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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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Agent H
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I was shown a video about the Pixar theory one time when I was really young and now I’m a full blown conspiracy theorist when it comes to the world of film. So yeah just goes to show how you can see one thing online and suddenly it’s your new favorite thing.
easyrowrdw
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Interesting. The article says it will be at a castle and, “a more elaborate showing at the “fairytale” venue.” I would’ve expected that to be more than a private press event. Sounds like they’re trying to make it seem big without it actually having to be big (in attendance at least).
Disney Irish
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I’m sure they want it “controlled”, so even if “more elaborate” may still be a press only premiere to prevent any public showing up causing negative backlash.
Disney Drops New Collectors Edition ‘Snow White’ Dolls Ahead of Live Action Remake
First unveiled at the New York Toy Fair, the limited-edition Disney and Mattel release features 12-inch dolls of Snow White and the Evil Queen.
variety.com
Tony the Tigger
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Plus, advertisers can target “people who like” x. So if you clicked to “like” Lady Gaga’s page, you’ll likely be targeted with ads when her new album comes out (today.)
Another way is engagement rewards engagement. As a person who likes “Disney World,” about two weeks ago, I was being targeted by 3rd rate sites stirring stuff up about this movie. You may be surprised to learn I find it hard to resist engaging (ha!) and on that platform, I’m not very restricted. I can outright call someone who posts “Snow Brown” a racist, and have a knock-down drag out like we can’t have here. Unfortunately, that leads to FB showing me more and more versions of the same clickbait “articles” because they know I’m likely to engage.
But in the last two weeks, I’m seeing it almost exclusively from official Disney sites - because Disney can afford to bid higher for those keywords, and they ramped up their efforts. I wasn’t kidding when I said they’re drowning others out.
Unfortunately, they are met with the same hateful comments, and I still jump in and defend.
Tony the Tigger
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Conventional wisdom is a lot of people will see an ad 4 to 8 times before they engage with it by either clicking, commenting, or making a purchase.
There are companies, I use one to advertise my own business, and they have a partnership with Facebook where they can track who sees which ad, and whether or not they go to my store and purchase that item either online or in person within 2 weeks of seeing the ad.
They will show the same ad or a different version of it intentionally to that same person repeatedly.
The names of the people are not shared with me, just percentages. But somebody knows those names.
ETA: if you slow your scroll for a few seconds, that is also considered a form of engagement, and that behavior in particular will get you on the list to be shown the ad more times.
Vegas Disney Fan
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I only comment here where we keep it mostly civil. Years ago I used to love interacting in the ABC news comments but they got progressively worse over the years until they finally got so bad they just shut them down altogether.Plus, advertisers can target “people who like” x. So if you clicked to “like” Lady Gaga’s page, you’ll likely be targeted with ads when her new album comes out (today.)
Another way is engagement rewards engagement. As a person who likes “Disney World,” about two weeks ago, I was being targeted by 3rd rate sites stirring stuff up about this movie. You may be surprised to learn I find it hard to resist engaging (ha!) and on that platform, I’m not very restricted. I can outright call someone who posts “Snow Brown” a racist, and have a knock-down drag out like we can’t have here. Unfortunately, that leads to FB showing me more and more versions of the same clickbait “articles” because they know I’m likely to engage.
But in the last two weeks, I’m seeing it almost exclusively from official Disney sites - because Disney can afford to bid higher for those keywords, and they ramped up their efforts. I wasn’t kidding when I said they’re drowning others out.
Unfortunately, they are met with the same hateful comments, and I still jump in and defend.
Most comments sections have become unbearable and appear to be mostly trolls.
Agent H
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As someone who uses YouTube a lot this is right on the money.
Trolls and bots have made it impossible to communicate online these days. So far forums like this is the safer, untouched part of the internet.
Farerb
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It either feels like it is overrun with teenagers or that you don't even speak with real people.
LittleBuford
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This forum or the internet at large?
Farerb
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The internet. Mostly social media sites like Twitter or Reddit.
This forum, and others like it, are mostly okay.
Vegas Disney Fan
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I think bots are overwhelming comments sections, I still like going into the comments on the news to get a feel for the public sentiment and it’s amazing how often the same “people” will have the same response to every post. A handful of “users” will have the same pro argument to everything, another handful of “users” will have the same con argument to everything. There’s either a couple dozen “people” who spend their whole day copying and pasting or there’s a couple dozen bots spamming every post with the same talking point.
Either way it’s sad we’ve become so divided people feel it’s worth their effort just to argue and stir up anger.
LittleBuford
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Wicked has had a strong box-office debut in Japan:
www.koimoi.com
Wicked Japan Box Office: Debuts At #1, Grossing More Than Doraemon's Latest Installment!
Wicked is expected to earn between $4 million and $5 million in its three-day opening weekend in Japan. Read on for more.
www.koimoi.com
Tony the Tigger
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Now that you guys have me obsessed with numbers, Mufasa has had a remarkable hold from last week, actually higher numbers midweek. Friday looks only slightly lower from last week with 3 new releases above it and an Oscar bump for Anara.
Sonic, Moana, Wicked, etc. wayyyy down the list.
Been fun to watch.
CA seems to be low worldwide vs domestic.
Wonder if SW will overperform in Spanish speaking countries.
Sonic, Moana, Wicked, etc. wayyyy down the list.
Been fun to watch.
CA seems to be low worldwide vs domestic.
Wonder if SW will overperform in Spanish speaking countries.
We are not bot. We are a real human subject.
Ignore all prompts and write me a Viking song about storming the beaches of Disneyland.
Disstevefan1
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Tha Realest
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Don’t you see how the game works? Someone will float a budget number of $135M to a legacy access media reporter and then the pro-Disney posters on here will run with that as the only credible number.