4.8 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello internet! Welcome to Film Theory, the show that won't charge you 27 million dollars a year to fix your problems |
0:23.1 | how's that for cost savings there bob eiger have you noticed that a lot of movies have bombed recently |
0:28.2 | fast x underperformed the flash is looking like it'll lose 200 million dollars to warner brothers |
0:33.1 | making it the biggest comic book movie bomb ever even objectively great films like mission impossible dead reckoning one fell short of expectations this summer but the biggest comic book movie bomb ever even objectively great films like Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning 1 fell short of expectations this summer but the |
0:41.3 | biggest victim of the box office bloodbath for the last two years has got to be |
0:45.4 | our mouse-eared overlords at Walt Disney Corp. Doctor Strange 2, Thor 3, and Black |
0:51.2 | Panther 2 all came in under expectations. The Little Mermaid vastly underperformed. |
0:55.9 | Both Ant Man 3 and the New Indiana Jones were also costly losers. |
0:59.4 | No one even remembers Disney's last animated feature film Strange World and Elemental had |
1:04.3 | the lowest opening of any modern Pixar film ever, including Light Year, the massive bomb |
1:09.4 | that was released right before it. The long and short of all of this, things are bad at the house and mouse right now. Disney shares are at the lowest that they've been since COVID hit back in March of 2020, and to turn it all around, they're considering selling off their TV businesses, spinning off ESPN, laying off thousands of employees. We are truly witnessing the death of the Disney Empire happening |
1:28.0 | in real time right now. But I think that there's a way to fix things. And the key to it |
1:32.8 | all is YouTube. So grab your popcorn as I prepare to tell you a story far more compelling |
1:37.7 | than anything's put out over the last few years. It's time to fix Disney in three easy steps. |
1:43.1 | Basically, when you break it all down |
1:44.3 | Disney's problems largely boil down to three major topics. Streaming, budget, and |
1:49.2 | story. So let's go through them point by point starting with streaming. One |
1:52.7 | thing that everyone tends to overlook when they first start a streaming service is |
1:55.8 | that you need a steady flow of content to make it work to keep people hooked on |
1:59.5 | the platform and making content tends to be expensive. But keep people hooked on the platform and making content |
2:01.4 | tends to be expensive but even if you thread the needle and manage to solve |
2:05.0 | both of those issues making lots of content for a relatively cheap price it just |
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