I'd not be surprised, enron is exactly what I thought about when this story started cropping up. Disney has to maintain it's image as a juggernaut that can seemingly make no financial mistakes. It would not surprise me in the slightest if they are fudging their numbers in various ways. With the way they have expanded into a media titan, the revenue needed to keep that gravy train going must be quite mind blowing. If they are indeed being a bit shady, it won't be long before it gets out. There is always gonna be a mistreated employee or just someone near the company with an axe to grind, or even just someone who makes just enough of a mistake to get the snowball rolling downhill. I'll be eagerly watching with popcorn in hand, Disney needs to be knocked down a peg. I don't hold any particular ill will against them, but a reduced presence from them in the media arena would be good for the entertainment industry as a whole. I know movie theaters would breathe a little easier, what with having to pay disney 70 cents on the dollar per ticket sold just to show their films. It's not like they can refuse to show the films if they want to stay in business, and almost every fricken thing that comes out these days has Disney's fingerprints on it.
Disney bought up loads of tickets in cinemas. this did not bother them as they just gave the tickets to charity groups and could claim them back on tax so it cost them nothing. thats why you get loads of theatres empty on web. it was a complete fail. but Disney got their pr ops do the shit, alita was a much better movie. yet Disney went out of there way to shit on it. also why has seth mcfarleine now moved the orville away from disney and gone to hula? i suggest Disney is dispersing up its own ass and no real creative person wants anything to do with the woke bullshit. i want to watch real scifi not woke shit
@D M Oddly, same here. My g/f hates superhero movies but wanted to go watch Captain Marvel. Her friends all watched PPV. They liked it and said its simply just "female super hero movie". Nothing there to push the agenda, but rather an alternative female role model for little girls who are't into the selfie generation or social media female stereotypes. Which, I hadn't thought of and agree with
@@jtzoonie2552 Not quite, the tax benefit is worth at most 35% of the cash you paid, so it's a very large loss to Disney. There's also no way ticket purchases in that quantity were to actual charity groups.
I remember when captain marvel looking for the sales online and all the tickets for the first five rows were sold and the ones on the back empty, just tell me who buy the tickets in the front rows when the sits on the back are empty?
A bit of an exaggeration but the prices are high. I used to work for their phone customer service line. Bare bones ticket and economy value hotel is high but reasonable. Its VIP stuff and fancy restaurants that will get you
A year ago: "Captain Marvel had an opening week just as good as any other Marvel film! It's a massive success!" A month ago: "The Lion King has made over a billion dollars in three weeks!" Today: "Reports are that Disney lied on financial reports." You don't say...
On staycation this week. Was bored. Tempted to buy "End Game" DVD for a little entertainment. Nope! Held my ground! I will no longer contribute to the destruction of my beloved superhero mythos! Didn't see or buy Black Panther, Cpt. Marvel either!
So the 25 no-show seats per Captain Marvel showing at theaters all around the country where there were no refunds asked of were 'purchased' through Fandango. The same Fandango that runs Rotten Tomatoes that completely changed the their website removing the intend / don't intend to see button over the very same Captain Marvel movie. The same Fandango whos president worked for Disney for 8 years immediately prior to taking over Fandango. You don't say...
Disney investigated it's own bookkeeping and found itself not guilty... Gee, is that like Disney looking at the evidence and declaring themselves not guilty of stealing "The Lion Ling" from "Kimba the White Lion"?
Saw Capt Marvel at 11:00pm opening night at a major theatre in the LA Beach cities area; It. Was. Empty. maybe 30-40 people in the theatre, at 11:00pm at night on opening weekend. 🤷🏾♂️
The Epstein suicide case has less circumstantial evidence. All the points you mentioned by themselves don’t mean much, but you add them together it’s too much to overlook. This is more interesting than any movie Disney came out with this year.
WOW today just gets better & better! "Ladies & gentlemen thank you for travelling with Disney Airways, Up ahead we can see the giant imovable object that we will shortly be "interacting" with. If you would please adopt the brace position, placing hands on back of head, head between knees & kiss your shares goodbye"! Oh my fekin ROFL! 🐴😸😆😂🤣
I have to doubt the books were cooked on Infinity War or End Game those films were huge and filled the theaters. I don't doubt they do cook the books though, especially for the likes of Captain Marvel, but I'm not convinced that they'd do the same for the guaranteed big successes.
Captain Marvel. Billion. Empty cinemas. People not getting refunds for not going. Nothing to see here move along....... Anyway if someone had the balls and found something. It could lead to the break up of Disney and long jail times handed out.
Well, well, well. Will you look that. Guess people really don't like "woke" politics forced into their films. Who would have guess? This would explain Captain Marvel's and possibly Last Jedi's "success." Reap what you sow Disney.
I remember when it came out, "Avatar" was as big as "Titanic" was in 1997, people wouldn't shut up about it. Of course this was entirely due to "Avatar's" 3D spectacle, since the story was crap. The hype was definitely real for "Avatar", because even "normies" (non-nerds) saw it 2 or 3 times. Once it left theaters, the hype died down quickly, and it's only in hindsight that we question its popularity, because it hasn't been popular since (lol).
It's ALL cooked. Just a question of how much in each title or project. Once the commitment to fraud is made, it is all-pervasive and it is a fruit of a poison tree situation. End of Disney if true.
agree. almost every ticket was sold out for avatar and the cinemas were full. every room that screened avatar was full. same for endgame. but i did hear that many, even those who like the captain marvel movie, said the screening rooms were empty. almost every seat was free
they must likely done that with there Remakes gods knows it explains how Lion King & Aladdin did so well even when everyone Know who saw them Hated Them.
@@JayDee284 Haven't seen this years remakes, Beauty and the Beast was great and the first Alice in Wonderland was good as well, but I've kind da lost interest in most movies except about 6 or 7.
6 Billion Dollars in discrepancies 👀,,,,I'm sure somebody stuck their hand in Mickey's cookie jar and bought some Captain Marbles movie tickets and blu-ray's 🤭😄🤣🤣
“We looked into the allegations against our company and founds ourselves innocent.” Is this the type of situation where an outside party needs to look into things because it sure sounds like it, since trusting Disney to be honest about this is extremely unwise.
Nope I’ll be happy when this behemoth soul crushing Corporation to fall apart now . It ruined my life when I worked there and bummed my family members working there
So let me get this straight. Either Disney is lying and cooking the books, OR someone in the company made a 6 billion dollar mistake? Hmmmm. I smell another Enron. 😨
Disney does need to fall. It doesn't need to die. Disney needs to lose some of its power. If it doesn't then nature will intervene and it won't be pretty. Disney can very well go from King of entertainment to the king of ashes! It would be both sad and hilarious if they spent all this effort and time to own it all. And is worth nothing. A quote that would be fitting for a lich King. You can be king of all the world. but the world must die!! For the living and free are tyrants.. and doom the Earth. And if it happens. Disney would not just destroyed themselves. Warner Brothers. Sony. Columbia pictures. And so many others will die! And from the ashes Independence creators will slowly grow. Pray they should not be tyrants themselves like those who come before!
I'm just gonna say, if Disney did this others have done it too. SEC don't have the balls to intervene a bull market but if the markets go down they might forced to act as the story is now public.
I was really in shock when Captain Marvel hit one billion dollars, I watched the movie and thought this is a bellow average MCU. Now I think everybody’s conspiracy theory could be correct.
I'm personally not on board with this inflated tickets theory it just seems a bit too wild. Disney/Marvel went fucking bonkers with marketing for Captain Marvel - my 10 year old son who never asks to go to movies was desperate to see it because of the marketing and the peer pressure from his friends who were all going to see it. From my own small window on the world it was successful not because it was good, but because it had a massive marketing budget and people are sheep. I don't know what Disney are reporting the marketing budget to be, but to me it appeared to get more exposure than Endgame did, so it wouldn't surprise me if the marketing bill was higher than Endgames.
Matthew Sharpe That theory could work, if not for the massive amounts of no-shows to the theaters. If people really were excited from the marketing, then why wouldn’t they show up to watch it?
@@christiancinnabars1402 Yeah I'm skeptical about those reports too - no real evidence there just claims. The screening I took my son to was a week after is opened, on a Tuesday night - it wasn't anywhere near full but it was a lot busier than you'd normally see for most films at that theatre on a week night - of course that's just an anecdote so not evidence either. I suspect it really did take in a bunch of box-office receipts - but I also suspect the marketing budget was higher than the production budget, maybe $200,000,000 or more? Possibly making it one of the least profitable Marvel films despite the massive reported takings - Disney marketed the crap out of it because they knew it had to be super-hyped due to the coming Marvel character apocalypse as all the old leads leave the franchise & are replaced with newer woker versions.
Definitely not "The Lion King" (2019), I didn't hear a single person even remotely interested in seeing that movie. "Aladdin" (2019) at least had morbid curiosity going for it, after the weird-ass blue Will Smith genie photo dropped. And "Captain Marvel" _was_ an MCU film, after all, positioned between two "Avengers" films, so I could see people going to see that, even if they were duped into doing so. At a stretch, I could buy them _maybe_ making a billion each _eventually_ during their theater runs. But "The Lion King"? That's the smoking gun. It looked dull and unappealing, there was zero audience interest in it, it got bad reviews, everything about it screamed "flop!" and yet _somehow_ it made _a billion dollars?_ Definitely something fishy there.
@@sacrebleuthedeadlypokeofzo8566 What about Beauty and the Beast live action? It somewhat made 1.2 billion dollars, despite the disinterest, the bad publicity and the crappy reviews. Looks fishy. Incredibles 2 and Zootopia also give me the same fake vibes, they made as much as Frozen. but are nowhere near as popular nor have the same amount of merchandise and toy sales as Frozen. Other animated movies that made 1+ billion dollars, like Despicable Me, Shrek 2 and Ice Age were EVERYWHERE and for a very long time.
@@sacrebleuthedeadlypokeofzo8566 Lion King 2019 is absolutely fishy tho, it's now the MOST successful animated movie of the history of mankind, and I'd be more inclined to believe that T-Rexes could piloted Panzers in WW2, than those numbers.
When I purchased my "Captain Marvel" ticket on the opening Thursday at AMC Woodlands Square 20 at 11:30 PM, there were only four seats open for me. I purchased the closest seat to the left of the theater. When I got there, I was one of only six people in the entire theater!! I was able to sit comfortably in the best seat in the house. Lies indeed!!
Basically what you are saying is that disney turned zombie, a soulless corpse staggering around and not responding to any screams of horror over their current behaviour or outlook.
If Captain Marvel was as successful as they claim, they would not have cut 90% of her scenes in Endgame and not have relegated her to a deux ex machina character. She would be front and center and overtaken Iron Man or Captain America's screen time. I'm not wholly on board with the inflation of CM's box office, but I won't be surprised if it's definitively proven.
When I went to see Cpt Marvel at Alamo Drafthouse I bought tickets online and noticed every single showing had a specific block of seats reserved in specific patterns such as the same seats in every row. Seemed this would be very improbable that random people organically purchased reserved seats like this. Also noticed in the showing that I went to that no one was sitting in those seats.
Just from the caption, an Eddie Izzard-ish "NO, SURELY NOT!" Disney? That unshakable bastion, that foundational gleaming pillar of ethics and fair business practices, the stalwart guardian of righteousness and value, the living example of excellence to which all American businesses futilely aspire - do you mean to say they engaged in *dishonest accounting practices*? Hand to my forehead, I am shocked. SHOCKED.
I knew Captain Feminism didn’t make over a billion dollars. If it did where’s her second film?? Looks like the evil mouse is heading towards that rat trap quicker that we thought.
It's VERY possible Disney pre-purchased tickets. Once upon a time in the music business, when people were actually buying albums, labels would buy the first 500k-1million for certain artists to make it look like a hit. No reason why it would be different in the movie business.
i'm from Australia and I sat in a 250+ seat cinema during the second week screening by my self. I know the manager of the cinema complex and she told me it was costing them money by not selling food and having to show it in their largest cinema. She was happy to see someone buying popcorn and a drink. I didn't pay for the ticket it was a freebie with my cinema membership, I still think i payed too much.
People forget it was not that long ago that Disney was dead. The 80's saw a Disney with crap revenue and crumbling parks. It can (and eventually will) happen again.
I can imagine big corporations do this sort of thing all the time by inflatating their value to attract investors and deflate there value when it comes to filling in their tax return.
Disney padding box office results for Captain Marvel is the only way that it could save executive face regarding the PR and release debacle surrounding that poorly recieved addition to the MCU. The movie's actuals revealed by CFO Christine McCarthy comptroller sumarized the gross world wide ticket sales at $600 million with an amortized cost of just over $700 million including an additional $300 million for miscellaneous marketing. Also the proposed re- release of Endgame with the additional 20 plus minutes of Captain Marvel featured footage was tabled as it might draw more attention to the previous fraud. -Inside the Boardroom Something is Rotten in the Magic Kingdom. Sell
think about how much that park charges for something like a soda or burger... then taking in all the parks world wide, add some under paid workers... parking fees, im sure the hotels connected to the parks count for the parks income, it all adds up
When Avatar came out, I personally went to see it 6 times each time with a different friend or relative. The last time I went to see it was about 3 weeks after release and there was STILL a queue to see the movie and the screening was packed with not a single empty seat.
The 3D in Avatar was 3D done right and completely different to any 3D movies that had come before. Like Star Wars it was the right movie at the right time and was an experience. One that the audience had to share with family and friends.
Well with interest rates still very low. Disney was probably doing their own version of stock buy backs. Instead of stocks, they may have been buying tickets to theaters. THAT'S IF those reports you read are indeed true.
Yeah, timing is everything here - it'll be so they can over-value shares used as payments for buy-outs like Marvel - where they are paying x-amount in cash and y-amount in shares, they can artificially inflate the share values and so pay less cash. Disney aren't the first to do this, they aren't even the first to be caught doing this, and they won't be the last.
They pat themselves on the back claiming that capt. marvel made a billion dollars and i pat myself on the back for having seen it for 0. We both seem happy with the numbers.
May not be a "directed" conspiracy, but a large group of people inflating the figures to make their Disney stock go up and get bigger bonuses is within the realm of possibility. The inflated box office numbers had definite high level direction.
Sounds to me like someone who was fired for doing their job. I had friends at Disney and the things they me was disgusting, two were princesses and they told me several times up till they were fired they were told to sleep with certain guests and when they reported it Disney did a "investigation", and found the report to be false. But they were not fired, nor were charges ever made against my friends. And what normally happens is the police do a investigation and when it is a false accusation the polices file a charge against the person to appear in court. Nothing like that happened, the police were never involved in the "investigation". Then I had another friend who was also a Disney princess who was fired that told me the exact same thing and she was hired AFTER my other friend had left Florida so she never even meet her. Then there was my friend who was a artist the things he told me were horrible, like Disney considers that if you are a artist working for them that even if you draw or paint on your own time they own the art work. Disney is defiantly a company that should be investigated for both their revenue and how they treat their employees.
DeadFishFactory I personally thought the movie was atrocious. I saw a 30 second trailer, wrote down exactly what would occur in the movie and made some bets with friends and family. Much money was made that day. The visuals? Good, but bad. Story? Bad and horribly telegraphed. Ah well, it was entertaining to the kids so I guess it did what it was supposed to.
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If this happened in 2009 and nobody stopped it at the time, I'd wager it's been happening since then too.
It even before 2009, to a lesser extent
NO?! Disney cooking the books to cover their own failures? GET OUT of town!
Captain Spire I read this in Robin Williams voice:)
hold my cheese...and say that again
Called during the Rotten Tomatoes ratings scandal. Always remember, never forget.
Wow...Disney attempted an Enron!? LOL.
Disney going to put Enron to shame.
Lets hope the woke jump out of the windows too.
I'd not be surprised, enron is exactly what I thought about when this story started cropping up. Disney has to maintain it's image as a juggernaut that can seemingly make no financial mistakes. It would not surprise me in the slightest if they are fudging their numbers in various ways. With the way they have expanded into a media titan, the revenue needed to keep that gravy train going must be quite mind blowing. If they are indeed being a bit shady, it won't be long before it gets out. There is always gonna be a mistreated employee or just someone near the company with an axe to grind, or even just someone who makes just enough of a mistake to get the snowball rolling downhill. I'll be eagerly watching with popcorn in hand, Disney needs to be knocked down a peg. I don't hold any particular ill will against them, but a reduced presence from them in the media arena would be good for the entertainment industry as a whole.
I know movie theaters would breathe a little easier, what with having to pay disney 70 cents on the dollar per ticket sold just to show their films. It's not like they can refuse to show the films if they want to stay in business, and almost every fricken thing that comes out these days has Disney's fingerprints on it.
Right down to the mid-level accountant with the courage to blow the whistle on the fraud.
Enron themselves attempted a south seas company,and now disney's pulling this shit.
Oh Captain Marvel that 1 billion is looking as much as a lie as it was presumed.
Disney bought up loads of tickets in cinemas. this did not bother them as they just gave the tickets to charity groups and could claim them back on tax so it cost them nothing. thats why you get loads of theatres empty on web. it was a complete fail. but Disney got their pr ops do the shit, alita was a much better movie. yet Disney went out of there way to shit on it. also why has seth mcfarleine now moved the orville away from disney and gone to hula? i suggest Disney is dispersing up its own ass and no real creative person wants anything to do with the woke bullshit. i want to watch real scifi not woke shit
@D M Oddly, same here. My g/f hates superhero movies but wanted to go watch Captain Marvel. Her friends all watched PPV. They liked it and said its simply just "female super hero movie". Nothing there to push the agenda, but rather an alternative female role model for little girls who are't into the selfie generation or social media female stereotypes. Which, I hadn't thought of and agree with
Did Endgame beat Avatar's record? Hmmmm.
@@jtzoonie2552 Not quite, the tax benefit is worth at most 35% of the cash you paid, so it's a very large loss to Disney. There's also no way ticket purchases in that quantity were to actual charity groups.
Disney definitely bought tickets on the opening weekend to get captain marvel to fly lol they probably also sold their soul while they were at it too!
I remember when captain marvel looking for the sales online and all the tickets for the first five rows were sold and the ones on the back empty, just tell me who buy the tickets in the front rows when the sits on the back are empty?
When Disney makes a family pay $1,500 for a day at the park, the gate receipts must be incredible.
A bit of an exaggeration but the prices are high. I used to work for their phone customer service line. Bare bones ticket and economy value hotel is high but reasonable. Its VIP stuff and fancy restaurants that will get you
My brother in law bought VIP passes so they would not have to wait in long lines and paid close to $1,500.
A year ago: "Captain Marvel had an opening week just as good as any other Marvel film! It's a massive success!"
A month ago: "The Lion King has made over a billion dollars in three weeks!"
Today: "Reports are that Disney lied on financial reports."
You don't say...
Captain Marvel came out this year. In march.
I didnt even know that movie came out.
Wall Street: Greed is good.
Disney: Hooray!
Authorities: Disney, you're busted.
On staycation this week. Was bored. Tempted to buy "End Game" DVD for a little entertainment. Nope! Held my ground! I will no longer contribute to the destruction of my beloved superhero mythos! Didn't see or buy Black Panther, Cpt. Marvel either!
So the 25 no-show seats per Captain Marvel showing at theaters all around the country where there were no refunds asked of were 'purchased' through Fandango. The same Fandango that runs Rotten Tomatoes that completely changed the their website removing the intend / don't intend to see button over the very same Captain Marvel movie. The same Fandango whos president worked for Disney for 8 years immediately prior to taking over Fandango. You don't say...
Disney investigated it's own bookkeeping and found itself not guilty... Gee, is that like Disney looking at the evidence and declaring themselves not guilty of stealing "The Lion Ling" from "Kimba the White Lion"?
Robbing Peter to pay Paul never ends well
It'll catch up to them eventually
Karma is coming for Disney.
We don't forget Ollie.
Nerdrotic going full Tim Pool, even got a beanie.
As for this the bubble is going to bust I just wonder when.
I wonder if Tim will cover this?
2019 has been the year of conspiracies.
Hello Beanie Bros!
@@marqod1437 ayyyye
Saw Capt Marvel at 11:00pm opening night at a major theatre in the LA Beach cities area; It. Was. Empty. maybe 30-40 people in the theatre, at 11:00pm at night on opening weekend. 🤷🏾♂️
The Epstein suicide case has less circumstantial evidence. All the points you mentioned by themselves don’t mean much, but you add them together it’s too much to overlook. This is more interesting than any movie Disney came out with this year.
OverEasy Mode suicide Leia add on
WOW today just gets better & better! "Ladies & gentlemen thank you for travelling with Disney Airways, Up ahead we can see the giant imovable object that we will shortly be "interacting" with. If you would please adopt the brace position, placing hands on back of head, head between knees & kiss your shares goodbye"! Oh my fekin ROFL! 🐴😸😆😂🤣
It's not a fiery crash, it's a "surprise landing".
@@baconvonmeatwich 🤭 or perhaps it could be "Good news ladies & gentlemen we will be landing ahead of schedule"! 🐴😸✈🏔💥🔥😂🤣
I have to doubt the books were cooked on Infinity War or End Game those films were huge and filled the theaters. I don't doubt they do cook the books though, especially for the likes of Captain Marvel, but I'm not convinced that they'd do the same for the guaranteed big successes.
It’s time for Disney to end. The world will be a better place without this franchisekiller megacorporation.
Luke you're old and no longer needed! Go drink some fresh alien breast milk and go to bed ;)
@@n.o.d6181 I see the Di$ney shills are in today
One can only pray Disney will die! If Disney disappears then that will be proof there is a God. Haha!!!
How about Disney buying tickets to fill the seats for their movies?
just wait until disney acquires facebook...censorship will be really scary then
Captain Marvel. Billion. Empty cinemas. People not getting refunds for not going.
Nothing to see here move along.......
Anyway if someone had the balls and found something. It could lead to the break up of Disney and long jail times handed out.
I love the smell of fraud in the morning... Smells like victory.
Amen. Karma? Real Karma?
A woman
A strong independent woman good at math started the mouse's doom
Priceless
zoompt 1975 you forgot brave. Never forget brave!
@@illious999 And Stunning😅
Well, well, well. Will you look that. Guess people really don't like "woke" politics forced into their films. Who would have guess? This would explain Captain Marvel's and possibly Last Jedi's "success." Reap what you sow Disney.
I don't think that Avatar or Endgame's financial successes were cooked, I do believe Captain Marvel's was and maybe a bit of Far From Home.
I remember when it came out, "Avatar" was as big as "Titanic" was in 1997, people wouldn't shut up about it. Of course this was entirely due to "Avatar's" 3D spectacle, since the story was crap. The hype was definitely real for "Avatar", because even "normies" (non-nerds) saw it 2 or 3 times. Once it left theaters, the hype died down quickly, and it's only in hindsight that we question its popularity, because it hasn't been popular since (lol).
It's ALL cooked. Just a question of how much in each title or project. Once the commitment to fraud is made, it is all-pervasive and it is a fruit of a poison tree situation.
End of Disney if true.
agree. almost every ticket was sold out for avatar and the cinemas were full. every room that screened avatar was full. same for endgame. but i did hear that many, even those who like the captain marvel movie, said the screening rooms were empty. almost every seat was free
they must likely done that with there Remakes gods knows it explains how Lion King & Aladdin did so well even when everyone Know who saw them Hated Them.
@@JayDee284 Haven't seen this years remakes, Beauty and the Beast was great and the first Alice in Wonderland was good as well, but I've kind da lost interest in most movies except about 6 or 7.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride must have been the inspiration for this latest financial debacle
6 Billion Dollars in discrepancies 👀,,,,I'm sure somebody stuck their hand in Mickey's cookie jar and bought some Captain Marbles movie tickets and blu-ray's 🤭😄🤣🤣
mm ltn plus that new kiddy fiddling movie goodboys?
“We looked into the allegations against our company and founds ourselves innocent.”
Is this the type of situation where an outside party needs to look into things because it sure sounds like it, since trusting Disney to be honest about this is extremely unwise.
I can believe all of this. I hope it bites them in the arse!
I'm no Lionel Hutz but this seems to be illegal.🤔
No. Disney *NEEDS* to fail Gary. It needs to fail, shrink, be broken up, and be severely humbled to get better.
Kneon and Geeky Sparkles of Clownfish TV have a video on this.
And they are upset cause they invested in Disney stock. A lot of people have Disney stock cause it was normally considered safe. Not so much now.
They are also Disney bloggers and had some good insight on the issue. I have little doubt Disney manipulated their books.
@@briarrabbit2468 If they didn't, that would make them unique among big corporations
This is THE news of the year. CM's return is definitely suspect, for sure.
Nope I’ll be happy when this behemoth soul crushing Corporation to fall apart now . It ruined my life when I worked there and bummed my family members working there
So let me get this straight. Either Disney is lying and cooking the books, OR someone in the company made a 6 billion dollar mistake? Hmmmm. I smell another Enron. 😨
Oh the whistleblower is a disgruntled employee and is lying. Not saying they are but that is another possibility.
*Waffled Laughter* come Disney, come to the grave.
Disney does need to fall. It doesn't need to die. Disney needs to lose some of its power. If it doesn't then nature will intervene and it won't be pretty. Disney can very well go from King of entertainment to the king of ashes! It would be both sad and hilarious if they spent all this effort and time to own it all. And is worth nothing. A quote that would be fitting for a lich King. You can be king of all the world. but the world must die!! For the living and free are tyrants.. and doom the Earth. And if it happens. Disney would not just destroyed themselves. Warner Brothers. Sony. Columbia pictures. And so many others will die! And from the ashes Independence creators will slowly grow. Pray they should not be tyrants themselves like those who come before!
Independent stuff is also SJW themed as well.
Hollywood accounting: For tax purposes, all films lose money. For share price and investor purposes, all films are blockbusters.
I'm just gonna say, if Disney did this others have done it too. SEC don't have the balls to intervene a bull market but if the markets go down they might forced to act as the story is now public.
Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job 👊🏻👊🏻🎉🎉
I guess now we know why lightsabers are $200 😂 they probably record it as $400 in the books
I really hope Disney goes down. They are the destroyer of franchises and love shoving politics down our throats. They really need to go
I was really in shock when Captain Marvel hit one billion dollars, I watched the movie and thought this is a bellow average MCU. Now I think everybody’s conspiracy theory could be correct.
I'm personally not on board with this inflated tickets theory it just seems a bit too wild. Disney/Marvel went fucking bonkers with marketing for Captain Marvel - my 10 year old son who never asks to go to movies was desperate to see it because of the marketing and the peer pressure from his friends who were all going to see it. From my own small window on the world it was successful not because it was good, but because it had a massive marketing budget and people are sheep. I don't know what Disney are reporting the marketing budget to be, but to me it appeared to get more exposure than Endgame did, so it wouldn't surprise me if the marketing bill was higher than Endgames.
Matthew Sharpe That theory could work, if not for the massive amounts of no-shows to the theaters. If people really were excited from the marketing, then why wouldn’t they show up to watch it?
@@christiancinnabars1402 Yeah I'm skeptical about those reports too - no real evidence there just claims. The screening I took my son to was a week after is opened, on a Tuesday night - it wasn't anywhere near full but it was a lot busier than you'd normally see for most films at that theatre on a week night - of course that's just an anecdote so not evidence either.
I suspect it really did take in a bunch of box-office receipts - but I also suspect the marketing budget was higher than the production budget, maybe $200,000,000 or more? Possibly making it one of the least profitable Marvel films despite the massive reported takings - Disney marketed the crap out of it because they knew it had to be super-hyped due to the coming Marvel character apocalypse as all the old leads leave the franchise & are replaced with newer woker versions.
Disney sold their soul and now they need to pay for all they've bought
Sounds like when game console manufacturers publish their "consoles shipped" numbers.
Disney said go away we are to big to fail and the taxpayers must support us in the future.
How many Disney Billion Dollar movies were real Billion Dollar Movies.
Definitely not "The Lion King" (2019), I didn't hear a single person even remotely interested in seeing that movie. "Aladdin" (2019) at least had morbid curiosity going for it, after the weird-ass blue Will Smith genie photo dropped. And "Captain Marvel" _was_ an MCU film, after all, positioned between two "Avengers" films, so I could see people going to see that, even if they were duped into doing so. At a stretch, I could buy them _maybe_ making a billion each _eventually_ during their theater runs. But "The Lion King"? That's the smoking gun. It looked dull and unappealing, there was zero audience interest in it, it got bad reviews, everything about it screamed "flop!" and yet _somehow_ it made _a billion dollars?_ Definitely something fishy there.
@@sacrebleuthedeadlypokeofzo8566 What about Beauty and the Beast live action? It somewhat made 1.2 billion dollars, despite the disinterest, the bad publicity and the crappy reviews. Looks fishy.
Incredibles 2 and Zootopia also give me the same fake vibes, they made as much as Frozen. but are nowhere near as popular nor have the same amount of merchandise and toy sales as Frozen. Other animated movies that made 1+ billion dollars, like Despicable Me, Shrek 2 and Ice Age were EVERYWHERE and for a very long time.
@@sacrebleuthedeadlypokeofzo8566 Lion King 2019 is absolutely fishy tho, it's now the MOST successful animated movie of the history of mankind, and I'd be more inclined to believe that T-Rexes could piloted Panzers in WW2, than those numbers.
Y'all hear that shredder?
When I purchased my "Captain Marvel" ticket on the opening Thursday at AMC Woodlands Square 20 at 11:30 PM, there were only four seats open for me. I purchased the closest seat to the left of the theater. When I got there, I was one of only six people in the entire theater!! I was able to sit comfortably in the best seat in the house. Lies indeed!!
Disney, the SEC wants to know your location....
Basically what you are saying is that disney turned zombie, a soulless corpse staggering around and not responding to any screams of horror over their current behaviour or outlook.
If Captain Marvel was as successful as they claim, they would not have cut 90% of her scenes in Endgame and not have relegated her to a deux ex machina character. She would be front and center and overtaken Iron Man or Captain America's screen time.
I'm not wholly on board with the inflation of CM's box office, but I won't be surprised if it's definitively proven.
Captain marvel earns 1 billions
Loses 6 billions for papa D
This is NOT CM is fault she is a strong wahman!
When I went to see Cpt Marvel at Alamo Drafthouse I bought tickets online and noticed every single showing had a specific block of seats reserved in specific patterns such as the same seats in every row. Seemed this would be very improbable that random people organically purchased reserved seats like this. Also noticed in the showing that I went to that no one was sitting in those seats.
The higher the revenue, the bigger the bonuses for upper management. Here's lookin' at you, Bobbo.
So now I'm wondering how many employees in the SEC are also on Disney's secret payroll.
Just from the caption, an Eddie Izzard-ish "NO, SURELY NOT!" Disney? That unshakable bastion, that foundational gleaming pillar of ethics and fair business practices, the stalwart guardian of righteousness and value, the living example of excellence to which all American businesses futilely aspire - do you mean to say they engaged in *dishonest accounting practices*? Hand to my forehead, I am shocked. SHOCKED.
"weaknesses in the software"
LOL Disney considers those "features"!
Disney can easily fix the problem. Just stick to the source material!
I knew Captain Feminism didn’t make over a billion dollars. If it did where’s her second film?? Looks like the evil mouse is heading towards that rat trap quicker that we thought.
The Last Jedi box office results...
Disney has become such a joke. This news isn't surprising at all.
Disney’s official response sounds like Scientology’s Lawyers when someone leaves the corp...err, church.
They say that she is doing this because she got fired but she report this a month before that, so how about that.
It's VERY possible Disney pre-purchased tickets. Once upon a time in the music business, when people were actually buying albums, labels would buy the first 500k-1million for certain artists to make it look like a hit. No reason why it would be different in the movie business.
All those gift cards used to buy Captain Marvel tickets. Gotta say that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of this video.
i'm from Australia and I sat in a 250+ seat cinema during the second week screening by my self. I know the manager of the cinema complex and she told me it was costing them money by not selling food and having to show it in their largest cinema.
She was happy to see someone buying popcorn and a drink.
I didn't pay for the ticket it was a freebie with my cinema membership, I still think i payed too much.
People forget it was not that long ago that Disney was dead. The 80's saw a Disney with crap revenue and crumbling parks. It can (and eventually will) happen again.
Endgame is not the biggest movie of all time It never will be
IF ONLY Disney could actually sink... That would be a show I'd be willing to pay to watch.
Please ..Please let them all go to jail!!!
Disney World is radio and TV advertising in Canada for Galaxy's Edge, thats because they are worried no one is going to go?
I can imagine big corporations do this sort of thing all the time by inflatating their value to attract investors and deflate there value when it comes to filling in their tax return.
Thank god we had time to experience Endgame before this possible Disney downfall...
Just sounds like creative revenue recognition. It happens. We'll know more if you can get their financial audit findings report.
Disney padding box office results for Captain Marvel is the only way that it could save executive face regarding the PR and release debacle surrounding that poorly recieved addition to the MCU. The movie's actuals revealed by CFO Christine McCarthy comptroller sumarized the gross world wide ticket sales at $600 million with an amortized cost of just over $700 million including an additional $300 million for miscellaneous marketing.
Also the proposed re- release of Endgame with the additional 20 plus minutes of Captain Marvel featured footage was tabled as it might draw more attention to the previous fraud.
-Inside the Boardroom
Something is Rotten in the Magic Kingdom.
Sell
25 no shows for every show... that is hard to believe... as in I don't believe it.
Hey! Did you swipe Tim Pool's hat?!
think about how much that park charges for something like a soda or burger... then taking in all the parks world wide, add some under paid workers... parking fees, im sure the hotels connected to the parks count for the parks income, it all adds up
And there were really only six dwarfs!
When Avatar came out, I personally went to see it 6 times each time with a different friend or relative. The last time I went to see it was about 3 weeks after release and there was STILL a queue to see the movie and the screening was packed with not a single empty seat.
The 3D in Avatar was 3D done right and completely different to any 3D movies that had come before. Like Star Wars it was the right movie at the right time and was an experience. One that the audience had to share with family and friends.
Let the tax die, cook it if you have to...
I fucking knew it Disney buys there own movies tickets to say they made alot of money
that's what I'm getting from this am I wrong ?
You do know revenue isn't equal to profit, right?
At least you did say you aren't that great with numbers.
disney lost its soul from day one
Saw Avatar in theaters twice, jam packed every time.
An empire always collapses from within....
🙈🙉🙊
The Evil Mouse Empire gets caught cooking the books. How many extra books did Disney hide?
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you
Well with interest rates still very low. Disney was probably doing their own version of stock buy backs. Instead of stocks, they may have been buying tickets to theaters. THAT'S IF those reports you read are indeed true.
Yeah, timing is everything here - it'll be so they can over-value shares used as payments for buy-outs like Marvel - where they are paying x-amount in cash and y-amount in shares, they can artificially inflate the share values and so pay less cash. Disney aren't the first to do this, they aren't even the first to be caught doing this, and they won't be the last.
Mickey Mouse: **PALPATINE LAUGH**
They pat themselves on the back claiming that capt. marvel made a billion dollars and i pat myself on the back for having seen it for 0. We both seem happy with the numbers.
Wait, so Mickey is a criminal?
Well so is our president.
Life goes on.
May not be a "directed" conspiracy, but a large group of people inflating the figures to make their Disney stock go up and get bigger bonuses is within the realm of possibility. The inflated box office numbers had definite high level direction.
Good thing this Kuba lady doesn’t have dirt on the Clintons. She would be Arkancided.
Or she would be Epsteined.
The force is female..... accountants.
Disney is the equivalent of EA games in the movie market. Buying up popular franchises and fucking destroying them with horrible sequels.
Sounds to me like someone who was fired for doing their job.
I had friends at Disney and the things they me was disgusting, two were princesses and they told me several times up till they were fired
they were told to sleep with certain guests and when they reported it Disney did a "investigation", and found the report to be false.
But they were not fired, nor were charges ever made against my friends.
And what normally happens is the police do a investigation and when it is a false accusation the polices file a charge against the person to
appear in court.
Nothing like that happened, the police were never involved in the "investigation".
Then I had another friend who was also a Disney princess who was fired that told me the exact same thing and she was hired AFTER my other friend
had left Florida so she never even meet her.
Then there was my friend who was a artist the things he told me were horrible, like Disney considers that if you are a artist working for them that even
if you draw or paint on your own time they own the art work.
Disney is defiantly a company that should be investigated for both their revenue and how they treat their employees.
Should be noted that Avatar was not a box office opening success. It built up momentum later due to positive word of mouth about the 3D spectacle.
DeadFishFactory I personally thought the movie was atrocious. I saw a 30 second trailer, wrote down exactly what would occur in the movie and made some bets with friends and family. Much money was made that day.
The visuals? Good, but bad. Story? Bad and horribly telegraphed. Ah well, it was entertaining to the kids so I guess it did what it was supposed to.
@@ahzekahriman5840 : Business evil. Savages in loincloths good.
Harry Mills Pretty much.