black panther both printed money and was one of the most critically successful MCU movies, which is to say that the people who complain about diverse casts don’t do so because they are concerned with making a better product, they do so out of an aesthetic (and ideological) objection to diversity

Funny that the failure of Quantumania (with an all-white (except for you-know-who), mostly-male primary cast), doesn’t support his thesis… and doesn’t get mentioned.

Best response I find is not watch the movies that the powers and the fans against diversity want us to watch.

And of course he has other thoughts too: "Not that I have anything against women, but..." I guess 82-year-old billionaires are just helpless naïve little babies wandering the deep dark dangerous woods all by themselves.

Color me silly, but an utter lack of understanding of the company's product should preclude you from being in charge of it in any way.

I cringe at Marvel content being dictated by Wall St. For all his faults, Kevin Feige took some big risks that largely paid off (GotG, Black Panther, WandaVision)

The sequel is also one of the few post-Endgame MCU movies that printed money as well.

I hate they call them “activist investors” they’re just greedy bullies who want to squeeze cash out of firms under some guise of “helping”

Black Panther is the best Marvel movie

"Peltz . . . said Disney's films have become too focused on delivering a message, and not enough on quality storytelling." Quality storytelling, infamously incompatible with having a message.

And NYT puffed him.