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I think Wicked Part 2 will make slightly more money than part 1, but it will be more front loaded as people won't be "discovering" Wicked throughout the holiday season — the fanbase will be already established. So I think Part 2 will have a much bigger opening than part 1 ($160-$200 millionish...

I think Mufasa is paying for the sins of the awful 2019 Lion King film. I think Mufasa is "just okay" so I'm not going to mourn its box office failure. However, I will admit I was pleasantly surprised how much I did not hate the movie. "Not that bad" isn't a tagline you want to use in your...

I probably agree. I still have yet to see the Broadway show (although I've listened to the cast recording and love it). My ranking of the franchise would be: 1. The Lion King (1994) — 10/10 2. The Lion King II: Simba's Pride — 6/10 — one of the better DTV sequels, but still a drastic drop in...

I think the 2019 Lion King tarnished the brand. The original Lion King is in my top 5 animated movies, but I hated the remake so much that it almost made me question whether the original movie was even that good to begin with. It wasn't until I rewatched the original during the pandemic that...

Idk, I think kids that would have still been engaged without Timon and Pumbaa constantly interrupting the story. And while I did like the inclusion of Kiara (The Lion King II is one of the few direct-to-video sequels that isn't awful), I think she only needed to be in the opening 10 minutes of...

Well, I didn't hate Mufasa, which is itself a miracle, as the 2019 remake of The Lion King is one of my most despised films of all time. The biggest advantage Mufasa has over its predecessor is that it's an original story, so it's easier to judge on its own merits. In contrast, the 2019 Lion...

Yeah I don't get where TP2000 is coming from, besides possibly trolling. I REALLY don't like Moana 2 and what its success means for the future of Disney animation, but even I can't deny it's a major success from a financial perspective.

While Moana 2 is undeniably a financial success, I believe if it were actually a good movie with great songs that people would want to sing and re-listen to, it could have made around $1.5 billion. Between this and the unnecessary remake coming out next year, I think the Moana brand will be...

I am curious how the writers will handle the flashback episode of Win or Lose when we learn how the characters' lives were impacted by ARPA funds. It seems unrealistic that the children on the team would be informed enough to debate the benefits of ARPA versus its potential impact on inflation...

This is why I have some hope that the Japan release will do well. Ah, I see now. I was responding to the TP2000's general sentiment about the international box office and wasn't exactly paying attention to his inaccurate statements about the UK box office. Also, I apologize for my "back off"...

More than half of the countries Wicked has been released in are overseas. :rolleyes:

Maybe I should have just said "international box office" instead of "overseas," but I wasn't expecting my comments to be nitpicked to death, especially when I haven't attacked anyone in this thread. Back off. While the UK performance is pretty good, overall, Wicked's overall International...

I'm mainly talking about countries not in the anglosphere and looking at the international box office as a whole — not country by country. Most big movies make more money overseas than they do domestically, and Wicked is different in that regard. I WISH Wicked was doing better internationally...

I think the Wizard of Oz and the Wicked musical are simply much more popular in America than overseas, which is why Wicked is a phenomenon in the U.S. and flopping/underperforming in overseas countries. Similar thing happened earlier this year with Twisters doing great in the U.S. but poorly...

Well, I was never expecting Mufassa to be great, even though I hoped for better. I still maintain that the overall artistic direction for this movie was a mistake. Would have been better traditionally animated or even highly-stylized computer animated (in the vein of something like the Pixar...

Based off the few clips released so far, the facial expressions seem to be an improvement from the 2019 movie, but the characters still aren't nearly as expressive as their 1994 animated counterparts.

If Mufassa is a good movie, I want it to do well. If it's bad, I want it to flop. The 2019 Lion King was abysmal and one of the worst moviegoing experiences of my life. I've been skeptical about Mufassa since it was announced, but the talents of Barry Jenkins and Lin Manuel Miranda haven...

My only criticism of the songs is that I think almost all of them – except for "I always Wanted a Brother' — seem a bit too short and need an extra minute to fully develop/build the song. I really like the villain song "Bye Bye" but it feels like we only got the first two-thirds of it.

Also it looks like we are getting a mini Princess and the Frog reunion with Anika Noni Rose and Keith David (Tiana and Dr. Facillier) voicing Mufassa's parents.

That's a really cool poster.