You could have success with it still if you simply accepted that Star Wars is a boy brand/guy brand. Obviously there are female fans but so much entertainment has been ruined due to the “there are waves of women just dying to read comics” mindset. Heck, if I took over I’d continue the EU. That’s a built in group of loyal fans right there as long as I don’t hire writers who hate Star Wars
Who also liked the property for what it already was. I really don't understand why execs don't get this. The female fans don't like it when you shit up the thing they love either.
Trading a fanbase of 80% men and 20% women for a fanbase that's 75% men and 25% women but 1/100000th the total size is beyond retarded.
Well, I say that but I do get it. Someone says, "we'll loan you money real cheap if you can hit 25% women," and then financial tricks let them have a higher ROI with flops than blockbusters.
It’s safe to say that anyone who likes Star Wars post-TLJ is not a real SW fan and doesn’t understand the franchise.
I’ve never been more confident in that. Anyone who loved the OT were sick to their stomach after every single hero was disrespected and wasted. It’s so painful to see these types of people gut your favorite franchises and wear the skin as a costume. Just clap for baby Yoda and consooom
Never believe any retard that actually says stuff like that. If women were dying to read comics, they would’ve done so when they were most popular and not when the movies were watered down to fit their short attention spans
It doesn't matter. From now on, any Star Wars media will have an implicit chick in it, and will automatically be lame and gay, no matter who makes the media or any other variable.
Kennedy was responsible for overseeing the sequel trilogy, which grossed over $4.4 billion in worldwide box office
Gross earnings don't mean shit. Disney hasn't publicized their net earnings because there aren't any. They still haven't earned back what they spent to buy Lucasfilm to begin with, and that is before taking inflation and opportunity cost into account.
I mean to be fair movie studios always commit fraudd in order to make it look like the net earnings are zero. That's how they can avoid paying their actors. They try to pressure people into signing contracts where they get a percentage of the net pay and then they fudge the numbers so that there is none
Normally, yes. In this case though, Disney has been such a mess for the last few years, that all of their fraud has been the opposite and meant to make them look profitable. They are terrified of taking a big stock price hit that would allow Nelson Peltz to do a hostile takeover.
Maybe. They would have more than quadrupled their money by now if they had just put that 4 billion into the S&P 500 and then done nothing. That is the opportunity cost.
Too little too late. How interesting that they probably would’ve had more success just releasing books and milking OT and PT if they were just gonna ignore the fanbase
I know I’m never going back to the franchise. They’d have to completely retcon the entire sequel trilogy and tell Hamil to shut the fuck up on Twitter before I would even consider giving them my money
She's not a "shrewd businesswoman" she's a "shrewd ladder climber" which you'd have to be to keep your job this long after producing such a large amount of failures.
It really just underscores how detached Hollywood is from reality. To think these people get on TV to moralize to us about our personal decisions.
Now all the YouTube Scoopers get to declare that they were right all along! Doomcock and Mike Zer0h weren't full of shit after all! They totally called this shit five years ago, guis!
Buying the most popular movie franchise in the world and trying to make it appeal to people who didn't like it was such a boneheaded move, but it's not surprising that she's retiring now that USAID is cut off.
Stars is done now anyway. As an adult I enjoyed some of it years ago and would have preferred my interest in it to slowly disappear. Instead they ruined it so I have no desire to ever watch it again and I know I'm not the only one.
Who's going to make it lame and gay now
It'll be another chick. They can't make it gay or lame enough unless they put a chick in it.
Oh shit they are going to replace her with someone more lame and gayer
Leslye Hedlund FTW?
Falling up in The World, the Disney way
Making it in Hollywood is not merit based
Next one has to be more progressive.
Brown trans-identifying male?
I heard Joy Reid is looking for work..
Don't forget disabled and a Muslim refugee
No, just someone lamer and more gay.
As long as they hate white people and want to replace them in all the movies
The power of one, the power of many.
It'll be a hideous tranny that looks like a shaved wookie wearing the cheapest and brightest party city wig he could find.
Why are you so optimistic to think he’d shave?
Kind of like how they put that DMV lady in charge of the Halo franchise.
You could have success with it still if you simply accepted that Star Wars is a boy brand/guy brand. Obviously there are female fans but so much entertainment has been ruined due to the “there are waves of women just dying to read comics” mindset. Heck, if I took over I’d continue the EU. That’s a built in group of loyal fans right there as long as I don’t hire writers who hate Star Wars
Who also liked the property for what it already was. I really don't understand why execs don't get this. The female fans don't like it when you shit up the thing they love either.
Trading a fanbase of 80% men and 20% women for a fanbase that's 75% men and 25% women but 1/100000th the total size is beyond retarded.
Well, I say that but I do get it. Someone says, "we'll loan you money real cheap if you can hit 25% women," and then financial tricks let them have a higher ROI with flops than blockbusters.
It’s safe to say that anyone who likes Star Wars post-TLJ is not a real SW fan and doesn’t understand the franchise.
I’ve never been more confident in that. Anyone who loved the OT were sick to their stomach after every single hero was disrespected and wasted. It’s so painful to see these types of people gut your favorite franchises and wear the skin as a costume. Just clap for baby Yoda and consooom
It's mostly stupid people who like stupid stuff as long as it's shiny and advertised well.
You can love the OT and be really stupid and like the new stuff. The whole skin suit deconstruction just goes over your head
Exactly
Never believe any retard that actually says stuff like that. If women were dying to read comics, they would’ve done so when they were most popular and not when the movies were watered down to fit their short attention spans
Agree completely
For the left? Challenge: Impossible
It's already lame and gay. There's no recovering from that.
No cure for AIDS
It doesn't matter. From now on, any Star Wars media will have an implicit chick in it, and will automatically be lame and gay, no matter who makes the media or any other variable.
His biggest mistake was selling it to Disney
Gross earnings don't mean shit. Disney hasn't publicized their net earnings because there aren't any. They still haven't earned back what they spent to buy Lucasfilm to begin with, and that is before taking inflation and opportunity cost into account.
Anyway, good riddance, but too little, too late.
Purchase price of $4 billion
And they spent billions on production and marketing too. They are still way under water on the deal.
Edit: and Disney only gets half of the gross. Theaters get the rest.
I mean to be fair movie studios always commit fraudd in order to make it look like the net earnings are zero. That's how they can avoid paying their actors. They try to pressure people into signing contracts where they get a percentage of the net pay and then they fudge the numbers so that there is none
Normally, yes. In this case though, Disney has been such a mess for the last few years, that all of their fraud has been the opposite and meant to make them look profitable. They are terrified of taking a big stock price hit that would allow Nelson Peltz to do a hostile takeover.
Plus the cost of that retarded hotel they dumped a ton into.
And that sequel-themed park that nobody cares about
Opportunity cost - it would have grossed $40 billion.
Her anti-white + anti-male propaganda cost disney $36 billion
Maybe. They would have more than quadrupled their money by now if they had just put that 4 billion into the S&P 500 and then done nothing. That is the opportunity cost.
Fuck, just give me $10 and the ability to tell KK to fuck off and I could’ve made them $40 billion
I literally would have watched a movie of you just saying that over and over
No worries. Disneys Star Wars hotel will help make up the costs.
Too little too late. How interesting that they probably would’ve had more success just releasing books and milking OT and PT if they were just gonna ignore the fanbase
I know I’m never going back to the franchise. They’d have to completely retcon the entire sequel trilogy and tell Hamil to shut the fuck up on Twitter before I would even consider giving them my money
If you could get some of the EU authors and continue the books I’d at least check out one
She's not a "shrewd businesswoman" she's a "shrewd ladder climber" which you'd have to be to keep your job this long after producing such a large amount of failures.
It really just underscores how detached Hollywood is from reality. To think these people get on TV to moralize to us about our personal decisions.
Looking forward to Arizona Bay.
Now all the YouTube Scoopers get to declare that they were right all along! Doomcock and Mike Zer0h weren't full of shit after all! They totally called this shit five years ago, guis!
i'll believe it when i see it
She’ll be stepping down in two more weeks.
The Justin Castro ''stepping down''.
Buying the most popular movie franchise in the world and trying to make it appeal to people who didn't like it was such a boneheaded move, but it's not surprising that she's retiring now that USAID is cut off.
Lucasfilm Must look like a mass rape crime scene
S
They should give it to an absolutely insane troon and turn it into an accidental comedy so I can enjoy it again
Stars is done now anyway. As an adult I enjoyed some of it years ago and would have preferred my interest in it to slowly disappear. Instead they ruined it so I have no desire to ever watch it again and I know I'm not the only one.
Star what? What wars? Huh? Sounds like something from my youth that I've forgotten about
Destroying The Goonies will be her parting gift.
This day is Mike Zeroh's greatest triumph and also his greatest loss. Press F to pay respects