if you watch this channel regularly then you know how much joy I get out of
discussing the business of Hollywood heck if you watch this channel regularly
you either love it too or I've made you love it and you know what Disney has
been such a boon to us lately they're just so damn entertaining these days not
just with the movies they keep churning out but with all the drama they're
creating behind the scenes what am I talking about this week well this week
Disney took no prisoners when it came to the Hollywood release schedule it was a
thing to behold if you knew where to look because most mistakenly focused on
the fact that Indiana Jones 5 has been pushed back yet another year script
problems and who do they bring on to fix it what a cast in Suns you know the one
that helped him ruin Star Wars so I don't think those script problems are
gonna get fixed quite frankly but people also talked about the fact that Harrison
Ford will be 79 when that flick hits theaters if that if it sticks to that
new release date but whatever he's already old man Ford that's his new
brand that's his new identity it's not really working out for him but he's
sticking with it anyway and he played the character that way a decade ago in
Crystal Skull so Indiana Jones the dykes have already been rolled but the real
news is Disney's aggressive offensive strategy when it comes to dominating the
Hollywood landscape Bob Iger and company don't just want their movies to succeed
but for others to fail and Disney is so aggressive so successful in its offense
that this week Warner Brothers publicly admitted because I guess they were like
everybody feels to say why arrive we're gonna we're gonna we're it's gonna be
cathartic instead it was just embarrassing so Warner Brothers publicly
admitted and one of the biggest Hollywood trades that they intentionally
intentionally set up the summer movie season this year they felt it was too
crowded that's right one of the biggest studios in Hollywood with some of the
biggest franchises decided not to compete decided
not to compete in the biggest movie season and Warner Brothers feeble excuse
they offered up oh the whole year is in play but Disney knows that and they they
came from Warner Brothers and all the other studios so let's break it down now
first off Disney had a brilliant chess move that could protect not just one but
two of their blockbusters because many of us have wondered how Dwayne Johnson
can star in Disney's Jungle Cruise when he already stars in sony's strikingly
similar Jumanji well now Jungle Cruise has a release date and it's October 11th
2019 just two months before that Jumanji sequel is set to open
now it'll either hobble that film that that's where the damage will be
contained or it'll kamikaze that's the second Jumanji film and both will be
taken out and Disney would still be okay with that because it would still take
Jumanji out from challenging Star Wars as it did so effectively in 2017 Oh
Disney remembers and they're not gonna let that happen again if they can't help
it but by far and away the biggest and most aggressive move by Disney is their
smallest one and that's moving Mary Poppins up just a few days just a few
days later this year the sequel was supposed to hit theaters on Christmas
Day but will now open on Wednesday December 19th on a Wednesday that is
super important it's rare and that's what makes this just so aggressive it's
all aggressive it's beautiful - it's beautiful
all right so this puts Mary Poppins returns just a few days after the
release of Sony's into the spider-verse animated movie remember we've been like
ah you know it's not a lot of attention it's pretty hot right I mean the teaser
not so much but this and last trailer and became a hot commodity and you know
Disney's like whoa we you know we want to dominate animation as best we can
so they got wreck-it Ralph just a couple of weeks before Spider of us and now
Mary Poppins to cut off its legs right after right to snap its webbing oh boy
and then this puts Mary Poppins returns just a few days again days before not
just Paramount's bumblebee not just Fox's
leeta battle angel and not just sony's holmes and watson but its true target
Warner Brothers Aquaman you can run Warner Brothers but you
can't hide it does seem that Disney has a particular vendetta against Warner
Brothers maybe because Warner Brothers has been so aggressive and copying them
but like remember how Feige admitted again publicly admitted that he Grima
they didn't you know they didn't make too big a deal about it and actually was
the Russo brothers who let it slip foggy he was like don't give away my evil
machinations right but I remembered it and that's the only greenlit civil war
after Batman V Superman was announced and then released it just a couple of
weeks later really hurt you know to stealing a lot of that films Thunder
fascinating and now a crucial flick for not just Warner Brothers but for you
know trying to get the DCU fixed is it going to find it an even harder
situation and finding an audience I mean it was super crowded there before but
Mary Poppins returns is a juggernaut I mean Warner Brothers it looks like the
holiday movie season is just as competitive as the summer movie season
you didn't want to get involved with I mean at least in the summer Aquaman
would be seasonally appropriate because really what seems more like a holiday
movie to you right Aquaman or Mary Poppins Returns
I know some of you will be contrary you didn't say I'd love to spend Christmas
with Jason Momoa but be a good Hollywood executive don't just think of yourself
think about buying patterns mainstream moviegoers the ones that only go once a
month if that that's who you need to be thinking about they're only gonna pick
one movie and now Disney has made it even harder for them not to pick Mary
Poppins Returns because you know that was gonna come in really late in the
game right maybe people will be like oh I can't wait any longer
I'll see one of these big movies that opened up just you know on the on the
21st but no now Mary Poppins is there for that you know to to intercept and as
much as I'm looking forward to the mega by the way Warner Brothers should have
given that release date to Aquaman they're both Warner Brothers pictures
because I would much rather go up against Winnie the Pooh than Mary
Poppins that bitch means business just ask mr. banks so what do you think of
Disney's bold strategy and that some studios aren't even bothering to fight
back and while those and those that are are coming on
heavy fire like Jumanji Sony just got you know just turn things around
but again Disney remembers you take out star wars there or at least you know
significantly eat it and eat into its box office and then Disney's gonna not
gonna let that happen twice if they again if they can help it so write your
thoughts down below again such a great juicy story and of course as always you
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