Disney Touts Two-Year Turnaround Behind Studio’s Stellar Quarter
deadline.comJust a year ago, Disney CEO Bob Iger was in the midst of an ongoing apology tour for the studio after string of tepid box office returns.
At a conference last November, he acknowledged that things had a taken a downturn and promised, as he had been doing regularly, that Disney will be stressing quality over quantity after The Marvels, the latest Indiana Jones and a handful of other films disappointed. “I’ve been very public about it saying, and I would say right now, my number one priority is to help the studio turn around creatively,” he said.
Now he has something to crow about. The company’s fiscal fourth quarter that ended in September was one of the best ever in the studio’s history.
Pixar’s Inside Out 2 and Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine became the top films of the year so far, setting box office records.
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