“Everything burns.”

​@Hollyclown I think The Message is legitimately secondary to the destruction

We’ve been getting the message for like 8 years now 😂

@@Hollyclown Some people just want to watch the IP burn🔥🔥

@@Ethan_Alexandur 8 years? More like 80 years...

Power is worth way more than money.

Oh no no no. They most likely have a HUGE level of support. I'm talking about the level of trillions or even national support

Yep, people need to realize that if all the top investors of the company really cared about PROFIT, then they'd have forced the board (including Bob Iger) to change things up and actually make money. But the fact that 12+ years later they still haven't even paid back their INITIAL INVESTMENT, let alone generated any real profit for the shareholders? Yeah, the shareholders are in on it. It's not just Bob Iger (or the temporary fall guy Chapek). It's probably people like Larry Fink from Blackrock and his ilk who are gladly letting their money propagandize everyone and everything.

They got ESG.

​@@zef9151or rather, certain international support. People wanting to impose this have no loyalty to nations or peoples unless it serves them.

you try and make it into a girl brand.....

Incompetence implies theytrting to succeed at the goals *you* think they aim for. I assure, they are very successful at the goals *they* want.

Reminder: if money was the goal, they'd be doing things differently by now.

Maybe they want to kill uplifting franchises to put in their newer, differently abled franchises. Making the older ones so bad that newer ones will seem better by comparison. Or am I too deep in conspiracy theories?

Complacency. They liken themselves to gods, thinking they alone have the right to change civilization the way they see fit.

You are close, but wrong. No family of four wants to spend $100 to go to a theater movie when they can watch it at home streaming on their own big screen TV. Movie ticket sales are down for all movies. Nothing to do with woke lecturing.

@@mikecally5720he is right and you are wrong. Families will pay anything to get out of the house and keep the kids entertained while you rest in your theater seat in relative peace for 2 hours. The individual doesn’t have those burdens and can easily select something else to do.

@@clos3078 You are all wrong. Total movie theater ticket sales from 2015-2019 averaged $11 billion. Since 2020, the average is only $5 billion. I know you think the answer is woke hollywood, but you're wrong.

@@mikecally5720 I like how you selected the years when COVID started and the writer strikes to make your point. Don’t want to mention that to ruin the “own”you think you just did on us.

@@clos3078 It's the truth. We are in the fifth year since covid, and movies have not made it back to pre-covid levels, and maybe never will. Streaming is taking a bite out of theater ticket sales.

Funny enough, I've seen some CZECH films in the last few years, all hilarious COMEDIES, and the only time one of them got political was the 1964 western "The Lemonade Kid" was apparently had an ANTI-CAPITALIST slant to it. (The crazy part is, so-called "Communist" Russia and its satellites, were NOT and NEVER WERE actually "Communist" or "Marxist", but instead, were "STATE CAPITALISM", where the goverenment, not the people, own everything. Which is actually FASCIST. Which is how it is in the US, except here, the Capitalists OWN the so-called "government". It's sickening, and self-destructive.

Funny... that's how the CBC works here in Canada. What's FAR less funny: having to watch the CBC here in Canada.

@@seanpollard5809if that ain’t the truth

​@@henrykujawa4427 are you stupid?

@@henrykujawa4427 How do you think communism ultimately functions? That is how communism functions too, to achieve perfect equality the state has to micro-manage and take all the money from the high earners to distribute it "Equally." ... It is gonna be state-controlled either way. Now the difference between communism and fascim is that communism will have FULL control of every single corporation in the name of the people. While in Fascism the government has an alliance with the corporations and they follow the party line in return of favors basically merging the two into one as if it was the same... and thus communism. So yeah basically... Fascism is just communism while pretending not to be. having the illusion of private ownership of corporations.

Lmao

Ha ha

My thoughts exactly.

Unlimited I’m afraid

The worst part is, they're doing it with YOUR money---your IRA's and 401-k's. If you have one of these accounts, check where the funds are being invested. If it's one of those ESG hedge funds or private equity firms, insist that your account be invested elsewhere.

Overlord DVD , has video on it. Seems 3000 dollar per differcity hire sponsored blackrock , vanguard and china.

The capital guys probably expected a positive return on their investment.

The grenade came live the instant it touched Disney hands

but was it a live grenade? when did KK get hired? I woulda put Rick McCallum in charge...it's a male brand it shoulda been helmed by a guy.... eh maybe it was more of a timed nuke.....I don't deny that the franchises were in bad shape, we know SW and the last Indy movie was....yeah and SW never fit Disney....as much as it was for kids it was very adult too, disney ruined everything!

The guy that was championing the force awakens, go figure.

​@@judgedrekk2981 She was the assistant all the way back through the 80's. You can see her on the credits, sadly..

@@M4sterSamwise i know but i looked it up, NO she was under Spielberg in the 80's and the first lucasfilm thing she did was producer on crytsal skull.... she had zero hands in or on the first 6 SW movies.... but my issue is when did she become so high up that nobody else that was capable could be appointed?? McCallum coulda done it, Ben Burt could have as well and there were a few others who coulda been a decent head of the studio.... look if I had a really cool mountain bike that everyone wanted i'd give it to someone i know and trust, not a side looker on..... or a recent addition to the group, it's another bag of issues with a company but you stil have to put someone in place who knows the company and the product SW was betrayed on all levels

😂 nice

Well, they would have to be when handed a pile of dog poop and told to make it smell like a rose.

was, it no longer is

A deep seeded hatred of the source material, perhaps ????

Clearly it's the fans! Disney had a right to their money, and the fans are holding it hostage!

It was one of the biggest IPs when they bought it, where they could have easily made the measly $4 billion dollars back that they paid for all of Lucas Film IPs, which is "measly", because at that time, $4 billion for Star Wars alone was SUPER cheap. A huge steal. And STILL they have not only not made that money back in over a decade, but I would bet they lost wayy more by spending costs and not making that money back.

Trying to market Star Wars to women.

The answer to that question would answer many questions.

They all fail upwards. She could leave Disney and Warner Brothers or some other major movie corporation would hire her.

Higher ups are rewarded for failure.

They have a job for the same reasons why Disney has been failing: they're too afraid of taking chances. They would rather stick with people who produced results 20 years ago than take a chance on new talent. Sticking to their guns hasn't worked out for them. They might as well start taking chances at this point

They are well-paid agents of Blackrock etc.

Nah, Disney has tons of old Lucasarts properties they haven't ruined yet. Properties Lucas didn't care about because they weren't made by him, he just owned them.

It would explain why he backed Disney a week or two before. They still owe him money.

Disney needs to remake Star Wars Christmas ... cant make it any worse than the original, then they have there first Win

​@@Hello11WorldAnd release it on Life Day.🎉

Now witness the failure of this fully woke and incompetent corporation!

OOPSIE! lol

Did they buy it with cash or with stock options?

​@@defeqel6537 IIRC, it was 50% hard cash, 50% stocks (About 40 million individual shares).

Plus they would have made over a billion dollars just investing that $4billion in the stock market instead from 2012-2019.

I know that reference 😂

If they made a GOOD KOTOR movie, I'd go see it twice.

They are already being investigated for SEC violations 100%. No way after that RCID/CFTOD sh*t they tried to pull. They admitted to wrongdoing when they settled. That genie doesn't go back into the bottle...

Wonder why no one is investigating Disney. Probably their accounting records will be more creative and entertaining than everything they put out in the past 10 years

🎶I woke up in the morning And my money was gone The Enron-run Yeah do the Enron-run!🎶

i work in retail. We're at that point in the year where we're clearing inventory space for summer. Recently we just went about cleaning out the toy department 90% of the clearance space went to wish, black panther 2, and star wars (mostly ahsoka)... yeah, there's a reason why Disney never talks about it's merchandising anymore....

@@petriew2018i just watched wish with the wife. That movie was soooo disappointing 😢

@@airsoftbuddy83 the saddest thing about it is it wasn't undermined by politics or anything, it was just incredibly fucking lazy. the 100th anniversary of Disney, a company once a gold standard of american creativity.... and we get a movie that i swear was written mostly by AI....

What? You're telling me that you're not excited for a Jedi master Rey action figure?

And people only invest in buying toys or merch, when they actually care about the story.

I'd be suprised if Disney have made more that a few million from Lucasfilm at the end of the day. You have all of the operating costs for a decade plus the hiring and firing sprees. You have all of the straight to Disney plus shows that haven't made Disney a single dime yet have cost hundreds of millions to make. Obviously we don't know how much the video games/merchandise/licensing and everything else like that makes for the company. It would be interesting to get a look at the Disney accounts to really find out what's happening.

It's like king Midas but shit.

@@heartysquid only a few possess such a terrible skill with anti creativity and all the luck in the world. Christian Weston Chandler was one and Bob Iger is another. A confidence of totally being a creative and not as someone who rips off other's work without shame and think people won't notice.

Wokeness (Marxism) cannot create. It can only destroy and replicate

Come now, it took some special Disney magic to corrupt a quest to show off the full range of human variation into a factory for soulless, homogeneous, corporate drivel. I don't think most of us could fail at anything so completely if we tried.

All evil is incompetency, at its core. If they wanted their silly movement to succeed, they wouldn't have written their scripts in crayon.

@@EvilMAiqno, it’s deliberate. If all your media is just garbage quality propaganda, you either consume it anyway and let your mind be captured or you go work to power the machines, so to speak. Distract yourself with something else. All intentional

Because that makes no logical bit of common sense. Do you really believe that a money-hungry mega-conglomerate corporation whose primary purposes are to make as much money and spread as much influence as they possibly can paid over $4 billion to purchase a competing intellectual property and spend more money to promote what is now their property only to ultimately lose more money than they gained and devalue the franchise ON PURPOSE???? This isn't the plot to the movie Major League. If Disney intentionally wanted to devalue the franchises they spent their own money in buying ownership of, they would just be dismantling them themselves afterward. You know, as EA did with various game studios, or Vince McMahon's WWF/WWE did to WCW and almost every other U.S. pro wrestling company in the 80s and 90s. At the very least, the public devaluing would be occurring before they bought the franchises so they would be cheaper and the simple dismantling would still occur after. But then again, I'm not so self-absorbed as to believe that Disney has a personal agenda against me specifically, so I tend to think about this more practically.

All Woke Disney had to do was make Ben Solo the hero from the very start and Woke Disney could've watched the money roll in. Rey the female hero was destined to flop I'm afraid.

How do you make SW Sequels and not put Luke Han and Leia together at all. Fucking ridiculous

All they had to do was copy/paste legend novels from book to screen and it's literally infinite free money

​@@mosesdouglas4325Simple, you hate the man that made those characters and that your messianic heroine will be more beloved despite being a plank of wood.

Wow, direct bribes for it? That's less subtle than I expected. Getting lazy Blackrock/Vanguard.

I still don't understand how this isn't illegal, at least in most countries where discriminating based on race or sex is illegal

LOL, now do the Social Security trust fund.....

@@Raskolnikov70 🤣🤣🤣

And how much money have they actually made from Galaxy's Edge?

And much like The Joker said, ‘It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a MESSAGE. Everything burns!🔥’

Hahaha, yes!

I read that as Percy Jackson and got really confused.

But he had experience with practical effects-heavy and fantastical movies going in. The main variable that changed was the amount of money at his disposal.

What? He's not the "exception", almost every director does that. No-one starts out making $200B blockbusters.

​@mattandrews2594 they do know.

@@mattandrews2594 They do at Disney, as long as they have the "right" genitals and the "right" level of melanin. Those are all the "qualifications" Disney needs lol.

We'll see if it pays off

@@etrosknight2254it probably wont pay off in the next twenty years

The shareholders are most likely part of the woke agenda. Hence why they are remaining quiet and not raising a fuss.

.....or sell

Disney shareholders are very happy with this

First thing I thought of. But let's not forget in KOTOR you created your own character also.

@@5PawZ The canon character in KOTOR 2 is female as well. Meetra Surik, the jedi exile who followed Revan into the Mandalorian Wars.

​@@mablesfatalfable6021 Yes they do, most of the streamers are women.

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p Cuz cleavage exists. The primary market is still men lol

Star wars starfighter had a trio of pilots one being a female bounty hunter. 2000 or 2001 I think, it tied into phantom menace

And many more in your local Oxfam

Uh, alex? You can go ahead and say it. You know that "Disney Star Wars isn't popular." thing.

I saw lots of Star Wars merchandise on sale at my local Cash Converters once...a year later, not one remains.

He went there for his 40 th birthday, i think.

@@johnmcternan4157 Maybe his 30th?

Toys R Us - buried under a mountain of Rose Tico and Admiral Holdo figures. 🗑️

Toys r us was mostly killed by venture capitalists and leveraged buy outs shenanigans.

Lucas backed them because he doesn’t have any choice. He is too embedded with Disney at this point. That an Kennedy probably has dirt on him.

Thank you! That was my first immediate thought. I loved that game. Ugh, Hollyweird.

Battlefront 2 EA

It's the true unifying force in the world lol.

💯%

Who would or could buy a ruined franchise? Bezos?

Him, Musk or Apple.

They're never gonna make their money back period. Collectively their movies and series are unprofitable, not to mention the 4B they dished in 2012. for SW should be worth 8B now. And nobody is buying SW even for todays 4B ill tell you that.

@@marccreation1052 If the price goes low enough, all manner of buyers will become viable... But, Disney would rather hold onto it, and endlessly lose money than sell it and see someone else make money off of it. Hell, Disney would rather loser money than even license it out to someone else, someone who might do a good job, someone who might put out a superior product, someone who would then make Disney look incompetent... This is why you never sell out if you're someone who makes a new IP and you care in any way about it... Instead make it public domain and let your fans enjoy it to the fullest and let all "artists" go nuts... Addendum - Instead of selling out, make it public domain... And in your will, make it so the IP goes to public domain - because as Tolkien has demonstrated, ultimately your 'family' will only care about a paycheck...

Newscorp should reacquire Fox and Lucasfilm.

"You were supposed to bring balance to the finances, not leave it in the red!"

From my point of view money isn't important! Only the message!

"You cannot take them from me!" "Your lust for power and money saw to that..."

Sure. That, inflation, distributor cost (40% to the theaters!), re-shoots, etc., etc. AND. Real fiscal analysis would take into account the money that that $4 billion would have made if used in any other manner or investment. And all this loss while they were paying money to be badly-advised by DEI extremists.

@@Trollificusv2 Yes. Pet peeve, all of those things. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9CmY6h32p_OqGg.html

Apt analogy

I would say maybe SW could be resurrected if someone else bought the IP and ret-conned out everything Disney produced, but the sad thing is we'll never have the opportunity Rian Johnson squandered in TLJ to get Han, Luke and Leia together again

That's the sad thing, by spending years pushing out garbage fan-hating content and promoting women on the screen and behind the camera, they've forged the very stereotype they fancy themselves as trying to tear down

And how much that hotel cost them.

@@SolidGoldCEO and the fox acquisition that still has not stopped biting Iger in the ass.....

But they ARE getting answers, John. They are terrible horrible answers, but we can't expect those shareholders to notice the answers are made of pixie dust, gossamer, dragon molt and fictional numbers. When Disney doesn't adjust for inflation, doesn't account for the exhibitors' cut (40%), obfuscates the cost of re-shoots, and forgets to include marketing costs (up to 40% of production budget) in their public accounting, it's easy for the public shareholders to just accept that soothing warm liquid isn't urine, and that everything's gonna be fine. This is something Disney's always been able to do and it's the single corporate skill that they've retained from the days when they were creative, innovative, family-oriented...and fiscally slippery.

ACCURATE

Correct me if I'm wrong but though they were both Character generation games, the canon gender of thr protagonist of Knights of the old Republic 2 & Jedi Academy was female

@@maddlarkin I mean even if you're wrong there's still lethal alliance and for the sake of rubbing it in WHT not say leia in any lego star wars game where she's the pre-set character that you will spawn in as when you star the game

@@maddlarkin you don't have to go off char generation games. the protagonist of jedi knight mysteries of the sith was mara jade.

@fl4shblade totally forgot about the add on, of course and I only watched a video about it recently (decent add on as well)

The 6 movies from 1977-2005 and those few shows like Clone Wars 03 are classics. Nuff said

@@maxmazzotti6651 indeed. Alot can be said about the prequels, thats true. But its story was mostly consistent, it had an objective, and the character/vehicle designs were topnotch: designs that were in spirit with SW lore, but different enough to stand on their own. Basically, great for merching

someone get the burn spray

🎯

John Bull's Revenge!

long memories I guess