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The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been removed from the list.

They should be more worried about their lobbying efforts to keep the legalization of gambling out of Florida. They can’t have it both ways. Either they are an activist company who serves half the country or they are this family friendly entertainment company that does not make R rated films because that would ruin their image. Either is fine, but they can’t be both. And the legalization of gambling in Florida is a bigger threat than Ben Shapiro ever will be.

Competition has to start somewhere. If they gain traction, they could seriously eat into Disney’s family audience. This is how Disney themselves started out. It’s not one company, but Disney losing their image as a family friendly company. But that isn’t Disney’s biggest issue. Threats like these are: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/31/media/ron-desantis-disney/index.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna22426

So you’re saying the politician in the story did not say what he was reported to have said?

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/03/30/it-would-be-a-disaster-florida-lawmakers-discuss-repealing-disneys-reedy-creek-government/?outputType=amp

https://nypost.com/2022/03/31/disney-made-miscalculation-opposing-anti-lgbtq-bill-staffer/amp/

I think there should be a new regular Disney thread that is free from politics.

Friendly reminder: not the politics thread

My Vote: 1. When you Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio) 2. A Whole New World (Aladdin) 3. Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast) 4. A Friend Like Me (Aladdin) 5. Be Our Guest (Beauty and the Beast) 6. Prince Ali (Aladdin) 7. (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) 8. What a Feeling (Flashdance) 9. Nobody Does it Better (The Spy Who Loved Me) 10. Ever Ever After (Enchanted) 11. Star Spangled Man (Captain America: The First Avenger) 12. For Your Eyes Only (For Your Eyes Only) 13. Casey Junior (Dumbo) 14. I See the Light (Tangled) 15. Let It Go (Frozen) 16. Make Way for Tomorrow Today (Iron Man 2) 17. You’re the Best Around (The Karate Kid) 18. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Meet Me in St. Louis) 19. We Go Together (Grease) 20. I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing (Armageddon) 21. Somewhere Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz) 22. White Christmas (Holiday Inn) 23. Flash (Flash Gordon) 24. Take My Breath Away (Top Gun) 25. Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters) 26. As Time Goes By (Casablanca) 27. Fame (Fame) 28. Summer Nights (Grease) 29. Singin in the Rain (Singin’ In The Rain) 30. Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III) 31. Don’t You Forget About Me (The Breakfast Club) 32. This Is Halloween (The Nightmare Before Christmas) 33. Winnie the Pooh (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree) 34. Zip-a-Dee-Doo Dah (Song of the South) 35. Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid) 36. Circle of Life (The Lion King) 37. You Can Fly (Peter Pan) 38. Arabian Knights (Aladdin) 39. Ooh-De-Lally (Robin Hood, 1973) 40. Not in Nottingham (Robin Hood, 1973) 41. The Woody Woodpecker Song (Wet Blanket Policy) 42. The Trolley Song (Meet Me in St. Louis) 43. Down in New Orleans (The Princess and the Frog) 44. Danger Zone (Top Gun) 45. Time of My Life (Dirty Dancing) 46. Cruella Deville (101 Dalmatians) 47. Belle (Beauty and the Beast) 48. I’ve Got No Strings (Pinocchio) 49. Heigh-Ho (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) 50. Bibbiddi-Bobbiddi-Boo (Cinderella) 51. Pure Imagination (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) 52. Goldfinger (Goldfinger) 53. Life’s a Happy Song (The Muppets) 54. Blaze of Glory (Young Guns II) 55. Live and Let Die (Live and Let Die) 56. Can’t Fight the Moonlight (Coyote Ugly) 57. A Spoonful of Sugar (Mary Poppins) 58. A Dream is a Wish your Heart Makes (Cinderella) 59. Siamese Cat Song (Lady and the Tramp) 60. One Jump (Aladdin) 61. True Love’s Kiss (Enchanted) 62. Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) 63. Men In Black (Men In Black) 64. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Mary Poppins) 65. I Just Can’t Wait to be King (The Lion King) 66. Chim Chim Cher-ee (Mary Poppins) 67. Hakuna Matata (The Lion King) 68. Happy Working Song (Enchanted) 69. Fixer Upper (Frozen) 70. Footloose (Footloose) 71. We’re Off to See the Wizard (The Wizard of Oz) 72. The Man with the Golden Gun (The Man with the Golden Gun) 73. Lullaby of Broadway (Gold Diggers of 1935) 74. You’re the One that I Want (Grease) 75. Part of Your World (The Little Mermaid) 76. Dream Warriors (Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors) 77. If I Only had a Brain (The Wizard of Oz) 78. Shaft (Shaft) 79. Maniac (Flashdance) 80. Lose Yourself (8 Mile) 81. The Merry Old Land of Oz (The Wizard of Oz) 82. Ooompa Loompa (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) 83. My Heart Will Go On (Titanic) 84. Whistle While You Work (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) 85. Mother Knows Best (Tangled) 86. Can You Feel the Love Tonight (The Lion King) 87. The Time Warp (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) 88. It’s a Long Road (Rambo) 89. Mrs. Robinson (The Graduate) 90. I’ve Got a Dream (Tangled) 91. For the First Time in Forever (Frozen) 92. Someday My Prince Will Come (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) 93. I believe I Can Fly (Space Jam) 94. I’ll Make a Man out of You (Mulan) 95. You’ll Be in my Heart (Tarzan) 96. Colors of The Wind (Pocahontas) 97. Stayin Alive (Saturday Night Fever) 98. Gonna Fly Now (Rocky) 99. The Bare Necessities (The Jungle Book) 100. The Power of Love (Back to the Future)

The list has been updated to reflect the addition of Spider-Man: No Way Home. Saturday Night Live has been removed from the list.

It’s not going to do the numbers that blockbuster films have done pre-pandemic. I don’t see Spider-Man grossing $400 million domestically.

The bottom line is this will be the first true mega-blockbuster since the pandemic began. It could be the movie that saves the theatrical experience. I do not know what its box office will ultimately be, but it will rival some of the highest grossing blockbusters in history.

They do, despite the law being crystal clear. There is no ambiguity here. Marvel owns the characters and stories, and Disney owns Marvel.

I can’t imagine why not. It is free if you already subscribe to HBO, and everyone needed HBO to watch Game of Thrones.

It’s tough to justify paying for Crying Macho when it is free on HBOmax.

The math doesn’t add up to me either. The 1980’s created new revenue streams for films. Home video sales were making studios lots of money. They turned films that were failures at the BO into successes, and made blockbusters even more successful. Then came cable television, which was an additional revenue stream. Home video converted into DVDs and Blu Rays. Now, DVD sales have almost evaporated and there is cord cutting with cable. Therefore, streaming services should cover some of the lost revenue from those avenues. If a studio skips theatrical altogether to put a movie on a streaming service, they keep all the profits of the streaming subscription, but that is less than half of their cut from theatrical, and they still havent replaced the lost revenue from declining DVD and cord cutting cable subscriber losses. The best return on investment is to release a movie theatrically, then put it on your streaming service. That’s what makes the most money.

Hopefully this great run at the BO continues and this ends the day and date release argument.

I cant’t think of more than 3 movies for each of those directors that would make a top 10 list all-time. You could say 4 for Cameron if you are a massive original Terminator fan, but to say it’s top 10 all-time seems a stretch.

This is a big win for Disney and an even bigger win for the theatrical movie-going experience. It’s nice to see the box office having a good weekend.

This film is doing well. It is definitely a well-deserved result.

It’s really hard to believe I have been here for over 9 years.

Back when I wrote the quoted post, I did not know that Fox only financed the first Star Wars movie, and that the sequels and prequels were financed by George Lucas through Lucasfilm.

Numbers 36-40 were definitely not my cup of tea. I’ll take Disney’s Peter Pan and 101 Dalmatians over any of those movies…or all of those movies combined.

I am sure that this lawsuit will settle out of court. However, Disney does not need the bad publicity. They should silently deal with this so it goes away.