Colin Jacobson
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Originally Posted by Ejanss /t/321931/treasure-planet-10th-anniversary-edition-blu-ray-review#post_3944703
Again, they made a big announcement of doing the same thing for "Mars Needs Moms", which didn't instantly disappear from cineplexes, but if the studio had publicly disowned continuing the theatrical release, it wouldn't be around much longer, except at theater owners' discretion.
With both Moms and Treasure, the announcement had to be made as immediately as possible, as a gesture to stockholders to show the studio was on top of the situation and plugging losses. (Normally, Moms would have had Robert Zemeckis fired, except that...he already had been, after "Christmas Carol"'s losses.)
John Carter didn't officially get a public studio disowning--as Rich Ross got the chop instead, and that seemed to please everyone--but the studio did pull the promotion after the first two weeks and left it to word of mouth to cover the rest.
Where are these public disavowals of the films? Where did someone from Disney come out and "disown" the movies in the public eye?
If this happened, let's see a link. I don't see what the point would be. The movies were out, they flopped - why would the suits come out and say "man, those movies sucked - we know it!!!!"?
You initially argued that "Planet" was removed from theaters by the end of November 2002 - ie, within three days of its release. You were wrong. You claimed it was only at second-run theaters within a month. You were wrong.
You make lots of claims that you present as fact but can't ever produce any actual FACTS...