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Home media and licensing isn't as lucrative as it once was, but there's still good money made here and will always be something these studios will take into account when greenlighting projects. And Warner is already licensing out their movies to third-party streaming services. Dune 1 was on Netflix a few months ago! I'm sure Dune 2 is going to get money going to Netflix or Hulu or whatever. And honestly, the sad truth here is that, at this point, with the rising costs and shrunken audience, most movies probably have to be made at a loss now. We're all outsiders speculating on money that isn't ours tbh. So at this rate, is this arguing worth it? 🤷‍♂️

I want what they have

No offense, but it's very clear nobody's minds are being changed on whether Dune 2 is seen as a success, and we've been talking in circles for several pages now. Do we have to keep fighting over this on a loop when there will be no resolution? Besides, it's been one day. Just one day. Why are we now making these sweeping proclamations after just one day? Just a tad silly, no?

Only my baby can pull that off. Your faves could never

Honestly, with the way legs now go for animated movies that have zero competition for months (Migration, Elemental), Kung Fu Panda 4 could open to Shazam 2 numbers, and miraculously get to 140M or something. 🤣

Why is there no Manhawke? Does Hollywood have an AGENDA??????

That's not true! The Soviet Holmes movies don't have gay rats in them.

Wanted to recommend people to head on over to the Top 100 Disney Movies thread. I've just reached the top 20. The big home stretch, and revealed some certified bangers I know you all love. Feel free to send me some likes along the way

#18 Mulan 1,596 points, 27 lists "My, what beautiful blossoms we have this year. But look, this one's late. But I'll bet that when it blooms, it will be the most beautiful of all." ' Box Office: 304.3M Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Metacritic: 72 Awards: 1 Academy Award nomination, 10 Annie Awards and 2 nominations, 2 Golden Globe Award nominations, 2 Grammy Award nominations Roger Ebert's Review: "Animation often finds a direct line to my imagination: It's pure story, character, movement and form, without the distractions of reality or the biographical baggage of the actors. I found myself really enjoying "Mulan,'' as a story and as animated art. If the songs were only more memorable, I'd give it four stars, but they seemed pleasant rather than rousing, and I wasn't humming anything on the way out. Still, "Mulan'' is an impressive achievement, with a story and treatment ranking with "Beauty and the Beast (IMAX)'' and "The Lion King.'' Its Legacy: One of the highest-grossing films of the Disney Renaissance. Part of the official Disney Princess line. The first of three animated features primarily animated at Disney's Florida animation studio. Mulan would be considered one of Disney's greatest heroines. Appeared in Kingdom Hearts. Earned a direct-to-video sequel in 2004. Earned a live-action remake in 2020. Gave Eddie Murphy a paycheck. Commentary: Well...didn’t think the movie would get this high on the list. While Mulan was a solid critical and commercial hit on its release, its popularity has only risen more and more over the years for a wide variety of reasons. Great visuals, fun action, catchy songs, a lot of 90s girl power. The list goes on. In many ways, a lot of the appeal is in part to Mulan herself. She’s a character familiar to other 90s Disney heroines. Heartfelt, vibrant, quirky, dreams of wanting more in life. She has a love for her family, has a lot of great comedy moments, and gets to have tons of badass moments as a warrior that you don’t really see with the other princesses. And at the same time, Mulan also resonates as a character who just doesn’t fit in. While other Disney heroines want adventure or love, she just wants to feel some sort of acceptance in a world and culture that doesn’t seem to accept her. She can’t fit into the stereotypes and worldviews that others want and expect her to have, and it gnaws at her so. And thus, she breaks down those stereotypes people place on her and other women like her, and becomes the person she is destined to be, saving China and the world itself in the process. It’s such a powerful, emotionally resonant character that makes the film instantly memorable and I’m sure turned a lot of young girls’ heads, making them realize they can be more than what people around her expect them to be. Both on its original release and decades later. Mulan continues to be a beloved title in the Disney canon and still has a strong fanbase, with a lot of personality and humor and style that will ensure it will be a fan-favorite for decades to come and inspire all kinds of women to don a sword. And that’s fucking awesome.

#19 Pinocchio 1,581 points, 22 lists "Little puppet made of pine, awake. The gift of life is thine." Box Office: 164M Rotten Tomatoes: 100% Metacritic: 99 Awards: 2 Academy Awards, 1 Hugo Award Roger Ebert's Review: "What the Disney shop did with its first animated features has resonated through film history. Ernest Rister says in a letter: "I cannot tell you how many of today's computer graphics artists have the book Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life at their work stations." All modern animated content in movies, from Jabba the Hut to "Toy Story," springs from those years of invention at Disney, he says: "The same principles apply everywhere, and those principles were all discovered under one roof, decades ago by a bunch of young punks jazzed up about creating something." And that's no lie." Its Legacy: The first animated feature to use the multiplane camera and the third animated movie made by an American studio. Considered one of the greatest animated movies of all time and the most technically perfect Disney movie ever. "When You Wish Upon A Star" became Disney's anthem and most iconic song ever. Jiminy Cricket would appear in numerous other Disney projects. Has appearances in almost all the Disney parks. Earned a TV movie prequel in 2000. Earned a live-action remake in 2022. Joined the National Film Registry in 1994. Gave Cliff Edwards a paycheck. Commentary: In many ways, Pinocchio serves as one of, if not Disney’s most technically impressive work ever made. Taking the groundwork that Snow White had solidified and adding in even more feats of technical wizardry. This all told certainly makes it one of Disney’s absolute best from a visual and technical perspective. The backgrounds are full of lush, realistic details, yet still manage to have enough of a surreal side to them that emphasizes the fantastical and magical. All the characters have such amazing expressions and body language and squash and stretch to them, with details both broad and subtle all at once. To say nothing of all the incredible setpieces, innovative and dynamic, that are just marvelous to look at, and the amazing colors that are bright, deep, and lively. However, within the beauty of the animation is an engrossing fable about maturity and learning from your mistakes. Within the bonkers and silly story is a sense of foreboding dread that really makes the film's themes and messaging more powerful. Pinocchio's actions have consequences, and he is forced to deal with terrible adults or witnessing terrible events towards others. It not only gives Pinocchio more dimension as a character, but it makes the happy and joyous moments all the more earned and delightful, as well as showing kids, ironically enough, wishing on a star won't make things easier. You have to earn your happy ending through work and accepting you did something wrong, and owning up to it. It’s a wonderful odyssey of terror and excitement and humor and one that only until very, very recently with the Guillermo del Toro picture, nobody was able to match. Alongside featuring arguably the greatest song in Disney history, it’s a film that took everything great about Snow White and elevated it to a higher, greater level. A level that, some may argue, no other Disney feature has ever matched.

#20 Toy Story 3 1,551 points, 32 lists "So long...partner." Box Office: 1.067B Rotten Tomatoes: 98% Metacritic: 92 Awards: 2 Academy Awards and 3 nominations, 3 Annie Award nominations, 1 BAFTA Award and 2 nominations, 1 Golden Globe Award, 1 Grammy Award Roger Ebert's Review: "This is a jolly, slapstick comedy, lacking the almost eerie humanity that infused the earlier “Toy Story” sagas, and happier with action and jokes than with characters and emotions. But hey, what can you expect from a movie named "Toy Story 3," especially with the humans mostly offstage? I expect its target audience will love it, and at the box office, it may take right up where "How to Train Your Dragon" left off. Just don't get me started about the 3-D." Its Legacy: The first Toy Story movie and first animated movie to cross a billion dollars. Quentin Tarantino's favorite movie of 2010. #4 on Cahiers du Cinema's Top 10 Films of 2010. Recreated into live-action by two brothers in Iowa. Considered one of the greatest animated movies of all time. Gave Jeff Garlin a paycheck. Commentary: Coming out a decade since the last movie, Toy Story 3 was one of those rare sequels that didn’t skip a single beat between installments. If anything, a franchise like Toy Story is genuinely miraculous. Aging in real-time with its audience, the third film explored the inevitable future that the first two only glanced at. What happens to toys when their owners grow up? What is it like to be loved and played and celebrated, only to have those experiences taken away just like that? Are toys, and for that matter us, able to move away from people who were once in our lives? This captures a lot of fascinating angles and succeeds in all accounts. With a fun new setting of a local daycare center, the Toy Story crew are thrown in with a ton of memorable and charming characters that have become staples of the franchise. This even did Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie 13 years before Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie. And it does all of this with hilarious gags, touching, heartfelt moments that made grown adults cry, and some super intense sequences. It’s a combination of a goofy family adventure, an epic prison break movie, and a beautiful finale to an iconic animated series...that didn’t actually end and will never end, because capitalism. Toy Story 3’s billion-dollar success cemented the franchise as the best of the best in the realm of animation and the reason Disney and Pixar really are so special.

It's tempting...but I'm a furry, and that beast ain't cute. I'll stick with my buff daddy kitty men.

@Blankments @WrathOfHan Let's do this. 10x: Argylle: The Creator, Killers of the Flower Moon, Priscilla, The Holdovers, Napoleon, Godzilla Minus One, The Color Purple, Mean Girls, American Fiction, The Boys in the Boat Dune: Part Two: Fast X, Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer Round 2, Haunted Mansion, Blue Beetle, The Nun 2, The Iron Claw, Mean Girls, Anyone But You, Lisa Frankenstein Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes: Napoleon, Godzilla Minus One, The Iron Claw, Ferrari, Poor Things, Anyone But You, The Boys in the Boat, Dune, Dune: Part Two, All of Us Strangers 8x: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire: Wonka Round 2, The Color Purple, Poor Things, The Book of Clarence, American Fiction, The Boys in the Boat, The Beekeeper, Dune: Part Two Challengers: No Hard Feelings, Joy Ride, Barbie, Mean Girls, American Fiction, Anyone But You, The Boys in the Boat, The Beekeeper Inside Out 2: Wonka, The Boy and the Heron, Wonka Round 2, The Color Purple, Soul, Wish, Migration, Turning Red 7x: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire: Napoleon, The Book of Clarence, Anyone But You, The Boys in the Boat, Dune, Dune: Part Two, All of Us Strangers The First Omen: Poor Things, The Book of Clarence, American Fiction, Lisa Frankenstein, Argylle, Drive-Away Dolls, All of Us Strangers 6x: Madame Web: Napoleon, Wonka, Poor Things, The Book of Clarence, The Beekeeper, Dune Ordinary Angels: Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Theater Camp, Soul, Wish, Migration, Turning Red Arthur the King: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Napoleon, The Iron Claw, The Boy and the Heron, Wonka Round 2, All of Us Strangers The Fall Guy: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Iron Claw, Anyone But You, Dune, Argylle, Dune: Part Two Elio: Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, The Incredibles, Coco, The Lion King, Moana 5x: Turning Red: West Side Story, The Boy and the Heron, Wonka Round 2, Wish, Migration 4x: Soul: The Boy and the Heron, Wonka Round 2, Wish, Migration Origin: Ferrari, The Color Purple, The Book of Clarence, American Fiction Kung Fu Panda 4: The Boy and the Heron, Wonka Round 2, Soul, Migration Luca: The Boy and the Heron, Wonka Round 2, Wish, Migration Abigail: The Book of Clarence, The Beekeeper, The Zone of Interest, Lisa Frankenstein The Garfield Movie: Soul, Wish, Migration, Turning Red 3x: Mean Girls: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Wonka, Wonka Round 2 Bob Marley: One Love: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Killers of the Flower Moon, Mean Girls Drive-Away Dolls: Past Lives, Asteroid City, The Holdovers Problemista: Past Lives, Talk to Me, The Zone of Interest Civil War: The Iron Claw, Ferrari, The Zone of Interest The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Argylle, Drive-Away Dolls, Dune: Part Two Furiosa: Ferrari, Drive-Away Dolls, Dune: Part Two The Bikeriders: The Creator, Ferrari, The Beekeeper White Bird: Thor: Love and Thunder, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, The Little Mermaid 2x: The Beekeeper: Godzilla Minus One, Ferrari Lisa Frankenstein: The Holdovers, Mean Girls Perfect Days: Ferrari, The Zone of Interest Imaginary: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Mean Girls The American Society of Magical Negroes: Lisa Frankenstein, Drive-Away Dolls Back to Black: Lisa Frankenstein, Drive-Away Dolls IF: Mean Girls, Dune: Part Two 1x: The Book of Clarence: The Equalizer 3 Amelie: Anyone But You Land of Bad: The Beekeeper Tenet: Dune Love Lies Bleeding: The Iron Claw Monkey Man: Argylle Despicable Me 4: Turning Red The Unbreakable Boy: King Richard

Imma do the opposite and recommend you stuff from before the 80s. I saw your Letterboxd, and you really need to be cultured on the real classics. And that is just the movies I gave 5 stars to. I have like a million more movies to recommend you dawg. But I think this is a good starting lineup.

I know it sounds silly, but this is honestly valid? Every million in a preview number counts in terms of a film's potential box office opening and appeal. Like an 11M opening would indicate low-mid 70s, and now we're probably getting to high 70s with a shot at 80M. It matters.

Watching the Ghostbusters trailer is hysterical, because you can so plainly see Bill Murray hates being there and every snarky line he is saying is killing him inside.

I never bought that tbh. Or at the very least, Dune would share with Marvels/Hunger Games. No way IMAX would ditch those other contracts, especially Disney’s.

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A Color of Money legacyquel would actually be 👌