For the past decade, Disney has been the Teflon movie studio, remarkably adept at withstanding the tectonic changes impacting the film industry, and well fortified by its arsenal of key properties such as Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar.
But this year, the long-reigning titan of the box office has shown cracks as four of its biggest releases from those brands and others have struggled in theaters…
I feel that Disney is very much a bad thing for the entertainment industry. They own so many huge IPs and have proven that they by and large, can’t actually make good use of them. Just look at what they did to Star Wars movie wise. It makes me wonder how a monopoly is actually defined.
I wish they’d get broken up into smaller companies to help fix the entertainment industry.
They are definitely too big at this point.
Here is a visualisation showing just how big is Disney (I can’t spot a couple of companies that I know are owned by Disney in this, so the list is actually even bigger).
This is what happens when you hand over the reins to marketing MBAs instead of actual artists and filmmakers.
