Andrew C
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Don’t get mad at me if you hate it! It’s one of those poor performers with a weird following.Just checked - YES. I will watch it and check back
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'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film
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Disstevefan1
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No worries, it's on D+ its effectively freeDon’t get mad at me if you hate it! It’s one of those poor performers with a weird following.
and is exactly why folks do not go to the movies. If I can wait a little and watch it on streaming I will 
Phroobar
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Phroobar
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Yes. It's on D+. That one is actually pretty good.
TwilightZone
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This is why I have mixed feelings about it. The concept art is so good, the concept seems more fun than Bolt too. But there's a lot of things that are too weird about the story. Not sure if we lost something great for something generic or if we gained something good from a messy concept.I like this one from American Dog (Bolt)
Disney Irish
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According to screenrant last year, Rocky Horror has grossed over $120M during its continual theatrical run.
Rocky Horror Appears on Box Office Charts 46 Years After Its Release
The Rocky Horror Picture Show reappears on box office charts.
screenrant.com
Yes Fox and now Disney still get some of that even today either through the ticket sales or through a "rental" fee paid by the theater to show an old run movie.
erasure fan1
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It is well worth a watch. It's my favorite video game movie, very underrated. It's too bad it performed so poorly as the 2nd and 3rd games would have been great to adapt. They were darker stories and would have translated well to a movie.
TwilightZone
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Reviews are coming in for "Puss n' Boots"
Which is strange, is it out yet?
EDIT: There's comments on reddit of people seeing it. So it is out early somewhere
EDIT 2: Early screenings confirmed
Which is strange, is it out yet?
EDIT: There's comments on reddit of people seeing it. So it is out early somewhere
EDIT 2: Early screenings confirmed
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Ghost93
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Yes. Even if the profits are split, Rocky Horror Picture show has sold 55 million tickets domestically and has grossed $112 million (worth $516 million if you adjust for inflation). It also became popular in the DVD era, especially during October.
Basil of Baker Street
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I'm curious what the production budget is. I did a quick google search but couldn't find any hard numbers.
Ghost93
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Oh no, with these glowing reviews for Puss in Boots James Cameron must be quite nervous! How can Avatar: The Way of Water compete!?!
CaptainAmerica
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Submarine man goes brrrrrrrr
TalkingHead
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Saw it last night. Wouldn’t be a bad movie if the character beats were even slightly convincing, but it’s all weighed down by inept writing.
Take the scene when Searcher bumps into Jaegar after 25 years: son’s reaction doesn’t scan as remotely believable from an emotional standpoint. Same when Jaegar has his first convo with Ethan. Grandson is embarrassed about his mom knowing he has a crush but he spills his guts to his grandfather within five seconds.
The mother is a nonentity for the emotional storyline, she has only the briefest interaction with Jaegar, and then she disappears for the final scene. Why is she even there? Rhetorical question. Having her risk her life to fly to the ship to inform Searcher their son has stowed away doesn’t make a lot of story sense. Happily ever after ending isn’t very satisfying or convincing, but I think that’s true of a lot of modern Disney.
Not sure Gyllenhaal was right for the lead, but either way, why’s Disney bother to pay premium for recognizable actors to do voice work like this? Surely that’s one area they could cut expenses. On the positive side, the serial-style wipes and irises are a nice touch, and the flat pulp comic book visuals used in the intro were striking. Wish the whole film had committed to that level of stylization.
Take the scene when Searcher bumps into Jaegar after 25 years: son’s reaction doesn’t scan as remotely believable from an emotional standpoint. Same when Jaegar has his first convo with Ethan. Grandson is embarrassed about his mom knowing he has a crush but he spills his guts to his grandfather within five seconds.
The mother is a nonentity for the emotional storyline, she has only the briefest interaction with Jaegar, and then she disappears for the final scene. Why is she even there? Rhetorical question. Having her risk her life to fly to the ship to inform Searcher their son has stowed away doesn’t make a lot of story sense. Happily ever after ending isn’t very satisfying or convincing, but I think that’s true of a lot of modern Disney.
Not sure Gyllenhaal was right for the lead, but either way, why’s Disney bother to pay premium for recognizable actors to do voice work like this? Surely that’s one area they could cut expenses. On the positive side, the serial-style wipes and irises are a nice touch, and the flat pulp comic book visuals used in the intro were striking. Wish the whole film had committed to that level of stylization.
Ghost93
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I think Disney probably wanted to have female characters in the movie for marketing/representation reasons but couldn't really decide what to do with them. Meridian could have been better developed as a character.
Lucy Liu's brief pivot into the story's antagonist and unearned redemption also felt EXTREMELY undercooked.
Heppenheimer
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I've been saddened over the past few years that Disney/Pixar has gone this route with all the other animation studios. If they casted known actors previously, it was usually because the voice quality added something unique to the character. Think Monsters Inc or Wreck-It Ralph, for example, with their near-perfect voice castings. Now compare that, for example, to the generic, insert-the-celebrity performances of Tina Fey in Soul or Tom Holland and Chris Evans in Onward.
WorldExplorer
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Casper Gutman
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I thought Tina Fey was very good in Soul, and I don’t like Tina Fey much.
When you cast big name actors in voice roles, you get big name actors doing the PR circuit to promote your film. That’s a big payoff for relatively little investment. However, in the case of Strange World, I suspect they used most of the “celebrities” because they fit the roles - Jake Gyanhall, Lucy Liu, and Dennis Quaid don’t open movies. We’re not talking about the absurd Mario cast here. In retrospect, SW probably would have benefitted from a Rock or the like since it’s such a challenge to market otherwise.
_caleb
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Phil Harris!
Screamface
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Only slightly relevant, but I remember Jack Black talking about promoting Kung Fu Panda in Asian countries where the film was dubbed by someone else. It is absurd.
TP2000
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Box office is out for today. Going into its second weekend, Strange World has just dropped again, from yesterday's 4th place to 5th place. Strange World dropped the most week to week than any other film in the top 20, down 85%.
It's still in 4,174 theaters, but the historical and religious Christmas-themed film I Heard The Bells previewing in only 474 theaters seems to have the momentum going into Strange World's second weekend.
The legs on Strange World seem very, very short now. Burbank has heard the bells, indeed.
It's still in 4,174 theaters, but the historical and religious Christmas-themed film I Heard The Bells previewing in only 474 theaters seems to have the momentum going into Strange World's second weekend.
The legs on Strange World seem very, very short now. Burbank has heard the bells, indeed.
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