they should just give up
They should just give up
This is retarded and I'll tell you why in a minute once I compose myself
now add in toys and merch sales, ya donk
The grogu movie is making 3 billy confirmed
This is factoring in only the movie profits BUT disney didn't only buy the movie rights (for the new movies) they bought much more than that. This is just a really dumb hit piece for really dumb people
ah yes, the toys
Or, here's a crazy idea. They could fire their female radical feminist writers, hire people who care about the IP, and try to just to tell a fun star wars story instead of just deliberately desecrating everything the fans love.
But they'll never do that. Instead, they'll just double down on everything and make the next mainline trilogy about a fat black trans lesbian jedi fighting a ham-fisted analogue of Elon Musk.
that's a weird way to say they almost paid off their investment after less than 15 years
Lucas probably tripled that money since then
yes, and 100% of it is from quadrupled price of disney shares, since fatso doesn't do anything
Kathleen simply didn't want my money. That's just how it is now.
Her and her little progeny repeatedly lectured us about it.
"Somehow..." the "Force is Female" now, "there's no such thing as good or bad in Star Wars", they're proud of how gay it's become and they "don't fuck wit yo discourse" when it comes to the toxicity masculinity of the original fanbase.
Bob let Kathleen pander to demographics who simply don't care about Star Wars.
Bob should sack Kathleen for ideological mismanagement of an IP.
Bob won't and Star Wars will die.
99cent bargain bin
I'll never forget those store shelve pictures of discounted fat asian bitch
hire people who care about the IP, and try to just to tell a fun star wars story instead of just deliberately desecrating everything the fans love.
I don't think you even need to hire Fans, just good or, at the very least, competent creatives who grasp what Star Wars is and do it efficiently.
Wasn't Wrath of Khan directed by a guy who hadn't seen Trek until he was hired for the movie. Then binged the whole show to get the feel for it. Need more guys like that
I think they should double down, tell everyone that Star Wars and Marvel are Disney Princess brand.
You're giving Elon Musk far too much credit here
You're arguing with people who didn't finish high school and if they did they didn't more than barely pass English and they sure as shit didn't and don't understand Shakespeare and yet they are somehow experts on screenwriting
I'm actually curious who is still following Star Wars nowadays. They seem to actively burn more of their existing fanbase than they can make new fans so who is watching these shows and buying these toys?
Star Wars, as an IP, would be best served by hiring Dave Filoni and Sam Witwer to have unlimited creative control. Use every single George Lucas script, whether it's for an animated series, or an R rated series. Fold in the entirety of the EU. Just make it canon. Every major character from whatever series or book gets a movie. If that movie sells well and the merch is there, make more.
Every single year, have a world wide Star Wars trivia competition. Take the winner and the top dozen finalists to convene an autist lore keeper conclave. Dave Filoni and Sam Witwer have to convince this panel of autist judges that whatever they want to do next doesn't break lore or canon or any in-universe truth. No recons. No lazy writing handwaves. And this panel also has to tell Dave Filoni once a week not to be a waifu faggot and Sam Witwer to not be an edge lord try hard.
Lastly, no females. Not even the pretend kind. No darkies. No niggers. No gays. Not rainbow faggots. No politics. No identity Olympics. No Jews. No marketing department. No human resources department. No social media department. No consultants. Every actor, actress, and crew member associated with any given series or creative work signs the most oppressive and punitive gag order ever devised by the most tyrannical lawyers ever to walk this earth.
Just let the 100 best, most loving, most creative autists put out as much content as possible uninhibited by liberals, leftists, LGB propaganda, twitter, Jews, suits, bean counters, and other subversive elements. Could be the first trillion dollar IP if left alone.
Lucas sold the IP to disney to destroy them. His man on the inside (Kathleen Kennedy) made sure the brand was complete poison to the company. Incredible 6D podracing.
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You're probably right.
I'm fine with Jedi girls if they are cute, and Sith girls if they are edgy and hot.
Disney seems to have been completely taken over by ideologues. Maybe that will change with the Orange One's tenure, but maybe they'll just "weather the storm" for 4 years waiting for the next president
hahaha holy cow i rmember the stores after 2nd and 3rd movie, like shitton of various merch untouched by customers. I could sometimes spot a kid with vader mask and plastic lightsaber, but never a kylo ren or whatever that fag name was one
then after weeks i could see markets literally beging people to buy a fucking 80-90% discounted trash. Not usual 10-40%, a fucking 90% discount holy shit and still thre was mountains of that trash none was buying
imo te merch was such a disaster that 3rd movie had like 1/10 of volume in the stores i visited. Or maybe owners learned
Luke redhead wife i nice
maybe because she was written, and not made to fill the quota
according to recently-filed financial statements
hollywood accounting is a huge tax scam. none of it is accurate.
Most Jedi girls in the EU were pretty good.
Too bad they spent 15 years wasting Jaina Solo on relationship drama
buying star wars and marvel allowed them to launch a streaming service that rivals one of the largest tech companies in the world, seems like a pretty good investment to me
A character so reviled she hasn't been re-canonized by her creator.
Star Wars is soooooo last century.
I think Hollywood has settled on the latter. There's been no meaningful creative changes to some of these standard-bearer IPs like Star Wars, Transformers, MCU, Star Trek, Terminator, Resident Evil, etc. They're just going to make a lot less in general and ride it out until the winds are more favorable.
You retards believe this? Disney went x6 on their Star Wars investment years ago
Sure thing. I bet you think making all this spaceslop is free too
Could be worse
They bought a lot and yeah this is ignoring the licensing fees for toys and merch and technology. but they also aren't gaining on it.
They already made $12billy on $4 billy. Star Wars could stop existing tomorrow and they wouldnt care
Outside of baby yodas the new toys aren't selling and that's a big part of the reason why.
$12billy on $4billy
Bullshit.
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In the filing, Disney suggests that Lucasfilm has generated nearly $12 billion in value to the company.
For Marvel, which it bought in 2009 for $4 billion, Disney cites all four Avengers movies and the Avengers Campus Marvel Cinematic Universe–themed areas that opened at Disney’s California Adventure and Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris. The four blockbuster movies occupy four of the top 15 slots on the list of top lifetime box office grosses.
Marvel has generated some $13.2 billion in value to Disney, per the presentation.
The 2.9X and 3.3X ROI figures are pulled from company data and reflect the ratio between revenue and investment on titles released following the company’s acquisition of the Marvel and Star Wars intellectual property, the company notes. Revenue reflects aggregate 10-year revenue streams, both generated and expected, directly associated with the releases (including theatrical, home entertainment, pay and free television and consumer products).
It's not real numbers and to put it in perspective look at Candy Crush and GTA V
need lana gf now
kek in a couple decades Kathleen Kennedy's handling of the Star Wars IP will be recorded as a master lesson in "how to fuck up a cash cow"
Seriously, her not giving a shit and phoning it in would've arguably been a better move. It's fucking Star Wars. Throw in some fight scenes, a few interesting Jedi, and bam, you have toy sales that will last you a decade.
So retarded
Plus dumb shit like that Star Wars hotel which lasted for like a year. Somehow I doubt that made any money.
making money was always a secondary objective when it came to buying Lucasfilm
Are you sure he is arguing?
Walt himself had very strong ideological motivations but the difference is that he had good taste.
Lights and sounds
Lips light up bright red
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I only know one person who still talks about star wars. He’s in his mid 30’s, obsessed with comics, works a dead end wagie job, his girlfriend turned ftm and broke up with him, he’s an extremely liberal californian, he writes marvel fanfics and makes these group chat pictures between superheroes where they say snarky things to each other. He was awful to be around in high school and he got bullied mercilessly.
they should just give up
And admit that they made an error? Over Bob Iger's dead body!
Kathleen simply didn't want my money.
This is what no one seems to understand. Kathleen has zero financial incentives to break the box office. Her job is clearly secure either way and you know she has a high salary. So what benefit is it to her to try and make the franchise profitable?
hiring Dave Filoni
You're so fucking stupid and you deserve the absolute state of present-day star wars
tried on purpose to lose as much money for longer than the franchise had ever even been earning money
suprised that this happened