BrianLo
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What weakness exactly is this based on? It’s currently 50/50 and domestic had a holiday.
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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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What weakness exactly is this based on? It’s currently 50/50 and domestic had a holiday.
Nevermore525
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That and the international box office is updated on a weekly basis. So not really a good gauge of any trend until the next week’s bit of box office is reportedWhat weakness exactly is this based on? It’s currently 50/50 and domestic had a holiday.
Tony the Tigger
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How did I never notice that?
Animaniac93-98
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They only have Searchlight through acquisition, and it's not a key component of their business model for movies.
Disney long ago shut down/sold off their equivalents (Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax) because they did not fit their business strategy. Searchlight could easily meet the same fate.
The focus with Fox has been franchise fare and IP, same as their own.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Disagree, they've been using Searchlight specifically for the award plays, which IS part of their current business strategy. Those other studios you mentioned were shuttered or sold off during a different time.
Disney is currently green-lighting films under Searchlight…. The acquisition that happened in 2019 does not include the films of 2025
There is also plenty of original movies under 20th century through Disney such as The Amateur, The Creator, Theater Camp, The Menu… among others
Nevermore525
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WDAS and Pixar individually in the last 5 years (4 each) have also released more original storytelling animated films than the company did from 1937-1994 (could probably go later as 2 of the originals are anthology films and the Lion King is a loose adaptation of Hamlet)
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Tony the Tigger
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$10m on a Wednesday is not nothing! Continuing to outpace Minecraft.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
International is starting to pull in more for Stitch (guess its not lagging after all as some claimed) with Mexico currently leading in the box office. Now sitting at $421M WW after just 6 days, that so far has it on pace to hit a Billion in my opinion.
Nevermore525
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Only 2nd place on the global box office after 6 days among the Hollywood Studio releases.
BrianLo
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I also don’t think we’re in the same environment any longer that lead to those studios closures. There’s a core focus on general entertainment to feed the Hulu/Star wing of their streaming platform. Unless that changes, they are pretty light on general entertainment labels.
It’s not part of their major theatrical strategy, sure. But splitting the costs between streaming works well for the lower budget awards plays.
LSLS
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That's good news for Disney. I made my case already that I had no idea how the international box office would go, but that it was important for them (and the ideas of these remakes) that it picks up more than it was opening weekend. Looks like that is starting to occur.
Nevermore525
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Those international numbers are also without Latin America and South America being fully up to date where Stitch may also be performing well.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Two more bombs maybe inbound…we’ll have to watch
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
The evil, media conspiracy machine is at it again…
www.forbes.com
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‘Thunderbolts' Will Not Escape Being The Second Lowest-Earning MCU Film
Thunderbolts is great. It’s also hovering near the absolute bottom of the MCU box office, even as it passes a milestone of $300 million globally, now at $355.
www.forbes.com
LILO AND STITCH Has Already Outgrossed THUNDERBOLTS* At The Worldwide Box Office
After less than a week on general release, Disney's Lilo and Stitch has already passed $400 million worldwide, something Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* didn't manage to do after almost a month in theaters.
Sirwalterraleigh
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Tha Realest
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‘Thunderbolts' Will Not Escape Being The Second Lowest-Earning MCU Film
Thunderbolts is great. It’s also hovering near the absolute bottom of the MCU box office, even as it passes a milestone of $300 million globally, now at $355.
www.forbes.com
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Your buddy TP has been saying this week that overseas is underperforming (lagging), which as I posted its actually not.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Lag compared to the domestic total? Or underperforming in their markets?
The first isn’t trouble…the second could be
And “some” is a term for multiple…or suggesting a block trying to form consensus
As in “there are some scarecrows out in the field…not just a single strawman”
BrianLo
Well-Known Member
You are correct. It’s neither worrying and partially a misunderstanding with another part getting stuck in negative criticism loop. This one is pretty hard to diminish though.