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  1. Skallagrim

    Culture Welcome to Dismal Disney.

    Jude Watson, Ann Crispin, Kathy Tyers, Charlene Newcomb, Patricia Jackson, Martha Wells, Barbara Hambly, Vonda McIntyre, Karen Traviss, Rebecca Moesta, Elaine Cunningham, Christie Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Karen Miller... And here I thought all these women existed, and...
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    Culture Welcome to Dismal Disney.

    The simple fact is: Kathleen Kennedy was a very good producer, whose career track record was one of many successes. She also worked decades to become Spielberg's favourite. Lucas relied heavily on Spielberg's glowing recommendation of Kennedy. The problem is that a good producer isn't...
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    Culture Welcome to Dismal Disney.

    Well, at the very least someone is still pushing it heavily, over at Disney. See: RottenTomatoes, where it has an unwavering, impossible-to-alter, never-fluctuating 88% audience score. They did the same thing with Rise of Skywalker. It's something they use for the absolute turds that they sank...
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    Culture Welcome to Dismal Disney.

    UNKNOWN AND MYSTERIOUS REASON, @Typhonis. Or are you racist against commies and Pooh-bears or something, huh?
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    Culture Welcome to Dismal Disney.

    Just in: 7000 jobs to be cut at Disney, Iger has announced today. Only the beginning, I'd say. The supposed cost-savings this is meant to generate for the company (over 5.5 billion dollars) are vastly over-estimated, if you ask me. There's going to be more bad news for Disney, because unless...
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    Culture Welcome to Dismal Disney.

    The streaming market is now way more competitive than it once was. In fact, Disney is one of the parties butting in and thereby displacing Netflix from its previous position of dominance. (A fate that Netflix richly deserved, of course.) Viewers have more options, but they don't suddenly have...
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    Culture Welcome to Dismal Disney.

    The same reason they mostly rely on remakes, reboots and sequels for their big tentpoles. The same reason that most everything that's not a remake, reboot or sequel is bound to be part of a "franchise" (think of that; not a world, not a universe, not a story... a franchise). The same reason...
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    Culture Welcome to Dismal Disney.

    The first thing that popped into my brain was: "Somehow, Bob Iger has returned."
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