Nope. Disney originally denied them but later admitted they were legit. They feature some stand ins but they're definitely from the production.Originally Posted by Carp
Nope. Disney originally denied them but later admitted they were legit. They feature some stand ins but they're definitely from the production.
I don’t get a company as big as Disney, doesn’t have someone with enough balls to stand up and say ‘we gotta quit this ****’. They deserve all the failures they keep pumping out
I actually think that's why Bob Iger was brought back in but we'll see. They have definately lost their magic.
So far every Disney Remake has made bank. Until they stop there's no reason for them to stop.
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Eh, I won't watch it because generally I'm against this Disney trend of lazy Live Action remakes. But I mean them casting different races doesn't matter.
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
I'm not even talking about the races. I'm talking about the photos of the "seven fantastical creatures" that are apparently replacing the dwarfs. It looks like the casting director went to a music festival in Portland and cast the weirdest people that could be found.
Little Mermaid won't even reach the break even point.
Little Mermaid made 500M in the box office. It's not like a pure money maker, but still going close to double it's budget in box office.
NOt to mention Merch.
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
You mean as long as it's a white character being re-cast. Because God forbid European fairytales are played by people who are actually of European descent. Imagine the oublic outcry if Mulan, Jasmine, or Tiana were played by someone of a different race.
Last edited by Carp; 07-19-2023 at 12:28 PM.
What? A movie's break even point is generally 2.5 times it's budget. Little Mermaid isn't going to reach that.
Merch is good point but the movie is not doing well in theatres.
I’ve never seen a grown adult bend over for the mouse as much as Zito.
Ivermectin Man
It's hard to tell what the break even point of a movie is. I've read the Little Mermaid needed to make between $500 million and $560 million at the global box office to break even. That is taking into account theater's cuts, residuals, publicity, expected rental/streaming revenue, etc.
The Little Mermaid made $554 million at the box office. So best case scenario for Disney is break even or maybe a very modest profit.
Now consider it against what the movie was originally projected to make. Disney originally projected it to eclipse $1B worldwide like Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast did. They adjusted that down to $600-$700 million. It came in at about half the global box office as originally projected and still well below adjusted projections.
It will likely end up in the black for Disney but a summer tentpole film barely breaking even is in effect a loss. The opportunity cost alone makes it an overall negative for the studio.
So Barbie is set to make 110+ in it's opening weekend according to projections ,which would put it up there with the best of the year (Spiderverse, GotG3, AntMan)
Warner Brothers is projecting it at 150 which would make it the top grossing opening weekend.
Saw it tonight, it's a good movie. People will make it things it isn't because the movie is heavy handed with all it's themes. But at it's core, it's a comedy that is glitzy. It's interesting. Especially as they seemed to put Barbies as the straight men and Kens pulling the weight of the comedy. Which is very 90s.
Simu Liu was straight fire the whole film. Ryan Gosling pulled tons of weight too, but he was set up for amazing success.
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Runnin (07-31-2023)
So quick aside to this point, I may be wrong but I believe exactly 5 films have made a bil since COVID, Avatar, Top Gun, No Way Home, Mario and Jurassic World. All of them are massive IPs. In 2019 9 movies broke the billion mark, in 2018 5 films, etc.
I think the new landscape expecting a billion is harsh.
I think the reality too is people are tired of the Disney nostalgia cash grabs, especially when they know in like 6 months they can watch it for free on Disney Plus.
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Got any good stock tips?
Went to the local multi-plex last night to catch the latest Mission Impossible. Lobby was absolutely packed and bathed in pink being worn by women between the ages of 20 and 40. Curious to see what the per-screen numbers are, because that's the only measure that might blunt the mania. I think out of 14 theaters, it was playing in five or six of them. The Gerwig/Baumbach team is of a certain taste and the taste isn't for everyone, but they caught the zeitgeist here.
I take Rotten Tomatoes with a grain of salt and I think the art of movie reviewing has eroded in value because a lot of reviewers want their commentar to mirror box office results (as in, "I don't want to be out of step with the general public"), but I think Barbie came in at around 90%, a bit behind both Oppenheimer and Mission Impossible.
Last edited by 50PoundHead; 07-23-2023 at 03:35 PM.
Lmaoooo
The Movie does suck.
SWM aren’t going to that movie willingly
90% fan score on RT.
People also said the same thing about Titanic, which was the biggest film of all time when it was done.
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When every girl from age 10 to 70 wants to see this movie, it doesn’t need the Call of Duty demo to be a hit.
50PoundHead (07-24-2023)
There's a fair amount of Dads and Daughters heading out to see it and I imagine it's not a terrible time for Dad. Movie looks like a Rocky and Bullwinkle "humor on two levels" piece of work. I'm a big fan of Greta Gerwig's work, but I will probably wait until it hits streaming mode to see it.
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