May Even Try to Sell Entire Disney Company
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Misleading title is misleading.
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Selling distribution seems like a decent move. Focus on production and sell to every other steamer.
Selling the whole company is click bait. Even Apple (suggested in the article), doesn't have the cash or desire to buy Disney outright. At best it would look like a merger and be mostly stock but it'd still be monumentally stupid for everyone.
Yep, production is where the money's at. Paramount/Viacom figured this out long ago, with their CBS strategy of making cheap crappy shows with 25 episode seasons and then pawning them off on cable TV for syndication
I always thought Netflix and Disney+ were the only profitable streaming services. Turns out Disney+ is making huge losses.
Netflix and Hulu are the only ones making a profit.
I didn't even know that there were profitable streaming services
I knew about Netflix but had no idea Hulu was profitable as well. I wonder what Comcast will do with their stake in Hulu then.
Hulu has kept away from a lot of prestige television. It will continue existing series and make new series based on established creators, but it doesn't seem to go for the high spectacle that other streamers do. It also has long term deals to stream TV shows.
I think Comcast is looking to sell its stake as long as it is a minority shareholder to Disney. However, it may want to keep Hulu around to ensure that Hulu's content doesn't get swallowed up by Disney+.
You know I felt the same way about Hulu too but my friend shared their subscription and I found a decent amount of shows I’d consider “prestige”.
Atlanta
The Bear
What We Do in the Shadows
Handmaids Tale (haven’t watched in a while)
Only Murders in the Building
Devs
Dave
11.22.63
Legion
A lot of those are fx shows, hulu just has the streaming rights
Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks like they could make a lot of their shows for cheap. The writing could be prestige level, but they may be able to control costs better.
Netflix and Hulu will eventually win the streaming wars. Disney owns most of Hulu though.
In the ultimate twist of irony, George Lucas buys Disney for $1B less than he received for selling them LucasFilms. :)
That's the good ending
The article mentions maybe selling to Apple. I hope not. Apple is already too big. Apple + Disney would be entirely too large a monopoly.
Apple TV is actually good especially for sci-fi. They'd probably make Star Wars not suck again
Apple would be a better custodian of Disney content than Disney themselves, at least.
Id love to see the orville under apple.
I guess this is a weird one because I think apple runs it’s streaming service the best out of all of them. They seem to actually let creatives control the shows instead of strong-arming them with an army of producers. Plus, apple wouldn’t buy all of Disney, just part of the entertainment division.
He’s that worried of loosing his house now?
He should be. Disney is clearly in trouble.
@realcaseyrollins Pisney is toast.
I hope not, because having more players in the space is better than losing one, but it's seeming like at the very least Disney will be stepping back.
I think the best case scenario though is just for Disney to give the properties they bought from Fox Corp back to them.