Streaming platforms: Let's keep raising the prices so that we can cover the damage of overly expensive content and not giving actors and writers a fair deal sooner.Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million
Disney+ lost 1.3 million subscribers in the final quarter of 2023 amid a hefty price hike that went into effect last fallvariety.com
Streaming platforms: Let's keep raising the prices so that we can cover the damage of overly expensive content and not giving actors and writers a fair deal sooner.
Also streaming platforms when they start losing subscribers because of that:
Oh boy. Is this Iger's campt trying to push back against Peltz and Ike's attempt to take over?New Disney SEC filing.
Oh boy. Is this Iger's campt trying to push back against Peltz and Ike's attempt to take over?
Nelson Peltz, who owns a stake in Disney worth roughly $3.5bn (£2.8bn), sided with accusations that the Hollywood behemoth has become too woke.
He said: “People go to watch a movie or a show to be entertained. They don’t go to get a message.”
Mr Peltz, whose daughter Nicola is married to Brooklyn Beckham, took issue with recent blockbusters The Marvels and Black Panther, which portray female and black superheroes respectively.
In an interview with the Financial Times, the tycoon said: “Why do I have to have a Marvel that’s all women? Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that?
“Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-black cast?”
Of course he conveniently ignores the two MCU films that came out between the black and female led movies.Telegraph - Billionaire Disney activist hits out at all-black and all-female casts
If you’re wondering, yes he’s endorsed Trump for 2024.
Telegraph - Billionaire Disney activist hits out at all-black and all-female casts
If you’re wondering, yes he’s endorsed Trump for 2024.
Asked about Peltz's remarks, a Disney spokesperson responded: "This is exactly why Nelson Peltz shouldn't be anywhere near a creatively driven company." The fight by Peltz and his Trian Fund is pitting a prominent activist investor, who says he works well with target companies, against Disney's Bob Iger, a talented media industry CEO who returned to the company's top job in November 2022 with a mission to reinvigorate Disney.
Iger in his autobiography, The Ride of a Lifetime, said he had pushed to diversify the Marvel films, which initially had been built around white male characters. Black Panther is the sixth highest-grossing domestic release of all time, according to the site Box Office Mojo, and was the first Marvel film to be nominated for Best Picture. The Marvels, released last year, brought in a modest $206 million, worldwide.
Peltz in the Financial Times interview also said he questioned the record of Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige.
Of course he conveniently ignores the two MCU films that came out between the black and female led movies.
"What sense is being a billionaire if you're not a bully?" FT reported Peltz said of his reputation.
White men were the leads of Antman and Indiana Jones that didn’t exactly help their box office…Peltz is trash, this reminded me I need to get my vote in.