Forget the salary. The more egregious sin is not getting a cut of Disney merchandise!
“I feel like every time I walk down the aisles out there on the floor of CCXP and I see all these Deadpool figurines, I think they wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t made that film. And I feel uniquely fortunate that I could be part of it. Then, then my second thought is, I wish my director deals had a piece of the merchandising so that I could get some money from all of that.”
I’d be surprised if Disney gave points on anything to anyone these days.
Unregulated capitalism always ends with a few big corps, and once that happens they have all the labor negotiating power.
If the few big studios try to compete they’ll lose potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. If they all “individually’” decide to cut pay for highly specialized positions, that labor pool doesn’t really have any other options but to take it.
People always forget “the free market will do what’s best” means making the product that profits the most, that often includes cheaping out as much as possible on everything including labor, and selling as much as possible. That’s rarely the same as making the best product.
Disney and Marvel should have never been allowed to merge.
“Disney and Marvel should have never been allowed to merge.”
I actually feel nauseous when I think about the fact that everything has degraded so much that this is even a sentence that actually had to be stated out loud as if it was a contentious idea that must be arrived at rather than a truth so obvious that everyone feels the same rage in their bones and words are hardly necessary to understand why.
When Disney bought marvel they weren’t doing so hot. They’d already sold off media rights for major franchises (Spiderman, xmen, fantastic four), and had taken a huge gamble with Ironman. While it panned out Disney came in well before anything was proven regarding the mcu - https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-marvel-went-from-bankruptcy-to-billions/
George Lucas got a % of merchandise from Star Wars and Disney lost out on a crap ton of money because of it. I doubt they will make that decision again.
Forget the salary. The more egregious sin is not getting a cut of Disney merchandise!
I’d be surprised if Disney gave points on anything to anyone these days.
Unregulated capitalism always ends with a few big corps, and once that happens they have all the labor negotiating power.
If the few big studios try to compete they’ll lose potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. If they all “individually’” decide to cut pay for highly specialized positions, that labor pool doesn’t really have any other options but to take it.
People always forget “the free market will do what’s best” means making the product that profits the most, that often includes cheaping out as much as possible on everything including labor, and selling as much as possible. That’s rarely the same as making the best product.
Disney and Marvel should have never been allowed to merge.
“Disney and Marvel should have never been allowed to merge.”
I actually feel nauseous when I think about the fact that everything has degraded so much that this is even a sentence that actually had to be stated out loud as if it was a contentious idea that must be arrived at rather than a truth so obvious that everyone feels the same rage in their bones and words are hardly necessary to understand why.
Fox and Disney merger shouldn’t have happened.
When Disney bought marvel they weren’t doing so hot. They’d already sold off media rights for major franchises (Spiderman, xmen, fantastic four), and had taken a huge gamble with Ironman. While it panned out Disney came in well before anything was proven regarding the mcu - https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-marvel-went-from-bankruptcy-to-billions/
George Lucas got a % of merchandise from Star Wars and Disney lost out on a crap ton of money because of it. I doubt they will make that decision again.
20th Century Fox was the distributor for Star Wars. They didn’t own any of it until 2012 to my knowledge.
True. I meant the OG distributor. George Lucas took a cut in order to get a % of the toys.
Smart dude