News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!

[Tonto]

Haha. Low budget films like Aliens and T2. I didn't like Titanic either but let's try to use arguments based in reality

I agree. Good advice. Try taking it yourself.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

My favorite Disney low budget film is John Carter.

As for Avatar 2 - I can see this going a couple of different ways.

Personally, I think it’ll get to where it needs to be - but barely. I’d be shocked if it surpasses Avatar. A $3 Billion Box Office in todays climate would be staggering.

I’m thinking it passes TFA and creeps up to Titanic numbers and settles in around 2.3.

I’ve seen domestic opening week projections anywhere from $130-$170 Million.

Of course there’s always the chance of a monumental start then a fade.

Should be interesting.

 

[MisterPenguin]

To be honest, I am kind of surprised Disney green-lit an animated sci-fi adventure in the first place. That seems almost the perfect recipe if you were shooting for box office failure.

Disney keeps trying to have a popular IP which it can transform Tomorrowland into!

 

[G00fyDad]

Movie quality is where we are at in this conversation about Chapek leaving?

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Disney keeps trying to have a popular IP which it can transform Tomorrowland into!

Must say I'm surprised they never put a better Stitch attraction into the Tomorrowlands. Every time I go to the parks, I swear Stitch seems to be one of if not the most popular character judging by his appearance on apparel and merchandise!

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Must say I'm surprised they never put a better Stitch attraction into the Tomorrowlands. Every time I go to the parks, I swear Stitch seems to be one of if not the most popular character judging by his appearance on apparel and merchandise!

Figment has entered the chat.

 

[flynnibus]

Right, but it would have been something that Chapek had to approve.

No

 

[JoeCamel]

Movie quality is where we are at in this conversation about Chapek leaving?

A couple of laps around star bores is in the offing, predictable drift around here

 

[Heppenheimer]

To be honest, I am kind of surprised Disney green-lit an animated sci-fi adventure in the first place. That seems almost the perfect recipe if you were shooting for box office failure.

Disney feature animation does not have a particularly good track record with sci-fi. Lilo and Stitch is the only example I can think of that did particularly well and was generally positively received, and that was almost despite the sci-fi elements of the plot, which was more focused on Hawaii than anything else.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Disney feature animation does not have a particularly good track record with sci-fi. Lilo and Stitch is the only example I can think of that did particularly well and was generally positively received, and that was almost despite the sci-fi elements of the plot, which was more focused on Hawaii than anything else.

Yes, I find it hard to think of that so much as a sci-fi film as the setting so rooted in Hawaii to the point of even playing up the Elvis connection. The film also kind of falls apart at the end when the spaceships show up and things start going crazy.

Stitch as a character also kind of eclipsed the film he was in, which is another reason I'm surprised they haven't tried to do more with him in the parks to keep building him up as a character in his own right.

 

[The Mom]

Posters are getting way off topic - shocking, I know.

 

[MisterPenguin]

 

[DCLcruiser]

My favorite Disney low budget film is John Carter.

As for Avatar 2 - I can see this going a couple of different ways.

Personally, I think it’ll get to where it needs to be - but barely. I’d be shocked if it surpasses Avatar. A $3 Billion Box Office in todays climate would be staggering.

I’m thinking it passes TFA and creeps up to Titanic numbers and settles in around 2.3.

I’ve seen domestic opening week projections anywhere from $130-$170 Million.

Of course there’s always the chance of a monumental start then a fade.

Should be interesting.

John Carter was way better than it gets credit. It should have spawned a multi movie franchise. Indiana Jones in space.

 

[spock8113]

Be careful what you wish for...

 

[FigmentFan82]

I think there's a real opportunity for some solid course correction. I'm not expecting earth shattering changes, but there could be enough small things here and there (Magical Express!!!) that would go a long way to setting the path right for the guest experience at the parks. Even if they are things that Iger himself had started to put into play, he has the buffer of Chapek to smooth those optics. But again, this man has a golden opportunity to use hindsight to his advantage. Something not many get the chance of. If he wants to leave in 2 years as the white knight, he has all the cards to do so now.

 

[FigmentFan82]

Be careful what you wish for...

I wish for more wishes

 

[spock8113]

I wish for the old Figment Ride, Journey Into Imagination, restoration of the food plan, return of the Magical Express, resurrection of Horizons, return Test Track to original more-relevant ride, repaint those hideous, new Vegas-style casino hotels and the ever-elusive pipedream of lower prices and better booking packages, just as a beginning of wishes. These horses left the barn long ago.
The Skyliner is the best thing done under Chapek.

 

[FigmentFan82]

oh man, if Iger pushes through Imagination redo, and done well, he could fail at everything else and still ride off unscathed in my book

 

[Br0ckford]

I wish for more wishes

No wishing for more wishes

 

[spock8113]

Oh, I forgot one more thing, Park Hopping, bring it back (Like Anne Heche in 6days/7nites requesting her money back from Harrison Ford)
So will Disney tear my ticket in half?