Disney Sued Over Faking Box Office - Investors Seek Revenge
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2024
- Disney are once again in a terrible position as things have somehow gotten worse for Disney as a studio, due to investors now reportedly suing Disney for lying about their finances and possibly the profits of their movies! Once again Disney have looked for excuses for their multiple failures from the MCU to Star Wars including The Marvels being the biggest flop in MCU history. This is just another case of Disney not taking accountability for their failures and trying to cover them up, but this time it's worse as they lied to their own Disney investors.
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Wait, I'm confused, I thought people loved woke content. Why do they have to lie? Unless most people, regardless of race, don't want woke content, and just want good movies/shows?
Wall Street calls this “Managing Earnings”. This refers to decisions by the CFO to use their discretion when closing the quarterly books. Keep in mind, that Managing Earnings isn’t sustainable. The actual numbers will always reveal themselves over time. Just ask Enron.
Disney leadership doesn’t care if audiences like their woke content. Disney leadership wanted to make woke content a standard. They wanted to strand audiences without any choice. They don’t care if they destroy the once family-friendly company. That was always part of the goal.
@@interestedparty00 It's not about profits, it's about destroying the culture, social cohesion, gender relations, nuclear families, and lower the birth rate of the country. They are ready to lose A LOT of money to achieve these VERY important goals. (for them) BTW this is a full on purely evil agenda.
Biden just took a Christian very important day (Easter, Jesus reborn) into a Trans day ..... full on evil.
They are attempting to social engineer society. The good news is that so many of us are rejecting the programming.
It it ain't woke, don't woke it.
Turning the Marvels into a girl boss brand, insulting and killing off beloved male heroes, incorporating sexual content in children's movies -- all brilliant decisions. Also, driving out any real talent in favor of DEI activist hacks. Brilliant.
They did the same formula to Star Wars and classic Disney films. All screwed….
Yeah so brilliant it's like a supernova...
Oh wait don't they eventually turn into black holes and suck up everything?
This statement is well stated and fact.
Remember, all this leads back to Kathleen Kennedy and her husband.
Poor fool you can't even see what power strugle is going on .All they just have to mention woke and your lizard brain takes over . Look up Elon Musk joins Nelson Peltz
Malignant narcissists are incapable of looking within, to realize that the problem lies with them. It will always be someone else's fault.
That is sadly very true. They just can not see it! You will never be able to get them to understand it is there own fault! Point of fact, anyone know what Narcissists fear the most!, Finding out they really are NOT special!
Yes, you can fire Kathleen Kennedy and her husband. For lying For all her failures. Including making coffee and all her enablers
Consider how over-coddled and overindulged these first world brats were raised to expose their arrested development.
This is the only way to explain their child-like, 100% self-serving concept of "fairness" with moving goalposts, plus the victim complex peppered-in. A camera and attention addiction made them so self-obsessed they can ONLY live vicariously through themselves, which explains the blatant shoehorning/self-inserts. Kicking down everyone else's sandcastles gives them a fleeting dopamine hit and then they see themselves as the clear winner by default.
They are Peter-Panned adults, like all deranged world rulers were for the exact same reasons. The mainstream hex cults come from them never learning delayed gratification, which is the parents' fault.
All narcissists are like that, not just the malignant ones.
Just like politicians!😃
I guess the faking of their numbers happened already before Endgame. I remember very well when I and a friend of mine fell for the "Captain Marvel will reveal important information for Endgame" marketing, so we went into a movie that we wanted to skip. When we ordered the Tickets, it was basically sold out with 2 of the prime seats being strangely open, but we didn't ask questions at this point. The questions came when we were the only 2 people in a sold out theater.
This was the first time where the thought of Disney faking numbers came up to me.
Bet the theater was not all that happy either. Theaters make most of their money from concession stands, and I doubt the "sold-out" tickets were barely enough to break even.
remember when Disney was a family brand? Pepperridge Farms remembers
NO. I saw the programming even back then.
Same
@@mrgreyman3358 Don't let Cynical let negativity cloud your judgment. Past Disney was better
It's still all about family at Disney. A family of psychopaths.
I member
Have you heard of the tragedy of Disney: The Destroyer of Franchises?
They went from supernova to black hole
The Destroyer of America you mean. I
t's about destroying the culture, social cohesion, gender relations, nuclear families, and lower the birth rate of the country (trans = no babies) . They are ready to lose A LOT of money to achieve these VERY important goals. (for them) BTW this is a full on purely evil agenda.
Biden just took a Christian very important day (Easter, Jesus reborn) into a Trans day ..... full on evil.
No, it’s not a story the corporate overlord’s would tell me
"It is not a story the corporations would tell you. It is a fanbase legend."
I'm waiting for "Company Man" to dissect the rotting whale carcass that is today's Walt Disney company.;)
Something ive been curious about, why does it cost them 350 million for a crap movie? Like who is getting all that money and is it actually worth it. Who is actually ripping them off, animators? marketing? who is getting fat on these failures.
I know because the product isn’t reflective of the budget it’s crazy!
BoB
Scrapbooking is part of it: shooting a lot of footage they're never going to use. Hiring more people than they need for effects to get it done fast. Hiring inexperienced directors or ones who never made big budget Hollywood films (like the feminist documentary direction who likes to "make men uncomfortable"), so they have no clue how to shoot efficiency and probably end up shooting on twice the days they need to. Reshooting when an initial cut sucks (The Marvels). All the editing in a desperate attempt to save them. "Sensitivity readers" in the planning stages of the scripts to make the movies as gay and lame as possible, etc.
Ever watched the credits for some films and wondered how much they all get paid. Too many hanger-ons for made up jobs. Look watch Godzilla -1 managed on a $15M budget.
Imo money laundring
It appears more and more of us folks are over mainstream entertainment and media.
That said, in my opinion, we no longer need Hollywood anymore.
Well Hollywood still produced Dune, Oppenheimer and John Wick so there is some good but yes movies are definitely struggling right now
@@thejessegrant true. While Hollywood is making a FEW good films, indie productions OUTSIDE Hollywood are beating them as far as I can see.
That's what I meant.
Also Shōgun @@thejessegrant
@@markmunroe-hz8rf That actually isn't true. Godzilla Minus One, for all the success that it was, still has a much lower box office than, say, The Little Mermaid. Unless you want to argue that an elementary school play has also beaten Disney for merely not losing money, films outside Hollywood still have a long way to go.
@@OhSayWhatIsTruth true. I'm just saying with all the woke nonsense, people no longer care for modern Hollywood. Only the classics.
It's not just audiences. Treatment of fans. Realistic budget. It's also what kind of people working inside Disney. From the top to the bottom. What agenda do they represent?
Disney just keeps screwing up and it is entirely too funny
Makes for good entertainment on RUclips lol
Comedy writes itself
True dat.
@@gavinhoroszewski4647 loki was great
That is also true
I hate how Disneys own actions has us as fans actively hoping the company fails
It really is the only direction left to them. They can not and will not see the problem is themselves, so they will never course correct.
It was about time SOMEONE from these investors actually had the guts to finally SUE DISNEY!! What took them so long!?
You want this lawsuit to be airtight that's why. It sucked for them to wait 4 years but now there is so much evidence they can't hide it anymore
Disney LIED? Who expected that...
Hahaha. This is what happens when you don’t listen to your fans. They don’t want what they’re offering and Disney keeps doubling down.
Of course we lost all our big and favorite franchises along the way but we all saw it coming.
And NOW Microsoft following their foot steps.
It's like watching a sun go upernova(iron man to endgame) and eventually devolve into a black hole clawing everything into it.
Referring also to Disney's involvement in Doctor Who
It was on purpose. It's not about profits, it's about destroying the culture, social cohesion, gender relations, nuclear families, and lower the birth rate of the country. They are ready to lose A LOT of money to achieve these VERY important goals. (for them) BTW this is a full on purely evil agenda.
FUN FACT = Biden just took a Christian very important day (Easter, Jesus reborn) and replaced it with a Trans day ..... 100% full on evil.
Let Disney realise how much they have lost. Till then, I'll be laughing at the bank not spending on their substandard products.😂
Ahahah smart man!
We even went as far as dumping cable since disney has so many channels they own. I don't really need TV. I've had so much time to do other things. I went outside. It was ok
This would explain the empty theatre sits for captain marvel
Glad I nevwr saw it in theaters back in 2019
Repeating the same actions over and over again and expecting a different result...
All these DEI folks are literally insane by definition.
Seriously wtf are they even spending all that on. Any chance of corruption?.
special effects
TONS
MONEY LAUNDERING!!!!
Probs special effect, CGI, Catering for the crew, operation costs of workspaces ect. Especially today those things add up.
it wouldn't surprise me that someone higher up is pocketing some though.
Ticket sales ...
So do you go to the same restaurant again and again if the food taste like crap? Do you go to the same auto repair shop over and over hoping they will eventually fix your car? Do you watch the same TV show/cable channel over and over hoping the things you don't like get fixed? Do you elect the same officials over and over again hoping they will finally fix problems they said they are going to fix? Okay you got me on this one ; )
In general, the answer is yes to all the above. Programmed consuming is what Disney was counting on.
It's kinda strange that Hollywood blames those who don't like the genre instead of the *TARGET AUDIENCE*
It's like an ice cream parlor blaming lactose intolerance for not buying their ice cream, and not teens and families (aka the target consumers)
Poor Disney... can't understand why Marvel audiences (mostly male, and the rest almost *entirely* pro-male females) don't want to see man-hating feminasty Marvel movies.
I completely disagree that it's just a big studio problem. The writers, directors and actors are a big part of the problem since they've become dominated by woke activists over the last decade.
There're enough of them in interviews and social media to prove that. They're proud to show spite and then rage when people don't hand over their cash.
Wokeism aside, doesn't it seem to be that most of the movies and TV shows coming out of Hollywood involve poorly written stories with poorly developed characters?
@@user-zn5qm2yq9h The leaked office memos and interviews suggest their job search stops at identity so they're getting lots of new writers straight out of school. Student loans will push people to take anything they can get.
They're poor because critical social justice (woke) ideology limits the types of characters and stories can exist as well as who can tell those stories.
Watching disney fail is my favorite hobby atm😂
Same lol
Especially after they hired BRIAN PECK.
Dump Zegler.
Going woke didn’t do them any favors either. Sigh
There’s nothing wrong with adding a message to a movie as long as the whole movie DOES NOT revolve around said message and it’s not shoved down everyone’s throats.
And yet they learn absolutely nothing.😂😂😂
@@cheezuschrist Yeah, the problem is that they don't put in any effort into writing a good story because they think a progressive message is enough.
Well-loved movies were well-written ones
Disney needs to go
Far away. Now.😮
Glad that this is accurately out on April Fools it proves that Disney actually is the fool. No joke about it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
As someone who is NOT financially invested in Disney, I look on in amazement at their willingness to crash the company into a mountain defending their woke ideology.
At this point i have no hope for them to get it together. I hope they have to sell off their properties again. Maybe we can get a better studio to handle marvel and star wars
IMO, Star Wars is completely ruined for the next 10-20 years... no matter who owns it.
They literally need a new audience to "grow up"... who has never seen what Disney has done to it.
Then, they can re-release the original 6 movies, and burn and disavow everything Dismal excreted, then add their own stuff to it.
Disney is too far gone down the rabbit hole and has lost sight on what made it good in the past!
That is the problem they have not lost sight, they know dam well what they are doing, you lose a billion dollars and cannot see what you are doing is wrong AKA Go woke go broke" will never spend a dime on disney, they better fire the entire upper board and start over.
Because easy money is better than making long-term money.
Jesse, this was a perfect summation. Good job! You identified the problems accurately, as well as suggesting a solution. I have only one one observational remark. Disney can't course-correct under Iger. Their misreading of the market, the fans, and their own creatives along with perceptional myopia, leaves them blind and possibly crippled in their capacity to fix what they do. They have spent so many years pushing out talented people and promoting the incapable, that they'd have to dismiss ninety percent of their employees and start from scratch. Even then, it would take years to regain public trust.
Thanks man! And yeah you have a great point about Iger it’s just still hard for me to completely blame a man that was also responsible for Disneys most profitable years however yes recently he’s severely underperformed
@@thejessegrant Ah... but WAS Iger actually responsible for their success? Or was it the people that Iger forced OUT?
For a different thing, we know that Disney's streaming model is an unmitigated failure... and that was Iger's baby all the way.
Disney made money despite Iger. When Iger got rid of those responsible for the success of Disney, his true colors showed.
@@davedsilva Agreed!
@@nyetzdyec3391 Agreed!
Are we ever going to find out the real box office numbers for Captain Marvel?
They need to get one priority straight; they are there for the customers and not for a few internal activists - Big budget or not - Giving 99% of the audience the middle finger will always flopp after movie or two, once the goodwill is eaten up.
And too rightly so. Disney should be ashamed. Let Disney rot.
MCU ENDED WHEN THANOS DIED...
LITRALLY ENDGAME
When he DEI'ed?
@@DEATH-THE-GOAT hahahaha-hmmm, no...
I think for now on, as a rule of thumb, as a standard, Godzilla -1 needs to be the rule of "Small budget, huge success".
Greed will do that to you going after the big payoff. We lost a lot of the small and mid budget movies. They might not be totally impressive but at least you can test out the waters with the small budget movie, going to medium budget movie and if It succeeds go on to the big budget movie.
At each stage if it succeeds you go up to the next level, if it doesn't succeed you go back to the starting.
Then it becomes a minimum risk maximum payoff.
Dizzney is one big ponzi! 🤦🏾♂️
I hope they sue Disney into the Stone Age.
Imagine writing a story that isn't a story. "We have an amazing script!" ... "Cool, no one wants it. I've never seen so many words become just random letters. Let's just put it out anyways!"
Other studios made successful films because they ditched all the woke shit.
Yeah Top Gun Maverick comes to mind.
@@markcab2055 That OneRepublic song also Rocks
Wok ess per se is not the problem. The problem is that they do not focus on making a good story in the first place.
Even bad movies with a low production value of the early 2000s have better story telling and better work of directors than so many stuff that is released nowadays with very high budgets.
@SilverViper1000 Woke movies literally put Diversity Equity and Inclusion as their absolute number one priority. So it absolutely is the problem because they will hire based on Race, ethnicity, Minority, sexual preferences etc, and then force the stories to fit that dynamic with whoever is left to write such garbage which is far slimmer pickings these days because anyone who don't tow the line has been fired.
The Number one job skill these days for a director for an up and coming 300 MILLION DOLLAR ACTION movie, Is a Feminist who has directed a documentary about men being misogynistic throughout history.
And then blame men for not watching the movie.
It's some Enron stuff not reporting real earnings so investors give more money, but those investors are ignorant. How do you not see the public overall view of Disney after so many flops and backlash, and still think Disney is doing good?
I don't know if there's still redemption for Disney, they did this to themselves.
I want to go back to the movies and enjoy escapism again..... I miss the 1980's escapism movies (in only 90-120 min long too)
HONESTLY unless IT IS IN FACT AN EPIC TAIL.......IF YOU CAN'T TELL ME THE STORY IN LESS THAN 120MINS THAN YOU SUCK AT YOUR JOB!!!!!
I don’t think it’s that people don’t want superhero films. Look at into the spider verse. Or dead pool. People just don’t want the trash superhero movies they’re putting out.
Until they unhook themselves from ESG financial institutions, it will be more of the same. Disney is dying a slow death and do not have the agility anymore to course correct.
Blackrock we're looking at you. They have publicly stated that they are trying to force change.
I love seeing them squirm and lose money constantly.
I really hope the major cause of this was cause of DEI and ESG woke messaging.
They are losing Money paying for DEI failures !! ... Lying to investors on how much they've lost .. Thats why !
You should look into how California gives tax credits to Disney based on DEI
When boby and KK get fired the true scope of their failure would be revealed
Don't forget Jennifer Lee and Kevin Feige too
Disney knows their audience, the .01%
Brio, dont warn these investors, encourage them to pump up those rookie numbers NOW while you KNOW its gonna crash and burn
Dont interupt enemies while theyre making huge mistakes
After end game came out, should have sold Disney short on the stock market. EG The Trading Places Gambit (tradeing places was a movie)
Imagine being financially untouchable, then slowly destroy yourself to « please » 5 people who rarely actually pay you, over and over. That’s basically what Disney did.
I sure hope so. Disney has to collapse just to show that this "woke" agenda is not what people want but normal and decent stories. People watch movies to be entertained not be preached about the lunacy of talentless people
This about nailed my sentiments exactly. Using established titles, or pulling in recognized characters, then giving you something totally different seems like bait and switch. Only, you cant get your money back. Or the time of your life wasted watching this crap.
Easy money.
People have been speculating about this at least since Captain Marvel became a billion dollar movie with how many empty theater pictures people were posting online...
It's not just the poor quality content that's killing them, it's their method of making movies in general. Their budgets get ballooned because they don't start making their movies with a clear creative vision in mind going into it. They make movies by committee, so they treat the actual production like a micromanaged rough draft that they'll edit and change in post production based on which version gets the least negative response in focus testing. Then they make their VFX teams do new effects to replace old ones again and again for each version of new scenes they add or change without giving them a whole lot of extra time that they need to do it well. I've heard their on-set catering is supposedly through the roof as well. Movies like Dune Part Two and especially Godzilla: Minus One and The Creator prove that you can make quality special effects on sub-$200 million budgets, and at least two of those were great movies. Regardless of what you think aboht any one of those movies, they proves that you can save money simply by having a clearly defined creative vision from the start and try to do it right the first time in production so that you don't need to rework everything in post (or require as few reshoots as possible).
it's so bizarre to actually witness this.
i Remember the Disney renaissance period, absolute bangers around every corner, even the flopped movies like Treasure Planet were breathtaking.
Disney had this.... this unmatched quality. The score, the surroundings, the characters, the chemistry.
It just worked, like no one could get it to work. It was like magic, especially as a kid growing up back then.
And now they throw that empire that's about 100 year in the making down the drain, because they wan't to satisfy the proper connections/investors, despite that being their definite end.
And i still don't understand why, they don't just satisfy the ESG-scores, they make the whole movie bland and boring.
Even the kids i know today agree that they like most old Disney movies more.
If i don't watch it being an older fan, and the kids will forget the mediocre movies within a year, then who is this for?
Disney became like this snowpiercer train, building up speed non-stop, until one day, the rails end at a cliff or mountain foot.
And this is the thing with the entertainment industry, you can have 90 years of bangers and amazing things, it might even save you for 1 year of bad things, but the moment you start making flop after flop for like, 5-10 years in a row? It hits rly hard. That's how the entertainment industry goes.
Hopefully we'll see a pivot in Disney's direction soon...
Remember when they went thru the Direct-to-Video Era with their animated sequels? They eventually stopped and went back to creating films like Tangled and Wreck-it Ralph.
So maybe we'll see them go down a similar path again... But who knows?
They thought they'd make it up in merchandise and the parks. They never dreamed the consumers would turn away from those products too.
It’s baffling as to no one can get them to understand what they are doing is wrong.
I appreciate CGI when it's executed skillfully. However, some filmmakers seem to rely on CGI as a quick fix, neglecting the essential elements that truly captivate audiences. It's as if they believe impressive visual effects alone can compensate for weak writing, shallow character development, and a story that prioritizes messages over substance. But audiences aren't fooled by just flashy effects. We can tell when a movie's missing heart and depth.
Exactly! 100%
Yeah, basically they cheated not only the movie production process but themselves. They didn't grow, they didn't improve, they took a shortcut and gained nothing. They achieved a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained.
Isn't "lying to their own investors" about profits also called "fraud"?
It's adorable how the media keeps saying 'allegedly' as if everyone doesn't know precisely what they are doing...
They say "allegedly" to the investors, don't want them thinking they hurting their investments now, they want that easy money from the ESG and the DEI.
Blaming Toxic Fans for The Marvels Underperfomance is not good for Disney but it is THEIR Fault to blame.
At this point is just want to see Disney going full broke. Even if they turn around their shit somehow (which they won't) i will try not to give any money for them. Let it be an example.
I want to see disney continuing to lose money.
I want to see them broke!!
Of course they’re lying, all they do is lie….
I've always believe they faked Captain Marvel's box office.
The Marvels flopping as it did gave me a lot of vindication
So satisfying to see Disney get what they deserve!
Is there nothing Disney won’t stoop too low to?
*Employees* like Kathleen Kennedy etc
are Managers of the Owners’ [Shareholders] money.
She works for them!
I know it’s been asked before;
*How does she justify collecting a monthly Salary?*
Easy, bailout money, 2 billion dollars out of the government's pockets every single flop they make.
Reality is if Disney screws up Deadpool & Wolverine.......it's over for.Disney!!! Because they will have basically sucked fuck you to the actual paying fans of Disney.
I remember a man called Joe Grant who used to work at Disney, he lived to be 96 years old and he is not related to you Jesse.
As a paying patron of past Disney films, can I also sue for time wasted? lmao
I am so sad that Disney is not the Disney that I and many others grew up with. Their movies were so great because they told good stories with heart and great animation with passion.
“Insanity mean repeating the exact same thing over and over and over until you get the different results. LOL 😂
It’s always been hilarious how the movie studio has enough unmitigated gal to suggest that the reason people aren’t going to see their movie is because we as movie watcher are somehow toxic. If your movie doesn’t set that standard of audience interest. we as watcher of film are not gonna put down almost $20 for your stupid movie if you’ve made a bad product. The toxicity is not coming from us - it’s coming from the studio, who think that they have made absolute perfect movie one in fact, the story they came up with is absolutely disjointed to the point where it’s literally unwatchable not to mention embarrassing to those of us who have a critical thinking standard for the storytelling that we appreciate. If you put $200 million into a movie turn around and call us toxic. I don’t know how you think you’re gonna win anybody over by putting out inferior product and then on the backend call us the film connoisseur’s toxic for not watching your bad product. Ego at its absolute worst.
Um... Raylan Givens up in here?... "You DO know the definition of insanity, right? Doing the exact same thing over and over, and over, expecting things to work out different."
So the rumors of drag queens, woman, and other DEI people lined up for tickets at the theaters isn’t true? 😳😱
This is a consequence of a society that not only encourages but glorifies narcissism. We live in an era, where a good amount of people LOVE to concept of 'Mary Sue', whereas in the past it was the worst insult you could get from the storytelling perspective.
#EndtheMCU
#DecanonizeDisneyStarWars
Fair point
Black Girl Magic. Can’t get enough of that. 😂😂😂😂
Disney's addiction to BlackRock money and their box office failures should be held up as an example of "your mind on drugs."
the first time ive ever commented ... i have a 10 year old that i love and she loved barbie but i will go out of my way to make sure we never give disney a dollar. My daughter knows disney is evil.
At this point, nothing less then a complete overhaul of the upper management of Disney will save them. And at that, the corporate overlords will fight tooth and nail to keep their power.
They have eggs in other baskets. Yes, their films are failing, but that could be what Bob wants, so film finances can be put in a different venture.
In the movie "The Producers" an accountant realises the play productions made more money when they were a failure compared to a successful play. Maybe Disney has realised the same thing.
If you invest in Disney, remember a fool and their money are soon parted…🤪
How to fix Disney:
GET RID OF BOB AND HIS CRONIES!!!
Buisness wise never invest your stocks into the movie tv or game industry
If you don't talk about Disney's animated projects you drop the ball.
What do u expect wen u let weirdos handle ur money! 10+ yrs 🙄
This problem with inflated budgets for films has also hit the Deadpool series. The third entry is rumored to cost between $200-$300 million. And since each of the earlier movies made about $900 million, the chances of having a huge hit becomes much less likely.
Investors are what killed this industry. They're basically loan sharks. They provide and make promises of profit to Disney, so Disney bows to their every whim. The focus is on profits, not entertainment. Disney's forgotten its purpose in the industry. So, making good movies first over movies designed to pander to a large audience in hopes of raking in profits is not going to be in the cards for them unless they get rid of the investor and focus on being an entertainment giant who forges ahead on their own merits like they did in the old days.
"Go woke, go broke!" 😂 I have a sliver of hope that Disney goes broke, though I doubt it'll happen. 😂 No, Disney wouldn't make more money; they keep producing woke content that many people don't want.
i hope disney fail for their wokeness.
Disney aren't going to change - they will keep on pumping out crap
Although higher budgets equal more risk the main problem is not listening to the target audience and instead insulting them by calling them names. I never seen a strategy of pissing off the consumer be effective in any field.
With the exeption of Cinderella,
None of the live-action remakes are close to the original
Blame everyone else but not yourself. WHAT A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PLAN! Keep spending, keep spending keep losing keep losing. There you go...
Disney spent the last 4-5 years hiring all the wrong people, they will make crap content until that problem gets solved,, the issue is that its a 20/30 year problem. You can't just fire 80% of your workforce. Disney will eventually downsize to fit the amount of money they can make with the talent they have. They just haven't figured out what that size is yet, they're only as big as they are now because of how well they did prior to all the DEI hires.
People do not like the writing of the modern Disney film. If they did they would see the films, this vague, ambiguous idea that it is simply the 'market' and that the creatives have no responsibility in these failures, is utterly incoherent.
You can smell the desperation from a mile away
The reason why Disney fails is much more simple. All the things Jesse mentions are the symptoms - not the reason. They became a feminist propaganda company which doesn't care about the story, the audience or anything but just putting the message from their personal manifesto everywhere without much bother. Same issues were with ussr cinematography but it worked cuz a) Iron Curtain prevented peopel from watching really good films and they had no choice, b) movie goers were much less experienced and enjoyed the primitive movies that came out. Same issues with russian classical literature of 19th centure: boring plot if any, dumb and flat characters which you hate as a reader, no explanations but lots and lots of philosophy which mostly sounds liek prpaganda. And it actually was! And just as feminism does propagande many pretty dumb points, russian classical writers also did it in their own way. So once the art becomes a weapon of promitive propaganda it stops being enjoyable cuz the creators don't care about the quality of a story or the comfort and joy of their audience - all they care about is putting as much message as possible and that really sucks
I presume Disney owe an enormous debt to a bank and they're servicing the interest on the debt rather than pay the debt off. I imagine they're using their back catalogue of assets as insurance that they'll keep servicing the debt. I imagine that they've sorted the legal aspects so that when this comes to light, each individual employee bears no responsibility - they'll leave with golden parachutes.