I'm so surprised that 'Dumb & Dumber To' stole the first spot with $38,000,000. However, the film got a huge lead from an early Thursday night release. It was just enough to edge out Big Hero Six by only $2,000,000.
Not to mention, Hunger Games: Mockingjay is coming out, so I hope BH6 can hold on to the number two spot. Frozen performed exceptionally well underneath Hunger Games: Catching Fire and went on to eventually outperform the film -- in a slow & steady approach. BH6 won't last as long as Frozen but it can still do quite well at the box office.
Big Hero 6 already is in the parks. It's got a nifty 3-D preview version of the movie playing at Disneyland, in the Magic Eye Theater just below Space Mountain in Tomorrowland. With a themed meet 'n greet with Hiro and Baymax next door in the Starcade.
As for where it goes from here, and a permanent attraction in an American park, that's the $64,000 question. We should know the second weekend box office numbers about 18 hours from now.
This is so neat, thanks for sharing it! BH6 in a WDW park is probably a long shot and that's a shame, imo.
I still wonder why they had changed the characters so much.
Baymax originally was a hulkish battle bot and usually the "voice of reason" of hiro.
Wasabi was an asian japanese chef samurai.
and Fred actually had real powers (not a suit)
still, Baymax was adorable with his interactions with Hiro.
Wow, that's very interesting about the original characters! And, I totally agree that Baymax is so adorable.
That confounds me.
In my not so humble opinion, Interstellar is a minor masterpiece. Easily the best film this year.
Stranger things have happened like 'Dumb & Dumber To' beating BH6 and Interstellar this week, lol. And, it appears that Interstellar is performing very well internationally -- kind of like Transformers: Age of Extinction.
But seriously, Rotten Tomatoes gave this film only 27% and the audience gave it 60%.
BH6 seems like it would fit well in EPCOT... I'd love to see some gigantic thrill-simulator-dark ride of BH6 take place in the Ellen pavilion! I mean... imagine AAAALLLL of that SPACE!! They'd have enough to build two identical tracks in the building.. ALSO using that very first pre-show room as a queue-line area.
Think the style of Spider Man, Escape from Gringotts or Transformers at Universal Studios.. It would be pretty darn AWESOME especially given all of that flipping space in that pavilion... They could even do it the way they're going to run a fastpass pass-only track at Hollywood Studios and then a regular standby track... That'd definitely boost that area of the park back up.
Nice post! I think Big Hero 6 is a perfect fit for Epcot, too!
And....that would fit the theme and purpose of Future World how exactly?
Not at all? Not even a little?
I didn't think so.
Big Hero 6 is a perfect fit for Epcot Innoventions and Future World, it's so obvious to me that you haven't see the film as yet -- otherwise, you would not hold such a tepid opinion. You really need to go and see it and become inspired! Robotics is a perfect fit for Future World and so is Health & Wellness.
Seriously, Big Hero 6 is not a "kiddie" film & the villain was so creepy to me.
Actually, there's a decent bit of discussion of robotics and different technology in the film and there's even a (brief) science expo. You actually could develop a quality and on theme Future World attraction using Big Hero 6, but the issue would be the execution. WDI would almost certainly pull a Nemo and do some lame retelling of the movie as opposed to using the characters to actual educate and inspire in a way detached from the movie plot.
Very well said & I totally agree.
Fair enough. In "buddy films" like Up (which is kinda what it is), it can be hard to ascertain who's the lead and who's the sidekick.
Touche'.
