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'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film
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Prince-1
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That’s a lot of words being written from you just to point out a movie didn’t succeed at the box office. I’d say it’s almost comical.
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It is specific rather than just the surface level didn't do well though. When you bomb harder than Mars Needs Moms, you know it is bad.
Some people don't want to fly in and waste their weekend on only seeing one hotel.
It's been compared to the prisons on Andor.
Another creation not doing the company any favors.
Animaniac93-98
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The Black Cauldron made $21 million domestically in 1985 dollars.
Strange World is doing worse.
ILoveWDW4ever
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What matters is they made the film and checked some boxes.As expected with the lowest CinemaScore in the history of Disney animation, the forecast for Strange World's second weekend looks bleak. This is why studios focus so strongly on the exit scores as they historically are a strong predictor of whether a film will have sustained legs or quickly disappear.
Even with no new family films entering the marketplace, Box Office Pro has a weekend on 4,000+ screens of only $5.9M or a drop of 50%+ off of its historically poor opening. Note that Box Office Pro has overestimated this film's performance at every stage to date as expectations for this film have no floor.
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You did it!! Woohooo!!!
Wow, that's far, far off topic.
TwilightZone
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I am sure things behind the scenes right now aren't very happy go lucky. Wouldn't be surprised if there's some restructuring planned because of this movie's failure.
I don't know how well puss in boots will do, but it already has the advantage of good word of mouth from those who saw its test screening, not sure if that's enough to "scare" Disney, but enough to at least take note of.
I don't know how well puss in boots will do, but it already has the advantage of good word of mouth from those who saw its test screening, not sure if that's enough to "scare" Disney, but enough to at least take note of.
TP2000
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Final domestic box office numbers are in for Sunday, its full second weekend. Strange World dropped the most week-to-week of any movie in the top 10. Strange World just passed the $25 Million mark 12 days after its release.
Foreign box office (with a few small countries not yet reporting this weekend) now gives Strange World a global total of $42 Million. Off of a production budget of $180 Million.
Foreign box office (with a few small countries not yet reporting this weekend) now gives Strange World a global total of $42 Million. Off of a production budget of $180 Million.
TP2000
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I doubt the many people who depend on the movie industry for their jobs and livelihoods find it comical. Especially since Strange World's utter financial failure arrived during the corporate environment of crisis and worry in Burbank right now.
Adjusted for inflation, The Black Cauldron did $58 Million in domestic box office in 2022 dollars.
After 12 days in theaters, Strange World has done less than half of that at $25 Million.
Agreed.
Bob Iger has a lot to worry about in what's left of '22, and much to work on in '23. After the financial failure of multiple animated films from Pixar and Disney the last 15 months, all of which cost between $150 Million and $200 Million just to produce, I can't help but wonder what the future is for the two separate flagship animation studios Disney owns.
Lightyear was merely a big disappointment financially. Strange World is something different, a historical failure. Its historically awful financial failure couldn't have come at a worse time, just after a CEO coup when senior executives are being asked to look at every company division with a magnifying glass to make cuts and
Prince-1
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Oh it bombed hard. I wish it did better but at the end of the day it affects me 0%.
TP2000
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When you put all the box office stats in today's dollars, it really paints a very clear picture on Strange World.
Money talks.
I mean, just look at those second weekend numbers for previous Disney films that were "bombs". Strange World got less than $5 Million this second weekend, and that makes turkeys like John Carter and Home On The Range look like Frozen by comparison! Heck, Chicken Little looks like Star Wars or Titanic compared to Strange World.
What on earth convinced Burbank to not market Strange World? To not release the toys and merch they created for Strange World into Target and WalMart toy shelves the weeks before Christmas? To bury any Social Media mentions of Strange World in the weeks leading up to its release in 4,174 theaters?
There's gotta be a really good story there! I'd love to hear the business strategy behind those purposeful decisions to bury Strange World and just torch $150 Million dollars at a time of corporate crisis, wouldn't you?
TwilightZone
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It's all so strange. My theory about firing all the good marketers is one thing, but the fact there's no known merch is strange. Lightyear had merch, Encanto had merch, Raya had merch. Why doesn't strange world?There's gotta be a really good story there! I'd love to hear the business strategy behind those purposeful decisions to bury Strange World and just torch $150 Million dollars at a time of corporate crisis, wouldn't you?
As far as I can tell, these might be the only pieces of strange world merch...ever
Note the websites. Could not find a Target or Walmart listing...
EDIT: Found some target ones...not sure if they are sold in store, but they do list them.
Walmart.com also has a couple...but walmart.com in my experiences also sells some "sketchy" stuff. I'd take it with a bit of a grain of salt.
It does prove how generic the name is because no matter the website, the results are mixed in with unrelated books.
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TP2000
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Exactly. A few weeks ago in this thread we discussed it a bit: I found nothing at a large suburban Target for Strange World, so I asked a perky Target girl about it, and she was happy to look up on her pad. She told me none of it was available in stores, but on Target.com there were some t-shirts and stuff online.
As you can see, Disney's Consumer Products division designed and produced a range of toys and clothing, books and merch, for Strange World. But none of it went to stores in the days before the films release and the weeks of the busy Christmas shopping season.
The toys and books and children's t-shirts for Strange World were all purposely buried, just like its marketing. That is truly bizarre. I mean, Burbank didn't even try! On purpose.
I don't think I've ever seen Disney do anything like this ever before with a mega-budget tentpole film. And at Thanksgiving in 4,174 theaters!
TwilightZone
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The clothes thing makes it even weirder. Cause I didn't search "Strange world toys", I searched "Strange World" and "Disney Strange World" which would give me more generalized searches. As you can see from my screenshots, there's no clothes anywhere. Just books and some action figures. What makes things even stranger is the fact the "Splat" plush toy is ShopDisney exclusive even though he is, in the film's own words, the marketable "animal" sidekick.Exactly. A few weeks ago in this thread we discussed it a bit: I found nothing at a large suburban Target for Strange World, so I asked a perky Target girl about it, and she was happy to look up on her pad. She told me none of it was available in stores, but on Target.com there were some t-shirts and stuff online.
As you can see, Disney's Consumer Products division designed and produced a range of toys and clothing, books and merch, for Strange World. But none of it went to stores in the days before the films release and the weeks of the busy Christmas shopping season.
The toys and books and children's t-shirts for Strange World were all purposely buried, just like its marketing. That is truly bizarre. I mean, Burbank didn't even try! On purpose.
I don't think I've ever seen Disney do anything like this ever before with a mega-budget tentpole film. And at Thanksgiving in 4,174 theaters!
TP2000
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A quick search on shopDisney.com came up with only eight (8!) items available for Strange World.
Something tells me that the remaining brick-and-mortar Disney Stores don't have window displays for Strange World.
Something tells me that the remaining brick-and-mortar Disney Stores don't have window displays for Strange World.
TwilightZone
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I will say, I do like the "hang in there" t shirt. But like the rest of the shop disney merch, it's really strange it wasn't put in stores.A quick search on shopDisney.com came up with only eight (8!) items available for Strange World.
Something tells me that the remaining brick-and-mortar Disney Stores don't have window displays for Strange World.