DisneyWarrior27
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Kinda rooting for The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie to win that award.
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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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Farerb
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It's really the best animated movie of 2024 and probably the best one in years!
LittleBuford
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Quoting the article:
“It is, as far as I know, still a thing, where leadership, they'll bring up Lightyear specifically and say, ‘Oh, Lightyear was a financial failure because it had a queer kiss in it,’” one source tells IGN. “That's not the reason the movie failed.”
So yes, some in leadership positions seem to agree with certain posters here, while the quoted source disagrees. I don't think one can talk of a monolithic "Disney" position on this.
Given that a tonne of movies and shows with queer characters and so-called "agendas" have done really well in recent years, I think we should apply Occam's Razor in this case. Does anyone who's seen Lightyear really believe it would have done significantly better had that one character been straight? Why overlook the fact that the film was just all-around boring?
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DisneyWarrior27
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I’ll bet I’ll share your sentiment when I see it in the US at the end of February.
Plus, its win could help further swing the pendulum in Hollywood back to making more hand-drawn animated movies for theaters.
Hence why I’m pushing for Moana 2 to make a billion at the box office and for Looney Tunes: The Day The Earth Blew Up to win at the awards circuit after that, so that Disney will be swayed to turn Tiana’s Paperman-style animated Disney+ series into a theatrical fully 2D/hand-drawn animated film sequel to The Princess and the Frog for a release in Thanksgiving 2029.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
That is all just media spin, and I'll just leave it at that.
TalkingHead
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Yall catch that Barry Jenkins interview where he basically said Mufasa taught him CGI moviemaking “isn’t his thing”? Plus he says he took the job so he could work in LA and get paid. Weird things to say on a promotional tour.
DisneyWarrior27
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He also said he took the job because he thought the script was good as , reading 50 pages into it, and said “I have to do this”
Ghost93
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It doesn't fill me with confidence.
Although my concern with the Mufassa movie isn't Jenkins or the script, but the decision to with the hyper realistic CGI style of the 2019 movie that robbed that film of its emotion.
DisneyWarrior27
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Read the whole thing, dude.
He didn’t just take it for a paycheck, he said he took it because he liked the script a lot that he chose to direct it, after reading 50 pages of it.
https://www.vulture.com/article/how...ocial&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null
Prince-1
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Yeah, he isn't stupid...he knows what to say for an interview. I still think he did it for the money and nothing is wrong with that. I mean Michael Caine didn't do Jaws 4 for the art.
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DisneyWarrior27
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I honestly felt it was the opposite and that he did it to make a great movie, otherwise social media reactions wouldn’t drop after the premiere on Monday with reviews dropping the following week, but whatever.
Ghost93
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That's why I said I'm not worried about the script, dude.
TP2000
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I took one look at that Google map view and could tell it was in prime downtown real estate. Then when I looked at the Street View and saw the small-batch gin distillery and the blowout bar on the ground floor I thought "Ah, yes... hipster neighborhood!"
I'm glad Disney has a nice little nest for their animators in Vancouver. The only good thing about being in an office park in Burnaby would have been the drive-thru Tim Horton's across the parking lot.
TP2000
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Okay, gang, the Thursday box office is in showing a new movie on the scoreboard. This is also the Candlelight Processional Weekend at Disneyland, and for the past decade or so Disneyland has often gone to the studio well to pick someone as the ceremony's celebrity narrator from a current blockbuster. Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt and Brie Larson are a few recent Marvel names that come to mind who narrated Candlelight.
Will the Disneyland Candlelight Ceremony this year be narrated by Dwayne Johnson, or the girl who voiced Moana? Could happen!
Here's the box office for Thursday, with a new Bollywood film that likely won't stay in 2nd place this weekend...
Because school is still in session for another two weeks, Moana 2 hasn't had "strong legs" at the box office this past week. It needs another really big weekend to get back into healthy box office territory again. With nothing new opening this weekend in its demographic, my hunch is that will happen. Anyone think differently?
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Will the Disneyland Candlelight Ceremony this year be narrated by Dwayne Johnson, or the girl who voiced Moana? Could happen!
Here's the box office for Thursday, with a new Bollywood film that likely won't stay in 2nd place this weekend...
Because school is still in session for another two weeks, Moana 2 hasn't had "strong legs" at the box office this past week. It needs another really big weekend to get back into healthy box office territory again. With nothing new opening this weekend in its demographic, my hunch is that will happen. Anyone think differently?
Moana 2 (2024) - Financial Information
Financial analysis of Moana 2 (2024) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
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easyrowrdw
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Spin? Why do you think there are articles indicating that Disney has concerns about the other stuff impacting the box office? I guess you said you’ll leave it at that so maybe you prefer not to answer, but I’m not following tbh
Chi84
Premium Member
The authors of many of these articles have their own agenda. That’s what’s meant by spin.
LittleBuford
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The article was quite evenhanded, consisting mainly of quotations from various sources who presented a very mixed picture. I don’t think it had any particular spin.
easyrowrdw
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What is the agenda though? And what is the basis for concluding that the content of the articles noted here are driven by the agendas of the authors? Nothing like that jumped out at me so I was curious what the previous poster was seeing.
Chi84
Premium Member
I was just saying that it’s often the case. I’m less concerned about spin than accuracy and credibility when you’re quoting anonymous sources.
People who have been recently laid off could possibly hold a grudge and exaggerate or worse if there’s no way they can be held accountable.
BrianLo
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Holds on Moana 2 are ‘alright’. More reflective of that A- CinemaScore mixed with the post holiday weekend.
Movie will do very, very well. Well over 1B. But I don’t think it will overtake IO2… though admittedly that’s on International and I find that very challenging to follow.
By the way, I forgot the original Frozen did 1.3B. What a ridiculous start to a franchise out of the gate!
Movie will do very, very well. Well over 1B. But I don’t think it will overtake IO2… though admittedly that’s on International and I find that very challenging to follow.
By the way, I forgot the original Frozen did 1.3B. What a ridiculous start to a franchise out of the gate!