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Disney’s Harsh New Reality: Costly Film Flops, Creative Struggles and a Shrinking Global Box Office (variety.com)

submitted 1 year ago by LollerCorleone@kbin.social to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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For the past decade, Disney has been the Teflon movie studio, remarkably adept at withstanding the tectonic changes impacting the film industry, and well fortified by its arsenal of key properties such as Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar.

But this year, the long-reigning titan of the box office has shown cracks as four of its biggest releases from those brands and others have struggled in theaters..

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[+] LollerCorleone@kbin.social -24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here is a visualisation showing just how big is Disney (I can't spot a couple of companies that I know are owned by Disney in this, so the list is actually even bigger).

A map of Disney's worldwide assets

[–] Geek_King@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Damn it, that's insane. I knew they were huge, but I had no idea the scope of their holdings! Someone print out a huge poster of that graphic and show congress or whoever needs to decide that they're faaaaar too large and are negatively impacting many industries.

[–] lolpostslol@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

There’s no way this shit is tax optimal, so many companies with super-specific purposes… unless it’s all to trigger specific tax regimes. Maybe they should simplify the corporate structure instead of axing creative staff they clearly need

[–] _Rho_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the Walt Disney ERB lines:

"I'm the Disney landlord of your intellectual property"