back in last April there was criticism directed at Acolyte: https://www.businessinsider.com/bob-iger-woke-disney-is-over-not-silence-his-critics-2024-4

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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/improbabilities-tuesday-august-20

Speaking of queer things, yesterday the Hollywood Reporter ran a schadenfreudey Star Wars story under the headline, “‘The Acolyte’ Season 2 Not Moving Forward at Lucasfilm.” Disney’s woke new Star Wars show got the old light saber. Slice! It infamously featured a weird but super-diverse group of lesbian space witches as the heroes and cast the Jedi as villains. In a flash of creative stupidity, the queer space witches used magic to make babies without men. It was the non-patriarchy of the distant future/past, “a long time ago in a gay galaxy far, far away.”

Star Wars fans hated it. They rebelled worse than the ones who blew up the Death Star. Risking personal cancellation, they even dared to call The Acolyte, “gay.” Lesbian producer Leslye Headland, who hasn’t produced anything else you’d recognize, wanted the show to be gay. She wistfully said she gets “sad that people would think that if something were gay, that that would be bad,” adding that she considers the Acolyte “the most important piece of art that I’ve ever made.”

Art’s meaning, as they always tell us, lies in the eye of the beholder. A beholder of art can’t be wrong. In this case, the beholders were sci-fi fans. And the beholders didn’t like it. So the beholders stopped watching it.

Maybe Leslye’s show was too gay. Or maybe audiences don’t want atypical sexual ethics launched down their throats like photon torpedoes into the Death Star’s ventilation port.

But … has Disney yet learned its lesson? Or will its next Star Wars show be even gayer than The Acolyte?

I consider it a sci-fi take on a current social paradigm.

That is a couple of Black kids growing up without a father.

... and yes, it is also gay, but Lucasfilm hates my take even worse than that.

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Lesbian producer Leslye Headland,

worked as Harvey Weinstein’s personal assistant in 2002.

Disney is Killing Its Free Streaming Service & Shutting Down Its ABC App

For about a year now, Disney has been building a free streaming service inside its ABC app, which is full of free content and live channels along with content behind a paywall. Now, Disney has notified users that on September 23, 2024, it will be shutting down its ABC app.

The ABC app had over 20 free channels full of content dedicated to many Disney-owned properties, including ESPN.

Update: Disney is also shutting down multiple other network apps. You can learn more here.

Update #2: Disney will be keeping its the ABC website running letting you watch the content from its app there but no longer will its apps work after the 23rd of September.

There is no official word yet on where the content will be moving, but there have been reports that Disney+ will be adding live channels to its app. It would seem very likely that Disney will move the content on the ABC app over to the Disney+ app to help it attract new subscribers.

According to the Wall Street Journal sources familiar with the plans, Disney plans to overhaul the Disney+ app. This change will leverage personalized promotional art tailored to individual tastes and viewing history, send email reminders about programs, and enhance its recommendation algorithm. These moves aim to surface content that users are more likely to enjoy, making it easier to find their next binge-watch.

Perhaps the biggest change will be the introduction of 24/7 live channels dedicated to popular shows. This concept, similar to Pluto TV’s model, has proven successful in capturing viewers who prefer just want to turn on the TV and watch something. While this was initially reported by The Information in May, it has now been confirmed by The Wall Street Journal.

Disney joins a growing number of cable TV networks that are shutting down their dedicated apps to instead focus on their subscription services like Max and Paramount+. This is a trend that will likely see other cable networks and maybe even broadcast TV networks shut down their dedicated apps to try and grow subscribers to their paid services.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/disney-is-killing-its-free-streaming-service-shutting-down-its-abc-app/

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

Disney joins a growing number of cable TV networks that are shutting down their dedicated apps to instead focus on their subscription services like Max and Paramount+. This is a trend that will likely see other cable networks and maybe even broadcast TV networks shut down their dedicated apps to try and grow subscribers to their paid services.

That's a tough business model. You can watch Youtube, Rumble, etc. for free. I think we've even cut any paid streaming services at this point. If you don't have the content, no one is going to subscribe. Even if there was one killer show I still probably would subscribe to watch it. Yellowstone (show) was the only service I did subscribe to and then cancelled after I watched it all.

I get more entertainment here or podcasts than from the TV.