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Disney stands apart in the hosts’ view of film studios

Ben Gilbert describes feature-film production as a mediocre business by Acquired’s standards and treats Disney as an exception.

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The Walt Disney Company

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studios. The business of feature film production is a mediocre one, especially by the standards of what we study on this show here with Acquired, except for
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Listeners, since there are tons of biographies and documentaries and places analyzing Walt's psyche, we're gonna focus today on Acquired's sweet spot, which is the business. What is it that Walt's merry band did from the 1920s onward that made them succeed uniquely well in Hollywood? And when you look at Disney's profits today, it is in a whole different league than Paramount or Universal or Warner Brothers or any of the other sorta classic Hollywood Disney.

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