Disney's had some misfires at the box office including areas where's its dominated for years like animation and superhero fare,
which activist investors are using as one cudgel as they push to get their outside candidates onto the the Disney board.
"A lot of people think it's audience [superhero] fatigue. It's not audience fatigue. They want great films. And if you build it great, they will come," he said. He noted that has made nearly $30 billion from 33 films. "We got to return to something akin to that. And I actually am confident that we will."
"As a studio, that was number one at the box office for seven out of eight years, that was not an accident. That's a combination of both, obviously, the IP that we have, but also the execution — both the management execution, the execution from the creative side."
He said the fix "basically means spending a lot of time with the creators, watching these films, giving detailed notes … engaging in a respectful process that results in improvement. And actually, when I talked about being relentless, it's not letting certain things get in the way of making something great. Whether it's more resources … or more time."
And, "You have to put into the pipeline things you really do believe in. And we know we're working on that as well."