Posted on 09/14/2016 5:30:53 PM PDT by simpson96
Lol!!
Wonder how much a pay-per-view Bumfight of some bum beating the teeth out of Jeffrey Katzenberg’s lie-hole would haul in?
"Like a slab of meat," don't forget, reported as an eyewitness account ... down the memory hole.
just a flesh wound
Jeffrey Katzenberg is a Hollywood mogul, who was formerly Chairman of both Walt Disney Animation Studios from the 1980s-1990s (up until Eisner fired him [thank goodness]) and DreamWorks Animation before he sold the latter just this year. People also credit him regarding the Disney Renaissance, but I would dispute that claim, to be honest.
Personally, I thought Katzenberg was garbage, and not just for his politics (as you can pretty much guess from this article, he’s a massive left-wing shill, even by Hollywood standards, since not even his contemporaries at either Disney or DreamWorks would quite go as far as to outright state that they’d use ticket proceedings to endorse several left-wing candidates (and considering how Spielberg, Eisner, Iger, and the like are no strangers to being leftists, that’s saying a lot).), but also for his overall business practices. For example, at Disney, he was pretty much the reason why The Black Cauldron was a massive box office disaster (long story short, he cut out 10 minutes as he said he would, even when that was far too much to cut out). Sure, maybe Black Cauldron wouldn’t have been a smash hit even without the cuts, but it most certainly would have been spared from being a box office bomb. And that’s just for his first movie at Disney. He later nearly ruined Toy Story by giving it a needless cynical edge to it that if anything made most of the characters (ESPECIALLY Woody) and story about as unsympathetic as either Family Guy or the Mike Scully era of the Simpsons, possible more unsympathetic than the two combined, which, BTW, not only nearly got Toy Story cancelled, but also nearly shut down Pixar. In fact, of the Disney Renaissance films during his tenure at Disney, only three had his direct involvement, those being Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas, and the last of which... well, let’s just say it really underperformed. The Littler Mermaid had barely any involvement from him (the only one I can definitely pin as his having any involvement was his changing the ending from the already somewhat altered ending from the fairy tale by having Eric ram Ursula with the ship due to wanting it to “look more like Die Hard”. He WAS going to cut out Part of Your World early in development and using a kid focusing on picking up his popcorn as a petty excuse to get rid of it, but saner heads prevailed.), and with Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin, if you read up on the history of those two films, it becomes especially clear that it had a massively troubled production (two or three rewrites made on Jeffrey Katzenberg’s order via a mere whim, not to mention his needlessly tacking on a feminist message to the story and even hiring a misandric hack named Linda Woolverton to push that message, and with the latter, let’s just say that he not only demanded a rewrite, but also forced them to do it under an unreasonable time table due to not adjusting the time table. Hence, why that dark period was known as “Black Friday”). As far as The Lion King, even though he took credit for its success, he wasn’t actually involved in its development at all, and in fact, dismissed it as experimental. No, the film he WAS in fact involved in regarding development was Pocahontas, and... let’s just say it had even LESS success than Beauty and the Beast did in winning an Oscar. Eisner firing that jerk was probably one of the few good things Eisner EVER did for Disney. And then Katzenberg co-founded DreamWorks with Spielberg and Geffen, and one of his first films for the animation division was Antz, which aside from it not being appropriate for kids and was not exactly a box office success, it was also mired with controversy for plagiarizing Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. And most of DreamWorks’ films were just horrible (probably the only ones that were truly decent were the Shrek and Madagascar movies, and even those had their warranty ending VERY fast).
In other words, yes, he is boot scrapings, no doubt about it.
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