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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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Tony the Tigger
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Apparently Moana 2 is coming to theaters later this year.
AdventureHasAName
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Black Widow didn't feel like a Lifetime movie. The Hawkeye TV show didn't feel like something you'd see on the Hallmark channel (despite being a Christmas show). WandaVision didn't either. It's not the genitals of the main characters that made The Marvels a bad film.
Tony the Tigger
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Was it too much fun?
AdventureHasAName
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That's not how I would have described it.
AdventureHasAName
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Nerdy men are icky. She wanted a whole new non-nerdy men fanbase. So she hired a bunch of people that wanted the same thing and set out on a quest to destroy the things in Star Wars that nerdy men liked best. Priority #1 was wrecking Luke Skywalker's story.
What did you think of The Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special which was done in the style of Hallmark Christmas movie on purpose
AdventureHasAName
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It was great. But I didn't associate it with a Hallmark Christmas film at all. The animated parts were clearly a takeoff on the Rankin/Bass Christmas cartoons from the 1960s and 70s. And the live action portions on Earth reminded me of the film Elf. And obviously, the whole thing was alluding to the Star Wars Christmas Special.
Prince-1
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Definitely The Real World.
Tony the Tigger
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Good Lord.
Luke’s story was never wrecked except to extra fragile man babies.
It’s not a bedtime story. It’s Star Wars. And it made sense.
I love Star Wars more than Disney, never found the storyline offensive because life isn’t always a wish.
Tony the Tigger
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So women are fine as long as they act more like traditional male characters and don’t reveal a feminine side (unless, of course, they are hot for some guy.)
Animaniac93-98
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Looks like the re-release of Turning Red won't do much better than Soul.
Dune was re-released this weekend too, and is faring better, but that's not surprising since it's a movie that more obviously benefits from being seen on a big screen and is topical with the sequel coming out in a few weeks.
Dune was re-released this weekend too, and is faring better, but that's not surprising since it's a movie that more obviously benefits from being seen on a big screen and is topical with the sequel coming out in a few weeks.
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AdventureHasAName
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Just the opposite ... generally, when a woman in a film or tv show behaves like a traditional male character, it comes off as inauthentic to the detriment of the film.
You believe Wanda wasn't showing a "feminine" side in WandaVision? She literally spent every episode emulating the stereotypical feminine Wife and Mom role from the most popular television sitcoms decade-by-decade.
Kate Bishop (in Hawkeye) doesn't act like a traditional male character at all - she's pretty stereotypically "teenage girl" the entire series.
Neither one of those series were anything like a Hallmark Channel film.
On the other hand, Jen Walters (She-Hulk) is also a fairly stereotypical female role (super competent, constantly stressed, can't relax, underappreciated and underestimated corporate woman) and that series very much felt a Lifetime movie.
All of that said, I found nothing in The Marvels to be fun. It was not a fun movie watching experience; it was a chore.
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It definitely didn't get the marketing muscle or screen count it would need to make an impact at the box office. It's running at about 1/3 of a regular new release's screenings around me.
In other news from Friday's estimates, Poor Things has more or less closed the gap with The Favourite's domestic box office.
Disney Irish
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I don’t think either of these were meant to blow the doors off the box office.
You know there are many different types of women… just as there are men… I am not the traditional stereotypical male… I don’t care about sports ball, I don’t spend time in the shed playing with my tools, all I care about cars is that it gets me from point A to point B… we need to get away from stereotypes… People are all unique from each other…so can characters in movies
Tony the Tigger
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Ohhh. So *that’s* OK. I see.
Ohhh. But *that’s* like a Lifetime movie.
That clears things up.
AdventureHasAName
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Why?
First of all you can't. Stereotypes are just recognized patterns in groups of people. They have always existed; they exist now; and they will always exist. They may change, but they will always exist in some form.
But if even if you could eliminate them, why would we "need" to do so?
Just because a person is unique, that does not mean they are interesting or entertaining. The movie business is the entertainment business and it requires characters whom a large portion of the viewing public finds interesting doing things a large portion of the viewing public finds entertaining in order to thrive.
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If you want to be narrow minded and only want to see the same stereotypes portrayed over and over again.. fine… people can like what they want… as for me I enjoy different stories portrayed by characters with different unique qualities from each other… it makes stories so much deeper and rewarding
TP2000
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Box Office is finalized for Super Bowl Weekend. As per usual, this big holiday weekend was slow at the movie theaters. But there's a few things of note for Disney movies...
Namely, why on earth did Turning Red get 1,560 theaters??? It has almost no demand for it, and Poor Things lost 660 theaters this weekend. Did Poor Things have to give up those theaters so Pixar could put on their bizarre little public outreach process for these three movies that are already on Disney+ for free? A bizarre business decision, to be sure.
And then down to 17th place for Turning Red, and the other Searchlight movie...
With Wish in 33rd place, still hanging on to 105 theaters and still making more per theater than Turning Red...
www.worldofreel.com
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www.the-numbers.com
Namely, why on earth did Turning Red get 1,560 theaters??? It has almost no demand for it, and Poor Things lost 660 theaters this weekend. Did Poor Things have to give up those theaters so Pixar could put on their bizarre little public outreach process for these three movies that are already on Disney+ for free? A bizarre business decision, to be sure.
And then down to 17th place for Turning Red, and the other Searchlight movie...
With Wish in 33rd place, still hanging on to 105 theaters and still making more per theater than Turning Red...
Re-Release of Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ Bombs at the Box-Office, $500k Weekend — World of Reel
There is no point in re-releasing a 2-year-old animated movie that can conveniently be streamed at the comfort of your own home. Disney is quickly finding that out.
www.worldofreel.com
The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for August 2, 2024
Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of August 2, 2024
www.the-numbers.com
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