Is Disney Doomed?

[oneway23]

N'ah, B.

[ahossein79]

Originally Posted by PhysicalMediaMaestro

Two-thirds of businesses go out of business in ten years or less, so Disney's hung on longer than most. I just wonder how long Disney can keep hanging on.

Keep your tinfoil hat on it seems to suit you well

[Martoto]

Yeah.

Doomed like a fox!!!

[Maddox121]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Yeah.

Doomed like a fox!!!

Doomed like 20th Century Fox? If so, who'd buy it lol

[Telemachus]

I became indifferent to Disney about 5 or 6 years ago, probably for the very first time, they have always been a different company after Walt passed away and it was sold out of the family, but they really lost their way starting in the 2010s and their bad policies caught up to them massively, we are currently witnessing the crashout, but they will continue to make MCU and Star Wars slop, another company might be at risk of running out of money, but with Disney the money isn't running out. So if you enjoy slop support them, if you don't enjoy slop you may be like me and are doing your own thing completely removed from it all. It would be nice if they could have a good thing again, but they have basically alienated all the creatives that used to want to work with them, that's hard to just get back, but it's where they would have to start to bring back former customers like me.

[Jay H.]

No, they aren't.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Maddox121

Doomed like 20th Century Fox? If so, who'd buy it lol

Doomed like RKO.

[d2cheer]

As long as they are only losing $20-40 million per movie they will be Ok,

[jt839]

Originally Posted by Martoto

blu-ray.com message boards are doomed.

Notice that all these brain rot level posts are all from the same person.

[MuffinMcFluffin]

I hope for the failure of Disney+ because that is the root cause of everything going down the shitter for them. Diluting Marvel and Star Wars, killing box office and physical media, and stretching their creative heads way too thin. If and when they finally meet their demise, their grave headstone will read: "Death by suicide."

Disney will be fine, though. If they don't sustain on their own, I'm sure Apple or somebody will purchase them.

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Originally Posted by Telemachus

I became indifferent to Disney about 5 or 6 years ago, probably for the very first time, they have always been a different company after Walt passed away and it was sold out of the family, but they really lost their way starting in the 2010s and their bad policies caught up to them massively, we are currently witnessing the crashout, but they will continue to make MCU and Star Wars slop, another company might be at risk of running out of money, but with Disney the money isn't running out. So if you enjoy slop support them, if you don't enjoy slop you may be like me and are doing your own thing completely removed from it all. It would be nice if they could have a good thing again, but they have basically alienated all the creatives that used to want to work with them, that's hard to just get back, but it's where they would have to start to bring back former customers like me.

I agree. Disney's glory days were in the 1990s, and the first decade of the 21st century came pretty close. Now Disney's glory days are no longer even in the rear view mirror.

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Originally Posted by MuffinMcFluffin

I hope for the failure of Disney+ because that is the root cause of everything going down the shitter for them. Diluting Marvel and Star Wars, killing box office and physical media, and stretching their creative heads way too thin. If and when they finally meet their demise, their grave headstone will read: "Death by suicide."

Disney will be fine, though. If they don't sustain on their own, I'm sure Apple or somebody will purchase them.

If Apple bought Disney, I would like that. Then I could access episodes of "Bill Nye The Science Guy" and all the other content on Disney+ with one streaming service.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by PhysicalMediaMaestro

Disney's glory days were in the 1990s

I literally just lol’d when I read this

I mean, yes their animated stuff was pretty good in the 90s - but about 90% of all their live-action stuff was beyond abysmal.

The joke if you were a reviewer back in the 90s was that there was no worse punishment than being assigned to the latest live-action Disney. Almost all of that stuff stank to high heaven.

[starmike]

Originally Posted by PhysicalMediaMaestro

I agree. Disney's glory days were in the 1990s, and the first decade of the 21st century came pretty close. Now Disney's glory days are no longer even in the rear view mirror.

This is patently false.

First, Disney had several periods of good years. It doesn't have a single period of "glory days". You have the years of the big films from '37-'42, then '50-'69 with Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, and while not the BEST years, their live action in the '70s weren't that bad like Escape from Witch Mountain and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Of course you have the LM/BatB/LK years, along with Toy Story.

Put it this way, if you asked someone pre-LM what Disney's best years were, they wouldn't say that they haven't had any.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by starmike

This is patently false.

First, Disney had several periods of good years. It doesn't have a single period of "glory days". You have the years of the big films from '37-'42, then '50-'69 with Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, and while not the BEST years, their live action in the '70s weren't that bad like Escape from Witch Mountain and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Of course you have the LM/BatB/LK years, along with Toy Story.

Put it this way, if you asked someone pre-LM what Disney's best years were, they wouldn't say that they haven't had any.

I mean the thread started without a factual statement. Then with each post they made it got worse. Facets.

[EvaDK]

If the topic revolved around whether Disney is creatively doomed, that may have been worth debating, pros and cons.

[danman227460]

No Disney isn't doomed financially.

They are still the only studio who has grossed $1 billion domestic in 2025:

https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2025/distributors

They still have Fantastic Four, Predator, Avatar, Tron, Zootopia 2 and other movies coming out for the rest of the year. They will be able to make up any shortfalls of the recent movies with their upcoming releases.

[Prohibida]

[BloodshotUSA]

Disney is too big to die. Even if they started losing billions hand over fist and their value was cut in half, they'd probably get bought by some other company. Like Apple or Amazon.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by danman227460

No Disney isn't doomed financially.

They are still the only studio who has grossed $1 billion domestic in 2025:

https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2025/distributors

They still have Fantastic Four, Predator, Avatar, Tron, Zootopia 2 and other movies coming out for the rest of the year. They will be able to make up any shortfalls of the recent movies with their upcoming releases.

Avatar alone should make around $2 billion