Hello and welcome to another Hasbro Financial Call. Hasbro is closing out 2020 with strong revenue, and HISSTANK is here to report.
Brian Goldner, Hasbro’s chairman and CEO commented “We integrated our acquisition of eOne and while live-action TV and film production was limited, we made substantial progress developing Hasbro IP for storytelling that we believe will lead to enhanced revenues and earnings power from Hasbro brands from multiple income streams.”
” While the near-term theatrical landscape remains uncertain, we see a path to its return and the opportunities in streaming and linear, now and into the future, are clear and compelling for both viewership and merchandise. The combination of Hasbro’s portfolio and eOne’s expertise is unlocking opportunity to expand our brands and launch new ones.”
It was stated that Hasbro is looking at Theatrical Releases which will be immediately followed by Streaming. In fact, they are looking at possible shorter theatrical release windows to accommodate streaming or simultaneous windows.
“As production has returned and we managed COVID-19 protocols to safely keep them up and running, our cash spend on content across scripted and unscripted live action, animated TV, and film in 2021, is planned to be in the range of 675 million to 750 million.” said Deb Thomas, Hasbro’s Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Goldner is very happy with Transformers: War For Cybertron. “Transformers: War For Cybertron, which is our animated series on Netflix, dedicated to more of the older kids and Fan Community. It’s driven that business in a major way with Transformers; result is quite strong, Point Of Sales good, and really linking all that to our eCom and omni-channel effort.”
On another happy note, Emerging Brand: G.I. Joe has seen growth in Q4.
“We have been building great, innovative products for Hasbro IPs like My Little Pony and Snake Eyes and we are constantly working in partnership with our studio brethren to ensure that we understand the way they want to execute their programs and frankly we’re doing the exact same thing with My Little Pony and with Snake Eyes. We want to make sure we’re maximizing the opportunity given, where we believe audiences will be at [mid 2021].”
Regarding future Hasbro projects: “We are busy developing Dungeons & Dragons across number of dimensions, we have future iterations of Transformers in number of different places, and we have new creative stewardship that will add great new storytelling in Power Rangers and several other big areas.”
Brian Golder also mentioned that eOne is working on animated TV productions based on Hasbro IPs.
You can check out the slides, attached with this news post.
News Post: HISSTANK Coverage Of Hasbro 2020 Q4 And Full Year Financial Call
I’m calling it..
HASBRO+
Everything is streaming, now(& I hate it)
Based on the summary provided (thanks for that), referring to the GI Joe brand as "Snake Eyes" seems alarming.
X-Men become all about Wolverine for awhile.
WRT G.I. Joe. Apparently the 6 inch crew has joined the Valaverse Action Force. Turns out they've been under mind control since roughly 1996 when the government expanded upon their LSD mind control initiative and started "blue force tracker" (BFT) out of water towers spread across the country. Those blue comm devices near their heads were developed by a secret group located in San Francisco and they were subliminally programming the Joe team to do awful things.
Frankly, it was dumb luck that snapped them out of it. When they bivouacked in Washington state recently on a training mission the batteries in BFT degraded because the rubber seals protecting the components had failed. While on a take down op that was orchestrated by Sneak Peek, Gung Ho was securing Destro and noticed in the reflection off Destro's head that his tattoo and hat were somehow not right.
It was a perfect storm.
Sneak Peek might have been able to keep control of the team, but when his Covid-19 took him down that night he left his laptop open and logged in. Duke discovered Sneak Peek's latest after action report was up, revealing that this was the 432nd time that they had taken down Cobra and Destro, that the scheduled BFT team reset was go for the next day, and that home base had made the same mistake he (Sneak Peek) had warned about with regard to not supplying the USMC cover to Gung Ho. Duke snapped the team out of the fog, and realized they've been under the control of a mole in the team, Sneak Peek.
That's how the team started to re-form and eventually lead to them forming up in Texas. I'm happy to report that Gung Ho told me the other day that he's got an appointment to get that proto nazi tattoo erased and will be getting the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor tout suite. Bravo Zulu to him.
YoJoe, It's Time for Action.
G.I. Joe was mentioned by name. Stated that it performed really well in Q4. I'm guessing it as a direct success from Classified Series.
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