hodayathink
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Short term thinking though. Disney still needs to make new stuff because Marvel and Star Wars can't last forever, even if it doesn't seem that way at the moment.
The trick is that Disney can get away with trying to "make new stuff" once every couple years, and if it fails no big deal (i.e. Tomorrowland), but if it succeeds it's another tentpole to hang with the other stuff. Live action remakes of their classic cartoons wasn't a thing they knew they could bank on until Maleficent (or arguably the first Alice). Pirates was something that you couldn't have been sure would have been a hit when it was pitched (I mean, it's a movie technically based on a theme park ride). They're basically going to be able to ride Marvel into at least 2019, Star Wars until probably 2020, and live action animated remakes until about 2020 as well. And then we get to start talking about WDAS and Pixar, who are doing original movies (Zootopia, Inside Out in recent times).