- Joined
- May 3, 2019
Pretty much, contrary to popular belief Disney is pretty hands off with it's subsidiaries likely because it's afraid of killing it's golden gooses.Marvel gets away with what it does not because Disney is causing it, but rather because Marvel is the mechanism by which Disney cheaply deals with an expensive problem. Ike Perlmutter. See Ike is the dude who sold Marvel to Disney. Part of that sale involved non cash compensation. Preferred stock and a seat on Disney’s board among other gotchas. Ike is a weird penny pinching nuisance to the Hollywood and theme park types. But I’ve seen estimates that getting rid of him would be incredibly expensive for the Mouse. So they wall him off in his little fiefdom. Marvel Entertainment. Ike doesn’t give 2 shits about comics. He rather hates them. So he slashes the budget and let’s the inmates run the asylum. The only real purpose of the funny books is to constantly refresh the IP of every character in the library. (Creating new is a happy accident, and less desirable due to new creative contracts. They have to payout more in royalties for more modern characters.) Ike is a toy maker and merchandising guy. He makes Marvel’s money via licenses and merchandising. Marvel Entertainment is a loss leader that doesn’t even count as a rounding error to Disney’s accounting. Marvel isn’t going anywhere because it serves a non obvious purpose to the Mouse.
RoosterTeeth however serves no such purpose to AT&T Time Warner. The new CEO is AT&T’s. A major cost cutter who has little taste for the creative arts and the tomfoolery of the creative types. He doesn’t watch cartoons, certainly not anime stuff. DC Comics already is directly under LA WB’s direct control. Like Marvel they serve a purpose in refreshing DC’s billion dollar merchandising empire. Rooster Teeth has no such function. They are rapidly bleeding upper management, who see the writing on the walls. They have already been rolled into the Warner Media group. Pooled with Cartoon Network and a number of other animation focused sub units. They will be quickly merged and carved down while being enslaved to a hastily cobbled together streaming service. Whatever remains of them will end up in LA, because nobody working for Warner in Texas has any internal political clout or hope of surviving the oncoming corporate game of thrones. As hundreds of WB subunits fight to be the one left standing.
The one time they've meddled in Marvel's affairs was spinning off Marvel Studios to keep Permutter's penny pinching ass from hurting the movies and it took Solo bombing and merchandise sales being in the toilet since The Last Jedi before they started "monitoring" Lucasfilm's progress on Episode IX.