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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Paramount comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 12:29 David Rosenthal And then, uh, Michael quickly brings in his number two from Paramount, Jeffrey Katzenberg to run the film studios.
- ▶ 13:25 David Rosenthal He had been the number two executive at Paramount under Barry Diller and had architected one of the most legendary runs in Hollywood history.
- ▶ 13:46 Ben Gilbert This is when Paramount was number one.
- ▶ 15:54 Ben Gilbert It's a Warner Brothers retired executive and a hotshot Paramount executive.
- ▶ 16:00 Ben Gilbert Michael from Paramount has not seen Disney movies.
- ▶ 16:51 David Rosenthal Michael gets forced out of Paramount at the peak of his success.
- ▶ 17:13 Ben Gilbert The job that Barry had as chairman of the movie studio over at Paramount, and he doesn't get that job, largely because of internal politics and who's making how much money, those sort of games.
- ▶ 18:00 Ben Gilbert Then there's a second iteration where they're sort of offered co-CEOs, and Michael basically tells Frank, hey, look, if I'm gonna do this, I'm CEO, or I'm, I'm chairman, I think is even what he says, and you're number two, because we need…
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 19:44 David Rosenthal And the plan is Disney's gonna become Paramount.
- ▶ 22:03 David Rosenthal Eisner and Wells turn around and they take all these quick profits from the parks and they start investing them into building the live action studios and running the paramount playbook.
- ▶ 22:30 David Rosenthal So Michael's singles and doubles strategy worked at Paramount.
- ▶ 25:42 Ben Gilbert And Jeffrey goes, no, because, you know, Jeffrey's background is live action, Paramount stuff with Michael.
- ▶ 1:03:17 David Rosenthal So Barry Diller and Michael, they were TV guys at ABC before they went to Paramount.
- ▶ 4:18:50 Ben Gilbert So the pitch of Disney Plus versus other vertical competitors, Peacock or Paramount Plus, is that it has higher quality, durable franchise intellectual property that those other ones don't really have.
- ▶ 4:19:09 Ben Gilbert And they have them forever, just like the vertical ones, you know, that Peacock has The Office forever, or that Paramount Plus has Star Trek forever.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:29 Ben Gilbert And when you look at Disney's profits today, it is in a whole different league than Paramount or Universal or Warner Brothers or any of the other sort of classic Hollywood studios.
- ▶ 4:09:24 Ben Gilbert So that's what, two Paramount executives and a lawyer turned Warner Brothers exec?
- ▶ 4:15:58 Ben Gilbert What's your favorite Paramount song?