The Ledger
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McFedries: Modern Disney or Marvel Should Be Built on Social Media
“If you were going to build a modern Disney or Marvel now, you probably wouldn't want to start in comic books or in theaters. You'd want to start where the eyeballs are, which was, you know, really on social”
Dixon: Permissionless web architecture put university hobbyists on par with Disney
“Him and then also the academics and other people who made DNS, for example, like the fact that it was permissionless, the fact that a hobbyist in a university could be on sort of level playing field with Disney on the web, right?”
Pixar's 1991 Disney deal tied up studio profits for 12–15 years
“They had committed to that in a 1991 contract that they went into with Disney. That was a little bit of a Hail Mary in a way, because otherwise Pixar was perilously close to going out of business. Disney came along and said that they would basically front the …”
Jeff Jordan: Fashion and brands face dis-economies at high market saturation
“Once everyone's wearing Nikes, people stop wearing Nikes, so you're kind of I worked at Disney when it was a long time ago, it was very, very hot on the consumer product side, and, you know, we couldn't sell enough, and then five years later, you can't give it…”
Evans: Streaming fragmentation will force consumers to manage dozens of apps
“Disney's going to have its own thing, and NBC's going to have its own thing, and you're going to end up with like 45 apps on your device, and that also seems very unstable.”
Levy: Disney was sole historical success in feature animation
“Because only one company in history had ever done it. That was Disney, and they had only succeeded at it for a few years, from 1939, when they released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”
Oyelowo: Lupita Nyong'o's star power was essential for Disney greenlighting Katwe
“She is one of the reasons the movie gets made, because when you don't have someone like that, that gives a company like Disney the confidence to make the film, because that, you know, at the end of the day, you want people in these movies that draw a crowd, an…”
Andreessen: Disney's original Tron was disqualified from Oscars for using CGI
“The original Tron was from Disney, and it was the first movie that had integrated use of computer graphics, which was the big thing at the time. And as a consequence of that, Tron was disqualified from the Oscars because they cheated by using computer graphics…”