Sirwalterraleigh
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…meh…I’m more with the internet comic book gremlins obsessed with Brie Larsen
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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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Sirwalterraleigh
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Wish is neither a good movie nor successful. That’s on Disney…it’s a miss. They aren’t well positioned for misses. At all. It’s gas on an already blazing fire at 1 dopey drive, Burbank, Ca.
It’s not that other studios aren’t having misses. They always have because they don’t have the Disney advantage. The real problem is it appears to be a disadvantage. First time really ever. Maybe 2000 ish with - again - bad movies.
Or…since I think I’ve seen all the 2023 stinkers except marvels at this point…they’re making pretty bad movies.
Guardians 3 was fantastic…if I’m honest. Elemental was solid…the rest blow.
There’s resistance here to just saying Disney is making crap. It’s always an “industry problem”.
Very similar to park apologists…which are gonna get real loud over the next 18 months.
I have…and I appreciate it even with the weird “daughter/girlfriend of Frankenstein” kinda angle
I didn’t say she was superficial. I’m saying the Hollywood machine/press have adored her for along time so she gets accolades all the time. The “Streep effect”.
BuddyThomas
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TP2000
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Just a few days after Soul was pulled from theaters after its rather humiliating two week run (Domestic Box Office = $946,154) they debuted this today at Disneyland's newly rebranded Pixar Place Hotel.
I'm a jazz fan, so I enjoy this, but... it's like their once-vaunted corporate Synergy Machine has gotten rusty and run down.
I'm a jazz fan, so I enjoy this, but... it's like their once-vaunted corporate Synergy Machine has gotten rusty and run down.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
2024 Is Going To Be A Very Different Year For Disney (& It Shows How Much Has Gone Wrong)
Disney doesn't have much lined up for 2024.
screenrant.com
_caleb
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To me, the question isn’t so much “what’s next for Disney at the box office?” as it is, “what’s next for Disney as box office becomes increasingly irrelevant?2024 Is Going To Be A Very Different Year For Disney (& It Shows How Much Has Gone Wrong)
Disney doesn't have much lined up for 2024.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Jesus…
Can you talk about anything without bringing up their very unimpressive streaming format?
Phroobar
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As we approach the end of 2023, Disney has confirmed only seven movies for 2024—The First Omen, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Inside Out 2, Deadpool 3, Alien: Romulus, The Amateur, and Mufasa: The Lion King.
I have no desire to see any of these movies. Six sequels to franchises I really don't care about.
I have no desire to see any of these movies. Six sequels to franchises I really don't care about.
BrianLo
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I think Inside Out 2 and Deadpool 3 have fairly strong box office potential. Especially Deadpool.
Personally I’m interested in seeing Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Alien: Romulus (assuming they are good movies). That’s not their box office though.
Mufasa feels like they are setting themselves up for failure since the market has turned on the live action films. It seems poised to pull an Alice through the looking glass fall. Unless somehow it is actually a really, really good movie.
brideck
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Getting Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk) to do this movie as work-for-hire is really, really interesting. I have no idea how his skill set will translate to a CGI-fest like this, and he's not a writer/producer on it.
Same. Yawn.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I’ll see inside out
Not much interest in the others
Maybe Deadpool…just because I’ve always liked Ryan Reynolds…but that will depends on reviews to be honest
It is odd to me…The local theater I visit most does not feel like it is getting any less customers than it did before the pandemic… I go every week and most films seem to have at least a decent crowd… if not more so… granted I see most opening weekend and they closed the slower theater which may have seen less… so it’s possible it is evening out with the patrons that visited the other theater
Maybe it appears Box Office is becoming irrelevant to some… but Theaters still feel relevant to most studios… they now have data that point towards films doing better on streaming if they go to theaters first… the top 10 films on streaming for 2023 all went to theaters first…Saltburn is one of the buzziest movies right now… I don’t think that would of happened if it did not go to theaters first
IMO straight to streaming is the new straight to DVD/Blu-Ray
Maybe it appears Box Office is becoming irrelevant to some… but Theaters still feel relevant to most studios… they now have data that point towards films doing better on streaming if they go to theaters first… the top 10 films on streaming for 2023 all went to theaters first…Saltburn is one of the buzziest movies right now… I don’t think that would of happened if it did not go to theaters first
IMO straight to streaming is the new straight to DVD/Blu-Ray
Wendy Pleakley
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Definitely.
They advertise movies on Apple or other services with the tagline "bring the theater home". It's a selling point.
If a movie was released theatrically it means it wasn't likely a low budget affair and had a certain amount of care put into it.
brideck
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Agreed, which is why it's a little curious that Disney has seemed pretty intent on using Searchlight in part as a direct-to-Hulu label. A growing amount of their stuff seems to be going that route. I would have seen pretty much all of them, had they hit theaters, but I haven't even thought about watching (checks notes) Rye Lane, Quasi, or the upcoming Suncoast. [Note: The Academy's obsession with mediocre Diane Warren songs means I'll be watching Flamin' Hot before too long.] They're actively telling me those movies are less than by not having even a small art-house release first.
Phroobar
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I would assume The First Omen, Deadpool 3, the Amateur and Alien: Romulus are rated R.
While Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is PG-13 and Inside Out 2 and Mufasa as PG.
I just don't know if Inside Out 2 worth seeing yet.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Inside out - like all first issue Pixar ideas - had a ton of heart.
Adolescence and the trauma of moving/isolation…just a brilliant take on adolescence. Like John Hughes esque
But that doesn’t mean a second will hit the same chords
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
I think there is a huge value in being around other people…even in the dark. We’re social creatures and are drawn to it.
Doctors/Psychologists are just now sounding the warning bells about the effect of social isolation due to tech.
We need movie theaters…frankly we need shopping malls. Something is missing
Phroobar
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Sure people treat each other like dirt in live social settings because they are used to being anonymous on line. There is no accountability online.