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On 22 Jan 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_lundquist@ggmail.com> posted some news:sshr45$4pm$4@dont-email.me:

oThe Marvelso, a woke shit story directed by a black DEI hire. And
they wondered why it failed. Meanwhile, the incompetent black DEI
hire still has a job.

Disney+ gained 4.1 million global subscribers in the fourth and final
quarter of fiscal 2023 (from an accounting standpoint, DisneyAs
reporting year ends September 30), which includes a loss of 2.8 million
Disney+ Hotstar users. Core Disney+ additions were 6.9 million.

Still: Even the streaming segmentAs loss was an overall gain. Direct-to-consumer streaming lost $387 million this summer, an
improvement from prior quarters. (Without a helping hand from sports,
the Q4 loss was $420 million.) See? Your price hikes are making a
difference!

Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger has long targeted 2024 as the year
Disney+ would become profitable. He now says that swing will
specifically come in its final fiscal quarter. Progress from now until
then omay not look linear from quarter to quarter,o the earnings release cautioned.

For this quarter, DisneyAs Q4 2023 revenue was $21.2 billion and
adjusted earnings per share were 82 cents, both topping market
estimates. Free cash flow was $3.4 billion, and with aggressive
cost-cutting in the works, Disney says next yearAs free cash flow will
be oapproachingo pre-pandemic levels.

If only ABC and DisneyAs cable networks (and the rest of the
linear-television ecosystem) werenAt getting killed on advertising.

Disney+ now has 150.2 million total streaming subscriptions (note: not subscribers; there is overlap due to the Disney Bundle). Core Disney+
has 112.6 million subs and Disney+ Hotstar claims the other 37.6
million. Hulu has 48.5 million subscribers and ESPN+ has 26 million.

The June 16 release of oElementalo initially looked like a bomb but
gained some steam this summer at the box office and then on Disney+.
(oThe Little Mermaido and oGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.o also made it
to Disney+ this summer.)

Ultimately, oElementalo will not lose money u especially when factoring
in its significant streaming value. oElementalo premiered on Disney+
September 13 and has been tearing up NielsenAs Top 10 Streaming list
ever since.

Most of the theatrical revenue for oIndiana Jones and the Dial of
Destinyo was recorded in the summer quarter; that one was a sizable
loss. Two more losses, oHaunted Mansiono (July 28) and oA Haunting in
Veniceo (September 15), were the only Disney theatrical releases during
the quarter.

oThe Marvelso (November 10) and oWisho (November 22) should lead
DisneyAs fiscal first quarter of 2024. ThatAs when oLokio Season 2
(October 5) also will be recorded.

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