Disney is banking on a password crackdown and spate of sequels as it pushes to make its streaming business profitable.
The company, which is under pressure as audiences move away from traditional pay-TV and cinema, said it was on track to meet its goals after new subscribers and price rises helped to narrow losses in its streaming business.
The password crackdown will work, sadly. However is it going to be enough to make up for the fact that Disney’s got nothing right now except shitting out sequels?
Disney has Hulu, and that’s enough for some people.
Onward, elemental, wish, soul, reya… Some of the original properties that Disney has released in the last 5 years and nobody went to see. The only originals that have done well were Encanto and turning red.
People like to shit on Disney’s lack of originals, but nobody goes to watch them when they release them. People only want sequels so that’s what they get. In truth, people like you who complain about Disney’s lack of original films don’t actually watch Disney films
How many of those were actually good, though?
Genuinely asking, I only saw 3 out of the 5 and don’t remember being blown away by any of them. I’m not sure I even remember the plot of some.
But I can still immediately recall songs from both Encanto and Moana and I haven’t seen either of those in years.
This guy’s full of it claiming that the only complainers are people who don’t watch the movies. I’ve seen all these movies as I have a kid and a lot of them are “meh”. Frozen was an original property and it blew up big. Same with Moana, Inside Out, Encanto, Big Hero 6, Wreck it Ralph, Brave, etc.
Furthermore they’re ignoring the rest of the Disney catalog and rehashed sequels outside of animated films “of the last 5 years.” What about all the terrible live-action remakes? What about all the Star Wars and Marvel sequels? Those have all done terrible as well.
I would personally say all of the movies mentioned range from good to amazing. I think all of them would be worth seeing in theaters (not that they’re all must-see movies though).
2 of those came out in 2020 and Raya was still during COVID, so it’s really not fair to lump those in. I was mostly talking about the movies they released just last year, their big 100th year. Indy 5, Wish, The Marvels, Ant-Man 3. None of them did as well as Disney needed.
Meanwhile movies about long-established toys like Mario and Barbie each made a billion+, and people were willing to go see a 3-hour docu-drama about a scientist. So we know it’s not the “people don’t go to the theaters anymore” excuse. People just aren’t getting dressed to watch crap and that’s what Disney’s been known for lately.
Now the real challenge is getting the cartoon titles under a single word
I don’t know that it will work. How many additional people sign up when these password sharing crackdowns happen? I doubt it’s enough to make their number crunchers happy.
Several million
Which every company saw, and that’s why they’re all gonna do this too.
I know I’m just an anecdote but Netflix had some ridiculous deal where I paid $75 for a year of Starz and I got Netflix for free. So they got to pretend like they didn’t lose me when in reality I was imminently going to quit due to the password crackdown.
So much of modern business is just hoodwinking investors into thinking infinite growth is possible.