Disney seems content to burn their product to the ground.

[Sick Of Silence]

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Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by actor and wrestler Dylan 'Hornswoggle' Postl and comedian and LGBT activist James Barr to debate the diverse casting of Disney's live action remake of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves - which only features one actor with dwarfism.

Dylan, who has dwarfism, explains that it is already hard enough for actors in his community to get roles as they can only really play characters like dwarves, leprechauns and elves - so to take the few options they have away from them is distasteful. He uses Hugh Grant playing an Oompa Loompa with the help of CGI in the upcoming 'Wonka' film as another example of this.

Piers then slams James' take that this very diverse set of actors playing the dwarves is progressive, as it is restricting a different minority, that being of dwarf actors and that James' stance 'stinks' of "woke hypocrisy".

They want gay people to play gay characters, but want regular people to play small characters.

 

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A fire sale...since it's burning to the ground:

Bob Iger Shifts From Building an Empire to a Disney Yard Sale

Netflix just had its best month in years and Disney is looking to sell its TV assets. What does that mean for the future of Hollywood?

Good afternoon from New York, and thanks to Thomas Buckley for the help with a packed newsletter.

While we will get to the major Disney news in a minute, let's look ahead to a big week for Netflix and the entire entertainment business. The worldwide leader in streaming TV will report second-quarter financial results on July 19, and expectations are high. Shares of Netflix are up more than 90% since the market bottomed out in October, and the company is the 11th best stock in the S&P Index since then.

Investors and analysts are optimistic about the company's advertising business and its crackdown on password sharing. New data from Antenna underscore why:

June was Netflix's best quarter of domestic growth in years. About 3.5 million people signed up for Netflix in the US last month, an increase of more than 100% over its recent averages. Netflix accounted for one-quarter of all new domestic streaming sign-ups last month, at least among the services measured by Antenna.

This doesn't mean Netflix added 3.5 million customers in the US. (That would be shocking.) Those are gross additions. Lots of people also canceled their Netflix accounts. But people are signing up a lot faster than they are canceling. That is good news for a company that hasn't added customers at home in two years.

Netflix has cautioned that the password crackdown won't boost its customer base until the second half of this year, but the data suggest that it has already prompted millions more people to start paying.

As a reminder, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is one of several moguls and celebrities speaking at the inaugural Screentime conference in the fall. You can buy a ticket a here.

Iger put roughly a third of the company up for sale this week, declaring Disney's linear TV assets noncore. That includes TV networks ABC, FX and Freeform. He also said Disney is looking for a strategic partner for ESPN — though he's not willing to sell the whole thing — and the company is already looking to sell or restructure its TV and streaming business in India.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-07-16/bob-iger-shifts-from-building-an-empire-to-a-disney-yard-sale