Fair point but Star Wars was already huge in merchandising before the purchase and Disney has arguably hurt the toy sales with their recent movies and over exposure.
Sure things take time but look how quickly they moved on Star Wars and Marvel. They made a deal with Sony for Spider-Man and then he's immediately in Civil War. I just don't understand the hold up. Also I don't think Deadpool is going to bridge the gap between Marvel and Fox X-Men. I don't think Disney world use a R rated comedy for that. I think a lot of people expected Multiverse of madness to bring the X-Men in and when it didn't happen they were disappointed. Marvel seems to be running out of steam if I were them I'd shove in as many X-Men as I could.
They still have significant competition from other streamers and a lot of their Fox properties are on Hulu rather than Disney Plus. They are bleeding subscribers and they can't afford to raise prices too much. I know they are going to raise prices soon but it's a careful balancing act they can't afford to make it too pricey.
I feel like both the Simpsons and family guy had their day in the sun but aren't the cultural phenomenons they used to be. They would need to sell a lot of bart plushies to make 70 billion and do kids even care about the Simpsons anymore? It's been over a decade since its heyday.
Maybe eventually but it went from an X-Men a year to maybe one in a few years after the current slate of marvel movies.
Disney does have different brands but they aren't going to put them on Disney Plus so it doesn't make sense from a strategy perspective. If their goal was to kill Netflix they failed big time.
Both without any real marketing and I'm pretty sure same day streaming. Felt like Disney didn't care too much about them.
Very sad he was one of the best. The Exorcist is incredible. I still need to watch Sorcerer.
I think MS buying Activision is also a losing play but MS is in a better position to spend that kind of money compared to Disney.
If the strategy was to kill Hulu then why keep it around? Just axe it or sell it and put all your stuff on one app. I also don't get the Paramount+ and Showtime strategy. If you are trying to beat Netflix by having better content why split it into 2 apps?
Streaming could be a whole other post really. All these companies have bought into having their own app and they are all losing big time. Might be time to reevaluate streaming in general.