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Soundwave on 27 May 2018
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Faelco said:
Soundwave said:

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.

 

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... 

Do you really know that much about the film industry? Do you trade papers on a regular basis? Do you know the heads of the studios? Do you even know any other producers?

Hollywood studios always will lean towards people who have a proven track record, ESPECIALLY on the producing side. 

The other reality here is Kennedy has delivered 3/4 highest grossing Star Wars movies of the modern era, 3 of which are over a billion dollars. I'm sorry if you don't like it, but that's a pretty good track record that any producer in Hollywood would like to have. 

Marvel only has 5 billion+ grossing films in 19 tries. 

Kennedy will likely have 4/5 once Episode IX is out.

The main casualty here is likely to be the Obi-Wan or Boba Fett movies, I think for now Disney will opt to put those on ice, if a Star Wars "one-off" movie gets produced from now on, the script/concept is likely going to have to be a slam dunk, not just "well this is pretty good and there's some fun here". So for people who wanted to see Ewan McGregor back as Obi-Wan ... this might be tough shit for you guys.