Post by jdv on Mar 28, 2023 18:43:47 GMT -5
"Last week, Iger -- under pressure from Nelson Peltz, who may wind up evicting Iger's yes-men board if Iger doesn't stop losing investors money -- fired an "untouchable" diversity executive at Disney, Victoria Alonso, and kicked her ass out with either no payout or a small enough payout that she doesn't mind forfeiting it by threatening a lawsuit against Disney.
That brings us to the new news. Both Dicktor Van Doomcock (possibly not his real name) and Kamran Pasha have sources who are telling substantially the same story, with different levels of detail, about a meeting between Iger and Kennedy this past week.
The meeting was a locked-door office confrontation. Kathleen Kennedy was "shellacked" by the meeting. Robert Iger told Kathleen Kennedy that Indiana Jones was "a mess" and wanted it straightened out, particularly the ending.
Iger told Kennedy that Indiana Jones had to be profitable -- no "just break even" would be accepted. He told her the movie had to make at least $900 million, or Kennedy will not be allowed to just retire via the "Viking Funeral" plan, but will instead be publicly fired and "publicly shamed."
The implication is that they will revoke the planned retirement bonus they were planning to pay her.
Kathleen Kennedy, who has been reshooting and reworking this finished-but-not-really-finished movie for something like a year and a half, then began asking for the film to be delayed still further to allow time for even more reshoots and reworkings. Iger refused her the extra time (and money) for such additional bites at the apple."
That brings us to the new news. Both Dicktor Van Doomcock (possibly not his real name) and Kamran Pasha have sources who are telling substantially the same story, with different levels of detail, about a meeting between Iger and Kennedy this past week.
The meeting was a locked-door office confrontation. Kathleen Kennedy was "shellacked" by the meeting. Robert Iger told Kathleen Kennedy that Indiana Jones was "a mess" and wanted it straightened out, particularly the ending.
Iger told Kennedy that Indiana Jones had to be profitable -- no "just break even" would be accepted. He told her the movie had to make at least $900 million, or Kennedy will not be allowed to just retire via the "Viking Funeral" plan, but will instead be publicly fired and "publicly shamed."
The implication is that they will revoke the planned retirement bonus they were planning to pay her.
Kathleen Kennedy, who has been reshooting and reworking this finished-but-not-really-finished movie for something like a year and a half, then began asking for the film to be delayed still further to allow time for even more reshoots and reworkings. Iger refused her the extra time (and money) for such additional bites at the apple."
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The previews for the newest INDIANA JONES was so full of CG that it looked like a cut scene from a video game. Like a laughably bad fan film.
And the movie's preview audiences - despite having already done several reshoots - have reportedly said it sucks exactly as bad as you think it might.
Thus the notion that this bloated, unwanted, turd of a movie will gross a $900 million dollars is hilarious on its face; all but a guarantee that Kennedy will be fired if and when INDY is released if the rumor is true.
But I tend to think it's bullshit, because why wait? Disney knows INDY is a turd and extremely unlikely to make dime one. But way way worse is the fact that she already wrecked STAR WARS. If not for Jon Favreau and MANDALORIAN, the STAR WARS universe would be as dead a Julius Caesar.
The last trilogy of STAR WARS movies is so gob smackingly bad that there has been a massive on-line campaign to "black hole" the movies, to essentially have Disney "forget" that they exist.
Millions in un-sold SW merch rotted on shelves. SOLO became the first SW movie to lose money - so much so that an entire line of SW movies were cancelled.
Does that sound fine? Of course not, yet she's still there. But with Disney literally flushing billions down the toilet, perhaps wiser heads - IE those losing millions on dividends - will see the light.