Can Bob Iger’s Second Act Resurrect Disney?

Bloomberg2022-11-22

Walt Disney sells optimism, but internally it’s a nervous wreck.Can the mouse roar once more?Photographer: Bing Guan/BloombergWalt Disney Co. stung me for several hundred dollars at the weekend when I...

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慢的老人
2022-11-22
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$Walt Disney(DIS)$ needs to go back to basics ie. creating "family entertainment" and staying clear of politics and activism. They cannot please everybody, but they should prioritize their customers and investors above critics and "activists". [Victory]
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Facing a cost of living crisis, customers may eventually recoil at the price hikes Disney is implementing at Disney+ and its theme parks. Movie theatre audiences are also unlikely to rebound to pre-pandemic levels. Metrics such as box office receipts no longer matter as much, upending how “talent” is compensated. Though Disney has an excellent stable of stories and characters, it spent about $30 billion on content last year to feed the streaming beast, amid competition from deep-pocketed rivals such as Apple Inc., Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. Not everybody has warmed to its experiments with the Star Wars and Marvel franchises.Iger put his finger on the problem in September when hetold aconferencehis industry was entering an “age of great anxiety,” saying:People who are running these big companies are anxious. Even streaming companies are anxious. Investors are anxious. Advertisers are anxious. The creative community is anxious. Agents are anxious. Everybody’s anxious. 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