Can Disney be stopped?
SONY ALWAYS WINS BABY!
>>82523043
Just wait until the Valiant movie universe knocks out the MCU
>>82523043
>>82522644
Given the just constant stream of sewage out of Sony, I find myself wondering "SHOULD Disney be stopped?" Because at least I can enjoy Disney movies.
>>82523097
>Sony
>Not "the rest of the AAA movie industry"
Disney can and will be stopped when the industry comes up with something better. In the meantime, I'll enjoy my near perfect blockbusters punctuated by movies like Drive, Dope, and Pacific Rim.
Entry level shit for sure, but something the people with actual money aren't going to take a chance on. Maybe if the GitS movie does well they'll start adapting the Toonami line-up? I'm guessing we'll get one good, heart-filled adaptation out of the bunch.
No.
Soon they shall control everything. All hail the mouse
>>82523097
Yeah this. Like holy shit, Sony can't stop derping all over itself and scrambling for a new property, WB is still getting it's feet wet but still can't match up and I think the less said about Universal right now the better
>>82523198
I never want live-action anime adaptations to be popular. Ever.
>>82523256
>I never want live-action anime adaptations to be popular. Ever.
agreed.
A lot of the charm is lost if they go live action
Also anon doesn't get that if successful we will see a very serious overhaul in anime and manga like we did in comics where they will use that medium to market to the movies and vice versa
>>82523198
Universal is their only real competition as far as blockbusters go. Last year they had Jurassic World, Furious 7, Minions, Straight Outta Compton, Pitch Perfect 2 and 50 Shades of Grey, all big hits although obviously 50 Shades is shit. Disney meanwhile had Star Wars The Force Awakens, Avengers 2, Inside Out, Cinderela and Ant Man as big hits. Problem is Disney has continued their forward momentum while Universal for the moment seems fresh out of good ideas, if The Huntsman Winters War is any example.
They'll be stopped some ti e around the BFG and Pete's Dragon. At least 1 if not both them are going to bomb. They'll pick it up again with a minor hit in Queen of Katwe and than go back to the top with Dwayne Johnson's Moana.
>>82525071
They still have GotG 2, the next Star Wars episodic release, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Toy Story 4. How did we even get to 4 by the way? How do you write a fourth Toy Story movie?
>>82525701
With a new set of characters.
>>82525810
Apparently another adventure, this time to find Little Bo Peep.
As long as it has Toy Story in the title, it will probably break through to a billion at the box office. So no, Disney can not apparently be stopped.
>>82526109
They should've just made more tv specials. Those were enjoyable enough without breaking apart the movies' trilogy status.
>>82526109
And don't forget they're making a Maleficent-esque movie about Cruella Deville called Cruella and a Jungle Cruise movie starring Dwayne Johnson.
>>82522644
No
But that's mainly because Disney is the only company not lighting themselves on fire daily. It's truly amazing how incompetent the rest of the industry is.
Yes, it competes with my show
>>82527015
Disney IS incompetent. They wanted to appeal to boys? They bought Star Wars AND turned into Feminism The Movie. What little boy looks at Rey and says that he wants to be the girl? No boy worth his salt and if he says it? His peers will mock him for it. Fuck Disney's Gynocentrism garbage propaganda.
>>82522644
>Disney
REEEEEEEEE
>>82527217
Are you kidding me, that's genius. Boys are already buying Star Wars stuff and will continue to do so no matter what. By adding Mary Sue Rey you get girls buying it too. So the boys have their Finn jackets and their Kylo Ren masks and the girls have their Rey goggles and pink t-shirts with her face on it.
It worked too. Disney made a 3 Billion dollar profit last fiscal quarter, best in company history, driven mainly by ticket sales, Disney park events, merch and licensing deals related to the Force Awakens.
Why stop it?
>>82522644
Yes, we boycott the Marvel movies until they give us Mahvel 4. Until Disney forces Marvel to renew the licences with Capcom, making it a lot cheaper and then giving us Mahvel 4.
>>82527535
But why share the Marvel game money with Capcom when they can keep it for themselves?
>>82527337
What girls, though?
Since the movie has come out, I have yet to see a single young female aspire to Rey or her existence. Of course, we still see young boys who go "star wars!", but not for her. BB-8 is what caught their attention, because Rey is a top tier shit character.
That was the biggest fail ever to try and make nerdy females. The only way that works is with magic and vampires, apparently.
>>82527596
For the same reason they aren't making Star Wars games?
>>82527617
>>82527337
>>82527217
We will see how well Rouge One does in the toy market.
>>82527617
Wasn't there a big thing about girls wanting to buy Rey merchandise but there wasn't any because Disney anticipated Kylo Ren merch would sell best so they made a bunch of that instead?
>>82527217
You make it sound as if boys suddenly stopped buying Star Wars toys
>>82527617
Well, maybe not always for her, but her inclusion still worked in reeling them in. If those little girls just happened to be smarter than their older counterparts and ignored the pandering for better characters it still doesn't change that some older women went out to buy Star Wars stuff when they might not have otherwise.
What else will they add to their entertainment empire?
>>82527662
It wasn't really a big thing, it was twitter thing. A few hundred people actually cared and everyone else was just posting the hashtag to show support for the injustice of the day.
>>82522644
>a company that owns a chunk of all the media we see
>they have enough pull to have the copyright laws change every time one of their IP could go into public domain
not a chance mate
>>82524183
>Japanese adaptations have minimal budget and can't be convincingly dubbed
>American adaptations cast white people as Japanese characters and shit all over the source material
It's sad, really.
>>82527732
Nah mang, it was stores phoning up their suppliers to say "when are we getting in Rey merch we keep getting asked for it".
Twitter just blew up about it because SJWs/it's hilarious, YMMV.
>>82522644
Let's not forget the best one of the 21st century.
>>82527652
I can't imagine it will do anywhere near as well. Putting aside the fact that many people and parnet will probably be star wars out by Fall of this year, there is just a lack of clearly marketable characters. No cute ball robot, no sith lord, no deserting storm trooper, no pilot, no chrome storm trooper, ANOTHER brunette british girl but this time who is not a jedi? Fuck that, Moana toys will be out by then. Those'll sell better.
>>82523079
>the deathmate movie will crash the entire movie industry
>>82527535
>tfw Mahvel 4 never
>>82527722
They haven't bought Hasbro....yet.
>>82527800
>Fuck that, Moana toys will be out by then. Those'll sell better.
No, no, and no. Moana WILL bomb, and Disney fucking knows it. Brown princesses are box office cancer. There's a reason they're shifting their merchandising attention from Moana to Zootopia. They saw the writing on the wall, because they know all too well what's gonna happen.
>Disney presents: 1994
>Starring: Zootopia as the Lion King and Moana as Pocahontas.
>>82527817
We must force their hand brother, we shall strike them with fear. We shall make them cry, we shall hit them where it hurts. And when they ask us why we will answer
WHEN'S MAHVEL, Mahvel Baybee!.
>>82527827
My god, don't make me think about it.
Dnd as a Hasbro brand was already a pretty hard thing to digest.
Dnd and related setting < possessed by Hasbro < possessed by Disney...Brrr.
>>82527617
Yes, you, Anon, denizen of /co/, are clearly the final word on what the female youth enjoy and like.
>>82527484
old men, warning warning
>>82527888
this us sadly the truth
>>82527888
First of all, Princess and the frog didn't bomb it did good, but not great and apparently has done well on DVD and in merch. If Tiana's movie had done horribly than facilier wouldn't be on the Halloween parade every year and she wouldn't be on as much merch as she is.
Second, you're forgetting one thing. Like Eddie Murphy in Mulan and Robin Williams in Aladdin, a star has been brought in to carry the movie for our non-white princess. And he's currently the biggest movie star on the planet.
>>82528095
>sadly
Zootopia was great, it was one of those VERY rare occurrences where commercial success == quality.
>>82528099
PATF made 267 million worldwide. That's chump change to Disney, and, for as a flagship Disney film, it's considered a failure. The only thing the movie has going for it is the Rock, and something tells me the demographic the audience is being marketed to doesn't care much about Dwayne. It's gonna make 500 million, in the VERY best case scenario.
>>82528099
>the Rock is the biggest movie star.
that's arguable. He's big but I don't think he's as big as some others like RDJ.
your point still stands though
>>82528262
>make 500 million, in the VERY best case scenario.
this, i feel like it will be the Good Dinosaur of this year.
>>82522644
Considering how objectively awful TFA is, and how utterly successful it was in the face of that, no. They can do literally no wrong in the eyes of the masses.
>>82528293
RDJ's drawing power is like Chris Pines, very specific to his particular star making vehicle. Take him out of Iron Man and the only other successful films he has in this era of his career are the Sherlock Holmes one, which aren't even getting made anymore. Chris Pine similarly, can;t buy a hit outside of Star trek.
Dwayne on the other hand is a big deal in everything he's in and hasn't had a flop since race to witch mountain.
Disney is one of the largest companies in the world. They have enough money to buy politicians and change the laws and their media inoculates people into the fold. One day the business world will have enough power to drop all pretense about nations and governments having any power. The curtain will part and they will reveal that we've been living in the United Corporations of Disney this whole time. Smile, work your 9 to 9 job, and if you exceed expectations you get a free Coke.
>>82528516
old men, running the world. A new age.
They'll be stopped around the time they run out of animated films to turn into live action blockbusters. Which if you include all of their films and all of Pixars as well as the two or so they release every year, they should run out of movies sometime around the time where the sun becomes a red giant and absorbs the earth.
>>82528293
Have you seen the Rock? He's fucking massive and RDJ is a tiny little manlet. Pretty sure the Rock is WAY bigger than him.
>>82527484
>>82528079
>>implying Disney is not JC Denton
>>82522644
>CW opened with a worse Thursday than BvS
Yes
Since we're on the topic is Disney: Who is your Disneyfu /co/?Pic related is mine.
>>82529686
He's super kawaii. And the real hero of Force Awakens.
>>82523198
>live action anime adaptions
No please, i dont want normalfags to ruin another thing i enjoy.
>>82529907
Too late. Look at this picture closely.
>>82529566
Pretty sure that's a lie
>>82530179
No, it did. But if BvS opening weekend drop from friday to sunday tells us anything it's that word of mouth maters and Civil Wars word of mouth is great.
>>82529978
I saw the partial casting list for GITS, they got aramaki right, but I'm not a fan of Batou. He's not meaty enough.
>>82527207
RebeccO Sugar you DIE
>World's most popular resorts and theme parks
>Star Wars/ LucasFilms
>Marvel
>Fairy Tales in general
>Maker Studios
>ABC
>ESPN
>The Muppets
>Pixar
>Radio Disney
>Disney Channel/Disney XD
>Touchstone Pictures
>Hollywood Records
>Property in Times Square, New York City
> and several islands
It's a Disney World. We're just living in it,
>>82530360
I like how the dollar sign eyes look like retro pie eyes in the thumbnail
>>82529566
How fitting this scene is part of a dream sequence that is literally the bad end for everyone involved.
KILL THE MOUSE
TAKE HIS HOUSE
>>82522644
When ed catmull released his book "creativity inc". i wondered; why would one of Disney's leaders give away his gold making secrets for 15$?
My supposition is, Ed witnessed something extremely wrong at Disney right now, or in the making, and he gave away the secret to counter an eventuality of Disney holding a monopoly.
So what would be thoses problematic plans, schemes, that would get Ed to pull out his book?
>>82530428
There’s a monstrous conglomerate
It’s circling like a vulture
It won’t rest until all culture’s in its grip
They got Marvel and Star Wars and ABC and Muppets
And now even ESPN and Blip
Kenneth Graeme, A.A. Milne, P.L. Travers
All consumed and entombed in this house
When they’re done, call Tom Hanks
And they’ll “save Mr. Banks”
What a crock! CUT THE SCHLOCK!
Kill the mouse!
>>82529430
I think they mean as a star, although you'd still be right.
>>82525071
>3 out of 4 films released have been massively critically and commercially succesful
Say what you will about Disney but they know what they're doing. Finest Hours may have been a flop but Zootopia and Jungle Book more than made up for that.
>>82524260
>obviously 50 Shades is shit
You say this like any of the other films you mentioned were any good.
>>82531535
What's wrong with Furious 7, Pitch Perfect 2 and Straight Outta Compton. Those are all wonderfully entertaining times at the multiplex.
>>82531535
>>82522644
Is Frozen still a thing?
I know theres gonna be a sequel but does Disney still advertise it to hell?
>>82532432
Literally every store I go to has a Frozen section. So yes.
Who's the Disney owners as of right now? I thought it was inherited by Walt's kids but I'm not sure.
>>82527741
>dubbed
Good, hope they keep plebs like you away.
>>82533553
You know, I'm not sure. I forgot he had kids.
>>82527617
My cousin is a Star Wars geek.
She's 32 now.
But back in the day she was obsessed and went to Jedi camp and a bunch of con's dressed as a jedi.
She's a very odd duck though.
I'll have to ask her how she felt about the recent expansion.
>>82527617
They're planning on Rogue One to fill that niche, but Star Wars isn't primarily aimed at girls.
>>82530490
"Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company" -- Dogbert
No.
One day the entire world will be run by Disney and WalMart.
>>82523079
>Zephyr ends up killing cape movies
>>82529566
>BvS opened everywhere at the same time
>CW just opened in US and some territories
I fucking hate you people for making drama about nothing
>>82529566
Considering how Batman Vs. Superman opened world wide, I think marvel is doing pretty swell.
>>82530589
What keeps the Mouse alive? The fact that millions
Are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced, oppressed.
The Mouse can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
In keeping its humanity repressed.
For once you must try not to shirk the facts:
The Mouse is kept alive by bestial acts.
>>82527827
Give them time. Disney will want that miniature horse moolah sooner or later. And then we'll finally get to see ROM and the Micronauts come back home to Marvel.
>>82533553
After the deaths of Walt and Roy Disney, the position of CEO was handed to Ron Miller, Walt's son-in-law (who was trained by Walt and Roy). Despite quite a few successes to his name, on the whole, Miller was a crappy leader (to the point that that the company was routinely targeted by corporate raiders) and was ousted in 1984, replaced by the Disney Triumvirate: former Paramount CEO Michael Eisner, former Warner Bros. Vice Chairman Frank Wells, and former Paramount president of production Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The Triumvirate worked out very well for a decade (indeed, under its leadership, we saw the birth of the Disney Renaissance), until Wells was killed in a helicopter accident in 1994. Without him to temper Eisner's control freak nature, Eisner and Katzenberg had a major falling out, prompting the latter to leave Disney later that year and co-found its modern rival: DreamWorks.
Eisner was himself ousted in 2005, and was replaced as Disney's CEO by ABC Chairman and Disney president (thus the number two executive in the company, right below Eisner himself) Bob Iger, who is its current CEO.
It was under Iger that Disney acquired Pixar (in 2006; up until then, Disney was merely Pixar's distributor and the owner of the resulting IPs), Marvel (in 2009), and Lucasfilm (in 2012). Iger plans to remain as Disney's CEO until June 30, 2018.
>>82539629
Yeah, but who has controlling interest in the company? Who owns the most shares?
>>82523043
who's the Sony broad?
>>82539698
your mom
>>82539698
Lauren faust replacement on Medusa.
>>82527217
You might need to adjust your tin foil hat there a bit
>>82539674
Until his death, Steve Jobs of Apple was Disney's largest shareholder, by way of the Pixar buyout (he owned Pixar at the time, and so received a great deal of Disney shares as a result). His estate, run by his wife Laureen, remains Disney's largest shareholder with 131 million shares (a 7.5% stake in the company).
>>82523043
>Literally Memes: The Movie
>Sony Animation has made all its money in the last 6 years by shoving their marketing down everyone's throat, and now they're about to do it again.
>Facebook moms will love every minute of it
>>82527831
kill yourself altright faggot
>>82528293
RDJ's drawing power is restricted to playing like two characters.
The Rock is charismatic and a draw all over the place from the biggest F&F movies to shit films like San Andreas.
>>82522644
Not this decade.
Maybe next decade.
It really doesn't take much to build a legacy up, or tear it down.
Disney was an unstoppable juggernaut of amazing movies all throughout the 1990s, and then they were basically forgotten until the latter 'aughts. It could happen again.
Well, Disney is in the process of buying Games Workshop. So, I'll be very interested to see their next "Disney Princess."
They became unstoppable once they bought Lucasfilm for chump change. I mean, that's it. They won. Fuck it. They are so deep in property riches that once they got Marvel and Star Wars they literally said fuck Tron and dropped it.
Tron is literally dead, not because it failed to make money but because they don;t need it to make money. There hasn't been a Pirates movie, old standby in 5 years because fuck it, they don;t need. It's now a mid tier franchise.
>>82540123
Wait, what?! Disney is buying Games Workshop? When was this announced? And, more importantly, can we expect more lawsuits over the commercial use of the term "space marine"?
>>82540123
>Disney buying Games Workshop
Aw shit! Finally, a GOOD business decision!
>>82540221
For which company? Because let me remind you, Disney has more than made back its money on the Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm deals (IIRC, 2012's "The Avengers" alone profited more than what they spent buying Marvel). If it's Games Workshop you're talking about, I wouldn't know. I don't really know what their business practices are like beyond suing everyone who dares use the term "space marine" without paying them.
>>82540258
For both, really. Disney gets yet another giant wad of frothing, ravenous fanboys, and GW hopefully gets a new product director whose main motive isn't "Let's take everything our customers like and systemically destroy it and then wonder why people are mad"
>>82540324
And then we get a Ciaphas Cain movie?
>>82529890
ma nigga
finn was one of my favorite parts of the movie
If the dethroning of Jungle Book from #1 at the box office by Civil war proves anything it's that the only thing that can kills Disney is Disney.
>>82540324
>GW hopefully gets a new product director whose main motive isn't "Let's take everything our customers like and systemically destroy it and then wonder why people are mad"
Looking at Marvel and Star Wars, I sincerely doubt Disney owning GW would change that.
>>82541016
You know darn well that the people who are mad at Disney's business and creative decisions for Lucasfilm and Marvel properties are a subset of a fringe group. If that weren't true, the company wouldn't be coming off of their best fiscal quarter in company history.
>Disney buys GW.
>One of the execs doesn't do his homework.
>Oks a 40k movie with a "Dark Eldar Princess."
>Oh god, what did we do!
>It outsells Star Wars.
>The Dark Eldar are now more popular with the public than the Space Marines ever were.
>>82540963
The king is dead
Long live the king
>>82529890
>>82540618
Agreed. The bantz between him, Poe and Han were great.
>>82541517
And watch the same thing happen again three weeks from now when Alice Through The Looking Glass comes out.
>>82530258
>they got aramaki right
Because he's actually asian
>>82541773
And it'll probably happen again when Finding Dory comes out. Although, I'll probably be at Central Intelligence that weekend
>>82541838
You'd think bombs like Gods of Egypt and Lone Ranger would make studios rethink.
>>82530360
>Ghibli when?
>>82527741
Dude, I don't wanna belive the /co/mblr meme. But you guys are making it real fucking hard to believe. Like, even normies on twitter and youtube don't buy that race swap shit.
>>82523043
As much as everyone hates it this movie is going to make money. I work at an elementary school and right now every kid has an emoji plush toy. Apparently McDonald's and Sony are fucking giving their emoji offspring to the children of America. The kid market is strong and they all want to see it.
>>82527775
...for furfags
>>82525071
I'm so worried about Pete's Dragon. Mostly because it's not going to be a musical and the music was one of the best things about the original.
>>82537482
Its not exactly aimed at boys either though, I mean sure it leans more towards boys than girls, but really the whole thing seems pretty gender neutral, compared to Marvel movies and Princess movies
>>82529978
But we still have our ecchi and moe stuff in anime. That will keep normalfags away, right?
>>82528516
>They have enough money to buy politicians and change the laws
I get the law-changing part with their notorious meddling with copyright laws...but buying politicians?
>>82543774
I loved pete's dragon as a kid and caught it anytime it came on television and I honestly can not remember a single solitary song from it.
This is honestly the first time I've ever heard anyone refer to it as a musical. I just liked the fact that people finally saw his imaginary dragon and he sneezed snot on his jerk family and they flew off.
It was fun and stuff.
>>82545387
>Implying disney doesn't have half of congress and the supreme court in their pocket
You sweet naive adorable soul.
>>82522644
My question is, what video game company will they buy? they bought a comics company, and a movie franchise, so it seems like a video game company is the logical next step...
That Epic Rap Battle between Stan Lee and Jim Henson's ending sums it all up.
>>82545466
Ubisoft is the first thing that comes to mind.
>>82527617
Do you work at a toy store? Or at a daycare and regularly interact with children? Do you have any basis for that comment other than just "your ass".
>>82542527
I... what? What are you saying here? Are you saying that Hollywood does NOT cast white people in roles that were orignally written for other races, because they do that all the fucking time.
>>82540150
Doesn't this threaten a potential monopoly? If they're so big that they can reign unchallenged and control everything, doesn't that create a legal issue?
>>82545688
the laws bend over backwards for Disney, not the other way around.
a Disney president in 2020, mark my words
>>82522644
Do they need to be? Apart from their admittedly massive abuse of copyright laws, which is concerning, I can't see them doing much that's worth worrying about. If the mere existence of corporate power scared me that much, then pic related would have caused a panic attack.
>>82524260
>50 Shades of Grey
>big hit
See? That's why misanthropy is a justified reaction to human condition and not just edgelord shit.
>>82523043
that reminds me i need to watch that food fight movie everybody is comparing this to.
>>82527337
>that's genius
All Disney ever did was steal shit, adapt or buy other successful companies. Buying fucking Star Wars and it's successful despite isn't surprising at all. It's one of the shittiest movies I've ever seen. Disney can fuck off.
>>82545876
on a related note i really dident mind the product placement in hotel Transylvania 2.
a lot of the jokes called for phones and frankly it would have been retarded for them not to shill there own phone and considering they were being introduced to technology by 1 person it makes sense they would all go with the phone he suggests
its possible those phone jokes were only written as an excuse to put sonys products in but i doubt it
>>82545767
It probably should scare you. If everthing is coming down to being a handful of giant companies, that means a handful of people will decide what we eat, how we live, how we think.
>>82545466
They seem to be quite happy with how well Star Wars Battlefront went with working with DICE and EA. That could be their next target.
>>82545876
No you don't. Unless you like movies that can cause you physical pain, you don't need to watch Food Fight.
>>82522644
Only one man can save us...
>>82546030
I actually agree. Hotel Transylvania was a good example of how to do product placement. If a SONY film just happens to have a seen involving a cell phone, why shouldn't it be SONY phone? A bad example would be a SEARS logo taking half a screen in a fight to the death between aliens in a small town. But that could never happen.
>>82546099
only movie i ever failed to sit through was strippers vs zombies and even then that was at least partially because i was really tired.
>>82545767
what is it about food that causes so many products to end up under 1 roof
>>82546130
Ah yes, the man who is so sure that people still care about Avatar that he's planning 4 of them.
How's that Battle Angel Alita adaptation coming desu?
>>82546130
You damn fool! He's in league with the Mouse too!
>>82546137
did did that actually happen
>>82546148
Are you saying people DON'T care about Avatar, no one seemed to in 2009, but people saw that anyway. Not only did Based Jim make the highest grossing movie in the world, he did it TWICE!
>>82546140
Well I'm just giving you fair warning. I actually enjoying watching bad movies and laughing about what makes them bad, but Food Fight was honestly painful to watch. It was like when you get on an amusement park ride and you think it might be good for a laugh, but 30 seconds in you're nauseous and the ride still has an hour and a half to go.
>>82546164
Oh, it happened.
>>82546177
Yeah, say what you want about Jam Cam Cam but not even Disney could defeat him in box office and they make 300 sequels a year.
>>82546177
>Are you saying people DON'T care about Avatar,
Yes
>no one seemed to in 2009
This is untrue. Avatar was the biggest thing for a while. Then everybody stopped caring about it after like 6 months because no info about a sequel and everybody realized it was just another Dances with Wolves/Pocahontas environmentalism movie.
>>82546158
Oh shit I forgot about this
>>82527337
But why would any boy on Earth think Kylo Ren anything is worth buying?
The entire point of his character is that he's not as cool as Darth Vader.
And his mask looks like shit.
>>82546212
In all honesty, Jim did cheat. He re-released Avatar and Titanic, and I'm sure he re-released Avatar twice.
>>82546224
Well, that's what the Finn jacket is there for. Merch for boys and girls of all taste levels. Buy yours at Target today!
>>82546252
>cheat
Disney break the law all the time, fucko. They lower the wages even if they have billions and billions. If you honestly think that Disney doesn't fuck over everyone they can you're very naive.
>>82542471
Never ever.
But it's probably for the best.
By the way,Square Enixwhen?
>>82546322
wit, can a non-japanese company buy a japanese company?
>>82546224
Well, before the movie you weren't to know that Ren's gimmick was being a Vader fanboy, getting outsmarted by defecting Stormtroopers and getting beat by a teenage girl. Before the movie, he was just a guy in a dark cloak with a weird lightsaber. Marketing gold. By the time the movie came out Kylo Ren merch had been out for 6 months and now even if kids don't want his stuff fangirls certainly do, for some reason.
The only thing that can stop them is themselves. For example, they're currently on a masterful run at the box office which will undoubtedly be undone by Petes Dragon.
Seriously, of all the dark age disney movies to remake, why petes dragon?
>>82522644
They must be stopped, no matter the cost.
>>82546625
Hasbro is in league with Disney, so that's not gonna happen, Optimus.
>>82546715
Disney is really running out of original material if they're making a movie of Hawaii
>>82546722
How ya figure?
>>82546803
Given that the entire industry is adapting games, anime, only making sequels. They've basically covered the most famous fairy tales and now they're remaking their animated movies. Shit's boring as fuck.
>>82546803
I presume his reasoning is because Lilo and Stitch exists, or some such.
>>82539772
Oh yeah, I forgot they dropped her from that movie.
>>82546722
>>82546838
... What? They're running out of original material because they're making original material? I... I guess that makes sense.
>>82544716
For now.
>>82547091
What the fuck are you talking about
>>82547170
I'm trying to figure out what that idiot is talking about. What are you talking about?
>>82546722
>>82546838
I can't tell if this moron is angry that they're making an original movie instead of a sequel or adaptation or what's going on here.
>>82547188
Probably wasn't the same person. I think he means he wants more Zootopia movies and fewer sequels or something
>>82547092
>Walt Disney Picture presents Tenchi Muyo!
>>82522644
Nope
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zMrVJjAQM
>>82530360
I just want other studiosWarner fucking Bros Universal and Sonyto get there shit together and start making good movies
I hate this monopoly shit
>>82546346
Sure. Though, they certainly do their damnedest to make it a pain the ass. It's gotten a lot more common in the last decade or so. Their economy got hit as hard by the crash as the rest of us and they've been making small changes to laws and attitudes towards foreign acquisition.
>>82546715
say what you will about the quality of equestria girls nothing else could have brought disney and hasbro so close
>>82547328
Well, universal did great last year. This year, it's not looking so good.
>>82546130
Didn't he and FOX pussy out and move the release date of Avatar 2 to avoid Star Wars Episode 8?
>>82547683
It's called strategy, as soon as people realise that Star Wars episode 8 will be shit, they'll be craving for good Sci-Fi, then Based Jim comes in for the kill.
>>82547923
They won't be looking towards Avatar for good anything.
>>82548057
Still number 1 and 2, baby. I'm pretty sure people will watch it because you can't stump the Jam Cam Cam.
>>82547210
As long as Ryoko wins, I don't care.
>>82548546
Apparently you can if you're Disney.
The question isn't if they can be stopped. The question is who will they buy next?
>>82545466
NIN
>>82546279
>>82546279
I actually bought a Finn jacket. It looks good.
>>82523043
>>82525071
>The BFG
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
>>82551515
You do know it's gonna bomb, right?
>>82545466
Didn't they already buy the developers of some racing game a while back?
If Disney were to buy another video game company, I think they'd probably want to buy Square-Enix just to keep the lucrative Kingdom Hearts franchise going (and do so in-house), but IIRC, Japanese laws prevent Japanese companies from being bought by foreign companies, so they couldn't do that anyway (and Square-Enix could never possibly hope to have the money to buy motherfucking Disney).
>>82525701
Incidentally, Ghost in the Shell is no longer part of that schedule. DreamWorks Pictures (which will likely need a new name and logo now that Comcast bought DreamWorks Animation [which DW Pictures had been licensing said name and logo from since their split in 2004]) is now having Paramount distribute their movies, starting with Ghost in the Shell.
Of course. Problem is, all the competition are drooling morons in comparison.
>>82543481
Get bent Peter.
>>82552701
>Of course. Problem is, all the competition are drooling morons in comparison.
Making movies is hard. On average the film industry earns less money than if you would just put that same amount of investment cash into a savings account. This means the hits only barely cover the losses of the bombs, and you can only succeed by being VERY careful with what you make. Making good movies was never a sure thing.
>>82546079
>Will decide
>not "Do decide"
Your scenario has already happened.
>>82551622
Critics will rip and tear it apart.
>>82552433
>Square-Enix just to keep the lucrative Kingdom Hearts franchise going (and do so in-house)
The day that Kingdom Hearts STOPS being developed by Nomura's gameplay teams? Boycott the series. Fuck it to hell. Story is frankly bad and it's becoming more Gynocentric piece of shit with Mary Sue twats like Kairi becoming fighters. But losing out on the gameplay? Fuck you in advance. KH already also struggles in that area with shoddy games like CoM, BBS, and DDD.
>>82554619
You don't like Aqua?
>>82547683
>George Lucas filmed bitching about how Episode I would never beat Titanic
>Avatar 2 moved to avoid fighting Episode 8
POTTERY
>>82554895
And the greatest irony of all is that he has nothing to do with Star Wars anymore.
>>82547210
K-on live action movie by disney
>>82525071
WE WUZ KAINGZ N SHIEET
>>82555864
Bait.
>>82546210
Not even trying to be subtle or make SEARS relevant to the story.
>>82552829
>disgruntled furfag telling me to get bent
>telling me, a non-faggot, to get bent
kthxbai
>>82555766
fuck
why do I want this
>>82547683
yes
>>82556928
Because the only people who do cute better than kyo Ani are Disney.
>>82555766
>With white actors
>DRUUURHH japs dont care, didnt you saw that social experiment vídeo that asked 4 people
>>82557723
Disney does have some cuties. Another reason they can't be stopped.
>>82531568
Pitch Perfect 2 was shit compared to the first one m8
>>82552433
What if......
>Ghibli closes
>Everyone regroups
>Disney opens a new animation división in japan owned by them.
>All the ex-ghiblis join.
>Disney says screw you to japadraconian slave laws and actually pays well japanese animators and dont forcé them to work all hours.
>2D is given a new shot again.
>>82559178
But what about Straight Outta Compton and Furious 7?
>>82559280
I'm not up tospeedon the Furious movies. Last one I saw was 2.
Compton is fine I guess
>>82559356
If you ever get the urge to see a newer Furious movie, know that they are cartoonishly stupid and amazing. Also, skip 3 and 4. They're not worth the trouble. Dwayne Johnson literally saved the franchise in movie 5 and it's been uphill ever since.
As for Compton, I too enjoyed it. I especially love the final scene.
>Suge Knight: "What are you gonna call that bullshit label of yours anyway?"
Pause
>Dr. Dre: "Aftermath"
>>82546079
It's not that they lack the ability to take actions which frighten me. Someone with their kind of power could easily trample the world if that was their intent. I just don't think they have done that (much) or that they will in the future. Disney's got the power to do some terrible stuff, but instead they're selling movies, toys, clothes, and theme park tickets. Why? Because it pays better. The entertainment business has done so well for them that I doubt they have greater ambitions.
>>82559589
Exactly. Overtly ruling the world takes way too much time and money and it's a logistical nightmare. Better to rule what the world watches and does in their free time instead.
>>82559678
If they want to make the kind of stuff they've produced lately, I'm not complaining. And if they take another dive in quality, other options still exist.
>>82525071
>Tim Burton Alice sequel
FUCKING STOP IT
>>82560245
Don't worry, he's not directing it, he's too busy doing the live action Dumbo and that Samuel L Jackson and Asa Butterfield movie. This one is being directed by the guy who did Muppets Most Wanted. Comes out the same weekend as Xmen Apocalypse.
