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Squawk Pod Reports: Disney CEO Bob Iger 7/13/23

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The Challenges of Running a Movie Studio

The studio and its movie assets are number one at the global box office this year so far. We would have liked some of our more recent releases to have performed better. I think in our zeal to basically grow our content significantly to serve our, mostly our streaming offerings we ended up taxing our people way beyond where they had been. Marvel is a great example of that. They had not been in the TV business at any significant level. Not only did they increase their movie output but they ended up making a number of television series and frankly it diluted focus and attention. That's part of the reason that I'm staying is there is a lot of work to do. And you know, the world

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