Drinker's Chasers - Lucasfilm STILL Hasn't Turned A Profit For Disney

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  • Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024

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  • @mechanicpluto2430
    @mechanicpluto2430 6 месяцев назад +1267

    “It’s not about money. It’s about sending The Message.”

    • @Hollyclown
      @Hollyclown 6 месяцев назад +60

      “Everything burns.”

    • @robertbeisert3315
      @robertbeisert3315 6 месяцев назад +9

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

    • @Ethan_Alexandur
      @Ethan_Alexandur 6 месяцев назад +24

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

    • @frankgesuele6298
      @frankgesuele6298 6 месяцев назад +19

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

    • @Snordix
      @Snordix 6 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @southfloridaarcheryguy114
    @southfloridaarcheryguy114 6 месяцев назад +1316

    How do you acquire a property like Lucasfilm and NOT make a dime off of it??!! It wasn’t from lack of trying. The utter incompetence of the Disney empire is staggering.

    • @petriew2018
      @petriew2018 6 месяцев назад +84

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

    • @jessecortez9449
      @jessecortez9449 6 месяцев назад +65

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

    • @robertbeisert3315
      @robertbeisert3315 6 месяцев назад +63

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

    • @sheerbeauty
      @sheerbeauty 6 месяцев назад +16

      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?

    • @DarkMetalOmega
      @DarkMetalOmega 6 месяцев назад +12

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

  • @FlaviusStilicho-nt8hh
    @FlaviusStilicho-nt8hh 6 месяцев назад +279

    The director Milos Forman once said in an interview that in communist Czechoslovakia a filmmaker could make bad film after bad film but had no problem getting state funding as long as they followed the Party line. There is nothing new under the sun as they say...

    • @henrykujawa4427
      @henrykujawa4427 6 месяцев назад +8

      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.

    • @seanpollard5809
      @seanpollard5809 6 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @pilot778spartan3
      @pilot778spartan3 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@seanpollard5809if that ain’t the truth

    • @Al-xq4ec
      @Al-xq4ec 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@henrykujawa4427 are you stupid?

    • @MoonPhantom
      @MoonPhantom 5 месяцев назад

      @@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.

  • @mk14m0
    @mk14m0 6 месяцев назад +480

    The question is, how much ESG money have they (Disney) gotten from people like Black Rock in exchange for their pandering?

    • @Munchies2019
      @Munchies2019 6 месяцев назад +50

      My thoughts exactly.

    • @crazyralph6386
      @crazyralph6386 6 месяцев назад +36

      Unlimited I’m afraid

    • @travist.7279
      @travist.7279 6 месяцев назад

      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.

    • @katarn848
      @katarn848 6 месяцев назад +17

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

    • @1999fxdx
      @1999fxdx 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @skarath
    @skarath 6 месяцев назад +512

    Nobody want's to pay $25 dollars after ticket, popcorn, and drink to be lectured how bad they are.

    • @mikecally5720
      @mikecally5720 6 месяцев назад +8

      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.

    • @clos3078
      @clos3078 6 месяцев назад +16

      @@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.

    • @mikecally5720
      @mikecally5720 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@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.

    • @clos3078
      @clos3078 6 месяцев назад +16

      @@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.

    • @mikecally5720
      @mikecally5720 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@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.

  • @Kiljaedenas
    @Kiljaedenas 6 месяцев назад +181

    Another fun fact, as far as I know that report from Disney also didn't factor in the marketing costs...

    • @LoneWolf-rc4go
      @LoneWolf-rc4go 6 месяцев назад +5

      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.

  • @jasondale2442
    @jasondale2442 6 месяцев назад +181

    Did they also adjust the $4B for inflation? Because that's $5.4B in today's dollars... WHOOOOOOPS!

    • @defeqel6537
      @defeqel6537 6 месяцев назад +1

      Did they buy it with cash or with stock options?

    • @unconqueredson1424
      @unconqueredson1424 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @StarWarsomania
      @StarWarsomania 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @drumsandroses22
      @drumsandroses22 6 месяцев назад

      I know that reference 😂

    • @dickdeoreo
      @dickdeoreo 6 месяцев назад

      Disney earning jack shit from their Star Wars content is super easy, barely an inconvenience 😉

  • @ArwenUndomiel406
    @ArwenUndomiel406 6 месяцев назад +278

    How do Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy both still have a job?

    • @EvilMAiq
      @EvilMAiq 6 месяцев назад +44

      The answer to that question would answer many questions.

    • @ExtraterrestrialsareReall
      @ExtraterrestrialsareReall 6 месяцев назад +28

      Higher ups are rewarded for failure.

    • @Gguy061
      @Gguy061 6 месяцев назад +12

      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

    • @JohnB-nk8ze
      @JohnB-nk8ze 6 месяцев назад

      They are well-paid agents of Blackrock etc.

    • @AbsentMinded619
      @AbsentMinded619 6 месяцев назад +20

      Kennedy was a Hollywood Insider since the ‘70s. She’s absolutely seen things that would cancel (if not incarcerate) most of the big legendary names in show business. She will have any job in the business she wants in exchange for her silence. She’s not going anywhere.

  • @robertanderson6929
    @robertanderson6929 6 месяцев назад +356

    Imagine the level of incompetence necessary to be unable to profit from the _cash printing machine_ which is Star Wars. I wonder what the problem could be?

    • @Akakiryuushin
      @Akakiryuushin 6 месяцев назад +12

      was, it no longer is

    • @rapalbumdepot7648
      @rapalbumdepot7648 6 месяцев назад +21

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

    • @robertbeisert3315
      @robertbeisert3315 6 месяцев назад +28

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

    • @F34RDSoldier805
      @F34RDSoldier805 6 месяцев назад +6

      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.

    • @dp2901
      @dp2901 6 месяцев назад +1

      At this point, Disney is more of a financial wreck than the US dollar and that's saying something...

  • @Icspiders247
    @Icspiders247 6 месяцев назад +241

    They can only make money on merchandising if someone buys that crap.

    • @petriew2018
      @petriew2018 6 месяцев назад +33

      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....

    • @airsoftbuddy83
      @airsoftbuddy83 6 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @petriew2018
      @petriew2018 6 месяцев назад +5

      @@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....

    • @pittland44
      @pittland44 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @andrewtitus6839
      @andrewtitus6839 6 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @mc343
    @mc343 6 месяцев назад +137

    Wait, are you saying putting a chick in it and making her gay ain't making money? Nah, that's crazy...

  • @ericfaz1427
    @ericfaz1427 6 месяцев назад +89

    George Lucas sold them a Ferrari and they turned it into a lawn mower.

  • @Weazel1
    @Weazel1 6 месяцев назад +380

    Years ago, Mike at Red Letter Media mentions that Lucas made out like a bandit for selling a live hand grenade for four billion dollars to Disney

    • @danielwilliams7562
      @danielwilliams7562 6 месяцев назад +45

      The grenade came live the instant it touched Disney hands

    • @judgedrekk2981
      @judgedrekk2981 6 месяцев назад +24

      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!

    • @StayPuftMarshmellow
      @StayPuftMarshmellow 6 месяцев назад +24

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

    • @M4sterSamwise
      @M4sterSamwise 6 месяцев назад +9

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

    • @judgedrekk2981
      @judgedrekk2981 6 месяцев назад +22

      @@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

  • @travisroberts5695
    @travisroberts5695 6 месяцев назад +74

    That’s Enron. That’s literally what happened with Enron. Accounting tricks based on money they assumed they might eventually have.

    • @logicerrormusic
      @logicerrormusic 6 месяцев назад +6

      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

    • @samaritan_sys
      @samaritan_sys 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @alexiachimciuc3199
    @alexiachimciuc3199 6 месяцев назад +118

    Here's the world smallest 🎻 for Disney and another 🎻 for Star Wars.

  • @TheRealCaptainFreedom
    @TheRealCaptainFreedom 6 месяцев назад +50

    The funny thing is that Star Wars as an IP enjoyed peak popularity and profitably during the years when they weren’t making new Star Wars movies or shows. Star Wars used to be something special. We don’t want more Star Wars; we want better Star Wars.

  • @sg0771
    @sg0771 6 месяцев назад +106

    It's such a shame Disney took a treasured IP that would easily have been a cash cow for them if they had just committed to good storytelling instead of political platforming.

    • @Webslinger8484
      @Webslinger8484 6 месяцев назад +6

      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.

    • @mosesdouglas4325
      @mosesdouglas4325 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @RatSewage
      @RatSewage 6 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @musicninja98
      @musicninja98 6 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @sithazzazzin7329
    @sithazzazzin7329 6 месяцев назад +29

    Knights of the old Republic 2 had a female main character. That was 20 years ago. Mara Jade was the main character in Jedi Knight mysteries of the Sith. That was in 1997. 2 female characters loved by the Star Wars community. People at Disney don't even know their own history.

    • @ethan6322
      @ethan6322 6 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @dawnpoint
      @dawnpoint 4 месяца назад

      Jedi Academy let you choose a female MC at the start too.

  • @Djkold
    @Djkold 6 месяцев назад +77

    It's not incompetence if it's deliberate. How can it not be deliberate when looking across all beloved franchises, and looking behind them?

    • @EvilMAiq
      @EvilMAiq 6 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @Luhcalmmattyice
      @Luhcalmmattyice 6 месяцев назад

      @@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

    • @goliath6711
      @goliath6711 6 месяцев назад

      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.

    • @eugenetkachev
      @eugenetkachev 4 месяца назад

      @@EvilMAiq Its not incompetency, they did exactly what they were told to do and were rewarded for this.

  • @RustyPitchforkStudio
    @RustyPitchforkStudio 6 месяцев назад +81

    The most creative people in Hollywood are the accountants

    • @Ceyiakendall
      @Ceyiakendall 6 месяцев назад +1

      😂 nice

    • @musicninja98
      @musicninja98 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @MemoirsofaGamer1982
      @MemoirsofaGamer1982 4 месяца назад

      HA! 😂

    • @daviddunlap2909
      @daviddunlap2909 4 месяца назад +1

      Criminally underrated comment

  • @devlinallistair-zx5by
    @devlinallistair-zx5by 6 месяцев назад +486

    George Lucas' failure is now complete.

    • @insensitive919
      @insensitive919 6 месяцев назад +20

      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.

    • @ythandlename
      @ythandlename 6 месяцев назад +25

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

    • @Hello11World
      @Hello11World 6 месяцев назад +13

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

    • @JohnB-nk8ze
      @JohnB-nk8ze 6 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@Hello11WorldAnd release it on Life Day.🎉

    • @SpruceCampbell
      @SpruceCampbell 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @jodi2847
    @jodi2847 6 месяцев назад +71

    Damn, to intentionally throw a wrench into that money machine over politics😮 Absolute insanity.

  • @zardox78
    @zardox78 6 месяцев назад +31

    Doomcock did a video today recounting an interview with a Hollywood insider who claims that individual producers are receiving instant bonuses for DEI casting. They're not just being trendy and virtue signaling to their peers. It translates _directly_ into money in their pockets.

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 6 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @defeqel6537
      @defeqel6537 6 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @jamiecollins7915
    @jamiecollins7915 6 месяцев назад +261

    Disney sending the message loud and clear, "Everything woke turns to sh!t"

    • @heartysquid
      @heartysquid 6 месяцев назад +8

      It's like king Midas but shit.

    • @jamiecollins7915
      @jamiecollins7915 6 месяцев назад +4

      @@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.

    • @johnhenry7861
      @johnhenry7861 6 месяцев назад

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

    • @FireStormOOO_
      @FireStormOOO_ 6 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @bmacaulay18
    @bmacaulay18 6 месяцев назад +43

    I'm guessing those numbers didn't include the hundreds of millions they wasted on the star wars hotel. That was probably costed off to another balance sheet.

    • @THEremiXFACTOR
      @THEremiXFACTOR 6 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @SRFriso94
    @SRFriso94 6 месяцев назад +30

    There's a line in the movie The Big Short (brilliant movie, btw) about the bankers that caused the 2007 housing market crash, and it really makes me think of the current execs at Disney: "They weren't being stupid. They just didn't care." While there is some catharsis in watching Disney falling apart at the seams, I do think it's sad that something that so many people once loved is now being burned to the ground by greedy suits.

  • @peterkrochmalni673
    @peterkrochmalni673 6 месяцев назад +15

    “First playable female protagonist in a Star Wars game.” The honor goes to Princess Leia in the NES Star Wars game, and you can play as Leia in the SNES game Super Return of the Jedi as Boushh Leia, Slave Leia and Endor Leia, she’s the only character in that game to have three different outfits. And then you’ve got Dark Forces II Jedi Knight expansion Mysteries of the Sith where the main character you play for the majority of the expansion is Mara Jade.

  • @rapalbumdepot7648
    @rapalbumdepot7648 6 месяцев назад +48

    The detioration of Lucas Films is a prime example of essentially the leaders of a global brand subjecting everybody to their mental health health episode

  • @bryantvargas5623
    @bryantvargas5623 6 месяцев назад +51

    I haven’t spend a dime on anything Star Wars related all year. I used to be a die hard fan that was delusional enough to think there was a shred of hope after TLJ. I used to be embarrassingly invested in the franchise. I couldn’t imaging a world where I didn’t love Star Wars no matter what Disney did. I hate what they we turned it into. They’ve turned super fans completely apathetic. They truly do work miracles.

  • @freemindthinkers6504
    @freemindthinkers6504 6 месяцев назад +31

    I would like to point out that basing your financial report on projections instead of actual earned money is the way Enron got in trouble

  • @RK-ck6pl
    @RK-ck6pl 6 месяцев назад +19

    It feels right that Sir Alec Guinness has made more money off of Star Wars than Disney has.

  • @ephraimwinslow
    @ephraimwinslow 6 месяцев назад +64

    Turns out selling popular characters to HR department doesn't make the HR department popular. It just turns those characters into 6ual Harassment Panda sans the charm.

  • @radiofreeutah5328
    @radiofreeutah5328 6 месяцев назад +38

    Peter Jackson is an exception that makes the rule in going from small time budget to blockbuster success. But that's a testament to both his talent and his passion for the project.

    • @nmr7203
      @nmr7203 6 месяцев назад +6

      I read that as Percy Jackson and got really confused.

    • @philipbyers4903
      @philipbyers4903 6 месяцев назад +5

      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.

    • @mattandrews2594
      @mattandrews2594 6 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @Bowiiihowdy
      @Bowiiihowdy 6 месяцев назад +3

      ​@mattandrews2594 they do know.

    • @jessekoepp3928
      @jessekoepp3928 6 месяцев назад

      @@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.

  • @Falconlibrary
    @Falconlibrary 6 месяцев назад +8

    Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.05 billion cash and $1.855 billion in stock.
    If Disney had converted that stock to cash and added it to the $4 billion, then invested the $5.9 billion at 5% compounded annually:
    It would now have $10.6 billion pre-tax, minus the initial investment, for a pre-tax profit of $4.7 billion.
    And that's conservative...I invested in an indexed mutual fund during the 2012-2022 period with a very conservative portfolio and had an average annual return of 9%.
    So if Disney had given me the $5.9 billion to invest, they'd now have $16.6 billion risk-free, a pre-tax profit of $10.7 billion. And my fee would've been a measly 1%, because I'm not a greedy man.
    Disney's business model doesn't make any sense. Either the company is very badly run by ideologues who put politics before profit or else it's a massive money laundering operation. You decide.

  • @zacharyhoffman9972
    @zacharyhoffman9972 6 месяцев назад +19

    So a complete loss on the purchase of golden IP that should've generated billions in excess of the purchase price AND they irretrievably trashed the IP through completely incompetence. That is quite a record for Disney. That level of failure is hard to do, so I can see why Igor and KK get paid tens of millions of dollars. This high level of incompetence doesn't come cheap, you have to work at it.
    Disney and Lucasfilm shit the bed, rolled in it, smeared it on the walls then complained that no one appreciated their modern art masterpiece.

    • @etrosknight2254
      @etrosknight2254 6 месяцев назад

      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

  • @ViperChief117
    @ViperChief117 6 месяцев назад +8

    Doesn’t surprise me and I have no intentions of returning to Star Wars. Till Kathleen Kennedy is removed from the company.

  • @briandain8432
    @briandain8432 6 месяцев назад +15

    That's another Reason I'll defend at least a portion of Rogue One because Gareth Edwards was a True Star Wars Fan, he'd even visited the Actual Tattooine location in Tunisia. He held the Original 1975 Skyhopper that Luke held in the movie like he was holding the mythic Holy Graile. He was a True Fan, and I think KK hated him for it.

    • @johnmcternan4157
      @johnmcternan4157 6 месяцев назад

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

    • @briandain8432
      @briandain8432 6 месяцев назад

      @@johnmcternan4157 Maybe his 30th?

  • @johndoh795
    @johndoh795 6 месяцев назад +12

    They bought a money printer, then took all the parts out of it that make it work and now it prints grey goo. Bold strategy, Cotton.

    • @etrosknight2254
      @etrosknight2254 6 месяцев назад +4

      We'll see if it pays off

    • @darthgamer9861
      @darthgamer9861 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @alexpatrick3333
    @alexpatrick3333 6 месяцев назад +23

    Not saying Disney Star Wars isn’t popular but I saw a toy from the Obi-Wan Kenobi show in my local Tesco that has been reduced by 80%.

    • @sheerbeauty
      @sheerbeauty 6 месяцев назад +2

      And many more in your local Oxfam

    • @Trollificusv2
      @Trollificusv2 6 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @evertonporter7887
      @evertonporter7887 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @ralphstrickland7110
    @ralphstrickland7110 6 месяцев назад +11

    You guys have been killing it on Open Bar!

  • @captaindan3456
    @captaindan3456 6 месяцев назад +18

    Mara Jade was the main playable character in Mysteries of the Sith in 1997. Most people say it was a crap game, but I loved it back in the day

    • @5PawZ
      @5PawZ 6 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @tehhkrmn65
      @tehhkrmn65 6 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @Сайтамен
      @Сайтамен 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @cpob2013
      @cpob2013 6 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @marccreation1052
    @marccreation1052 6 месяцев назад +23

    The merchandise killed Toys R US. No one wants the new trash.

    • @THEremiXFACTOR
      @THEremiXFACTOR 6 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @macrosense
      @macrosense 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @gabrielwunderlich505
    @gabrielwunderlich505 6 месяцев назад +73

    Laughing at Disney always works. 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Zac_Frost
      @Zac_Frost 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @sheerbeauty
    @sheerbeauty 6 месяцев назад +12

    When you think how fiercely Disney comes down on any copyright violation of the Star Wars franchise, you have to think - why? It's not like it's the _amateurs_ that are losing you profit.

  • @danielvezina5521
    @danielvezina5521 6 месяцев назад +73

    Unless they sell, they're never gonna make their money back.

    • @marccreation1052
      @marccreation1052 6 месяцев назад +7

      Who would or could buy a ruined franchise? Bezos?

    • @danielvezina5521
      @danielvezina5521 6 месяцев назад +1

      Him, Musk or Apple.

    • @yolotrollo6343
      @yolotrollo6343 6 месяцев назад +3

      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.

    • @TheMaleRei
      @TheMaleRei 6 месяцев назад

      @@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...

    • @mat2000100
      @mat2000100 6 месяцев назад +1

      Newscorp should reacquire Fox and Lucasfilm.

  • @stevenschultz9637
    @stevenschultz9637 6 месяцев назад +10

    They alienated millions of lifelong fans for a few people who don't even care.

  • @jpwright87
    @jpwright87 6 месяцев назад +15

    8:40 The sequel to Jedi Knight, "mysteries of the sith," starred Mara Jade as the protagonist. That was released in 1997

    • @Ingel_Riday6690
      @Ingel_Riday6690 6 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @DainRiffgin89
    @DainRiffgin89 6 месяцев назад +7

    Looking at the state of Star Wars is heartbreaking: Films haven't even gotten 50% of the $4 billion back, piles of toys rotting at discount stores, $1 billion into the High Republic (that no one cares about), several more billions into the Galactic Starcruiser (which barely lasted a year and a half and was "Too hard to explain to people") and Galaxy's Edge (the largest expansion at Disneyland with the least amount of attractions in it), the comment sections are vitriolic civil wars, numerous fumblings on the games side (Jedi Survivor's awful PC port, Battlefront collection being absolute garbage, Outlaws), and every single new show being terrible, overpriced and having abysmal viewship numbers. And of course there is now two back-to-back trailers for Star Wars projects breaking dislike records, which is still somehow the fans' fault! I used to love Star Wars from the 90's into the 2010's, but this is just painful. Just like Obi-wan said, "I can't watch any more..."

  • @TheLegendaryBillCipher
    @TheLegendaryBillCipher 6 месяцев назад +14

    It was telling that Lucas doesn't even care about Star Wars anymore. He backed this literal insanity.

    • @baddadjokes9330
      @baddadjokes9330 6 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @THEremiXFACTOR
    @THEremiXFACTOR 6 месяцев назад +7

    There's a chain of stores from Australia and recently they had a whole display of new products with the Star Wars licence. The whole range of designs was original trilogy. For example, mugs with Yoda and Vader on them. It's all nostalgia, because Star Wars as a brand has had to revert back to nostalgia for the old movies. The new stuff doesn't sell, it isn't merchandisable because no-one has any connection to the characters, the stories or anything.

  • @Markyparky56
    @Markyparky56 6 месяцев назад +13

    Star Wars: Lethal Alliance had a female lead character back in 2006.
    Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith had Mara Jade as the playable main character back in 1997!

  • @vampire_slay6509
    @vampire_slay6509 6 месяцев назад +46

    "You were supposed to bring profit to us, not drain"!!!

    • @GibsMeMunny
      @GibsMeMunny 6 месяцев назад +9

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

    • @anon17472
      @anon17472 6 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @evertonporter7887
      @evertonporter7887 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @keithrobinson5752
    @keithrobinson5752 6 месяцев назад +17

    This cost EXCLUDE marketing, so there's hundreds of millions more cost to add to the pile 😮

    • @Trollificusv2
      @Trollificusv2 6 месяцев назад +1

      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.

    • @StarWarsomania
      @StarWarsomania 6 месяцев назад

      @@Trollificusv2 Yes. Pet peeve, all of those things.
      ruclips.net/video/ajv0EFu9jx4/видео.html

  • @hoisin75
    @hoisin75 6 месяцев назад +14

    Disney were handed fish in a barrel and they came out with a glass of water

  • @RPGmodsFan
    @RPGmodsFan 6 месяцев назад +11

    When Disney can get away with misinformation, convinces me that we are living in a Clown World, and a dystopian future.
    Decades ago, I enjoyed dystopian sci fi films (e.g., Mad Max, Terminator, etc.). Now, because we are living in one (which I thought would never happen), I do not want watch another dystopian film/tv again. I miss the days of OLD Star Trek.

  • @bigbake132
    @bigbake132 6 месяцев назад +37

    Disney shareholders need to sue.

    • @LastSunrise1981
      @LastSunrise1981 6 месяцев назад

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

    • @AchtungEnglander
      @AchtungEnglander 6 месяцев назад

      .....or sell

    • @yellowscarlightningscream8347
      @yellowscarlightningscream8347 6 месяцев назад

      Disney shareholders are very happy with this

    • @eugenetkachev
      @eugenetkachev 4 месяца назад

      Disney shareholders have enough money, they own Disney to spread propaganda, they get money from the Fed.

  • @devansmith691
    @devansmith691 6 месяцев назад +6

    People forget that Iger overpaid for Disney in the first place. They crunched the numbers and decided it was not worth 4 billion, but Lucas insisted because that is what Marvel got. Iger paidit because how could they NOT make money on Star Wars?

  • @death-king1834
    @death-king1834 6 месяцев назад +8

    Weren't there Star Wars video games made under LucasArts that already had female protagonists as the star of some of their games? Like, wasn't Mara Jade the main character in Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith in like 1998?

  • @yellowscarlightningscream8347
    @yellowscarlightningscream8347 6 месяцев назад +8

    At this point, whenever I hear female protagonist or female director for any entertainment then I am already checked out.

    • @etrosknight2254
      @etrosknight2254 6 месяцев назад +2

      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

  • @blues713317
    @blues713317 4 месяца назад +1

    @4:00... thank you! It's nice to actually hear someone say it.

  • @LilBabyPenguin0x
    @LilBabyPenguin0x 6 месяцев назад +26

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (deeply inhales) BWWAAAAHAHAHA

  • @noahguttman7011
    @noahguttman7011 6 месяцев назад +9

    Turns out all of the creativity and innovation in Disney is located in the financial department.

  • @NorthstarLNC
    @NorthstarLNC 6 месяцев назад +9

    They deviated too far from the original comic book story lines. It got to the point where it wasn't actually marvel anymore...which made it all pointless. We waited all this time to finally have the comics brought to the big screen and do them justice...only to have them hijacked.

  • @Citizen13
    @Citizen13 6 месяцев назад +3

    Star Wars used to have entire aisles in Walmart, Target, and toy stores right up until the second sequel trilogy movie. One the quality of the figures dropped drastically while the price went up, and two the movies killed interest in adults collecting the figures so the space for Star Wars action figures shrank drastically. And it’s wild because the old Expanded Universe stuff sold figures like crazy, and those old figures are high value items to this day. And the Black Series figure are sooooo expensive now in comparison to what they were pre Disney. It’s insane how badly they messed up.

  • @roadwarrior1459
    @roadwarrior1459 6 месяцев назад +6

    What Disney did with Lucasfilm will be studied for years to come.

  • @docsavage8640
    @docsavage8640 6 месяцев назад +6

    It's like acquiring Tom Brady in his prime for your football team and then benching him for the entire season just so you can make your own klutzy kid the quarterback.

  • @DanielKovacs33
    @DanielKovacs33 6 месяцев назад +5

    Mara Jade in Mysteries of the Sith was a main female protagonist in a Star Wars video game prior to whatever video game was being discussed around the 7:52 mark or so.

  • @FedReserveCorrupt
    @FedReserveCorrupt 6 месяцев назад +8

    Imagine buying a very expensive car, then u take a sludge hammer to it, cuz u dont like cars

  • @defaultthecritic121
    @defaultthecritic121 6 месяцев назад +40

    This proves that Bob Iger is the most incompetent CEO ever

    • @eugenetkachev
      @eugenetkachev 4 месяца назад

      He is not, he did what was he was told to do and thats why he is still CEO and is payed millions.

  • @frankiepatterson1417
    @frankiepatterson1417 6 месяцев назад +20

    It always makes my day better when we can dunk on Disney 😂😂😂

  • @darthhodges
    @darthhodges 6 месяцев назад +6

    First female protagonist in a Star Wars videogame? Battlefront 2 was 2017 but if you count games with character customization there were two in 2003, Knights of the Old Republic and Jedi Academy. If you want to stretch a little bit the the game X-Wing released in 1993 never names or describes the player character except as a pilot. Other media have given the character a name and description but while playing you could easily imagine the player to be any gender or race of your choosing.

  • @thomasloney612
    @thomasloney612 6 месяцев назад +3

    Jedi Academy came out 21 years ago, and it allowed you to select a female or male protagonist! I know having an option makes it somehow not good enough for these types. Same with Nights of the Old Republic. They had their female lead, so they switched to "it has to be a fixed protagonist" for it to count. They don't seem to get that when a property, Star Wars, and a medium, video games appeal primarily to men it makes sense to have a male lead. There are games that appeal to women, such as story driven puzzle or hidden object games that have female leads. They aren't huge money makers, because they are only a niche genre, but like SciFi and comics, these people seem intent on learning the hard way that you can't force women into male dominated fields and expect to make money!

  • @u-moo-u8117
    @u-moo-u8117 6 месяцев назад +14

    Fun fact: this is not the first time a star wars game had a female main character roll...in the past decade

    • @maddlarkin
      @maddlarkin 6 месяцев назад +2

      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

    • @u-moo-u8117
      @u-moo-u8117 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@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

    • @fl4shblade
      @fl4shblade 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @maddlarkin
      @maddlarkin 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @EvaOwnsAll
    @EvaOwnsAll 6 месяцев назад +8

    Dammit Britain, why would you pay millions of your tax payer's money to ruin Star Wars? I know we spilled your tea and all, but shit man... that was a low blow.

  • @seanfoltz7645
    @seanfoltz7645 6 месяцев назад +7

    Trick is that the new Star Wars merch isn't selling either.

  • @matthewm2223
    @matthewm2223 6 месяцев назад +6

    You see, Disney can still do highly profitable, creative storytelling... it's called their profit and loss account 😂

  • @joelt2002
    @joelt2002 6 месяцев назад +15

    Not to mention, the money lost had they just invested that 4 billion in the stock market.

    • @SolidGoldCEO
      @SolidGoldCEO 6 месяцев назад +1

      And how much that hotel cost them.

    • @petriew2018
      @petriew2018 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @John-uh5et
    @John-uh5et 6 месяцев назад +12

    When are Disney shareholders gonna demand answers?

    • @Trollificusv2
      @Trollificusv2 6 месяцев назад +1

      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.

  • @arsyadidris6349
    @arsyadidris6349 6 месяцев назад +6

    I recall what valliant said about disney buying lucasfilm: they couldve just sat on it n let the money roll in.
    Seriously. 6 movies. A few animated shows. A massive line of merch. Licensing rights. That 4 billion upfront woudve recoup itself within the first few years.
    Was there a clause by Lucasfilm that the new owner need to make a theatrical product within a few years of purchase? Maybe so, but do a Sony damnit. Just make a decent enough movie once every 3-4 years simply to meet that clause.

    • @maxmazzotti6651
      @maxmazzotti6651 6 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @arsyadidris6349
      @arsyadidris6349 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@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

  • @bmjake
    @bmjake 6 месяцев назад +4

    No matter what platform you obtain, if you SUCK at something, you’ll always fail. You could buy the newest hypercar on the market but if you don’t have a driver’s license and have no idea how to drive, you’ll never even break the speed limit. Owning a thing means NOTHING if you have absolutely zero ability to use it properly.

  • @Zak6959
    @Zak6959 6 месяцев назад +8

    1:08 but Lucas films E.S.G. is going down. Just like their profits. 7:25 the reason they can walk onto these movies is because of DEI.

  • @robertsrobots6531
    @robertsrobots6531 6 месяцев назад +4

    I read somewhere that the failure of Dr. Dolittle (Rex Harrison version) merchandise led the studios to believe that the rights were worthless.

  • @pobdionne
    @pobdionne 6 месяцев назад +3

    Jedi knight : Mysteries of the Sith was released in 1997 and had a female protagonist : Mara Jade

  • @chrisferri4667
    @chrisferri4667 4 месяца назад +2

    Man, am I the only one that immediately thought of Star Wars Jedi Starfighter when they started talking about female SW video game protagonists? Game came out in 2002 and heavily featured Adi Gallia who was not only a woman, but also a diverse woman (probably some discussion about whether Tholothians could be considered diverse for the sake of the message, but meh) years before EA did it in Battlefront 2, and no one cared because the game was good and the story was tight.

  • @cognitivedissidents4642
    @cognitivedissidents4642 6 месяцев назад +7

    With Drinker’s brogue “instead of shooting it in the United States” sounded like “instead of sh!tting in the United States” (4:45) which actually works better, all things considered.

  • @philippe-cb8wj
    @philippe-cb8wj 6 месяцев назад +3

    The cost of buying Lucasfilms in 2012 adjusted for inflation is about 5.5 billions now. And the article doesn't cover up the marketing cost either. It would not be 2.8 billion lost but more around 5 billions.

  • @JustaGuy_Gaming
    @JustaGuy_Gaming 6 месяцев назад +5

    Work history and ability isn't even the worst of it. I would just love it if Hollywood stopped hiring people who actively hate the source material to take on popular IP's.

  • @brothersgt.grauwolff6716
    @brothersgt.grauwolff6716 6 месяцев назад +2

    there's a scene that comes to mind when I hear about this "it's Not about the Money! it's about Sending a Message!"

  • @jesserapkin2660
    @jesserapkin2660 6 месяцев назад +14

    You know that scene in The Dark Knight when the Joker lights the huge pile of money on fire because he’s not interested in wealth?? ….that’s Disney
    Also, for Disney to not understand that viewers were invested in Star Wars because of the developed characters and not just the title, speaks volumes about their incompetence. Did no one do any investigation of the LOST series debacle due to JJ’s massively failed mystery box method?!?!

    • @qasimmir7117
      @qasimmir7117 6 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @sterlingarcher74
    @sterlingarcher74 6 месяцев назад +2

    Anyone who thinks Disney is not making money is mistaken. Disney isn’t a movie company, it’s an advertising company. They make money from merchandising. The movies advertise said merchandise.
    Whatever article they’re quoting is just sensationalism.

    • @toshtao1
      @toshtao1 6 месяцев назад +1

      Finally a smart person.

  • @SB0780
    @SB0780 6 месяцев назад +6

    Disney never got the full merch rights until the bought Fox. Disney had rights to all Star Wars films except the original film, then they bought Fox and got the the entire franchise.

  • @ggt47
    @ggt47 6 месяцев назад +22

    Andor will always be remembered as just " *another* " Star Wars show despite it being the best.

  • @chrisandrew7577
    @chrisandrew7577 6 месяцев назад +25

    Star wars should have been a slam dunk for Disney, but they're shooting like Shaq from the *half court line*

  • @dubya1983
    @dubya1983 6 месяцев назад +2

    In 1998 Lucas Art released an expansion pack for Dark Forces 2 called “Mysteries of the Sith” where the player controls Mara Jade, who went on the be Luke’s love interest in the expanded universe.
    That’s the earliest female led Star Wars game I can think of.

  • @AntiDoctor-cx2jd
    @AntiDoctor-cx2jd 6 месяцев назад +5

    George Lucas should buy it back at a discount.

  • @jjooeeyy5555
    @jjooeeyy5555 6 месяцев назад +2

    They made 5 billion in merchandise last year the movies are just ads for the real cash cow

  • @JustaGuy_Gaming
    @JustaGuy_Gaming 6 месяцев назад +4

    The crazy thing is if Disney just did nothing they would of made more money after buying Star wars. If they just put out more "special editions", kept pushing the Merch etc they probably would of made their money back. I mean think about it up to that point Star wars was still on Lunch boxes and other kids stuff 30 some years after the movies came out. Star Wars was so good it didn't even need sequels to sell stuff.

    • @defeqel6537
      @defeqel6537 6 месяцев назад

      They definitely should have re-released the original trilogy to theaters, perhaps with some additional touch-ups, and a teaser end-credit scene for the sequels, to give them more prep time for script(s), etc.

  • @tylergoodman3560
    @tylergoodman3560 6 месяцев назад +8

    Disney lost perspective long ago in a galaxy far, far away. 🎉

  • @dje1944
    @dje1944 6 месяцев назад +4

    George wouldn't be doing that we'll.......half the $4.5b was in Disney stock!

  • @internet_warlord
    @internet_warlord 6 месяцев назад +1

    This is like buying McDonald's franchise but sell poop instead of fries, chastise their customers why they don't like poop, and wonder why they are losing money.