Bob Iger is Back!!!

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Why not just get this guy to run Disney instead: https://x.com/mrseymourduck/status/1765 ... 50093?s=46.

[carolinakid]

I sent in my stockholders’ ballot this week. I couldn’t support Disney in several areas....(meaning how they wanted stockholders to vote).

[Disney's Divinity]

:/

I really don't think its unlikely that people actually mean what they say. Its not that fans don't want a female protagonist, they just dont want little miss perfect who doesn't need to make any effort to learn what took Luke a lot of hard training. to accomplish in an instant.

I agree. Sometimes the movie is just bad. Of course good movies can perform poorly and bad movies can do well, but I think audiences are open to anything as long as it doesn't feel too much like some kind of pipeline product where the characters don't feel like real characters.

It's true that WDAS the past 15 years has that quality of everything being very safe, to the point some designs feel way too similar at times. They're terrified to anger anyone, so they repeat choices that have been successful already and run them into the ground until the audience becomes tired with them. They have to take risks with their storytelling to make it more organic, but, when the studio is struggling, "taking risks" is the last thing in the world the people in charge will allow them to do.

[Sotiris]

Hollywood is skeptical that Disney CEO Bob Iger will step down in 2026 as successor search continues
https://nypost.com/2024/04/01/media/hol ... n-in-2026/

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Their skepticism is misguided and wrong.

[reee9948]

Bob Iger seems to have a bad reputation among Disney's fans for how he runs the company and while Walt faced criticism for being cutthroat and being a product of his time, it's no doubt that he left a great legacy with so many iconic movies created during his lifetime.

Walt Disney seems to be a more of a public figure who engaged with the public a lot while Bob Iger is more private. Bob Iger is seen as a rich douchebag while Disney is seen as a hardworking man who came from humble beginning and have made a successful studio.

Clearly how the public view Bob and Disney is like night and day. People respect Disney, but not Bob despite him making Disney a billion dollar corporation . So what do you think Bob could learn from Disney to help his reputation and his standing with public.

[twihard]

Absolutely nothing. Walt Disney was a god-fearing family man with love for all.

Bob Iger is a cutthroat capitalist who only cares about $$$ and will sell out to Zionist shills. Their names should never been taken together in the same sentence.

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Bob Iger is a cutthroat capitalist who only cares about $$$ and will sell out to Zionist shills.

Good. He should stay that way to spite you.

[Sotiris]

News from the Disney upfront presentation.

Disney Showcases its Global Reach and Enviable Blend of Innovation and Storytelling at 2024 Upfront
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-2024-upfront/

Inside the Racy Disney Upfront: Bob Iger and Amorous Golden Retrievers Take Center Stage
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235899498/

Jimmy Kimmel Unleashed at Disney Upfronts: “We’re Building One Big Ad-Supported Pile of Sh**”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235899131/


News from Disney's Q2 2024 earnings call.

Why Disney Stock Dropped Sharply Despite Nearing Streaming Profit, Improved Earnings Outlook
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busin ... 235892297/

Wall Street Turns Its Back on Disney’s Streaming Profit Milestone
https://www.thewrap.com/why-disney-stoc ... ng-profit/

[Sotiris]

Iger has come out in support of A.I.

Bob Iger: Hollywood Storytellers Need to ‘Embrace the Change’ Driven by Tech Innovation
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bob-ig ... 236015176/

[Warm Regards]

Iger has come out in support of A.I.

Bob Iger: Hollywood Storytellers Need to ‘Embrace the Change’ Driven by Tech Innovation
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bob-ig ... 236015176/

Not surprising - I hope it's not to the point of displacing artists but I (unfortunately) think it will go that route one day, if people get greedy enough.

On a similar note: Annecy film festival similarly started allowing AI animation into their screenings.

We have always declared that the Annecy Festival should provide “a global overview of animation film.” This year, we have received dozens of submissions using artificial intelligence in one way or another. We felt it was important to select a few of these works so that discussion and debate about artificial intelligence focused on specific, tangible applications rather than being limited to the theoretical or hypothetical. Above all, we believe that the presence of creators using these tools is vital for the discussion is [sic] to exist.

A festival such as Annecy is not, and never has been, based upon a dogmatic approach. 45 years ago, several festivalgoers and commentators were outraged with Zbigniew Rybczyński’s film Tango won the Grand Prix, claiming that it wasn’t animation! Today, this film is considered one of animation film’s great masterpieces. Some 20 years later, controversy erupted over films using 3d software. Today, it’s AI that’s the new bugbear. It may well be that this technological breakthrough won’t be anything like its predecessors. We need to ask questions, debates are crucial, but believe that in order to have intelligent debates we need to learn more about these works. This is the reason they have been shortlisted.

Personally if AI animation has to exist it should be in its own "best AI art" category". Comparing a machine's work to an artist is unreasonable (and I think will encourage the narrative that artists are disposable and computers can do everything, etc.)

[PatchofBlue]

I'm even more opposed to the whole enterprise. Producers who support "art" made by computers have no place in the conversation.

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Iger has come out in support of A.I.

Bob Iger: Hollywood Storytellers Need to ‘Embrace the Change’ Driven by Tech Innovation
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bob-ig ... 236015176/

As long as it’s regulated and not used for theft, it should be embraced.

Even George Lucas said using AI for making movies is inevitable.

And he’s not wrong about that, too.

[PatchofBlue]

Yeah ... it's just not a topic I could ever have anything but hard-earned contempt for.

Skipping over the implications it has for artists who work for a living, art is a space we have to explore the human experience beyond the perimeters of data and code. Art challenges convention and norms. It creates experiences that can't be anticipated by an algorithm. No one who has ever truly been touched by a painting, novel, film, etc. would ever think that it's a good idea to hand that responsibility to anything but a human soul. Nothing generated by a computer could ever be iconic, revelatory, or challenging.

My feelings on the matter, and the industry leaders who would enable such a landscape, actually extend a lot further than all that, but I try to maintain a modicum of gentility in the things I post online, so ... I'm just going to bow out now.

Anyways, some people would say that societal ills like poverty, sexism, and racism are "inevitable." Doesn't mean we shouldn't challenge that idea too.

[UmbrellaFish]

Hardly surprising from Bob, but still very disappointing.

[Sotiris]

Nelson Peltz sells entire Disney stake weeks after losing proxy battle
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/29/nelson- ... stake.html

[carolinakid]

I voted for Peltz to be on the board..... I guess it wasn’t meant to be...

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Nelson Peltz sells entire Disney stake weeks after losing proxy battle
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/29/nelson- ... stake.html

Good riddance.

[DisneyJedi]

Iger has come out in support of A.I.

Bob Iger: Hollywood Storytellers Need to ‘Embrace the Change’ Driven by Tech Innovation
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bob-ig ... 236015176/

Why doesn't that surprise me?

[D23ExpoVisitor25]

Iger has come out in support of A.I.

Bob Iger: Hollywood Storytellers Need to ‘Embrace the Change’ Driven by Tech Innovation
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bob-ig ... 236015176/

Why doesn't that surprise me?

I mean Pixar used AI in the process of animating Elemental.