Disney's Live Action The Little Mermaid

[Disney Irish]

I Would guess $25,000,000 can be the most that even Disneys bloated accounting could try to justify

Which doesn’t change much

Except its not up to Disney's accounting, it was required by all the Hollywood unions in order for production to resume. So the cost was the cost, which we will never likely know the real number.

 

[Disney Irish]

Many of the Covid production costs were covered by insurance or offset by state credits.

Yes, but it still goes into the budget even if they recoup it later on.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Except its not up to Disney's accounting, it was required by all the Hollywood unions in order for production to resume. So the cost was the cost, which we will never likely know the real number.

That doesn’t matter…gotta loosen the tinfoil or you won’t be able to evade the space lasers in orbit above your state.

There is no “math” that is Gonna bring it down to a $100 budget and make the BO a “success”

time to pivot off this one after a couple of days

 

[MickeyLuv'r]

I never said people can not decide if a movie appeals to them… but he said now it is time to move onto the next movies failure(Elemental) as if he is actively rooting for it’s failure which I am certain he has not seen

He?

 

[Tha Realest]

That doesn’t matter…gotta loosen the tinfoil or you won’t be able to evade the space lasers in orbit above your state.

There is no “math” that is Gonna bring it down to a $100 budget and make the BO a “success”

time to pivot off this one after a couple of days

The only thing worse than an uninspired cash grab is an uninspired cash grab that loses cash!

 

[Disney Irish]

That doesn’t matter…gotta loosen the tinfoil or you won’t be able to evade the space lasers in orbit above your state.

There is no “math” that is Gonna bring it down to a $100 budget and make the BO a “success”

time to pivot off this one after a couple of days

Insulting much....

Who said anything about trying to "math" it to bring down the cost to make it a success? Stop trying to put words in my mouth.

All I said is we don't know the original production budget of this pre-Covid. You make it seem like its close to zero cost associated due to Covid, I'm just saying its in Millions which is not nothing and that that added expense is not the fault of Disney. I'm already on record for years now saying that Disney production budgets have to come down, PERIOD. So whether $200M pre-Covid or $250M with added Covid expenses its still TOO high of a production budget.

 

[Trauma]

The excuse list for this film has almost as many boxes to check as Tiana Mountain.

 

[Chi84]

He?

The Little Mermaid Remake's Box Office Destroys Disney's $1 Billion Trend: Will It Recover?

Will this impact future Disney remakes?

screenrant.com

Well now that this Disney bomb is finished we can move on to the next one, opening today!

 

[Tha Realest]

I don’t know where you keep seeing all these blind pro-Disney “snits.” There has been a lot of trolling in all the movie threads lately and almost all of it - if not all - has been anti-Disney. Much of it isn’t there anymore.

Two days ago a frequent poster proclaimed it was a “moral failure” that a race/ethnicity he treats as a monolith (and a minority within the United States that has experienced tremendous racism in recent years) seems to have chosen not to see a movie. Look back a few pages.

 

[Trauma]

@Chi84

Sorry that posting an article relevant to the thread topic triggered you so much.

 

[DKampy]

He?

I cannot speak for him. But I know a lot of people are rooting for it to fail simply because they hate these remakes in general and want new stories.

As far as I can tell Elemental is not a remake

 

[erasure fan1]

blind pro-Disney “snits.” There has been a lot of trolling in all the movie threads lately and almost all of it - if not all - has been anti-Disney.

Oh I'd say it's 50/50 for sure. Neither side is innocent of trolling.

Two days ago a frequent poster proclaimed it was a “moral failure” that a race/ethnicity he treats as a monolith (and a minority within the United States that has experienced tremendous racism in recent years) seems to have chosen not to see a movie. Look back a few pages.

You are correct. And when asked why other black lead movies have been successful there. All we hear are crickets.

 

[Chi84]

@Chi84

Sorry that posting an article relevant to the thread topic triggered you so much.

It wasn’t the article. It was your comment. I’m not triggered - just answered another poster’s question.

 

[Inspired Figment]

Seems no one else brought this up.. but forgive me if someone already has, there’s a new animated CG preschool series coming that’s tied into the remake. : https://www.billboard.com/culture/t...s-halle-bailey-little-mermaid-1235353080/amp/

 

[erasure fan1]

Seems no one else brought this up.. but forgive me if someone already has, there’s a new animated CG preschool series coming that’s tied into the remake. : https://www.billboard.com/culture/t...s-halle-bailey-little-mermaid-1235353080/amp/

Yea that came up a day or two ago

 

[Inspired Figment]

Yea that came up a day or two ago

Ah okay, nvm then.

 

[networkpro]

To add some recent data to the conversation on how this particular movie is being rejected by Asian audiences, the like to like cumulative comps up through last weekend in the combined major Asian markets (Japan, China, and South Korea) shows TLM currently down 89% from BATB and 84% down from Aladdin.

Different expectations from the three markets you listed. Japan's population is 99% Japanese, China is 90ish percent Han , and South Korea is 97% Korean. If it's a great movie that transcends stereotypes and cultural norms it'll do fine.

 

[BuddyThomas]

 

[BasiltheBatLord]

Is it just me or is the media kind of burying that this is underperforming? Feel like "first tentpole Disney remake to underperform after several billion dollar hits in a row" would be a big story for any other film.

$427M after several weeks, that is an underperformance right? Genuinely asking cause this isn't my specialty.

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Is it just me or is the media kind of burying that this is underperforming? Feel like "first tentpole Disney remake to underperform after several billion dollar hits in a row" would be a big story for any other film.

$427M after several weeks, that is an underperformance right? Genuinely asking cause this isn't my specialty.

I think there have been plenty of stories about its underperformance in international markets.

In the United States, it's less clear that the film is underperforming as it is tracking just below Aladdin and is so far the 5th highest-grossing film of the year. So, it's not doing badly and may end up somewhere around $300 million which isn't exactly a flop.