Bob Iger Avoids Nostalgia But Gives Advice For Successor In Disney Earnings Call: “We’ve Done Lot Of Needed Fixing Over Past 3 Years But Also Put In Place Opportunities. In World That Changes As Much As It Does, Trying To Preserve Status Quo Is Mistake. Streaming Investment & Reorganization Worked.”

“Don’t let the next MCU reset after Secret Wars go like the previous reset went, and increase park ticket prices no more than twice a year and you’ll be golden!”

In case you didn’t hear what he was saying here, it was “AI AI AI AI AI”. Animation and VFX costs could drop as much as 90% which make up most of the cost for Disney. This number comes from animation industry veterans like Jeffrey Katzenberg. This is the theoretical maximum, but it’s understandable.

Disney is already using AI for preproduction, production and post production. Labor will be the biggest saver but time to market as well reducing overhead, salaries and holding fees for artists. Computational power as well massively cutting server time.