By Disney reported its quarterly earnings for January-March today and on the call to investors, CEO Bob Iger repeated his message from the last earnings call about moving away from increases in film/TV slate plans.
To that effect, he says on this call he’s been working hard with his studio to “reduce output and focus more on quality”. That’s especially true of their Marvel Studios’ output, and explains how many works that brand will release annually:
“We’re slowly going to decrease volume and go to probably about two TV series a year instead of what had become four, and reduce our film output from maybe four a year to two or at the maximum three.”
He also says they are already at work on the 2025 and 2026 Marvel slates and feel confident the company is back on track:
“We’re working hard on what that path is, we’ve got a couple of good films in ’25 and then we’re heading to more Avengers, which we’re extremely excited about.
Overall I feel great about the slate, it’s something that I’ve committed to spending more and more time on, the team is one that I have tremendous confidence in and the IP that we’re mining, including all the sequels that we’re doing is second to none.”
The comments come in the wake of the last several Marvel films underperforming both commercially and critically, though the sole MCU release this year of “Deadpool & Wolverine” is expected to be one of the year’s biggest success stories.
Source: THR
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