PeregrineFalcon

It's about the fact that Disney has lost money on the Star Wars IP and that's entirely because of Kathleen Kennedy. You pretending it hasn't, and TTRPGWhiz going through my post history and putting a thumbs down every one of my posts, isn't going to change that.

I didn't really feel like doing the math myself just so you could refuse to believe me, so I found a video that explains it. Now this video came out in April 2024, so it's not recent. However, nothing has really happened in between that made $billion$. I point that out because that's seems the most likely rational rebuttal to this video.

How about Supergroups? Did you all finally generic The Marvels?

I didn't say they were losing money, I said they were "meh." The criticisms of these movies have been posted all over the internet for a decade now and I'm not going to sit here and repeat all of those explanations all over again. And I noticed that you very specifically didn't include Solo, the one Star Wars movie that actually did lose money. Way to cherry pick your examples. Also, ever heard of "Toys R Us"? All of their 1,500 stores in multiple countries were permanently closed. Know why? Because they spent $billions stocking their shelves with Star Wars toys from the new movies. Toys that did not sell. So the entire company collapsed and is no more. Because the fans did not like the movies and did not want to buy the toys from those movies. Disney paid a little over $4 billion for the Star Wars IP and still hasn't recouped that money, because of the quality of those movies. And that's all thanks to Kathleen Kennedy.

In theory I definitely agree with you. However, in this specific instance, I don't think I do. I think that if Disney is really interested in rehabilitating Star Wars in the eyes of the fans the best thing they could do is to fire Kennedy immediately. After all, what exactly is she going to teach her successor? How to ruin a franchise? How to insult the fans of an IP on social media? Of course I don't think that Disney leadership is trying to rehabilitate Star Wars, or any of their once popular franchises, in the eyes of their fans. I think they're going to stick with their "we know better than you do" attitude. And they're going to continue to either lose money, or not make nearly as much money as they'd like, for the next couple of decades. Star Wars losing money didn't teach them. Marvel movies losing money didn't teach them. A state taking away their tax-exempt status away, thus adding tens of millions to their overhead, didn't teach them. At this point I no longer think it matters when Kennedy leaves. Because whoever replaces her will be just as bad, if not worse.

Kathleen Kennedy just did an interview where she said: "The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies." And: ". . . I’m continuing to stay at Lucasfilm . . ." Now before you jump in and "Holy shit! Peregrine Falcon was right, again." Well, not quite. She then goes on to equivocate ". . . we have every intention of making an announcement months or a year down the road." https://deadline.com/2025/02/kathleen-kennedy-clarifies-lucasfilm-exit-star-wars-future-1236304421/

Gene Hackman, great actor and US Marine (46 - 51).

/FF, along with the Leadership pool and the Medicine pool, is very good at keeping MM pets alive. /dark and /sonic are also good, but not as good as /FF.

How much did this movie cost to make again?

You're right that it refers to Nessy of Scotland. By American culture I was referring to the tons of constantly televised Big Foot and Loch Ness Monster 'documentaries' that were very popular during the 90s in America. And speculation on the retail forums that this is why the devs included Sally, and the easter egg that she was targetable and had an associated badge. Sorry, I should have explained that better in my last post.

To be fair to Zaslav, Monolith, Player First Games, and WB Games all lost money in recent years. Hogwarts Legacy is the only good game they've put out in years. It turns out that making crap games and then insulting the customers on social media for not buying said games, isn't a great business model. And they're even in denial about it: "In a statement to Bloomberg, a spokesperson for Warner Bros. Games said the shutdowns were “not a reflection of these teams or the talent that consists within them.”" I don't understand the mental gymnastics behind that statement at all. Let me see if I can follow the logic here. A team of game developers gets put together, under an experienced leader, and they create and publish a video game. Said video game bombs. Then a PR person says "Oh, it's not their fault their product sucked." Ok, did I get that right? Well whose fault is it then? If it's not a reflection of the talent on those teams then is it a reflection of bad choices on the part of the C-Suite? You know as well as I do that's not what Mr. PR meant by that, so who was he referring to? Whose fault is it? WB PR spokes-clown is blaming the customer for this. You might be right about that. Personally I think it's more likely that the development teams for these companies sucked, made sucky games, and the studios were shut down because it's the easiest way to fire a bunch of "creatives" who suck. And it allows WB to get a tax write off for a "failed business venture."

The good news is that you two have entertained me greatly for the last half hour. So there's that, right? 😁

This is most definitely not a dead horse. Please continue. I find this whole conversation very entertaining. 🤣 You know, I don't think I've used Secondary Mutation since the retail servers. I'd kinda forgotten about it. Now I'm thinking about giving it a try again. Mostly so I can prank my friends with it. What? Now that's just victim blaming. How dare you!

Yeah. People online have been saying "Oh, she's gonna get fired any day now!!!" for 8 or 9 years at this point. I hope she does but, after 3 movies that had 'meh' box office performance, which should have done way better than they did. A line of Star Wars toys that flopped and took the entire Toys R Us company down with it. And several Star Wars spin off series that have been very hit and miss. I said many years ago that she had something on someone in the C-Suite at Disney or she would have been fired long ago. And I stand by that. She's literally cost Disney billions of dollars, possibly tens of billions of dollars. The fact that she hasn't been fired and sued after all of that just reinforces my belief that she has some blackmail material on a C-level exec. So will she really leave Disney at the end of the year? Or will this turn out to be yet another article promising that "oh, she's really gone this time"? We'll see I guess, but I wouldn't hold your breath.