Moviegoers Ditch Disney, future prospects appear bright- with a solid series of upcoming films related to The Avengers and Star Wars –the recent box-office performance brings to the limelight the company’s Achilles’ heel: succeeding with unproven “commodities”. The reason why Marvel characters hit a chord with young and middle-aged moviegoers alike was that the characters were well known and familiar. Read More. http://goo.gl/Pys5su
2. The Walt Disney Company,togetherwith its subsidiaries,is a worldwide
entertainmentcompanydiversifiedacrossfive business segments:Media
Networks,Parks and Resorts,Studio Entertainment,ConsumerProducts and
Interactive Media.
4. Valuentum, Box Office Mojo
The Iron Man franchise, for instance, has raked in an
awesome $2.4 billion in box office receipts over the last
five years.
5. Investment in big budget blockbuster films is well worth
the risk, specifically for Disney which owns lucrative
businesses.
6. Disney needs blockbuster franchises to set its
merchandising machine rolling and to add new tales to
its theme parks.
7. The company
Business segments:
Media Networks
Parks and Resorts
Studio Entertainment
Consumer Products
Interactive Media.
In terms of employment, the
Company has approximately
144,000 people on its payroll as of
October 3, 2009.
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