Disney CFO: Don’t Compare ‘Iron Man 3’ to ‘The Avengers’
3 views - published on May 31st, 2013 in Disney News tagged deals, Disney, disney dealsShares of Walt Disney fell 2.4 percent Thursday after CFO Jay Rasulo suggested that some of Wall Street’s estimates competence be too high, in vast partial since a film studio won’t perform as good in a third entertain this year compared with final year.
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“I wish to get something out of a approach that is specific about Q-3,” Rasulo pronounced during a Nomura Media Telecom Summit. The CFO afterwards launched into “compatability items” that he mentioned during Disney’s latest gain call yet that “were a small bit complicated.”
Tops on a list was a film studio, where Iron Man 3 will substantially beget $1.2 billion during a box bureau worldwide. Impressive, yet $300 million bashful of what The Avengers did a year ago.
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“Obviously, we are anxious with a outcome of Iron Man,” Rasulo said. “Normally, everybody would say, ‘that’s terrific,’ but, remember, a year ago in Q-3 … we expelled Avengers.”
Next, Rasulo pronounced that a “big portion” of a selling responsibility for Lone Ranger will start in a third entertain yet that a Jul 4 recover is a fourth-quarter film in terms of generating income for Disney.
Iron Man 3 not measuring adult to Avengers and a selling losses of Ranger have lead to $150 million reduction in handling income for a film studio in a third entertain this year compared with final year, Rasulo said.
Also impacting Disney’s formula in a third entertain is $73 million reduction in net deferred income during ESPN due to “the covenance and timing of a opposite deals,” Rasulo explained.
Theme parks also have $65 million value of timing issues, he said, in partial since a Easter holiday fell wholly in a third entertain final year yet that wasn’t a box this year.
Shares of Disney fell $1.61 Thursday to $64.65.