News Bob Iger is back! Chapek is out!!

TalkingHead

TalkingHead

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AEfx said:
It will clearly do well, but there is no where near the perfect storm the first film had. The biggest advantage they have is that it is now a Disney property - basically, they have cleared the slates of any other major titles it would have had been up against if Disney had not purchased Fox and it had some actual competition. If there were, say, a Marvel film opening up around that time, it would be facing a far different landscape.

You are correct, though - that this is not going to get repeat viewings like the last one, and it's not going to be this "wow you have to see this new technology!" cultural event that drew everyone and their grandmother into theaters specifically to see this new fangled digital 3D tech. When you add on the fact that beyond it's technical merits, the original film has very little character recognition or anything else today (almost no one has been waiting a decade just to see what the "next chapter" holds) it is difficult to see it following a similar trajectory of growing the audience versus the steep drop off it will likely have, like most films.
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Plus it’s 3+ hrs. with no intermission. But it’s a breezy 195 minutes, I’m sure.
 
AEfx

AEfx

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DCLcruiser said:
Titanic transends generations. Avatar is vague, had/has no popular character (no idea his name), and came out ages ago.

Plus, Titanic was super long for the time, and took up multiple VHS. That was an event.
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Titanic also had the "wow new tech" angle, but most importantly was all about repeat viewers as well. Groups of teenage girls (a group traditionally ignored by blockbusters) were going to it weekly all winter long. Similarly, Avatar gained audiences because of the tech involved and the "wow you have to see what a modern 3D movie looks like!"

It will open well, but even though the studios have cleared the slate for the film, to expect it to have legs like either of those films is really stretching things, IMO.
 
Vegas Disney Fan

Vegas Disney Fan

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lazyboy97o said:
What change made was conceived and executed entirely during Chapek’s tenure?
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Without internal knowledge we’ll never know, it’s possible Iger and Chapek were planning this all along, it’s equally possible Iger had been vetoing Chapeks desired park changes for 5 years and the second he gained control he enacted them solely by himself.

Off the top of my head… loss of magical express, FP to G+, and reservations… those are the big 3 evils and there’s no indication Iger had any involvement in any of them.
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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DCLcruiser said:
(no idea his name)
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jpeden

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lazyboy97o said:
Lake Nona was being planned with Iger in charge. Magical Express may be entirely during Chapek but I’d have to double check.
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Iger may have been planning Lake Nona, but he sure as hell wouldn't have told them they have 90 days to uproot their families or lose their jobs and in fact that is one of the things he was complaining about in his lunch sessions around town (the way Chapek handled and delivered that news).
 
Sirwalterraleigh

Sirwalterraleigh

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el_super said:
Not to belabor the Avatar discussion too much, but Cameron did make Titanic, a movie famous for everyone knowing the ending before seeing it, the number one box office success for some time.

I wouldn't bet against Avatar. Technology might be important, but honestly it's the first Disney tent pole in recent memory that didn't somehow involve a comic book character.
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I wouldn’t bet against avatar because Jim Cameron made it….Disney has almost zero to do with it
 
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