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Iger floats possibility of Disney selling ABC

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I cut the cord two weeks ago. Was paying in excess of $200 for the three channels I actually watched. Now down to OTA and streaming. BTW, I believe that the resolution of a modern 4k TV is better than that projected in theaters.
 
michael hagerty said:
And Star Wars---after 46 years, the wonder is that there's any life left in the franchise.
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Considering Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4B, they still have roughly $3.8B still to make. The Mandalorian spin off was/is a huge streaming success. And with good reason. It's a great show. But the spin-offs involving only 8-10 30-45min episodes are wearing out the fans. Hard core's are still there, but they aren't around in numbers to see the ROI Disney is looking for.
 
I haven't been back to a theater since COVID. I'm not afraid to go any more, but there isn't anything I want to see that can't wait until they're out on streaming or DVD.
 
I think the last movie I saw in the theater was the last James Bond flick, "No Time To Die" in 2021

Before that I can't even remember.

But if I watch something I like on Amazon I'll probably buy the DVD
 
Kelly A said:
Considering Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4B, they still have roughly $3.8B still to make. The Mandalorian spin off was/is a huge streaming success. And with good reason. It's a great show. But the spin-offs involving only 8-10 30-45min episodes are wearing out the fans. Hard core's are still there, but they aren't around in numbers to see the ROI Disney is looking for.
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They bought them in 2012, and have since made back the $4B and then some. The three major movies alone that have been released since 2012 have made over 4 billion in profit, and that doesn't count the "non-main" movies, the licensing, the merch, the comics, and Indiana Jones. I think Disney did just fine with the purchase, but I'm not sure it has a lot of life left. Then again, May 4th is now basically a Star Wars holiday, so.....
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
There’s more life in Star Wars than perhaps people around for the early days can conceive. It’s not going to be the blockbusters of old, but there are new fans being minted and various ways to extend the franchise.
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The issue is that the base is getting smaller and the production costs much higher. It's likely that the current labor negotiations will end up causing many films with a more niche appeal to never get a green light.
 
mnradiofan said:
They bought them in 2012, and have since made back the $4B and then some. The three major movies alone that have been released since 2012 have made over 4 billion in profit,
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No, that is $4 billion in box office. Half of that goes to the theaters, and then come the production costs and promotion costs.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Just booked three tickets to a movie, $17 each before fees. For a matinee. I know inflation is a thing, really, but that’s just robbery.
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Holy Cow, Abraham! Where do you live? $17 a pop for a matinee when the national average ticket price is $11.25 is highway robbery!

Although I did some checking just now and we got off easy a couple of weeks ago. Apparently a full-price weeknight (apart from $5 Tuesday) ticket price here in Folsom is $15.25.

Glad it's just the two of us---and glad I qualify for Senior now ($11.25). If we were still trying to take a family of four to the movies, that would be a really tough thing to do.
 
landtuna said:
Had it been filmed in B&W it could have passed for a 1930's serial.
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That actually was the vibe Lucas was going for---something more modern than the 1930s, but he wanted a Saturday morning serial feel and achieved it.

I liked it more than you did, but I was 21 years old when it came out---and by the third installment, I would have been fine with it being end of story. I actually don't like it when franchises hang on too long. I'd rather someone tell me something new. I don't remember a time when there weren't James Bond movies, and I don't think that's necessarily a good thing (though I did like the most recent run of films with Daniel Craig).
 
Weiserguy said:
I might be mistaken (like that ever happens, lol!), but the term Box Office refers specifically to tickets sold for theatrical release, whereas Gross includes license income from streaming, premium cable, OTA TV, ancillary income like I.P. licensing (e.g., toys), soundtrack sales, etc. Bottom line verses top line. The link you provided is worldwide gross, so apples-verses-apple pie.
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Fair point. I didn't notice that in the chart, but it actually enhances the point I was making which was how few movies have ever cracked $1B---and knowing that the chart is not strictly ticket sales emphasized how big a mountain that is to climb.
 
fybush said:
Unless the FCC lifts the national ownership caps, who would be a buyer for just a piece of the station group right now? The companies that are most aggressive in that space right now - Nexstar, Sinclair, Gray - are all at or near the 39 percent cap already and couldn't add any big market, unless it's as a duopoly for Nexstar.

And then there's Byron Allen, but would he have the cash?

If ABC were to go, it would have to be all in one piece. A buyer could then spin off little stuff like Fresno down the road.
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All of the remaining big chains left have sidecars to create duopolies and skirt ownership limits. Even Scripps created a sidecar when they bought up Ion. Plus Sinclair and Gray have a history of finagling licenses and spectrum so they can divest the least amount of stations (Gray has been more artful with this in North Dakota and Nebraska).

Plus the UHF Discount makes a total mockery of the 39% cap.
 
inari said:
Scripps and Nexstar both cover nearly 70% of the US thanks to the "UHF discount" and sidecar shell corporations. It's ridiculous.
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Why has no one gotten the message that it should be a VHF discount now, since VHF is harder to watch with an antenna outside the city?
 
"ESPN has always been a cash cow"

And that is why people who don't watch sports go ballistic when they find out how much the ESPN programming adds to their cable bill each month

And it isn't like you can just have ESPN and scrap the rest, cable companies are forced to take all the ESPN networks and probably some other Disney stuff as a package all or nothing deal.

At least $10 dollars a month of your cable bill is for the ESPN branded channels.

You also have to remember that ESPN has lost at least 25% of their subscribers since 2011

Also the price they pay for rights to broadcast NFL, NBA, MLB, College sports and other programming is over 50% of their cost

the cost of broadcast rights have gotten out of control, even in radio.

Audacy, a radio company formerly known as Entercom is locked into a long term high dollar contract with the Red Sox. Audacy is seconds away from filing for bankruptcy. When the Sox suck, they loose money. There were years when WRKO and WEEI were laying off staff because the Sox contract was sucking that much money out of the till

The regional sports networks are not doing well either, one of the major players filed for bankruptcy back in MArch, and is now in a battle with the Arizona Diamondbacks over carrying their games. The local regional sports network ( a Bally Sports branded product) says they can no longer afford the contract and want to stop carrying the games

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MLB locked in battle with bankrupt broadcaster over slashing media rights fees

Major League Baseball and a bankrupt regional broadcaster are on a collision course over media rights payments that could determine the course of future income streams for teams across the league, …
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