{"id":1972177,"date":"2023-07-13T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-ceo-bob-iger-addresses-recent-marvel-and-pixar-flops\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:05:00","slug":"disney-ceo-bob-iger-addresses-recent-marvel-and-pixar-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-ceo-bob-iger-addresses-recent-marvel-and-pixar-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney CEO Bob Iger discusses recent failures in Marvel and Pixar films."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisney-ceo-bob-iger-addresses-recent-marvel-and-pixar-flops%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1972177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Disney CEO Bob Iger Addresses Recent Box Office Flops<\/h2>\n<p>Disney CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/disney-ceo-bob-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/audit-michigan-may-have-paid-billions-in-fraudulent-jobless-claims-gretchen-whitmer-administration-hit-with-kickback-allegations\/\" title=\"Audit: Michigan May Have Paid Billions in 'Fraudulent' Jobless Claims; Gretchen Whitmer Administration Hit with 'Kickback' Allegations\">iger<\/a>-defends-marvel-says-cooglers-work-on-black-panther-not-less-than-what-scorsese-or-coppola-have-done&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>Bob Iger<\/a> recently spoke out about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cuomos-new-york-has-the-worst-economic-rebound-in-the-nation-slowing-other-states-recoveries\/\" title=\"Cuomo\u2019s New York Has The Worst Economic Rebound In The Nation, Slowing Other States\u2019 Recoveries\">disappointing performance<\/a> of Marvel movies like &#8220;Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania&#8221; and animated Pixar films such as &#8220;Lightyear&#8221; and &#8220;Elemental.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During Iger&#8217;s appearance at the Sun Valley Conference, he acknowledged that the decision to offer too much content on the Disney+ streaming service was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-relationship-with-china-worse-than-with-soviet-union-during-cold-war-former-national-security-adviser-says\/\" title=\"Former National Security Adviser claims U.S.-China ties worse than Cold War with Soviet Union.\">major factor contributing<\/a> to the films&#8217; underperformance, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/marvel-flops-too-many-disney-tv-shows-bob-iger-1235669262\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There have been some disappointments,&#8221; Iger admitted. &#8220;We would have liked some of our more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/can-doctor-strange-conjure-up-a-normal-box-office-summer\/\" title=\"Can \u201cDoctor Strange\u201d Conjure up a \u201cNormal\u201d Box Office Summer?\">recent releases<\/a> to perform better. It&#8217;s reflective not as a problem from a personnel perspective, but I think in our zeal to basically grow our content significantly to serve mostly our streaming offerings, we ended up taxing our people way beyond \u2014 in terms of their time and their focus \u2014 way beyond where they had been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bob Iger has acknowledged that Pixar movies going straight to Disney+ has caused an impact in the demand for seeing new Pixar movies in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>However, he also adds that the studio has had some &#8220;creative misses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNBC<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CWZKoxbiKV\">pic.twitter.com\/CWZKoxbiKV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1679516690600665089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Marvel&#8217;s a great example of that,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They had not been in the TV business at any significant level. Not only did they increase their movie output, but they ended up making a number of television series, and frankly, it diluted focus and attention. That is, I think, more of the cause than anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to Pixar flops like &#8220;Elemental,&#8221; Iger admitted that the decision to skip theaters and go straight to streaming due to COVID was a mistake. This strategy was also employed for movies like &#8220;Luca&#8221; and &#8220;Turning Red.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That may have created an expectation in the audience that they&#8217;re going to eventually be on streaming and probably quickly, and there wasn&#8217;t an urgency,&#8221; said Iger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And then I think there was some, I think you&#8217;d have to agree that there were some creative misses, as well,&#8221; he added, without specifying further.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Ant-Man and the Wasp&#8221; sequel, released in February, has failed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-ceo-bob-iger-addresses-recent-marvel-and-pixar-flops\/\" title=\"Disney CEO Bob Iger discusses recent failures in Marvel and Pixar films.\">earn 0 million worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/woke-disney-lost-almost-900-million-on-last-8-films-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woke Disney Lost Almost $900 Million On Last 8 Films: Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney CEO Bob Iger expressed disappointment over recent underperforming Marvel and Pixar films like &#8220;Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,&#8221; &#8220;Lightyear,&#8221; and &#8220;Elemental.&#8221; Speaking at the Sun Valley Conference, Iger attributed the films&#8217; lackluster performance to a flawed decision-making process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1972178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}