MagicMouseFan
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Disney is lower than it was 5 years ago. What has happened to this company?
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Disney's Live Action The Little Mermaid
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GimpYancIent
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A lot of effort (the most quoted number being 80 mil) was put into marketing TLM and purposely creating some kind of controversy to gin up interest / curiosity in the viewing public to see the movie and what all the hub bub is about. It is a middle of the pack live action remake, nothing block buster about it. Entertaining? YES! memorable to the standards of the original NO! The live action remakes do generate some money to varying degrees but do not have the long term legs of the gold standard classic originals.
MagicMouseFan
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I think Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast made over 1 billion. No reason Mermaid shouldn’t. That should be a layup.
Phroobar
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Why? Because it part of that quartet from the 90s?
Disstevefan1
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Just a bump in the road for a 100-year-old company.
It looks bad at the moment but it time we will look back on this and laugh.
she is in the market that Ariel was exploring once on land
You seriously are trolling at this point… looking for any excuse to dump on TLM
Andrew C
You know what's funny?
Providing some projections and then an opinion based off those projections is trolling? Just sounds like part of the discussion to me...
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
‘Little Mermaid’ Swimming Against Strong Tides At Overseas Box Office, Leaving Break-Even In Question
In a rare situation for a Disney tentpole, particularly a live action title based on a treasured animated classic, 'The Little Mermaid' may lose money.
deadline.com
Deadline reporting that The Little Mermaid COULD break-even... as long as you count an estimated $180 million that Disney pays to itself to put the movie on Disney+.
"In a break-even scenario off a $560M global box office (meaning a net profit of $71M before participations and residuals are accounted for), we’re told that Little Mermaid‘s global film revenues would amount to $547M against its combined production, global theatrical and home entertainment marketing expenses of $476M. The pic’s revenues broken down include $267M in global theatrical film rentals, $100M net in domestic pay/free TV and what Disney pays itself to put the movie on Disney+, $100M in global home entertainment (DVD, digital), and $80M in international TV and streaming."
doctornick
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One big reason is that post pandemic films aren’t doing as well as pre pandemic.
Phroobar
Well-Known Member
When you look at it that way, every movie eventually breaks even eventually. Even Plan 9 from Outer Space has made money.‘Little Mermaid’ Swimming Against Strong Tides At Overseas Box Office, Leaving Break-Even In Question
In a rare situation for a Disney tentpole, particularly a live action title based on a treasured animated classic, 'The Little Mermaid' may lose money.
Deadline reporting that The Little Mermaid COULD break-even... as long as you count an estimated $180 million that Disney pays to itself to put the movie on Disney+.
"In a break-even scenario off a $560M global box office (meaning a net profit of $71M before participations and residuals are accounted for), we’re told that Little Mermaid‘s global film revenues would amount to $547M against its combined production, global theatrical and home entertainment marketing expenses of $476M. The pic’s revenues broken down include $267M in global theatrical film rentals, $100M net in domestic pay/free TV and what Disney pays itself to put the movie on Disney+, $100M in global home entertainment (DVD, digital), and $80M in international TV and streaming."
It is not just projections… it is a patternSo projections are trolling now ?
Maybe we should only discuss our feelings.
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
I know a couple of Italian plumbers and an army of 9 foot blue aliens who beg to differ.
Jedijax719
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Europe and Australia alone should come close to matching the US/Canada box office. It seems to be showing decent legs in Europe.
Vegas Disney Fan
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I realize inflation is crazy but how have we gotten to the point a movie has to make 2/3 of a billion dollars to break even? That’s insanity.
I’m starting to wonder if Disneys movie problems are sales related or cost related?
I’m starting to wonder if Disneys movie problems are sales related or cost related?
CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
MagicMouseFan
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Yes, exactly. It should hit the billion mark. You don’t think it’s that popular IP? Why do it then?
I’m already laughing.