Disney at the Box Office & Upcoming Movies

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Chris Hu on 27 December 2015

peterdavid12345 said:

Chris Hu said:

Well The Lone Ranger shouldn't have been made in the first place not with that budget anyway. No Western should have a budget over $100 million dollars.

Yeah, i tho it was over-budget as well.

Well it was way over budget no Western should have a $225 million dollar budget.

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NewGuy on 29 December 2015

LordLichtenstein said:

Teeqoz said:

Marvel for 4 Billion was probably one of the best deals ever made in entertainment. And they got more than just the movies out of it, merchandising must be insane. All that's missing now is Disney buying Lego and Hot Wheels (EDIT: Mattel, Inc.) and they pretty much own everything within toys....

EDIT 2: Could probably throw in Hasbro there, for good measure.

I would be all-in for Hasbro; Transformers, G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K.

Transformers is already a well established franchise in Hollywood, grossing $3,773,861,624 at the box office across 4 films, that is an average of $943,465,406 per film.

Now imagine how much a 'Disney' transformers could make. "From the studio that brought you The Avengers and Star Wars"

Disney acquisition strategy has been for IP ownership that they can leverage in their parks, cruises, tv channels, etc and content delivery. That was reiterated by Disney's CFO earlier this year when they acquired Maker studio. Iger has been an excellent CEO and I have no doubt they are looking to expand. Major IP owners are likely a target. I think Mattel and Hasbro would be good acquisitions, and probably expected at some point. Something that would set the world on fire would be Disney acquiring DC from WB or Nintendo (gasps).

Lawlight said:

peterdavid12345 said:
Disney is literally the Apple of tech industry. So little movies yet so profitable :P.
Now that i think about it, the Force is very strong with America, whether it is tech, or movies, tv shows, or video games, they always come out on top.

Not a very good comparison. Apple is much more profitable while Disney's studio only had an operating income of $1.5B during the last fiscal year despite the releases of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Maleficent and Frozen.

I would guess if you average all of their movies, they have a profit margin of ~25-30%, so in that sense, they are comparable.

LordLichtenstein said:
Disney has 3 -possibly 4 movies that will gross over $1 billion worldwide in 2016.

Finding Dory, Civil War, Dr Strange, Rogue One?