_-Jile-_

The only “anyone” that slashing spending on is ostensibly “good for” is the share holders. It’s not about being responsive to customers, it’s not about creating good content, it’s not about providing a modicum of loyalty and job security to employees (who are expected to show unqualified total loyalty to their employers…), It’s about stock value. Period. Nothing else matters.

Sorry, but ‘how’ is Disney’s cutting their ‘films’ in less than half ‘good’ for anyone. Myself being a parent I find Disney doing televised baby sitting to be commonplace among virtually all parents when they need to get housework or other things done and need a break from the full time job of parenting. They make great videos for family-level viewing and decent educational movies as well.

That said. Customers are ‘fickle’ beings. It’s hard to know what will be hot but let’s step back here for a moment. When cartoons cost 200 million dollars to make, with no physical actors and let’s face it kids – digital tech’s are a dime a dozen these days. 200 million is a falsified number used souly to make it look like they’re making less on movies than they really are. Let’s guess here that it takes 20 people a year to make a Disney cartoon (not counting the 200 people it takes to carry their lunch and rub their feet and order their pizza) with their modern digital systems. If they pay each person a million dollars a piece we’re talking about 100% less money than they’re claiming. If Disney is ‘really’ spending 200 million dollars to make one of these digital cartoons – then it’s time they fire most of their staff because frankly they can get a bunch of high school kids to work there for $10/hr and be happy about it – and likely produce more movies, not less.

So, they can blame p2p all they want but it’s just an excuse for poor management – they need to get their S together and stop pointing fingers outwardly.

Just my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_

See http://www.dreamonsillydreamer.com/ for a look at what went wrong at Disney.