George Lucas on a Bench
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It hasn't sold more tickets than Titanic.
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SuddenStorm
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Really insane. It's amazing to see how effective a franchise can be when it's backed by people who are passionate and knowledgeable about the source material. When it's being guided by someone who cares about both making the fans, and the general public happy. Quite different than the "subvert expectations at the expense of the good storytelling" approach or the "fire every director I hire" approach Lucasfilm has taken.
Makes me wonder if WDI's "We don't care what the Disneyland fans think, let's change everything" approach is gonna eventually start causing problems.
socalifornian
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I’m sure that’s true right now just based on face value ticket prices between ‘97 and ‘19, overall money tho
SuddenStorm
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Titanic does have at least one theatrical re release under it's belt, as well as a far longer time in theaters. Avengers beating it in a week is a huge accomplishment... though I wonder if Avengers is gonna fall of hard since everyone has already seen it.
socalifornian
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Mike S
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Holy crap I thought that video was a myth since I heard it talked about but could never find it!!!
sedati
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Yes, but let's let Pirates and Small World show how a similar system can be utilized to very different effect.
That's sort of what made Titanic so amazing is that it stayed popular for so long to climb to that spot (and when ticket prices averaged around $5-6 in America and much less in other parts of the world). In fact all the $2+ billion films spent several months to get there. TFA and IW took only about two months but it still took some time. For Endgame to get here in its second week is absolutely bonkers lol. I have a feeling its going to slow down hard by next weekend but who knows? Fandango reported 85% more people are buying return tickets then they did for IW so thats pretty amazing on its own since so many people watched IW over and over again. I saw it three times in the theaters myself and definitely plan to see Endgame again when I get time.
It is definitely the first film that could beat Avatar but I will wait until next weekend to see its chances.
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sedati
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So, he basically made the "Alien Encounter" of Star Wars films. Took risks, tried new things- people left with wildly different opinions.
THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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Where are they putting the fully functional Marissa Tomei AA at on here? That is all I care about
Mike S
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Except Alien Encounter was done as an original idea. For a huge mega franchise like Star Wars the process of wanting half of your audience to hate it shouldn’t be applied.
Imo, the guy’s a troll and that video proves it. He actively wanted to rile up a hornets nest.
socalifornian
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It’s like he completely forgot and/or disregarded that he was making #8, as much as Disney likes hiding the episode numbers. If he was given anything it should’ve been a standalone, yet it should be nothing. His trilogy makes me nervous
Cheney!
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The MCU definitely has the scale to warrant having an area, and it could be done well, but what we're getting really doesn't look like it will be.
sedati
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What he's expressing is not an uncommon sentiment among artists.
All this backlash has me far more worried that we'll be getting only safe and familiar from here on.
Animaniac93-98
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Marvel deserves something on par with Galaxy's Edge. Hong Kong's Tomorrowland looks to be the closest we'll get to something like that unfortunately, unless Universal adds more to IoA.
Mike S
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It doesn’t have to be a choice between two extremes. The MCU imo is in the happy medium. There’s plenty that’s different from the actual source material but it still works and fans are still very happy overall.
Let’s bring the focus back on how much Disney’s Marvel plans seem to stink though.
sedati
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Well, they are safe and familiar plans. I'm sure they will do well, but don't seem to be taking any risks.
Bob Harlem
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For what it's worth, DCA's Spider-man attraction may have more in common to Ninjago at Legoland than Toy Story.
Mike S
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Something of a more ambitious scale wouldn’t be a risk though. Like SWL it would have people beyond excited. I’d argue the current plan is them taking a risk of letting people down.
lazyboy97o
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I like how someone took the effort to make the drawings blue. Knowing Disney, it’s probably a very expensive, custom Revit plug-in and not a few steps in Photoshop or Illustrator.