Michael Eisner
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Oct 27, 2026
Jared LeeHOST
Again, look at Hollywood Studios when it opened.
Jared LeeHOST
What was there to do when Hollywood Studios opened? Also considering that Michael Eisner – open that park as quickly as they could just to beat universal to the punch right because eisner had figured found out before that they were going to open up a theme park so you have way more concentration of attention on something like this right but i think if you brought out in the context of it it has been successful for universal and essentially when you look at the revenues and the the earnings calls they've raised the floor and the ceiling of what they're able to earn so it has been positive for them absolutely this quarter wasn't great but again one quarter doesn't make something a success or a failure if it had a huge quarter that had been like cool that doesn't mean that you know that they're going to continue record-breaking quarters every single one and realistically speaking it was going to be hard to match the first year of epic anyways with that.
Jared LeeHOST
Same thing with Disney.
Jared LeeHOST
I think it's very possible that Disney's upcoming earnings call, they are down a little bit because if you look, and I'll show this on YouTube, obviously the amounts are different.
Mike CollinsHOST
It was really well done.
Mike CollinsHOST
But just Michael Eisner, I don't know what he was thinking.
Mike CollinsHOST
That was one of his ideas.
Mike CollinsHOST
He's like, we need to have this.
Jake MayesHOST
Oh, 100%.
Jake MayesHOST
Did you guys know Michael Eisner's number two died in a helicopter crash? He's like his COO.
Jake MayesHOST
Isn't that crazy?
MattGUEST
Mm-hmm.
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Jake MayesHOST
I mean, it's just a great read for when you're learning about a CEO at a very – huge company and he fully set to retire like three to five years before that but then uh i can't i'm blanking on his name right now but the guy who owns fox like the entire dominion of fox uh came to him and was like hey i'm like i i'm getting older i don't i don't want to deal with all this anymore like would disney be interested in buying fox And one of the contingencies of that deal was that Iger extend his contract by like three to five years or something like that.
Jake MayesHOST
I couldn't remember, but he basically had to be in charge of the transition because it literally one after the other, like when they acquired Pixar, Steve Jobs was only open to selling to Bob Iger because they were friends.
Jake MayesHOST
Steve Jobs hated Michael Eisner, hated him.
Jake MayesHOST
And so then that acquisition went so well that when he went to Avi Arad, I think is his name, the guy who owned Marvel at the time, he said like, hey, I talked to Steve and like, if you're the guy that acquires Marvel, like, then we're good.
Aly ThomasHOST
Yeah.
Aly ThomasHOST
So the reason that this resort opened was, you know, it was like in the Eisner years of the 90s.
Aly ThomasHOST
And they decided that they needed more value resorts.
Aly ThomasHOST
They wanted to capture budget-conscious families.
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Aly ThomasHOST
She was a cast member.
Aly ThomasHOST
She worked for a Disney executive.
Aly ThomasHOST
She worked right by, she was like a secretary to Michael Eisner's secretary, right? She worked in that.
Aly ThomasHOST
Main Disney building.
Ronna GlickmanHOST
Do you know what it is?
Bryan SafiHOST
Yeah, it's like the exclusive Michael Eisner, right? Club at Disney World.
Bryan SafiHOST
Well,
Ronna GlickmanHOST
Disney started Club 33.
Andrew ShopeHOST
Eisner.
Andrew ShopeHOST
So as the story goes, and of course it's just a story, but as it goes, Michael Eisner takes his son Breck to Disneyland and he's touring all the theme parks that Disney has once he becomes CEO.
Andrew ShopeHOST
And after Disneyland, Breck turns to his dad and bluntly says to him that it lacked like this cool factor, that it wasn't cool and that this was for babies.
Andrew ShopeHOST
Eisner took that criticism to heart and like for the next 20 years tried to make Disney cool.
MarcusGUEST
I was talking to my daughter this past week and we were talking about my first movie and I think it would have been Aladdin.
MarcusGUEST
So it was around and I read the Bob Iger book and I read the Disney war book, which was when Eisner was kind of at the helm and that was just peak Disney movies.
MarcusGUEST
And it was all during that era, which if you haven't read that book, that's like kind of a side note, but I totally recommend in your Disney millennial, read the Disney wars book.
Dana StanleyHOST
You told me to read that, and I haven't read it.
Dana StanleyHOST
The Disney Wars.
MarcusGUEST
Disney Wars, yeah.
MarcusGUEST
It talks about Eisner.
MarcusGUEST
It kind of shows his intro story, but then it ends up going into how he's eventually ousted.
Todd James PierceHOST
With this, Bradbury developed a close working relationship with Disney's CEO, Ron Miller, which initially suggested that other projects, such as the Halloween tree, might find a home there.
Todd James PierceHOST
But similar to his experience with MGM, Bradbury saw his hopes decline after Ron Miller was forced out of the company, having been replaced by Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.
Todd James PierceHOST
For a while, Bradbury maintained a hope that perhaps the company would take on the project.
Todd James PierceHOST
The year after The Black Cauldron was released, he said, Oh, I don't know how The Black Cauldron did.
Todd James PierceHOST
I think one of our girls said, It's such a pretty cat.
Todd James PierceHOST
I said, But did you know it's actually a boy? From there, Kirschner developed a story about three witches in Salem and a boy who turned into a cat.
Todd James PierceHOST
It was an idea for a script that executives at Disney agreed to hear right as Disney was transitioning from the Ron Miller era to the Michael Eisner era.
Todd James PierceHOST
Kirshner's project was then called Haunted House, a project he felt would bridge Disney's desires to nudge its live-action offerings more toward a teenage or young adult demographic.
HenryHOST
Oh my God.
HenryHOST
Well, speaking of never forgetting, let's never forget this choice quote from Michael Eisner, the CEO of Disney.
HenryHOST
As we mentioned at the top, you know, they decide to finance this movie.
HenryHOST
They agree to do it.
HenryHOST
You can't rent it.
HenryHOST
You can't go out and get it.
HenryHOST
So here's what Michael Eisner said at the time.
HenryHOST
We made a stupid mistake in releasing Kundun.
Carly CaramannaGUEST
So they're having like opening Disneyland dishes, you know, or flash forward to the 90s, which we have a whole chapter on that.
Carly CaramannaGUEST
You know, definitely a lot of like Michael Eisner and Walt Disney World.
Carly CaramannaGUEST
And they're kind of separating it that way, which I love to hear.
Arroe CollinsHOST
Where can people go to find out more about everything that you guys are doing? Because I really want them to jump into this project and they're going to.
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