RIP Disney

Star Wars didn't work out as planned.

Won't do shit
Investigators will be paid off
Go back to r*ddit

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So what's the actual range of years they're saying they're investigating? Just so can establish things ahead of time for anyone coming in here to yell about Captain Marvel.

Oh no, the biggest blue chip stock is being investigated by a pussy do nothing organization

Great now the Federal Government will take over ownership of Star Wars and Marvel.

Get ready for actual poorly made Captain America hygiene videos in public schools and X-Wings in the Smithsonian.

>Disney greases a few palms
>"oh hey, our mistake. Disney is innocent :))))"

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>>ITT: Salty Disney shill tears

While I fully believe they'll buy their way out of this, for the time being I choose to enjoy this news.

Good...good...

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>SW didn't do good for Disney
>in 2008

>Trump will renew the Star Wars program, only now it's officially called that

What are the possible consequences to this? worst vs most likely to happen

Looking like you made more money = more investor confidence = higher stock prices = more actual money

This is all shit you learn in freshman year at any college business program.

>Disney killed my hype for Star Wars
>ended up being a massive loss for the company
Kek, George Lucas is laughing in his Jar Jar Binks themed car.
>post yfw Rise of The Skywalker would flop just like Solo did

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The Feds don't like it when people cause investors minor annoyance.

Investor fraud.

big corporations are literally the best in the world at not paying taxes. they have the most options and have first dibs on all the best taxation lawyers since they can pay them the most. over 70% of government welfare goes to big corporations and its always in excess of any taxes they paid that year

>most likely to happen
Nothing
>worst
Payouts to investors for stock manipulation + fine

You sound communist.

America is already a communist country, but only if you're a billionaire.

what a goddamn disaster that was. i dunno if disney is on the same level though.

lying on your taxes is always a big no-no

it would take a lot for disney to go the full way of enron, but its reputation will never recover from this if true

now, it would be interesting to see what would happen if it turned out that disney was still cooking its books and wasn't near as profitable as they've been saying they are. maybe things could open up into certain films not performing as well as they've been reported to, but that's all pure speculation at this point

They said they made more money than they really did to inflate the value of their stock. In this case, doing so helped them buy Marvel since that happened in 2009.

Nah. They will never die.

never say never

Never is just ever with an n in front of it.

>never recover
>implying drones will give a shit so long as they get their low quality nostalgia bait.

based tiny brain poster

>hurf durf wanting companies to not game the system is communism
Troglodyte

>never
>not ever
>the negation of ever
If you don't think that one letter can be important, why not drink some of pic related? It's just one atom away from water.

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Cheating the stock market, literally conjuring money from thin air to pay the stockholders when they sell. The kind of shit that fucks the economy. Also the reason /pol/s bootlicking bullshit will never win out in the end

It's not about the drones.

>The Disney Captain Marvel ticket buying scandal will finally be blown open
They called us MAD! Well who's mad now?

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Omg. Who cares? Nothing will happen. Everybody will forget about it soon. They're fucking rich and probably ran by jews. Big companies like this bend laws all the time. Fucking pedo scandals happens sometimes on by studios and gets forgotten after a week. Amazing how OP believe Disney will die like this.

>leave my masters alone!

>Disney bribes to critics and influence over RottenTomatoes will be unveiled
>The Snyder cut will be released
>James Gunn will be arrested for his role in Pizzagate (after he completes The Suicide Squad) before he can do the next GotG
It's all finally happening, fellow DChads. Trust the plan. WWG1WGA.

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ALL THE MOTHERFUCKERS WHO SAID THAT DISNEY BOUGHT UP TICKETS TO CAPTAIN MARVEL WERE RIGHT

How's your Comcast stocks, Boco?

>y-you disney drone
It's called stepping on reality. I really wish they losing Marvel but it's not gonna happen.

The NYT Best Seller List has been doing that for decades, why is anyone surprised?

>backpedaling
Of course.

>reee stop wanting things to get better

You

Autistic persons are depressing

>burger
This is illegal everywhere, dipshit. I hate you so-called ""/int/ellectuals""

They've been buying movie tickets to inflate box office.

Yes, they cleverly bought up tickets to it before they even bought Marvel. FIFTY DIMENSIONAL CHESS!

You sound inbred

Yes user, I'm sure this only happened back then and isnt long going.
They probably didnt buy Marvel tickets since this seems more like parks division but they probably kept pulling this to lessen the impact of failed attractions.

>Implying the government won't just bail them out
If the mouse has enough power to ruin copyright for our lifetimes, they have enough power to escape this.

i mean, copyright is currently ending for more and more media

GET WOKE, GO BROKE

LIE ABOUE BEING BROKE

lmao at the idea of Disney following laws

Considering that Disney bought Marvel, Star Wars, and Fox with a LOT of stock, how is this going to affect that?

They lied about the money they had and used that imaginary money to buy shit they couldn't actually afford.

Don't they literally allow alligators to freely roam their theme park and eat children because it would be too much of a hassle to put up effective barriers? Did anyone go to jail for that, or even get fined? No? I think Disney will survive this "investigation". Lol.

Shut up, Jeremy.

2008-2009
On top of that the investigation is for their amusement park business not their movie side.

I'm not a big disney fan either but this is all over blown nonsense and isn't gonna hurt the mouse's public image

I hope that this investigation blows Disney open and reveals decades of corruption, ruining the company forever. And I hope that they really do investigate this ticket shit, only to find out that it actually is just nothing.

The only thing I can see this amounting to is investor fraud. Because lying about their numbers would have encouraged more investors. Although seeing how they now have more investors they kind of did make more money. Shits weird but I seriously doubt this will hurt them beyond a laughable fine.

No take backs bitch.

This isn't "burger law" it's basic finance law, you brainlet. Publicly traded companies have a duty to not mislead their shareholders, disclosing profit is one of the obligations they have in order to comply with this duty. Failure to accurately report earnings is a form of investor fraud. Being found guilty of defrauding investors is catastrophic for a public corporation, it's basically a death sentence for most businesses, but with Disney it might not be just because of how huge and entrenched they are.

This pretty much indirectly confirms that they most likely inflated the box office for Captain Foot Fungus.

>Don't they literally allow alligators to freely roam their theme park and eat children because it would be too much of a hassle to put up effective barriers?
Wow, DC fanboys are crazy.

>over 70% of government welfare goes to big corporations
the fact you believe this tells me you probably don't know anything about how taxes or welfare works

This. They'll get a fine for like 1% of Thier profits but it will sound a huge amount.

I remember cadburys in the UK had a case where millions of bars of chocolate were infected and caused food poisoning to thousands of people.

The UK equivalent to FDA fined them like a million pound.

Thy made over 100 million that year.

Look it up, idiot. Alligators can freely waltz into public spaces at their hotels that they charge $1,000 a night to stay at and grab a toddler for lunch. No fence or anything. Why the fuck are you coming at me when I'm right and you're wrong? Fucking stooge.

This is an accusation by a single accountant, which is being looked into.
I'd say it's not very meaningful, as it is doing nothing to Disney stock. And that's after Disney dumped a fortune into buying Fox, and another fortune into Disney+.

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It's just amazing the things ideologues can fool themselves into believing when they really hate a company.

>its real
Wow

There was a case of a kid being eaten by an alligator at disney in florida

latimes.com/nation/la-na-gator-attack-disney-world-20160822-snap-story.html

but no, there aren't alligators wandering anywhere they like. They usually wtick by the waters. But that's Florida. There's usually gators in any body of water bigger than a pool, especially if they're near a swamp. They found seven in the man made lake at Disney and they did a piss poor job of getting rid of them or even taking precautions to keep them away from guests.

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Disney knew.
washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=/news/animalia/wp/2017/11/03/disney-knew-its-park-was-full-of-alligators-it-caught-hundreds-before-a-boy-was-killed/?

The only Ideologue here is you.

Of course they knew. There were signs. But like I said, it was a piss poor precaution. The fact they had those flimsy signs up is the only reason no one faced any criminal charges.

Plus, it's Florida. If there's a lake then there's a gator in it.

they fixed it by putting up a goddamned statue of the boy horribly drowned because of their negligence

S

You will never be a rich CEO, so your bootlicking is pathetic.

This. You don't leave the lid up on the toilet in Florida because you'll have an alligator in it within the hour.
Take showers, because drawing a bath will end with you wrestling a gator to see who gets to use it first.

I hope they investigate the Oscars as well and they ban Disney from competing forever.

Depressingly accurate.

Well this isn't part of the SIC investigation but it is an interesting start. So far the Whistle blower says the books have been funny for well over a decade. Which means that certain business acquisitions could possibly be "bad faith" negotiations. While that may not mean much for the Marvel or LucasArts acquisitions the Fox Merger was done very heavily on company worth which this directly effects.

And Murdoch is the kinda guy to go for such a weakness.

Be Funny if Fox ends up owning Disney

supes on

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>Also the reason /pol/s bootlicking bullshit will never win out in the end
>implying Disney hasn’t brought RaHoWa even closer with their diversity garbage

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Link?

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Who cares?

Investors and corporate management. If it is proven that Disney was manipulating stock price then there is pretty much no way they're not getting dragged to court over the Fox deal and or facing a full-on executive warfare.

Companies aren't really punished in burgerland in this day and age, so none of this actually matters. Well, I guess it matters because that attorney general and whistle blower will probably end up murdered.

And yet people say the idea that disney purchased a bunch of tickets to captain marvel to make sure it beat alita is absurd

Investors and corporate heads have insane overlap, but why would investors care? The company made them more money, and short term losses for paltry legal fees pale in comparison to the long term gains.

They ain't dealing with copyright abuse any more user
al capone went down for taxs and this is a similar area

It is not during the time period of captain marvel but it does prove they are not above such things

Even if a governmental watchdog agency could do anything to a multinational corporation with billions of dollars (they can't), they would hold back because killing Disney would do irreparable damage to the economy.

I mean it was clearly obvious Disney bought all critics/review sites back in 2017 when that abomination of TLJ came out. I wont waste my money anymore on this franchise and anyone who still does is a normie retard

Al Capone was in a much lest capitalist-ruined society. that happened with reaganomics and the abolishion of many corporate anti-trust laws, allowing corporations to become richer than the government

>implying personal boycotts matter in this age of anti-trust impotence and vertical integration

Fuck off Yea Forums, this investigation has to do with their parks not movies

What do you mean?

Hey Yea Forums, why won't you fuck off already

>I mean it was clearly obvious Disney bought all critics/review sites back in 2017 when that abomination of TLJ came out.
>Implying they didn't buy reviews when The Force Awakens came out
>Implying they haven't been buying reviews since the MCU first started

Every mcu movie except captain marvel was at least serviceable

cry harder faggot

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>Iron Man 2 and Thor 2 were serviceable

Investor confidence is shot, because they can't trust the stock value and expenses are being misreported. It matters for the Fox deal as it meant Disney was negotiating in bad faith.

Diff user but Ironman 2 was unironically the best Iron Man movie. 1 was origin shit and 3 is one of the worst Marvel Movies period.

How do I acquire taste as shitty as your's user?

IM2 was perfectly fine except for an extraneous couple of minutes that torpedoed the pacing of the 2nd act. AoU was much worse.

Captain Marvel is perfectly serviceable but held down by tension issues, and Cap 1, while one of my favorites, is a goddamn mess from a structural standpoint.

>overstated revenue
No. That's not how this works. This isn't how any of this works.

>Incredible Hulk
>Thor 2
>Iron Man 3
>Spider-Man: Homecoming

in what way? with how many transactions that go on in a disney park, it could be easy for overstated revenue to go into the 10-digits

Explains why Disney demanded more revenue from Sony, they needed to cover there asses.

>Incredible Hulk
Not an mcu movie
And homecoming was great, it even fixed black mj by turning her from an sjw to a conspiracy theorist

>Disney legal team busy
>Mickey Mouse enters public domain in 2024
How're they gonna handle a long ass lawsuit and push for yet another bit of copyright extension legislation at the same time?

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that and they probably expected all of the people to just deal with the price increase on the passes

>homecoming was great
I think Far From Home made it look better in retrospect.

Incredible Hulk is every bit an MCU movie that the Iron Man movies are
and Homecoming was shit. it wasn't a spider-man movie, it was iron man jr.

Wait I'm retarded I got homecoming confused with far from home
Homecoming was still pretty good though, villian was great

Buy a second legal team
I liked them but yeah I wasn't a fan of turning spidy into an iron man successor
I'm interested to see what sony will do with the character

Yeah star wars is blowing up like Alderaan and all it took was two completely shit films

You don’t fuck with taxes and reported revenue or the IRS will come down on your ass

why are you shilling for big business

Lying to investors is the worst crime in burgerdom.

>trading one set of kikes for another set of kikes
You won't notice any difference at all.

Pretending you do better than you do artificially increase the value of your shares and stockmarket value, and it's extremely illegal for a corporation.

Trump can probably write a more fun star wars movie than Disney at this point.

Which makes one wonder why publishers that went with epic are allowed to manipulate words to make it seem like they sold better than they did

You mean Epic games? Like borderlands 3 being sold there instead of steam?

/pol/s not libertarian.
At least not economically.
Internal free market maybe, but not a global free market that lets mega-corps profit off chink slave labor and fuck over their host nation.

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>Space force gets x-wings.

Yeah
There is a clear pattern of clever manipulation of words to disguise poor sales, only one epic exclusive game has ever given sold sales numbers, the rest have all used relative terms and whatnot

Yea epic falsifies its sales via technicality.
You see, too strong arm an Indy into joining the timed deal they guarantee X amount sold, and if X amount is not sold they buy the difference.
While good for the indy, this is fucking stock manipulation as it gives false sales data.

>The UK equivalent to FDA fined them like a million pound.
>Thy made over 100 million that year.
This is why GDPR is doing it right. Fines based on revenue instead of profit actually matters.

I'd argue it's not necessarily communism (as per the Marxist or the Abrahamic sense) but there is a sense of shared prosperity and community amongst the aristocracy and rentier classes that doesn't exist at a middle or lower class level. It's interesting as such a situation previously existed within the Roman Empire, roughly around the 1st and 2nd century AD. The Imperial bureaucracy and well as the pagan Hellenic church encouraged the idea of a commonality within classes, and that philanthropy or general consideration for other classes should only be undertaken if one stands to benefit financially, materially or socially from such an undertaking. I'd argue we're seeing a replication of this across the western world, minus the Hellenic paganism.

Epic is cancer but I'm pretty sure that's not true
They provide the difference in profit but they don't buy additional copies
The issue is what the publishers are doing to pretend the games sold well when the epic exclusivity actually killed sales

I do agree that fines should be based on revenue but I would be reluctant to call GDPR "right" everything about the GDPR is cancer

How many people are going to die?

Easier to do with digital products. I mean, once something digital is made, there's infinite copies, they just pay the money for the deal they had I guess
But epic is really suspect, Im not a valvedrone (I played too much dota this decade and I have my fair share of disagreements with gaben) but I wish some other platform raises to be their competition, epic just doesn't go down my throat

Its absurd because of there's far more people and companies involved to pull something off like that and much bigger risk of being caught. Actually look up how ticket selling works because its not the simple version in your head.

I know you're obsessed with this shit against Captain Marvel, but Thor The Dark World, Iron Man 2, Incredible Hulk, Age of Ultron and even Spider-Man Far From Home were worse. I'm willing to say even Captain America First Avenger wasn't too good, but that was the very beginnings of the MCU and there's some charm to it so I'm giving it a pass. But the Thor movies aside from Ragnarok have been a lukewarm mess.
Hell, if we're talking about "lack of stakes" (as a criticism towards Captain Marvel's strength feats), then Ant-Man & The Wasp is the worst offender, where not even the antagonist is actually bad or represents a threat halfway into the movie, and all the bad guys are literally comedic thugs.

>Disney has a long-ass Wikipedia article about all the controversies around them
>surely this time people will stop buying their shit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_The_Walt_Disney_Company

theoretically, wouldn't they be able to just funnel money through some service that purchases your tickets for you?
maybe through some contact they have in one, like say Fandango, just off the top of my head

You should see the ones about wal mart and coca cola.

And yet for some reason we think reducing trade with china is bad.

>theoretically, wouldn't they be able to just funnel money through some service that purchases your tickets for you?
Pretty sure you're not allowed to do that.

Test

It means you say you're a billionaire when you're only a millionaire so people will vote for you and think you're the best at business, then you hide any documentation that say otherwise and make excuses when people ask to see the receipts.

>>Mickey Mouse enters public domain in 2024
No, early shorts do. Mickey's trademark can be renewed ad infinitum, like any other trademark.

The fuck has China got to do with it?

This. Steamboat Willie entering public domain isn't going to mean what people think it does, and they will most likely be sorely disappointed.

They lied about how good their stuff was selling
Basically buying seats for their own movies to trick investors, shit like that.

Even if you disguised the purchase as say, field trips, the number will look suspicious as hell when anyone looks at the returns. Especially at the few hundred theaters thiswould repeat at. Even if Fandango covers it up, other movie studios also know what to look for. Finally, theres relying on there not being some fame hungry idiot not whistleblowing on it all among thousands of employees.