>Disney ‘Star Wars’ Box-Office Profits Fail To Cover Cost Of Buying Lucasfilm
LOL, will they ever break even from the purchase?
>Disney Star Wars Box-Office Profits Fail To Cover Cost Of Buying Lucasfilm
>Disney ‘Star Wars’ Box-Office Profits Fail To Cover Cost Of Buying Lucasfilm
LOL, will they ever break even from the purchase?
NO!
Star Wars is dead.
Was it money well spent?
Weird how they were swearing up & down un countless articles that this WASN'T the case.
they just have to tell the truth to the stockholders, they can lie to everyone else
also we know they don't always tell the truth to stockholders
No company wants to ever admit they fricked up. It'd be weird if they weren't swearing the star wars aquisition was a success.
You would admit to the world that you bough Star Wars and fricked it so bad that now nobody wants to hear of it when 15 years ago was the BRAND?
Stop remembering things. Even if that was what was said it doesn't matter because combatting alt right nazis was more important.
There's no way they haven't made 4 billion on the IP yet.
Not 4 billion, 4 billion dollars in profit.
Very different things. When every star wars project is costing several hundreds of millions, it's a tricky situation. The d+ shit doesn't even directly make money so it's possible that the amount star wars has cost them is actually more than $4b if you consider that shit too
Is complicated, you have to account for side benefits (star wars helping others sectors like streaming/parks/etc) but also for opportunity cost. (like if they put those billion in bonds for easy and safe gains or just get something else, and then also the manpower/creativity/effort spent, those are a limited resource).
You have to think of the initial cost then the development cost of all the Disney projects. Remember Lucasfilm isn't just Starwars either. They just lost at least 130mil on Indiana Jones and remember the disaster of a hotel they had? Disney has massively mishandled Star Wars
moron
>Cinemaphileners say the same
>wokucks: NOOOOO you nazi chuds you're delusional
>Forbes: yes that literally happened
what now wokucks? how are you gonna pretend reality isn't real, AGAIN?
>when leftists boycott, it's social justice and progress
>when anyone else boycotts, it's economic terrorism
dude, just rejoice, if you're a Straight White Male you have the power of a thousand wokucks, maybe more.
We should commit nuclear terrorism against israel.
we should laugh at /misc/cucks
>terrorism
Kek.
If the real thing starts against them, what word will they use then?
>anti-woke economic terrorists
>Economic terrorism is when you don't buy our ham fisted propaganda
We need a French Revolution against these c**ts.
>We need a French Revolution
Mongoloid the "French" Revolution were these same powers
>Not liking or buying a product is now terrorism
We really have reached some corporate overlord level of dystopia
Inshallah, the stock culling will continue until storywriting improves.
So when are arrests gonna be made for Disney lying to the SEC and investors about their earnings?
>will they ever break even from the purchase?
That's an interesting question. Logically, you might think that the answer is certainly yes if given all the time in the world. However, disney isn't doing all that great financially. With the rise in ai as well as eventual copyright expiration, I think their best bet is to sell franchise and try and claw some of their money back before everyone just starts making their own fan ai stuff and completely devaluing any worth the brand has left
They will never break even since everything they have made with it so far is shit and even when something mediocre resonated with fans they went in hard to turn that to shit as well.
They can't sell it as they have made it worthless.
>when something mediocre resonated with fans they went in hard to turn that to shit as well.
you typed those words and yet in my eyes I could only see these words
>the mandalorian
weird hallucination
>They can't sell it as they have made it worthless.
It's not worth anything close to what they paid for it, but they could probably still get a billion or so for it. They could even just license the franchise and let other companies make stuff for it, giving a percentage of the profits (or gross) back to disney.
It's still worth *something* is my point, though the clock is running out if they don't act fast.
Who would even buy any Disney IP? They've turned everything into a toxic brand including fricking mickey mouse?
The only ones who could even buy it back for any amount of money are the Chinese and western governments have been shitting and seething at the asiatics for the last 8 years
America has speed ran turning any product they've ever made that people have spent decades slaving over into the most vile trash unwanted by even the dumbest of Black folk.
If Russians aren't even buying adidas what chance does Disney have of selling star wars?
someone posted an independent research graph and it didn't even include the cost of the fail theme park attractions.
You’re not accounting for secondary stuff like action figures and TV.
Oh you mean the pallets of Finn action figures recycled in those webms?
>TV
Streaming doesn't make any money
Oh yeah I remember these things filling the trash contenders and bankrupting Toy's Rus oh oh and who can't forget Hasbro asking Disney to make Clone War Toys because that was the only thing that was selling
Late zoomers and gen Alpha dont give a frick about Star Wars.
Yes, 4b is pocket change for a big Hollywood studio.
So which is it? It's hard to believe half these articles that I see posted here.
Both. The OP is net, the latter is gross.
$12 billion in revenue is different than $4 billion in profit to cover their $4 billion investment
>Source: Fraudulent Disney filings
As pointed out in the previous thread, Disney has a history of duping investors to think the company is more profitable than it is. They fired an accounting whistleblower in 2019, and you know they didn't simply stop committing fraud.
One of the points the whistleblower showed was (and this was just ONE method, don't @me with stupid shit, there's more than one method) was double counting gift cards as profit (intentionally), so a $10 gift card is counted as profit when you buy the card and again when you spend it, so on paper it's a $20 profit when it should be $10.
here's the pic
Oh yeah, I forgot about that stuff coming to light. I still remember anons denying this crap even happens.
>The whistleblower submitted more than 3 reports that showed we were inflating profits with sheer lying.
>In response, we threatened to murder her.
>She rescinded her submissions.
>So, obviously, she was lying and without merit.
>a $10 gift card is counted as profit when you buy the card and again when you spend it, so on paper it's a $20 profit when it should be $10.
Why, that sounds completely reasonable to me go...er...anon.
>double counting gift cards as profit
I'd bet this is common in every single company that uses gift cards. It's so shockingly simple I feel like a moron for never thinking of it.
>according to Disney
>also doesn't include the budget for the movies, shows nor the price to make merchandise, parks, etc....
please share since you must know all these costs better than disney
Cope homosexual. Just pointing out that Disney's propaganda to stop the board shake-up is full of shit.
>Star Wars movies cost $0 to make
News to me, does the rest of the industry know?
I can't believe how moronic these people are. Just make Darth Vader, Raid Redemption/John Wick trilogy in space with Hayden and print infinite money.
B-But the toy and t-shirt sales
Remember that as shit as Star Wars is now, Disney never attacked fan projects, the way that Games Workshop did.
>Disney never attacked fan projects, the way that Games Workshop did.
What did they do?
They sue anyone who utters the word "space marine". Astartes got shitcanned and removed from YouTube. SODAZ was sent cease and desist orders. Damnatus got sued to stop it's release.
Meanwhile, Disney fricks up the Lucas canon and argues with fans on Twitter but they are perfectly fine with fans making shit like this:
Render unto Caesar.
From that article...
>the methodology is questionable as Disney based the ROI on the revenue generated by the movies, merchandise, DVDs and Blu Rays rather than the profit they made as it should have done. Using the revenue rather than the profit artificially inflates the result as it doesn't factor in the costs that Disney had to pay out.
As expected, but THIS is fricking comedy gold...
> it also forecast the revenue that it expected the Star Wars movies, merchandise, DVDs and Blu Rays to generate over a ten-year period and based the calculation on that too. In other words, Disney hasn't actually received the revenue that it used to calculate the return on its investment.
Why anybody still has ~~*Disney*~~ stock is beyond me. They have proven time and again that they are not only incompetent, but absolutely corrupt, and give zero shits about their investors.
What about that stupid spaceship hotel?
The spaceship hotel got shutdown because it was like $2000 a night and it was all larping manchildren staying there instead of kids having fun. The disneyland/world rides are still there though
Yes, but can we guesstimate how much they lost on it?
56 billion, disney was finished.
On one fricking building? Even I don't believe that.
Does this mean KK will finally be crucified in front of LucasFilm HQ?
>Does this mean KK will finally be crucified in front of LucasFilm HQ?
No.
She will be allowed to finish out her contract, which runs through 2026 I believe. Then, when SHE chooses to retire, they will lavish her with praise for being one of the best female film executives of all time. The media will all write stories about how great she was, and all her "accomplishments", and they will praise the decision to replace her with a dike shitskin. Such is the world we now live in...
Why does Kathleen Kennedy look like a troony?
Her contract is until October 2024. The problem is, according to various sources, that nobody wants her position.
>nobody wants her position.
I'd love to take over Lucasfilms and go full Elon Musk on that motherfricker.
No because NOBODY wants that pozzed position right now, Star Wars can't be fixed without erasing EVERYTHING Disney did and that's not going to happen ever
But the troons told us that they recovered after the first movie and that Disney get all the profits without having to use money to generate anything
>only box office sales
>exclude merchandise sales
Yea I'm sure they made no money selling 1000% marked up toys to millions of morons and their kids
Star Wars don't sell toys anymore fricking Toy's Rus died for Star Wars toys
Yeah I'm sure they were actually manufacturing their shit and not just getting hosed by companies dealing with chinks and slapping a 1000% markup on the quote for Disney to middleman like every other homosexual cuck "IP custodian" company.
They couldn’t give that shit away. When my Toys R Us closed all that was left at the end was piles of Force Awakens crap.
what about merchandise though
They are working on streamlining merchandise so it goes from the factory straight to the landfill without having to sit on a shelf, unsold, for months.
They destroyed the whole brand in what? like five years? It was amazing, really.
All they had to do was write 3 okay movies. Not even "good" movies, just "okay". Movies that were inoffensive. Force Awakens is the closest they got to that benchmark, and whether or not it managed to struggle over the baseline of acceptability is a matter of debate, but the fact that the next two movies shat all over whatever goodwill TFA engendered removes any willingness to be generous in one's assessment of the film. I think that, in another timeline, TFA could've been a platform for 2 better movies, and that it would have been remembered as the "boring and shitty one". Instead it's the best one, but nobody has any desire to rewatch it because it's like climbing to the top of a slide that leads to a septic tank.
Best movie they put out is still rogue one.
It still has a ton of issues but at least it clears the
>ok scifi movie
bar.
I was talking about the main line Star Wars films, but yes Rogue One was better than TFA, though hardly a great film in and of itself. The issue with that is, if people didn't like the tent pole movies, they're less likely to watch the spinoffs, unless they're diehard fans. But then they went out of their way to antagonize diehard Star Wars fans. There's shooting yourself in the foot, and then there's mag dumping your foot, reloading, and aiming at the other foot.
People like to shit on executives being more business and money-minded, but that's just the right way to go about things. Normal people don't like the woke shit at all. And the people making this shit are nowhere near normal and are basically completely alien to them. Appealing to the common man would've made them bank. Frick the message. Profits come first.
If they went that route I'd argue that they'd be in more financial trouble
America punishes companies who don't follow the Dogma and gives out free loans and printed money to those that do
If Disney decided to be based they'd be filing for bankruptcy and getting hit with daily discrimination lawsuits
The west is a fricking death sentence for any business that tries to practice capitalism
Maybe they should rent it out?
Like an Air B-&-B?
They inmediately started making spinoff shows and movies every fricking month left and right, how could they not recover costs? Sound fake and gay.
the real moneysink was the failed theme park attractions.