Hell hath frozen under Disney's spot.

[strredwolf]

Disney is scrapping direct-to-DVD sequels. (AP/MercuryNews)

Which means after "The Little Mermaid 3" we can stop hearing about these crappy sequels.  About time!

How did this come about?  Well, Apple CEO Steve Jobs also ran Pixar, and Disney bought Pixar.  Steve thus became Disney's largest shareholder and a spot on the Disney board...

...and used it for good, because in 2003 Jobs said "We feel sick about Disney doing sequels.  If you look at the quality of their sequels... it's pretty embarrassing."

Thank you Steve!

Comments

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Holy dook! Hehe. You sure you didn't just threaten to crush the board of directors under your massive massiveness? ;) Hehe. Glad to see Steve Jobs putting his foot down on those Sequels though. Maybe now we won't get another Air Bud sequel.

--Salen

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Now if we can just get them to stop making shows like 101 Dalmatians the Animated Series, which was about 3 dalmatians and a bird...

The sequels are almost never of the same quality as the originals. Lilo and stitch was a decent enough movie, but the TV show and the rest of the movies were just painful to watch. Them trying to capitalize on the Pokemon trend...

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

As long as they keep themselves to the numerous Disney channels, I don't care.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

"As long as they stick to the kiddie shelves at the retail stores and I can just not buy them and not watch them, I don't care." ;)

I might complain that they suck, but it really doesn't affect me one way or the other anymore since I just don't buy their direct-dvd movies after seeing the later Lilo and Stitch movies. If you don't like them, you can just ignore them and hopefully they'll lose audience and go away. (Not like that helped with the Land Before Time sequels... or the Spyro games after the first 3. Series milkers suck, but as long as you are aware of the fact that they're milking the series, it's not any big deal.)

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm not on the board. :(