The Beatles released what has been billed their very last song this week, with the aid of filmmaker Peter Jackson, but now the Lord of the Rings director has hinted there may be one or two more gems in the vault.
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I think Walt would be grumpy.
This is the week when the media celebrates the Magic Kingdom’s 100th birthday, but Walt Disney were around today, I think he’d cringe at the state of guild negotiations, fights with politicians and jumps in theme park prices (or streamer fees).
Having gained immortality for entertaining kids, he might still agonize about the major new commitment to sports betting made through ESPN, a Disney asset.
As one of the few people still around who actually spent time with the shy and media-averse studio pioneer, I found myself reflecting this week on those topics that Walt liked (and disliked) talking about.
I’m a fairly good note-taker, and as such I can report precisely what he was excited and angry about in December 1965 – one year before he died. Although he looked a bit weary and struggled with a chain-smoker’s cough, he had a lot on his mind beyond the studio.
Walt was delighted that Mary Poppins had become a hit — grossing about $30 million — but still was angry that, years earlier, he’d been talked into making Alice in Wonderland. “Idiots think whimsy can be easily translated to the screen,” he groused.
He resented being pressured to finance a movie based on Don Quixote, sensing that “we’d be crucified if that doesn’t turn out perfectly.” Walt complained that “we’ll do better with The Ugly Dachshund than trying to make classics.”
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Movie budgets were growing too fast, Walt said, but the idea of selling TV rights to Poppins appalled him. “The movie will generate $7 million a year at the box office when it’s re-issued every seven years,” he predicted.
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The Beatles released what has been billed their very last song this week, with the aid of filmmaker Peter Jackson, but now the Lord of the Rings director has hinted there may be one or two more gems in the vault.
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