It's More Than Just the Box Office, Warner Bros have Tapped Into the Cultural Zeitgeist

To the tune of Modest Mussorgsky’s orchestral nightmare “Night on Bald Mountain,” from 1940's Fantasia, Disney has long been stalking the hills of LA, gobbling up every major studio it can get its white gloves on. The first door it knocked on was Pixar’s back in 2006, yet its appetite was not satiated, so it snacked on Marvel Studios in 2009, dined on LucasFilm in 2012, and then licked its lips with a 20th Century Fox digestif in 2019.