Somewhat related, but a recent YT video by Lindsay Ellis popped up talking about It, Stranger Things, and nostalgia. I'm just putting it here because it's both super entertaining, and I love Ellis' videos.
Christmas 4-Day Weekends (Even though I suck at it, so this is me just pulling out of my but lol):
Star Wars: $150M
Jumanji (6-Day): $45M
Pitch Perfect 3: $32M
The Greatest Showman (6-Day): $28M
Ferdinand: $19M
Coco: $11M
All the Money: $10M
Disaster Artist: $8M
Downsizing: $8M
Wonder: $7M
Father Figures: $7M
Darkest Hour: $4M
Shape of Water: $3M
Fox boss James Murdoch could be next Disney CEO in possible merger
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/dec/05/disney-james-murdoch-21st-century-fox-ceo?CMP=share_btn_tw
Ferdinand
40
1065
3.76%
Star Wars
3491
4503
77.53%
Jumanji
57
1846
3.09%
Greatest Showman
6
1562
0.38%
After two weeks, the overall traction is...fine, I guess. Jumanji though is at a pretty decent start. (BTW, I'm looking at showtimes for that movie from Wednesday to Monday)
The studio is based in Connecticut, so that'll be a problem. But in all honesty, why would Disney get rid of an animation studio, and create negative PR in doing so, when they can capitalize on having three successful animation studios, and create even more potential hit franchises?
http://variety.com/2017/film/awards/darkest-hour-three-billboards-wga-awards-not-eligible-1202631189/
Darkest Hour and Three Billboards aren't eligible for the WGA Awards (and also Coco and a few other movies, but no one cares about them, so...)
Keep in mind though that being ineligible doesn't automatically shut scripts out of the Oscar race.
Ehh...
Ice Age and Rio are popular enough properties Disney would likely want to exploit. If anything, having the marketing muscle of Disney would probably make their movies gross more money than what they currently do.