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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 8:50 David Rosenthal I'm not talking about Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
- ▶ 12:29 David Rosenthal And then, uh, Michael quickly brings in his number two from Paramount, Jeffrey Katzenberg to run the film studios.
- ▶ 15:12 Ben Gilbert And there was another memo leaked later by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who, you know, speaking of the lieutenants, you got Barry Diller's lieutenant is Michael Eisner, Michael Eisner's lieutenant is Jeffrey Katzenberg.
- ▶ 15:23 Ben Gilbert Jeffrey writes a memo later where he espouses this really great line that celebrity can open a film
- ▶ 19:37 David Rosenthal They turn around quickly and bring in Jeffrey Katzenberg from Paramount as well to come in and run the studios under Michael at Disney.
- ▶ 20:39 David Rosenthal One of the first things they do that ends up, I think, really setting up all the following success that Eisner and Wells and Katzenberg have is they raise the ticket prices at Disneyland and Disney World.
- ▶ 24:35 David Rosenthal Roy had made them promise not to fully kill animation, and then he had made them make him, Roy, chairman of the animation division, under Katzenberg, who's running all the studios.
- ▶ 25:19 Ben Gilbert Ok, so we brought up Jeffrey Katzenberg.
- ▶ 25:21 Ben Gilbert I was having breakfast with Jeffrey to prep for this episode, and he told me this story where Michael calls Jeffrey into his office on his first day.
- ▶ 25:30 Ben Gilbert And this is before animation had been moved out to Glendale, so he's still pointing down at the original animation building, and he points to the ink and paint door, and Michael says to Jeffrey, do you know what they do down there?
- ▶ 25:42 Ben Gilbert And Jeffrey goes, no, because, you know, Jeffrey's background is live action, Paramount stuff with Michael.
- ▶ 25:56 Ben Gilbert And so Jeffrey, like Michael,
- ▶ 26:27 David Rosenthal But at some point, and I don't know, was it, was it Katzenberg, or was it Eisner and Wells who realized, like, hey, there actually is an opportunity here?
- ▶ 26:52 Ben Gilbert So Peter and Jeffrey come in, and, and they start making changes.
- ▶ 28:54 Ben Gilbert So, Jeffrey Katzenberg recruits a guy named Howard Ashman.
- ▶ 38:45 David Rosenthal So, Eisner and Wells and Katzberg, they're like, well, we can do the same thing with home video.
- ▶ 50:56 David Rosenthal But that aside, I mean, man, by the time we're in the mid-nineties here, Disney and the Eisner-Wells-Katzenberg dream team is just
- ▶ 55:38 Ben Gilbert Jeffrey's a big personality.
- ▶ 56:54 David Rosenthal So then, in the middle of this, Katzenberg quits.
- ▶ 57:03 Ben Gilbert One version of it is that Jeffrey was promised the number two job at the company if Frank ever moved on or, you know, retired or anything.
- ▶ 57:13 David Rosenthal That was certainly Jeffrey's understanding that Michael had promised him that.
- ▶ 57:17 Ben Gilbert Disney, that, hey, Jeffrey is great in the job that he has, uh, running the studios, you know, animation and the other film studios, but he's
- ▶ 57:41 Ben Gilbert So, Jeffrey's interpretation of this, which is, again, quite reasonable, is, well,
- ▶ 59:22 David Rosenthal And one of the first people that Katzenberg recruits is Brenda Chapman, a member from CalArts in room A-I-E-R-T-E-N, who was head of story for The Lion King.
- ▶ 59:51 Ben Gilbert and, you know, it wasn't all Jeffrey, so they should be fine.
- ▶ 1:22:56 David Rosenthal So all this, and you know, in animations, now without Katzenberg, uh, Roy E is still there, but a lot of the talent is bleeding out to DreamWorks.
- ▶ 1:46:19 Ben Gilbert There's that whole first chapter that sort of ends with Frank Wells passing, Katzenberg leaving, the end of the great Disney animation era.
- ▶ 1:46:36 David Rosenthal He and Wells and Katzenberg
- ▶ 2:05:55 Ben Gilbert And Disney, really, it's Peter Schneider, who works with Jeffrey Katzenberg, says, hey, forget the 30 minute TV special.
- ▶ 2:16:24 Ben Gilbert So Katzenberg is at the helm at this point.
- ▶ 2:17:06 Ben Gilbert Katzenberg hates it.
- ▶ 4:31:13 Ben Gilbert To Jeffrey Katzenberg, same thing.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:09:09 David Rosenthal And those three men, Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, would pull off probably the greatest media company comeback in history.
- ▶ 4:28:28 Ben Gilbert Personally, thank you to Jeffrey Katzenberg.