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'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film

Phroobar

Phroobar

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Heppenheimer said:
I will die on the hill of "The Emperor's New Groove" is Disney's Most Underrated Animated Movie". It goes outside their usual comfort zone- only one real song, a far more angular character design than usual, and has a silly, madcap almost classic Merry Melodies sense of humor- even though the plot itself is a fairly routine buddy comedy. I really don't understand how positive word of mouth to push this movie into better financial performance.

So, I don't want Disney to stick to singing princesses either. But on the other hand, given their spotty track record, I don't want them to jump back into sci fi again for awhile, until they've really worked out a good story with better characters.
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The Emperor's New Groove is a favorite of mine because of the Loony Toons feel you mentioned. Eartha Kitt steals the show.

All of this proves that even in this "theater market", if you make an entertaining movie, people will come to see it. Strange World is not entertaining.
 
LittleBuford

LittleBuford

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Phroobar said:
The Emperor's New Groove is a favorite of mine because of the Loony Toons feel you mentioned. Eartha Kitt steals the show.

All of this proves that even in this "theater market", if you make an entertaining movie, people will come to see it. Strange World is not entertaining.
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The Emperor’s New Groove doesn’t really prove that, though, as it was considered a box-office failure at the time.
 
Heppenheimer

Heppenheimer

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LittleBuford said:
The Emperor’s New Groove doesn’t really prove that, though, as it was considered a box-office failure at the time.
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"Disappointment" might be more accurate than "failure". It didn't lose money, it just didn't rake in the piles of cash like Disney had become accustomed to in the previous decade. The next decade would be a rough one.
 
LittleBuford

LittleBuford

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Heppenheimer said:
"Disappointment" might be more accurate than "failure". It didn't lose money, it just didn't rake in the cash like Disney had become accustomed to in the previous decade. The next decade would be a rough one.
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Fair enough. My point was that even highly entertaining films can underperform at the box office. It’s easy to hold The Emperor’s New Groove up as an example of how things should be done now that enough time has passed for rosy retrospection to set in, but it certainly wouldn’t be considered a success by the standards that some contributors to this forum are applying today.
 
C

celluloid

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Movies are less likely to find their audiences now vs pre streaming. Cult Classics and bigger followings were easier with cable. Most of the movies adults now love and grew up with were because they were on the few Movie Channels such as HBO, Cinemax and Showtimes or much later came on USA or basic cable.

Streaming era has changed the volume of that. Trends are different. Strange World is not likely going to find the following like Flight of the Navigator did.

Atlantis made a lot more than Strange World and look how that worked out.


I am shocked even M3GAN has nearly passed its revenue in the first weekend, and it is not like that had the most stellar marketing budget.
 
RobWDW1971

RobWDW1971

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Puss in Boots:TLW just crossed $200M globally AND was released on EST/PVOD last Friday to watch in the home just 16 days after theatrical release.

Its weekend gross off a holiday weekend only dropped 19% even though it was available in the home. That is an incredible hold over a holiday weekend regardless.

Nobody should be surprised with the A CinemaScore, fantastic word of mouth, and no prevalent controversy with parents.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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All of these inferior animation studios making movies that make hundreds of millions of dollars and Disney can't get in on the action. Where are all the fans that will see anything with Disney stamped on it? What is this world coming to?
 
ElvisMickey

ElvisMickey

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Californian Elitist said:
I don’t know why the movie performed the way it did, and I’m not going to pretend I know, unlike you and some others. It’s doing decently on Disney+, so that may suggest that some folks were waiting for it to hit streaming. Again, I don’t know, and I’m not going to pretend like I know and try to state it as a fact.

My question had nothing to do about dead Walt Disney’s thoughts on this movie (you still have no clue what he would have thought, and you’re making more assumptions). My question related to the first part of your original post. What does being an ex CM and stepping foot into Walt’s office have to do with anything?

I know plenty about the company.
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By the way? You’ve never been to Walt Disney World? Do yourself a favor and get out of California for a few days. I’ll even call truce and show you around.
 

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