For the sake of cinema, Disney needs to be broken up | Guy Lodge
The studio has been consuming its rivals – and creating a film industry devoid of the innovation championed by its founder
It’s the kind of commercial supremacy about which Walt Disney and his brother Roy probably fantasised when they founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923: just past the midway mark of 2019, the year’s four top-grossing films in US cinemas are all Disney releases. (The same would apply globally, but for the disruption of Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth.)
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