The revenue for Black Widow wasn’t to be found in Disney’s last earnings report today, but the fallout from Scarlett Johansson’s explosive lawsuit against the House of Mouse certainly was. Showing …
Showing a surge in Disney+ subscribers from the same time last year, the-led media giant exceeded expectations with its Q3 2021 report. However, as strong as the after-hours stock jump was for Disney, the very public dust-up with one of its longest serving and biggest stars was on the table early into the subsequent analysts conference call with CEO Chapek and CFO Christine McCarthy.
For once thing, stressing that Disney “needed to find alternative methods” for distribution because of the lockdowns of the coronavirus, Chapek made it very clear in his opening statement that despite rumors to the contrary, there was no dispute between himself and the soon-to-be departingAfter making a point of praisingas “the top performing film at the domestic box office since the start of the pandemic,” the velvet-ish glove over an iron hand Chapek laid down the law loudly for Johansson’s...
agents and all other talent to hear. Going forward, Disney will always do “what we believe is in the best interest of the film and the best interest of our constituents.”Following the premier access release of Covid delayedon Disney+ the same day it debuted in cinemas on July 9, Johansson filed her high profile lawsuit on July 29. The action came after BTS talks with Disney brass supposedly made the corporate equivalent of falling in a ditch.
Within hours, Disney hit back to call out the legal action as showing a “callous disregard” to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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