'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film

Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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Ghost93 said:
I just saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever last night and they didn't even have a trailer for Strange World in front of it! And they are both Disney owned-movies!
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So far your showing seems to be the outlier as before my showing of BPWF last night I also saw Strange World, Avatar 2, and Quantumania.

What time did you see it, was it perhaps a post-9pm showing?
 
Ghost93

Ghost93

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Disney Irish said:
So far your showing seems to be the outlier as before my showing of BPWF last night I also saw Strange World, Avatar 2, and Quantumania.

What time did you see it, was it perhaps a post-9pm showing?
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It was 8:30 p.m. Maybe it was just an accident at my theater? I went to see "Ticket to Paradise" tonight and I did see the Strange World trailer before that.
 
Magenta Panther

Magenta Panther

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BuddyThomas said:
Sounds like trollish behavior to me. And cracked.com - LOL. Typical that this is where someone like you goes for their "news".
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Okay, so anyone who disagrees with you is a troll. Got it.

And I called Cracked.com a humor site, not a news site. Maybe look up the word "humor". You seem to be highly misinformed about the subject.
 
BuddyThomas

BuddyThomas

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Magenta Panther said:
Okay, so anyone who disagrees with you is a troll. Got it.

And I called Cracked.com a humor site, not a news site. Maybe look up the word "humor". You seem to be highly misinformed about the subject.
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You seriously just tried to be snarky to ME about humor, asserting that I know nothing about humor? The New York Times called me “the new Neil Simon if Simon was 40 years younger and gay.” Would you like 20 more examples, or are you content to continue your lame trolling?
 
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celluloid

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BuddyThomas said:
You seriously just tried to be snarky to ME about humor, asserting that I know nothing about humor? The New York Times called me “the new Neil Simon if Simon was 40 years younger and gay.” Would you like 20 more examples, or are you content to continue your lame trolling?
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A dead Neil Simon 40 years younger is still dead.

What does Neil's sexuality have to do with his comedic writing ability?
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

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Disney Irish said:
So far your showing seems to be the outlier as before my showing of BPWF last night I also saw Strange World, Avatar 2, and Quantumania.

What time did you see it, was it perhaps a post-9pm showing?
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I had Avatar, Mermaid and Quantumania at a Noon showing in Canada. Also Mario was shown. Strange world was absent.

Maybe they are doing some weird market testing with trailer choices. 😂
 
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celluloid

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BuddyThomas said:

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NY TIMES THEATER REVIEW; True Love and a Crisis at Christmas (When Else)?​

by Bruce Weber

''The Crumple Zone,'' a new play by Buddy Thomas at the Rattlestick Theater in Greenwich Village, has a lot going for it. It has a nicely structured plot about a gay household with a love triangle coming to a crisis at Christmastime; sequences of physical comedy directed by Jason Moore to be antic without being overblown into slapstick; and an effective set by Dawn Robyn Petrlik that evokes a pleasantly chintzy holiday atmosphere in a two-bedroom rental apartment on Staten Island.

Most of all, it has a bristling, funny performance by Mario Cantone, who plays the squeaky wheel, a clamorously lonely man on the outside of the triangle looking in.

Mr. Cantone has ample stage credits (he replaced Nathan Lane in ''Love! Valour! Compassion!'' on Broadway) but is probably best known for his high-pitched stand-up comedy work, and he knows how to take over a room. In this case the room is a tiny apartment, but he works it like a diva. He is the kind of actor who seems most in control when he's in a tizzy, and he has a voice that easily and naturally runs up to shrill and a jittery pestiness that calls for throttling. Indeed, at one point in the play, he is the recipient of a realistic punch in the nose.

But this is not a shrill performance. Even in high dudgeon there's no tension in Mr. Cantone's face or his body language, no sense of method acting when he's working up to a fever pitch, just the wicked glee of a man who loves to seize the spotlight. The magnitude of his neurotic charisma in such a small space gives his character, Terry, an out-of-work actor (which gives license to his home theatrics), the hilariously keening pathos that makes the play work.

Terry is in love with Buck (Gerald Downey), a good-looking though rather bland fellow who works at the Staten Island Mall, but Buck, alas, is carrying on an impassioned affair with Terry's roommate, Alex (Joshua Biton). At the start of the second act, when Terry serenades Buck by lip-synching a recording of ''Nevertheless (I'm in Love With You)'' by Debbie Shapiro-Gravitte, climbing over the furniture and appropriating the Christmas-tree tinsel in place of a feather boa, the hopelessness of the gesture is wrenching, but Mr. Cantone makes Terry so comfortably self-revelatory that his rendition of the song is side-splitting.

Most of this is revealed in the opening scene -- it takes a while to get the names and the characters matched up -- in which Terry and Buck are waiting for Alex to return from his temporary job as a Santa Claus at the mall as Matt is leaving long, anguished love messages on the answering machine. By the end of the first act, Terry, in desperation, has picked up Roger (Steve Mateo) on the Staten Island ferry. Roger's main attraction is a sculptured torso, but he couldn't provide Terry with a more inappropriate liaison. The lunacy that erupts as the lights go down -- and as, of course, Matt pops in the door for a surprise Christmas visit -- is beautifully staged. The physical jokes are precisely timed, and as chaotic as the scene is, the play is never allowed to devolve into a cartoon.

Buck's affair with Alex, being conducted mostly in the apartment right under Terry's nose, is only one of the things driving him nuts. Another is that with Buck, Alex is cheating on his long-term boyfriend, Matt (Paul Pecorino), who has been on tour with a shlocky musical. Terry, a bit of a conventional moralist, finds the infidelity offensive.

In its close quarters and its dialogue that frequently relies on repartee, ''The Crumple Zone'' is the kind of domestic comedy that might have been written by Neil Simon if Mr. Simon were gay and 40 years younger. As Mr. Simon's plays often do, it presents, with affection, the conflicts of close-knit people, people who essentially love one another, as they come to cross purposes. And the playwright, Mr. Thomas, has provided some good gags (the best involves the delivery of several flower arrangements) and has set the scene and situation with a sure hand. The apartment here works well as the crucible for his simmering plot.
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I am happy you are proud.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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TalkingHead said:
back on topic, this movie has a terrible title which won’t help its chances either
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We were talking about it over in the thread about all the layoffs and cutbacks Bob Chapek just announced that will roll through Disney's various divisions this winter. The movie divisions are under the most scrutiny.

Strange World needs to perform very strongly right out of the gate. It had a $120 Million production budget, and needs to make $360 Million in box office ticket sales to break even and start generating profit for Burbank.

10 more days until it opens in American theaters!
 
BuddyThomas

BuddyThomas

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TP2000 said:
We were talking about it over in the thread about all the layoffs and cutbacks Bob Chapek just announced that will roll through Disney's various divisions this winter. The movie divisions are under the most scrutiny.

Strange World needs to perform very strongly right out of the gate. It had a $120 Million production budget, and needs to make $360 Million in box office ticket sales to break even and start generating profit for Burbank.

10 more days until it opens in American theaters!
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Welp. Here we go again!
 
MisterPenguin

MisterPenguin

President of Animal Kingdom
Premium Member
TP2000 said:
We were talking about it over in the thread about all the layoffs and cutbacks Bob Chapek just announced
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He didn't announce layoffs.

Stop tripping over yourself to make points against Disney and maybe you won't look foolish by posting false information like this.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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MisterPenguin said:
He didn't announce layoffs.

Stop tripping over yourself to make points against Disney and maybe you won't look foolish by posting false information like this.
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He didn't? Then how do you interpret this direct quote from a prepared communication from Bob Chapek two days ago?

CEO Bob Chapek said in a memo to division leads sent Friday and obtained by CNBC. “Hiring for the small subset of the most critical, business-driving positions will continue, but all other roles are on hold. Your segment leaders and HR teams have more specific details on how this will apply to your teams.”

Chapek added: “As we work through this evaluation process, we will look at every avenue of operations and labor to find savings, and we do anticipate some staff reductions as part of this review.”

You think a CEO like Bob Chapek announces "some staff reductions" without meaning it just to keep folks on their toes and working productively through Christmas? Or just to improve morale? 🤔

www.cnbc.com

Disney plans hiring freeze, layoffs and cost cuts, according to a memo from CEO Bob Chapek

"We are limiting headcount additions through a targeted hiring freeze," Disney CEO Bob Chapek said in a memo obtained by CNBC.
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www.reuters.com

Disney plans to freeze hiring and cut some jobs, memo shows

Walt Disney Co is planning to freeze hiring and cut some jobs as it strives to move the Disney+ streaming service to profitability against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Friday.
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deadline.com

Disney Plans Layoffs, “Rigorous Review” Of Spending & Hiring Freeze; “Tough & Uncomfortable Decisions” Coming, CEO Bob Chapek Tells Staff

Reeling from a roller coaster stock market and earnings misses, the Walt Disney Company is about to start cutting spending, costs, and staff, CEO Bob Chapek said today. “I am fully aware this will be a difficult process for many of you and your teams,” Chapek wrote to Disney executives this...
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TP2000

TP2000

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There are plenty of other threads discussing the cutbacks and layoffs on this site, but the point is that it's not a concept I just made up for funsies. 🤣

Thus, the box office performance of Strange World this holiday season is more important than ever as Burbank divisions "look at every avenue of operations and labor to find savings, and we do anticipate some staff reductions as part of this review." per their CEO Bob Chapek.
 

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