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Faelco on 27 May 2018
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Soundwave said:
Faelco said:

You forget Disney's expectations. They paid a LOT of money to get Star Wars. They didn't do it to cancel movies because the audience doesn't seem to like it. They will make as much movies as they can and as much money as they can. 

 

And I agree that if at one point, they think they'll get more money with another producer, they will change. It's not about liking the current producer or not. If she doesn't meet expectations and if the BO trend is down with every new movie, they will do something to get it up again. They won't let their multi-billions investment get smaller every year to please a producer, whoever she is. Even less when Marvel shows how many billions a well-managed franchise can bring.

 

She needs to get those numbers up or she'll get fired, ideology or not. 

She's made three $1 billion+ Star Wars films, that buys her a decade at least in Hollywood, that's how things work, ok.

Disney got Star Wars for a laugh by the way, $4 billion ... Lucas could have easily gotten $10 billion for this, that was a huge bargain for Disney, The Force Awakens alone likely made Disney somewhere in the range of $2+ billion in profit alone from all movie sales + merchandise + commercial tie-ins.  

A lot of people are better off sticking to video games on the business side because like I said the analogy here is like saying "the Nintendo president better be worried about his 1st half Switch performance and Labo underperforming, because he could get fired!". 

We all know that's a pretty stupid statement and is unlikely to happen. Kathleen Kennedy was producing blockbuster movies when half this board was in diapers. 

Oh, sorry, they "only" spent 4 billions and already got 10 billions back so they can stop making movies now, the ROI is good, let's stop all this Star Wars stuff, right?

 

No. If they think they can get more money, they will do what they can to get it. And I'm not saying that she should be fired right now. I'm saying it's a possibility, unlike you who are saying "No, people can't get fired in industry as long as they make a bit of money and have relations". Who doesn't understand how things work? 

 

If her numbers keep getting smaller (possible, and ongoing), if Disney wants more money (obvious), and if they think someone else can bring them more money (not the case so far), they will fire her. Or put her in charge of something else. She will still have work, nobody is saying she will end up in the streets because nobody will want her anymore. But not on SW in that case. 

 

You're acting like "No guys, Don Mattrick can't get fired, he was having a huge success with the Xbox 360 when you were still in high school" at XOne launch. And what happened? Oh, yeah...