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Abu Dabi’s Disney Park will not look like any other. For a hot reason

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The next Disney park, which will be built in Abu Dhabi is going to be a bargain for the company, and that is that He will not cost him a cent. La Razón: The Arab Grupo Miral will give life to the park with Disney’s licenses, and these will only be dedicated to collecting money. Goodbye to the usual Disney. The park’s approach will not arrive free of problems: after months of speculation, Mohamed al Zaabi, CEO of the Miral, has gone out to stop the rumors: Outdoor park would never work. If almost completely interior, it is a change of paradigm: all of the six parks that Disney has active have closed spaces, but most of its attractions are outdoors. Because. A theme park in Abu Dabi sounds very good until The average temperature of the place It comes into play: it exceeds 30 degrees from May to September and 35 in July and August. And what is worse, has maxims of 40 degrees or more than June to September, which makes the enjoyment to the outdoor. According to Al Zaabi, what Miral now raises is a hybrid Disney park. This means that it will have external areas and interior areas. The leader states that it is still early to decide, but believes that “a good percentage will be on a roof.” In Orlando, headquarters of one of the Disney Worldthe National Meteorological Service Extreme heat alert when 45 degrees are exceeded. In Abu Dhabi, the temperature exceeds 43 degrees. The problem is the thermal sensation at that temperature: more than 54 degrees. This is the mastodontic Ferrari World who will be a neighbor of Abu Dhabi’s Disney, almost completely covered. The model to follow. In Miral they know the land well and how to ensure that the experience in the parks is pleasant. On the island of Yas, a place that houses the Formula 1 circuit, and it is planned to build the new park, they already have SeaWorld, Ferrari World and Warner Bros. World. The latter are striking and known for their mastodontic size, but above all for hosting almost all their attractions inside, with a great ally, the air conditioning. According to The Question and Answers website From Ferrari Park: “Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is a theme park covered with air conditioning. (…) which makes it an ideal world destination regardless of season or weather” Other historical changes for petrodollars. In a publication a month ago to Zaabi already mentioned that “everything we do here, we do it differently.” And the reality is that yes, bringing large events to the countries in the area has forced draft changes. As a great example is Catar 2022the first soccer World Cup that had to be held in November for high temperatures. It is so hot in the country that the government had to Install air conditioning on the street. Speaking of differences, we can not forget those of workers’ conditions. The high temperatures were also the key reason that Formula 1 began to be held at night in circuits such as Abu Dhabi. In Baréin in April, whose grand prize was held during diurnal hours of 2004 to 2014the ambient temperature during the race often exceeds 35 degrees. And what is worse, the asphalt temperature of the circuit, built in the middle of the desert, oscillated between 48 and 56 degrees. The minimum value was 13 degrees higher than that of the asphalt of the Montmeló circuit, for choosing an event that is held near dates. Images Bastien NVS and Kevin JD In Unspash, Visit Abu Dhabi In Xataka | We have known how to eliminate the tails of the attraction parks. Disney keeps them for something

In World War II, the British were looking for an antibunker bomb. So they copied a Disney idea

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The morning of last Sunday, June 22, The United States deployed its B-2 With a mission: launch, for the first time, its new MOP pumps on Iranian bases. These mass bombs have a single function: eX PLACE IN Underground Bases And, despite being avant -garde armamentits technology began to be tested decades ago, in the Second World War. It was the British who developed a bomb capable of bursting a bunker, and their inspiration came from the most unexpected place. A Disney movie. Need. It is in the war when the brightest minds of each country gather to invent new ways of killing. Even if they don’t know what the consequences of their creations will be. The World War I It was a period of Technological Revolutionthe second more of the same and In the Cold War The Explosion of nuclear bombs (and almost that of chickens). In short: each country in conflict wants have the “fattest” bomb. In the mid -2GM, the British sought a powerful bomb, but with a more concrete objective than that of causing all possible damage: they wanted something capable of advising a blow to the bunkers heart and Nazi submarine factories. Thus, they developed the Tallboy and the Grand Slampumps of five and ten tons respectively designed to hit near the target, penetrate the earth, exploit and cause damage to the shock waves transmitted through the ground. The idea was good, but they still needed something more concrete than those “earthquake” bombs. And then, someone saw this propaganda movie of Disney: Drawing pump. Leaving aside that you could keep your mouth open because … yes, that Disney produced ithe who saw the short was Edward Terrellof the Royal Reserve of Naval Volunteers. It is said that, after watching the film, Terrell and other officers, they would ask if it would be possible to design a bomb that directly crossed the concrete and destroy objectives such as the Nazi submarinesas seen in one of the frames, instead of waiting for the expansive wave of an earthquake to damage the underground base. In September 1943, engineers got to work while the viability of the pump was discussed. There were those who opposed, but Churchill was approved and, there, the development began. Edward Terrell and two other RAF officers with a Disney bomb Promising. The Disney pump, baptized Officially as “4,500 pump assisted by rocket to drill concrete” (‘Disney bomb’ has much more stuck, where we are going to stop) it was massive not so much because of the dimensions, but because of the weight and its explosive capacity. With just over five meters long and 43 centimeters in diameter, it had a weight of 2,000 kilos. As his name indicated, he was driven by RP-3 rockets And as an explosive it was loaded with 230 kilos of ‘Shellite‘, a mixture designed during World War I. Thrown from Boeing B-17 or B-29 aircraft, its operation was simple: to boost with the rockets to reach a speed of more than 1,500 km/h, penetrate everything possible due to accumulated kinetic energy and detonate late within the installation. In addition, its maximum penetration was about 5 meters of reinforced concrete, enough to cause great damage to enemy structures. Afternoon, too late. The bomb was promising, but it took too long. They began to develop late (when they had the idea, go) and that caused that it was not ready until almost the end of the conflict. In January 1945 they carried out some tests and, although the bomb was British, it was the United States Air Force that had of it. Between February and April 1945 they launched a total of 158 Disney bombs against bunkers and submarine factories in Germany. A clear objective was Valentin, a U-Bats factory That it was about to be completed, something that the allies could not allow and managed to cause damage to the target with armor 4.5 meters thick, but had a trick: it had already been previously damaged by the Grand Slam bombs of the British. A fair shotgun. The Disney bomb was a disaster for two reasons. The first and most obvious is that it came very late and attacks on underwater bases did not mean a real difference in the outcome of the conflict in the European territory. But, in addition, they failed. During the Valentin bunker attack More than 60 pumps were launched, but only one directly impacted and, as we say, the damages caused were preceded by the explosions of the British bombs thrown days before. For more inri, in evidence during the years after World War II with controlled releases in the Helgoland Islandof 76 bombs released, it was discovered that the lighting of the rockets failed in 37% of the cases, very limiting the penetrating power of the projectile. In addition, some bombs exploited prematurely and would not serve to achieve the objectives. Yes one thing was discovered: the maximum penetration of 5.08 meters in concrete. The MOP, Disney’s legacy. In the end, between technical, tactical and temporary problems, the efficacy of the Disney pump was extremely limited, but it is clear that it represented an important technological advance in the Antibunker war. So much that he laid the foundations for future penetration weapons. And of those rains, these sludge, as they say. The GBU-57A/B. launched by the US against Iran is the latest technology of the MOP bombs, or ‘Massive Ordnance Penetrator’. The big difference with the Disney pump is that this huge 6.25 meters long projectile and the FRIOLERA OF 13,600 KILOS (2,400 of them are explosives) Yes it works, also penetrating up to 60 meters of concrete. And another difference is that it is launched from such high (12 kilometers from a B-2) that does not need engine, since it is gaining speed as it falls, being very precise thanks to its laser guidance. In short, technology that is not so much of science fiction and that shows that we are great … Read more

Disney has managed to resurrect the live-action thanks to ‘Lilo & Stitch’. The next on the list is much more risky

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‘Lilo & Stitch’ has been one of the undisputed surprises at the 2025 box office. He not only exceeded the most warm expectations of Disney at his premiere, recovering his budget in just a couple of days. He has also put an end to the curse of remakes in real image of Disney classics, which carried a frankly terrible quality and box office. And now, all right, right? Well… Alien pepinazo. As We comment on the week of its premierethis remake of the 2002 animated classic raised worldwide 341 million dollars. Virtually half of that amount, 157.8 million, was in international markets, becoming the second best premiere of the year, only behind ‘A Minecraft movie‘. It has already folded the amount, with 610 million. In Spain, According to ComscoreIt was even better: 5.7 million euros at its premiere, and has already reached 11.57 million. Here it has been the best premiere of the year, providing a good oxygen ball to the battered state box office. An effective formula. ‘Lilo & Stitch ‘is the last success of a formula that until recently seemed infallible: remake in real image and with CGI effects the company’s animated classics. A apparently undressing idea That, although he has encountered critical voices that have always gone very well at the box office. Thus it was with one of the first of his style, ‘101 Dalmatas’, in 1996, and with the first of the current surge of remakes, the ‘Alice in the Wonderland’ of Tim Burton of 2010 and his sequel. And they still had to get the great successes. Tachillas and refritos. But from there they did nothing more to climb: ‘Cinderella’, ‘The book of the jungle’, ‘Maleficent’ … until they reached the two great bombings: ‘The beautiful and the beast’ in 2017, with 1,263 million collection, and ‘The León King’ in 2019, with 1,662 million. Two successes of criticism and public that settled the formula under which films were continued that, however, came across increasingly frequent criticisms, such as the rather terrible ‘Aladdin‘ and ‘Dumbo‘, both released the same year, 2019. Free fall. However, it was a formula that could not last forever. The public’s fatigue due to the patent lack of originality of Hollywood, and that has affected to franchises as successful as Marvel Or Star Wars also made a dent in this genre. It was seen, for example, in ‘Peter and the dragon’ or ‘mulán’ (also devalued by the moment it premiered, during the pandemic and directly in Disney+to boost the newly released platform). The last disasters have been ‘The Little Mermaid‘, very affected by the wear stormy promotion With its two faced protagonists. To all this are added a series of films that have barely echoed among the public and that in many cases theaters have been skipped, such as ‘Pinocchio’, ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ or ‘The Lady and the Vagabundo’. And a couple of exceptions. However, the formula is not completely exhausted, or that should think of Disney. ‘Mufasa’, despite a lazy start, with a premiere well below expectations, honored the strength of the franchise of ‘El Rey León’ and endured all Christmas, adding 670 satisfactory millions of dollars. Incomparable with the collection of his predecessor, but still, one of the successes of 2024. And the case of ‘Lilo & Stitch’ already knows him. Why are you? The reason why these two have worked in seemingly adverse times for remakes is double: on the one hand, ‘MUFASA’ and ‘Lilo & Stitch’ are less conflictive in their delivery, and they have not had to endure discredit campaigns, Review-pumping and other tactics of harassment and demolition of Toxic fandom. On the other, there are two franchises with good health: ‘The Lion King’ is the most popular and blockbuster remake in the history of Disney; And Stitch is a phenomenon of merchandising Disney Recent: Annual Sales of Products related to the character have gone from 200 million dollars in 2019 to exceed 2.6 billion dollars in the last yearaccording to ‘The Wall Street Journal’. A future with doubts. But the thing does not end here, because there are no guarantees of success in the coming years. Some remakes have been affected by the prick at the ‘Snow White’ box office, such as ‘entangled’, whose production has been arrested. Of many there are almost no data, such as ‘The Humpback of Notre Dame’, ‘Hercules’ or ‘The Aristogatos’. But the authentic doubts are with ‘Vaiana’, scheduled for July 2026, and that involves a certain risk: its animated precedent is unusually close, 2016 and, in fact, a sequel to theaters has just released. Will you accuse this success more or less safe the wear of the formula? When we review the successes of 2024 (Among them, by the way, ‘Vaiana 2’), we talked about a problem that Hollywood cannot continue hiding for longer: all its blockbusters are sequelae, remakes or REBOOTS. It is a formula that supposes bread for today and hunger for tomorrow, and the best test is the remake in real image of ‘Vaiana’. It is as simple as this: Hollywood is running out of films to make remakes: the dead end inside a dead end. Header | Disney In Xataka | Magneto is 85 years old, but still, Marvel and Disney believe it is the only solution to save their Maltrecho MCU

We have been thinking for 50 years that lemmings are rodents that commit suicide. The guilt of everything has Disney

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If they mention the lemmings we will immediately think of The legendary action video game and puzzles of Psychnosis of 1991. The mechanics of that game, in which the herd of creatures obeyed us blindly, even opting for sacrifice, have a specific origin: a Disney documentary. But … what if everything he told were not only false, but orchestrated by the filming team itself to obtain images of the lemmings suicide? What is a lemming (really). A Lemming It is a small rodent that usually lives in areas near the Arctic or in Biomas de Tundra. They are similar to field mice and musk rats. They measure between 13 and 18 cm in length, they have very short tail, chubonch and hairy snout, short legs and small ears. With a garrita on the front legs they dig into the snow. They are herbivores and live in large tunnel systems. And no, against what is said, they do not have a docile attitude and a flock behavior: although they move in a group by the very high demographic explosions they experience, they are aggressive even with the predators. What was believed to be a lemming. That demographic explosion (which actually obeys mere survival: The reproduction cycles are short and the very fertile females to compensate for the attack of predators and the shortage of food at certain times) is precisely what the 1958 documentary ‘white hell’ was inspired. Produced by Disney, this production talked about how, due to the multitude of offspring that they have since there are not enough resources to maintain them, the lemmings are sacrificed for the good of the population and threw themselves by cliffs, committing suicide. The film even offered images of the moment. The origin of the myth. Long before the filming of ‘Blanco Hell’, Rumorology around Lemmings was abundant: In the 16th century, the Bavarian geographer Jacob Ziegler defended that these rodents fell from heaven when there was a storm and died when the grass grew in spring. This thundered statement was based on local folklore: being the Arctic fauna, the native populations of Inuits or Yupiks had their legends around the lemmings, similar to those of the geographer. Little by little, science was denialing this almost celestial origin of rodents, although for centuries it was believed that the herds were traveling transported by the wind. In pop culture. Science fiction and fantasy was the one that possibly grabbed this idea of ​​the lemmings that moved by air and transmuted it into bugs that commit suicide throwing themselves into the void. Since the fifties we find precipitating Lemming in works such as the story ‘The march of the fools’ of Cyril M. Kornbluth, of 1951, where the lemmings with space travelers who march to Venus to die in a collective suicide are compared. A legend of Disney comics, CARK BANKShe drew in an adventure of the ducks to Lemmings jumping through Norwegian cliffs. And nothing less than Arthur C. Clarkein his story ‘the possessed’ explains with a case of alien group possession the behavior of rodents. What really happened in the documentary. The director of ‘Blanco Hell’, James Algar, I intended to record an authentic sacrifice of the Lemmingsbut he did not look like. So the photo director came up with a group of local children to hunt Lemmings, 25 cents the piece. Once they had enough, they were cleared them. A cruel resolution (nothing strange in Documentaries about animals of the time), but today is somewhat uncomfortable to see: ‘Blanco Hell’ went on to accompany other Disney films to which time has not treated very well, and was withdrawn from Disney+ together with classic cases such as The racist ‘Song of the South’. In pop culture. And thus the myth was founded, which gave us an extraordinary video game and a wrong belief in the popular culture that persists until today, as the same Begoña Villacís demonstrated, which in 2017 signed in the confidential an article entitled ‘Catalonia, an army of lemmings‘. Although few stories as fun around the nice rodents as an article of ‘Popular Science Monthly’ that, in 1877, said that suicide lemming what they want is to throw themselves into the Atlantic to immerse themselves in search of the lost continent of Lemuria. Damn rodents. Header | Wikipedia, Psygnosys In Xataka | The amazing video that shows an octopus by changing color while you think is dreaming

Disney has always been the favorite entertainment of children. Now he is being razed by YouTube

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Although the last financial results of Disney They showed an upward trend from which they may be proud, with a growth of the benefits of 5% and an arrival finally of profitability in the sector of the streamingDisney’s creative crisis is something that has been discussing for months. And an extra detail is added to it, which does not stop strengthening an idea that, despite the numbers, is around the company: Disney are no longer interested. Disney Channel debacle. Disney has been, of a lifetime, the brand par excellence of child entertainment. And although the numbers endorse their financial health, certain signals point to the loss of interest of their most active and desirable audience, children. One of these signs was the Disney Channel closure in many countriesamong them Spain, at the end of last year. The traditional entrance door to Emporio Disney has fallen, since its position among the top 10 chains, with almost 2 million average daily spectators in 2014, to number 80 in 2023, According to Nielsen. Children matter. Who wants children if they have nostalgic adults, we could ask ourselves? Very simple: Children are the very important two -legged engine of the business: parks and merchandising, which together with the cruises are part of a third of the business (the other two are entertainment and sports). And although cinema and streaming contributed in 2024 45% of the benefits to Disney, experiences are a very close 37%. Of course, a wing of the income they cannot give up. Experiences, by the way, that are also adults without children. Adults also matter, but less. Children are also indicative of an aspect of the Disney Fandom to which everyone looks at: the renewal of spectators and consumers. The new blood that makes the continuous flow of spectators and clients stagnate. For example, The recent ‘Thunderbolts‘, apart from having a predominantly male audience, most were adults: 70% of their audience was over 25 years. He nostalgia factor Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ has a side effect: the progressive and inevitable aging of the public. YouTube, the new normality. The key to this loss of interest in Disney by children is how they are moving to more versatile platforms, less rigid, such as YouTube. They prefer to see shorts instead of movies or series, and the numbers are evident: in Nielsen data than Business Insider rescuedchildren from 2 to 11 years old saw three times more videos on YouTube last year than in Disney+. Disney herself seemed to prove this problem in 2022, when she said that more than 60% of Disney+ subscribers were adults without children. The algorithmic content is the most. The world’s most watched programs for children are on YouTube and are optimized algorithmically so that these visits do not stop growing and small spectators stay longer. Key factors such as the duration of visualization, colors, music and narrative structures are learned by the algorithm, which outlines the programs almost in real time. Thus successes work as Cocomelónwith 196 million subscribers, or Kids Diana Showwith 134 million. One of the most recent channels, Vlad and Nikialready takes the lead with 140 million and a very quick growth. Next to them they continue to win classics like Baby Shark. Disney to rescue. To try to solve this issue, Disney has undertaken a series of maneuvers to attract the youngest public, even if it is unable to compete with algorithmic modifications almost in real time. Among those maneuvers is the arrival of ‘Bluey‘A Disney+, one of his most successful licenses and that, According to Nielsenbecame the series of streaming more viewed of 2024. its multimedia incursions in franchises very dear to children, such as ‘Fortnite’ (which welcomed a few weeks ago To a new Skins, mechanical avalanche and battle passes from ‘Star Wars’) also go in that direction. A future oriented to children. In recent months, Disney has been releasing series specifically designed for children based on their successful franchises, such as ‘the adventures of young Jedi’ or ‘Spidey and their superequipo’. It is one of the great needs of the entertainment giant: bring children closer to their own brands, beyond successful licenses such as ‘Bluey’. This depends on survival in a panorama where, despite the kindness and color of the products, the battle is absolutely ruthless. Header | Disney In Xataka | Disney already knows where to build his next great theme park: Abu Dhabi. And he will not cost him a cent

Disney already knows where to build his next great theme park: Abu Dhabi. And he will not cost him a cent

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Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are immersed in a particular war: to become the focus of large investments to create structures that They seem like science fiction. When one announces a project, the other responds. An example is the battle to see Who builds the highest building. And that same war is in the world of attraction parks. Saudi Arabia It will have the ‘Dragon Ball’but Emirates has just won the fat prize: Disney has announced that its seventh large park will be in Abu Dabi. And the best thing for Disney is that it will be free. {“Videid”: “X9J5TW8”, “Autoplay”: True, “Title”: “Disney and Miral Announce New Theme Park Planned for Abu Dhabi”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “150”} Short. It has rained a lot since Disney opened its last amusement park. Shanghai Disneyland It was its sixth Resort Park and opened in June 2016. It was a milestone of more than 90 hectares with some important changes (such as the typical American ‘main street’, but the ” the ”Mickey Avenue‘), And now Disney seems prepared to make the leap to a new territory. In a brief ad Yas Island. It is a site that is not alien to entertainment, since it is where the circuit of Formula 1 from Yas Marina, where is the theme park Ferrari World And where is also the Warner Bros Movie World. In Xataka The incredible history of marriage that lived 15 years in Disneyland without visitors realizing Plum. Disney will put the licenses and one eye on the project, but to give life to the park will take care of Miral. It is a group of Arab Emirates that is the same as Ferrari’s theme park operates and the truth is that it is not something alien to the mouse company. Tokyo Disneyland was the first outside the United States and already developed it with an external company, and the same happened with Shanghai’s. And something interesting is that it is a play that can leave the company very well. As we read in CNBCthis expansion in Abu Dabi is not part of the 60,000 million dollars that Disney will invest Through the next decade to improve their parks. Apparently, the entire cost of the project will be assumed by Miral and Disney will be in charge of what we commented: to yield the intellectual property of their creations and collect the benefits for royalties. Castles in the air. From the park, yes, it is known between little … and nothing. Beyond the conceptual image that leads these lines, everything else seems like a message too formal. That if it will combine the history, characters and iconic attractions of Disney with the vibrant culture of Abu Dhabi, that if it will be a world class destiny for entertainment and a path between the Middle East, Africa, India, Asia and Europe … and that will be on the coast (there is no other in Yas Island). It is expected that it is not very different from the other parks of the company, since in this Disney has a fairly clear policy and a iron control with which he can give his arm to twist in some elements (the aforementioned ‘Main Street’ absent in the Shanghai park), but with a very defined structure. Nor has there been talk of what attractions the park will have. In Xataka Eating in an amusement park is usually expensive. Then is this Michelin star restaurant by Disney World Parks War. What is clear is that the territory was very juicy for the Bob Iger company. The region is trying to separate itself from the oil business to focus on other sources of income, and there tourism plays a clear role. A brand as recognized as Disney is a caramel too juicy because it is known worldwide, and here it is something that the figures send. Despite the Challenges In parks such as Shanghai or Hong Kong, the company’s parks They generated 8,889 million dollars in the last fiscal quarter of this 2025. It is an interannual growth of 6% (and yes, they grow, but Not to the rhythm they want). It only remains to be expected that Miral, which also has the Warner Bros park of the island, begins with the construction. In the end, this new Disney park is one more piece in that particular war between Emirates and Saudi Arabia (with the imposing park Six flags of qiddiya), but also a strategic decision for a Sector of the Thematic Parks that is burning with Universal and its ‘Harry Potter’ or ‘Mario’ parks, and Warner’s to the other. Images | Disney In Xataka | Disney Adults: how parks are being filled with adults without children who leave the salary in nostalgia (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Disney already knows where to build his next great theme park: Abu Dhabi. And he will not cost him a cent It was originally posted in Xataka by Alejandro Alcolea .

Disney needs to solve the greatest crisis in the story of ‘Star Wars’. And Baby Yoda has been clinging to get it

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In Disney they are the first to know that ‘Star Wars‘A considerable identity crisis is going through: the projects that have emerged after the trilogy produced by JJ Abrams have been falling one after another, and since 2019 the franchise does not premiere a new film. However, The Star Wars Celebration That this weekend in Japan has been held, two years after the 2023 in London, has fought to fall that feeling, and has presented a few projects that have new roads of exploitation of the franchise. More than a celebration, a plan has been presented in Japan. What has been presented. The event has served to formalize the return of ‘Star Wars’ to the big screen: the main dishes are, on the one hand,’The Mandalorian and Grogu ‘which will continue the three seasons of the series starring Pedro Pascal and his adorable adopted son Grogu. He adds’ Starfighter ‘, self -clusive film directed by Shawn Levy (‘Deadpool and Wolverine‘) and starring Ryan Gosling. New seasons of ‘have been confirmedAndor‘ and ‘Ahsoka‘And an animated series of Darth Maul. On the horizon, although without date, projects appear as a story about the Jedi origins signed by James Mangold, an adventure by Tika Waititi and the return of King Skywalker. Where do we come from. After Lucasfilm’s purchaseDisney bet strongly with a new trilogy that premiered between 2015 and 2019 and that, although devastated at the box officewith more than 4.4 billion admitted worldwide, The most traditionalist fans did not like to like. The spin-off ‘was only An unexpected batacazo: just 393 million dollars of collection, to which projects canceled in chain followed, including Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins movies. Series like ‘Andor‘ either ‘Ahsoka‘They achieved the support of criticism and public, but its impact globally was incomparably lower to the movies. And the failure of the Ubisoft ‘video gameStar Wars Outlaws‘He has endorsed that the saga is no longer infallible. The problem of nostalgia. Star Wars’s great dilemma in the Disney era has been his nostalgia addiction and to the Fan Service. Attempts to content the most traditional fans have resulted in products that, or are too conservative, such as the very critical and very unlike ‘The last Jedi’a film capable of being measured in terms of quality with the classics of the franchise, but Densed by fans). The audience has been fragmented: the riskiest projects, such as ‘Andor’, receive praise from critics but They click on a audience and They cost a fortune. What does the new plan intend to solve? The prowned strategy at the Star Wars Celebration is clear: with fans it is not enough to maintain these films and series, such as They have demonstrated ‘Andor’ or ‘Ahsoka’. You have to return to the box office parameters of the films produced by Abrams, that is to say to films-Event that are worldwide phenomena at a mass scale. ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ bets on the accessible and charism of its protagonists (remember: Baby Yoda marked Star Wars even Before receiving an official name); And ‘Starfighter’ seeks a broader audience with a story that does not require “doing homework” and resorting to a star like Gosling, oblivious to the usual blockbusters. But will it solve it? Obviously, it is complicated to predict because countless factors come into play. Projects such as the Spin-Offs ‘Solo’ and ‘Rogue One’ had all to win, but they worked with discretion (or directly) at the box office: their problem was, perhaps, the excessive dependence of the Lore Previous, the need to know the long history of the saga. Superficially, it seems that ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ and ‘Starfighter’ will circulate in another direction, which could inject the long -awaited revitalization of the franchise. An important property. It must be taken into account, however, that since the purchase of Lucasfilm for 4,050 million dollars, Disney has tripled its investment: the ‘Star Wars’ franchise has generated CERCA of 12,000 million dollars in direct income Until 2024. That income comes from the box office of the films, yes, but also from attraction parks, cruises and, above all, merchandising. However, its profitability cannot be compared to franchises such as ‘Frozen’ or Marvel. Internal earthquakes. In addition, the box office is not the only problem of ‘Star Wars’: Kathleeen Kennedy has started a discreet withdrawal of the Presidency of Lucasfilm and prepares his succession. Although Filoni and Levy’s films are still under their mantle, the announcement of the search for someone who relieves what has been Lucasfilm’s great architect since the purchase of Disney is the best example that things are changing in Disney. Header | Disney In Xataka | Before selling ‘Star Wars’, George Lucas imagined a megalómana series: 10 times more expensive than a saga movie

Universal will do the competition to Disneyland with Harry Potter and Mario. Disney will counteratacious “turbo-charging” its parks

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In its annual meeting with shareholders, the Disney CEO of Bob Iger has made ads that cover the entire empire of the producer: of sequelae for its animated franchises to plans for its attraction parks. It is the conducive moment: the competition will be more at odd than ever, especially now that it arrives Epic Universe de Universal To Orlando. Old acquaintances in attractions mode. In the ads that Iger has shared, he has talked about attractions inspired by ‘Cars’,’Avatar‘,’The lion king‘,’ Monsters SA ‘,’ Coco ‘and many other franchises. With this, they set the planned plans of Disney, which in autumn of 2023 announced that it was going to fold the investment in thematic parks: The producer would be spent in this sector that, together with the cruises, is what most benefits the brand, $ 60 billion in the course of a decade. An ambitious plan to spab from the experience section, which Nor is it working as it should. The turbo-carga. This has been defined by Iger himself: “Last year we talked about our plans to boost growth in this segment through strategic investments.” And he continues: “Right now, we have more projects in progress throughout the world than at any other time. Magic Kingdom is experiencing the greatest expansion of its history, with a new area inspired by ‘Cars’ and the expected theme park of the villains. And a thematic area of ​​’Monsters SA’. It will reach Hollywood Studios.” And the lion king, to Paris. To all this are added attractions of ‘charm’ and Indiana Jones in Animal Kingdom. And in California Adventure, new attractions of avengers (the area dedicated to the Marvel heroes will bend their size), ‘Avatar’ and ‘Coco’. Disneyland Paris will arrive the first attraction dedicated to ‘The Lion King’, which will be aquatic and that will accompany Simba on his trip to become king. Some of them already advanced Disney in the past D23, where detailed what would consist Many of these attractions. The competition: Epic Universe. In Disney they are in crisis policy because on May 22, Universal will open in Orlando Epic Universe. It is a theme park divided into five universes, some of them as attractive to the general public as Harry Potter or the outside of Japan version of Super Nintendo World. They will join the Dark Universe, based on the company’s classic monsters, Celestial World and its science fiction and fantasy setting, and another area about ‘How to train your dragon’, which Universal wants to turn into one of its star franchises with the premiere of the real image film. And the rest? Regular, thanks. Being one of the companies dedicated to entertainment more powerful and influential of the moment, and with Well sanitized accounts (especially if we compare them with Warner)we are far from being able to say that Disney is in crisis. But this annual meeting with shareholders has been revealing: before all the news related to the parks, only some sequelae and new animation films have been presented, Like ‘Coco 2’they have not awakened too much enthusiasm. Safe Baza. To this is added that Marvel spends complicated moments: Captain America’s last movie is already one of those who have had Less collection of the MCU Hster. At a time, it is clear that Disney should cover several fronts … and re -bet for a safe trick: the multimillionaire parks business. Header | Disney In Xataka | The catastrophe of the ‘Star Wars’ hotel: 3,000 euros per night in an interactive film of 350 million dollars

It is the best series of ‘Star Wars’, and in the face of its second season, Disney has uploaded its first episodes free of free

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It is possibly the best that will give us’Star Wars‘In 2025 (and beyond, possibly), so it has all the meaning that Disney is taking care of this premiere to the extreme of promoting it with a few free episodes. Specifically the first three of the initial season of ‘Andor‘, that You can enjoy free on YouTube (Yes, in original version with subtitles only in English). This arrival has coincided with the premiere of the series in Hulu in the United States, something that does not affect us in Europe but demonstrates that Disney knows what is brought between hands. ‘Andor’ is a series acclaimed by criticism and public, and that has been celebrated to recover the little solemn style and with a mixture of genres (Here, a very curious mixture of prison leaks and robbery film) that has characterized the best moments of the franchise since the late seventies. A gift that helps us to refresh the memory with the history of this rebel to her, set about five years before what we saw in ‘Rogue One’, that is, we are in the early days of that rebel alliance that we would see in the first trilogy of Star Wars, with a series of events that will lead to the theft of the plans of the Death Star. Andor is a thief who will end up becoming a spy and, finally, into a key piece to trigger the rebel movement against the empire. Without a doubt, what makes ‘Andor’ one of the key series of ‘Star Wars’ is introduce ourselves to a series of characters with many gray nuances: Neither heroes nor villains, many believe in the rebel movement, others are ready for their own interests, and we will see how their behaviors and ideals evolve realistically. A characteristic that will undoubtedly remain in the expected second (and last) season of the series, which has already made history within the franchise. Header | Disney In Xataka | Kathleen Kennedy seeks substitute in the front of Lucasfilm: it is the sign that ‘Star Wars’ is going through the greatest bump in its history

‘Mufasa’ has been the surprise success of the year for Disney. And all thanks to not immediately take it to Disney+

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The First impressions about the ‘Mufasa box office: the lion king’the prequel to the success of 2019, they were not too flattering: it seemed a puncture that confirmed, after the stumbling blocks of ‘Dumbo’ and ‘Pinocchio’, that the remakes in real image of Disney classics (although it enters that pack, ‘mufasa’ is rather realistic CGI) had lost their good star. However, it has ended up becoming an indisputable success for the company, and all thanks to a strategy that seemed like the past: persistence in the billboards. An upperbow box office. ‘Mufasa’ had to see them in theaters with A very powerful rival: ‘Sonic 3’which has ended up raising almost 500 million dollars, becoming the second most popular adaptation of a video game in history and the best entry of the franchise, which has the future more than insured. ‘Sonic 3’ (to which more competition was added: ‘Wicked’ and Disney’s own ‘Vaiana 2’) worked like a cannon from the first moment, and although ‘MUFASA’ led the most watched tops, its 35 million dollars in the first weekend left it well below the 200 with which the first installment started. Erta 30% less than what Disney expected. Taking impulse. The alarms lit in Disney: Had they squeezed the franchise while exhausting it? Let’s not forget that the musical of the original film is one of the most popular in history, and the presence of Simba and company in attraction parks is inescapable. However, ‘Mufasa’ would soon take the expected route, closing a very good year for Disney, which came from sweeping the United States with a demolish thanksgiving weekend thanks to ‘Vaiana 2‘, and to beat records with’Upside down 2‘ and ‘Deadpool and Wolverine‘. However, mouth mouth made its effect and spent five weeks at number 1, entering 2025 with 600 million dollars of collection. And all thanks to a strategic decision. Contrary to the expected. That strategic decision was not to release ‘MUFASA’ in Disney+ for Christmas, possibly a decision that had more than one executive in suspense, especially taking into account the lazy start of the film at the box office. But if I had gone to Disney+, I would not have had those five glorious weeks sweeping cinemas. Finally, the film has raised 712.9 million dollars, becoming the seventh highest grossing film of 2024 … and of course, it has ended in Disney+, where it has been since mid -February. After Christmas, perfect storm. After the avalanche of Christmas premieres, Mufasa benefited so much from the premiere of films not addressed to the children’s public (‘Werewolf‘, for example), as of the Violization in Tik Tok songs Composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. But above, all, of a certain recovery of the confidence in the rooms not as a procedure before the arrival of the films to streamingbut as a space in which the premieres can perform as they did years ago. Let us forget pandemic. We leave behind one of the greatest stigmas in the pandemic: that we would not recover the figures for assistance to cinemas prior to COVID. In Europein 2023 the assistance rose 18% and in the United States, in 2024 the 8,750 million dollars collected are below the more than 11,000 pre-pondemic levels, but It is clear that the industry continues to approach With a firm step. And the confidence of the industry in the rooms with trajectories such as ‘MUFASA’ only reinforce that impression. Header | Disney In Xataka | Disney+ before the abyss: the series of ‘Star Wars’ and Marvel have less spectators than ever, but they are still their main asset

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