Star Wars Solo FLOP and Last Jedi backlash: Disney to FIRE Kathleen Kennedy for JJ Abrams?

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Star Wars Solo FLOP and Last Jedi backlash: Disney to FIRE Kathleen Kennedy for JJ Abrams?

AFTER the Solo movie flop and Last Jedi backlash and fan boycott Disney boss "Bob Iger wants Kathleen Kennedy out and called an emergency studio head crisis meeting" while Kennedy's producer husband supported a post accusing Iger of setting up his wife.

"The current state of Star Wars is that Kathleen Kennedy has a target on her but everyone is too scared to take the shot.”

A major new report from Beyond the Trailer has leaked some of the inner dramas consuming Lucasfilm and Disney following the disastrous last few months.

According to the site's presenter Grace Randolph, Disney boss Iger called an emergency meeting with all the heads of Disney, Pixar and Marvel together with the Lucasfilm Star Wars "top brass" to discuss the current situation.

Randolph added: "The word is that he wants Kathleen Kennedy out."

Money talks in Hollywood and the enormous failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story, which hasn't even cracked $400million at the global box office, is fuelling mounting reports and expectations that a drastic change is coming.

Randolph said: "Nobody will take her (Kennedy's) job. Several have been approached, but turned it down, including JJ Abrams, who turned it down flat and didn't even hesitate."

At the same time, Kenendy's husband, producer Frank Marshall liked a tweet which claimed Bob Iger was making Kennedy take the blame for his own Star Wars mistakes.

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[Niku120]

Star Wars lost its appeal after the original movies. imo

 

[Toroid]

Disney paid 4 billion for Lucasfilm in 2012 and they've made all their money back according to the article.
The new 'Star Wars' movies have already made more than the $4 billion Disney paid for the franchise in 2012

In 2012, Disney bought Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and took full control of the "Star Wars" empire.

Five years later, the studio has made that amount back from just the ticket sales from the new "Star Wars" films.

With the saga's lastest movie, "The Last Jedi," passing $900 million worldwide at the box office on Thursday, the Disney-owned releases of "Star Wars" ("The Force Awakens," "Rouge One," "The Last Jedi") have combined to surpass the $4.06 billion pricetag Disney spent on San Francisco-based company, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Though this doesn't count the millions spent to make and market the movies, this figure also doesn't count the money Disney has already made from "Star Wars" merchandising and attractions at its theme parks (both of which are more lucrative than what the studio gets from ticket sales).

Any way you cut it, there can be no argument about the amount Disney paid for Lucasfilm (which means it now owns the "Indiana Jones" franchise; a new movie with Harrison Ford once again in the title role is in development). And you can only imagine what can be accomplished with the company's recent acquisition of the movie studio and TV properties of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion.

The news comes as "The Last Jedi" performs strong in theaters, but not to the level of 2015's "The Force Awakens," which broke numerous box office records.

The mixed reaction by fans, its two-and-a-half hour running time, and the fact that Christmas Eve landed on a Sunday this year are all factors for the historic $151 million drop at the domestic box office for "The Last Jedi" in its second weekend in theaters. But some things are too big to fail, and a "Star Wars" movie is one of them.

"The Last Jedi" is currently the second-highest domestic grossing movie of 2017 with over $445 million (it's only been in theaters for two weeks!) and has its sights on being the top-grossing domestic movie of the year by December 31.

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