Tony Perkis
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Disney owns Fox. They’re fine.
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Disney and Jon Favreau Joining Forces on “The Lion King”
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MuteSuperstar
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I just still find it very strange they decided to blow through Dumbo, Aladdin and The Lion King all in one year.
Jedijax719
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It's all about getting as much content on Disney + as possible when it launches or soon after.
MuteSuperstar
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Yeah good point.
Disney will do just fine, but people are NOT going to like having to have a separate service for basically every studio, which is obviously where this is heading eventually. It's all going to balloon right back up to the ridiculous prices of cable that everyone is sick of paying.
It is also to make as much money as possible to fund the start of Disney Plus. They are spending billions on original programming, staffing and technology. The worldwide box office this year, easily over 10 billion, most likely over 11 billion and a possibility of 12 billion will go a long way. Disney's 2019 worldwide box office will be over 6.5 billion as of Sunday July 14.
Maleficent 2, Mulan, The Little Mermaid, and Cruella are on deck (with Lady and the Tramp direct to D+).
Unless you're willing to activate each streamer one at a time for a month and binge their content in succession. Then, it's dirt cheap.
MuteSuperstar
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I've just built my own personal netflix of all the classic stuff I want. I don't care so much about the new stuff anyway. My own Disney channel is probably more robust than what Disney + will manage, with the added bonus of Martin's wonderful videos. Granted, this is a lot of work that most people wouldn't want to/know how to do.
The biggest question I have is that after this years worldwide box office total. including Fox, how can Wall Street expect continued increases? No studio can grow every year and eventually the Super Hero craze will die. The MCU alone will total over 5 billion this year. Fox will help with low budget and profitable movies but Disney has been on an amazing run that will eventually end.
MuteSuperstar
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I keep thinking this, I find the majority of CGI-laden movies incredibly tedious but people keep turning out for them. Heck, we're near about 20 years of superhero movies at this point. It does feel like the end of this cycle may at least be the start of it waning a bit. We shall see. And I do firmly believe that Star Wars is waning a bit with the general public. No matter how much they want them to, most of these new characters simply do not resonate like the originals.
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Tony Perkis
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I don’t quite buy that. Disney, and Fox, have a huge back catalog to launch their streaming service, let alone the already in development exclusives. They didn’t need 2-3 new theatrical releases to anchor it.
You are not counting all the Fox Television productions. Streaming is not just movies but entire series, like 30 years of the Simpson's. Hulu and Disney Plus will provide me with years and years of entertainment.
Tony Perkis
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I’m accounting for everything. Fox, FX, FXX.
Tick Tock
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Still not sure why we need a re-re-make on 101 Dalmatians.
The 1996 one, while not flawless, was a pretty faithful adaptation to the animated classic. Glenn Close set the bar HIGH with her portrayal of the iconic villain. I recently went back and re-watched that film, and realized I liked it a lot more than I had remembered. The changes added (Roger being a video game designer rather than a song-writer, Cruella being Anita's boss, etc,) worked, and complimented the underlying story, staying faithful to the original but not being a play-by-play copy.
Had Glenn Close not been as stellar as she was portraying Cruella, I could see why they'd want to do another adaptation. But as it stands, someone is gonna have some pretty big
Dead2009
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Since some take Rotten Tomatoes as the end all be all of whether or not you should see a movie....
THE LION KING's Rotten Tomatoes Score Has Been Revealed
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THE LION KING's Rotten Tomatoes Score Has Been Revealed
THE LION KING's Rotten Tomatoes Score Has Been Revealed...And It's Not Exactly Roar-some
The review embargo has lifted for The Lion King, and the movie's Rotten Tomatoes score has been revealed as a result. How is it faring with critics? Well, you can find that and a roundup after the jump...
Since some take Rotten Tomatoes as the end all be all of whether or not you should see a movie....
THE LION KING's Rotten Tomatoes Score Has Been Revealed
THE LION KING's Rotten Tomatoes Score Has Been Revealed...And It's Not Exactly Roar-some
The review embargo has lifted for The Lion King, and the movie's Rotten Tomatoes score has been revealed as a result. How is it faring with critics? Well, you can find that and a roundup after the jump...
On the bright side, TLK's critic's score is higher than that of Aladdin.
On the dark side, IMDB's audience score is much lower than that of Aladdin.
erasure fan1
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OK, so with the reviews up we can safely say that this movie did exactly what I thought it would. And that's just rehash the original material aside from a few songs. So heres where I'm most disappointed in Disney. The CG tech they are using in this movie is nothing short of spectacular. So it's such a shame they wasted it on a rehash instead of coming up with a bold new story to showcase this CG. It's a real shame that a company built on story telling, couldn't or wasn't allowed to do something new.
BuddyThomas
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Well, I'm a little concerned about the latest reviews that have come out, but I already bought my ticket for RPX this Saturday and I can think of a lot worse places to be on an expected 96 degree day in NYC.
Bring it!
Bring it!