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Discounting Toy Story 3 and Monsters University (due to their respective 11-year and 12-year gaps), the only sequels to have as big a percentage increase OS were Shrek 2, Ice Age 2, Ice Age 3, Cars 2 and Despicable Me 2.

Speaking of Disney, he played one of the best Walt "expies" ever put on film...My generation will mourn him for that role alone. Farewell, John Hammond.(We had better get a dedication to him on Jurassic World...)

Source material Source material Source material Source material. Take up your issues with these elements with the ghost of J.M. Barrie, not the people at the Disney studio.Haven't seen Peter Pan in years, so I can't actually weigh in on it myself.

WB would be too big. Disney would just be saddled with a shitload of debt. Also, DC would be a complete redundancy.I believe that Kazuo Hirai has said on multiple occasions that Sony has absolutely no intention of ever selling off their film division. I think the only thing Disney would truly want from Sony is the film rights to Spider-Man...

They don't need to buy another studio, it would just be redundant.

Not enough steam left for it to get there. But after the domestic underperformance, it's at least comforting to see that won't end its OS run just barely squeaking over $400m like Puss in Boots or Croods did.And Dragon 2's (so far) 44% OS increase over Dragon 1 is still the biggest sequel jump for DreamWorks outside of Shrek 2's insane 121% surge, and the only other DWA sequel to cross $400m without its predecessor making over $300m.Also BTW, all three of the DWA movies that got to $500m OS had predecessors that grossed over $400m. I hope that bodes well for HTTYD3...

Fievel Goes West was not Don Bluth.

I was trying to make it clear that I was NOT making this Pixar vs. Marvel. I am not of the "there can be only one" mindset. I was just saying it's just as amazing in a DIFFERENT way. Pixar's streak is amazing due to how LONG they kept it up, Marvel's is amazing due to how much product they've put out in such a short period of time without burning out audience demand. A studio can just as easily burn out by saturating the market like that if they don't build up a standard of quality, and the resulting loyalty and trust, among the general audience *coughDreamWorks*I will support everything Pixar does (that doesn't involve Cars), I have been a Pixar fan since Toy Story, and I already loved their commercials (though I didn't find out they were done by Pixar until years later). I liked Brave, I liked Monsters University, I have faith in The Good Dinosaur, I never boarded the post-Cars 2 "Pixar = has-beens" bandwagon. So I did not intend that to be a "Marvel > Pixar" comparison, just an interesting contrast.

Mango beat me to it - Disney distributed and marketed Avengers, not Paramount. They were bought out of the remainder of their Marvel contract with a percentage of the grosses of Avengers and IM3, and their logo at the beginning of both movies.

Considering that Paramount is the studio that "rewarded" TMNT's August overperformance by slotting the sequel right in the middle of the summer 2016 logjam...I doubt it.

It was also 14 years after Toy Story. Not to slight Pixar AT ALL - the fact that it took 16 years for a film of theirs to disappoint both critically and at the (domestic) BO is absolutely astounding - but Marvel Studios' rise has been over a period of only SIX years. Candle that burns twice as bright, etc., etc., and yet Marvel Studios hasn't burned out yet.

Wow, HTTYD1's gross really benefited from 3D, didn't it? So far, HTTYD2 has increased 14.5% in admissions, but dropped 13.2% in gross.I asked this in the HTTYD2 thread, but since it pertains to SK, I'll ask here too: How have 2D ticket prices and 3D ticket prices changed since 2010?

The Ring 3 being in 3D would have provided a decent bump in 2010. Not sure about now...

OK, so using those numbers, as of today it's up 14.5% in admissions but down 13% in gross.South Korea must have been the market where HTTYD1 benefited most from 3D, because it seems to be the only market where HTTYD2 dropped in gross but gained in admissions. And again I ask, how have 2D ticket prices and 3D ticket prices changed in South Korea since 2010?

Confused - the Korean won totals on BOM are in billions, not millions.

I brought this up in the HTTYD2 thread, but do any of you have accurate local-currency totals for HTTYD1 and HTTYD2 (so far)? I'm not sure if BOM's are accurate or not (their weekends for Dragon 1 stopped in August 2010 and then they reported April 8-10 2011 and updated the gross one last time).

This is why I don't feel comfortable ranking my top 100 films. I probably have 50-100 films I could put on a "top" list, but I don't think it's fair to give one film I really like a higher numerical rank over another film I really like. (For example, Ghostbusters and Back to the Future would be in my top 10 favorites, but I cannot with good conscience rank either one over the other.)

Planes 2 is probably going to fall behind HTTYD2 in dailies soon.

Bravo China.I just hope the government doesn't have it yanked from theaters early like they did to Croods (Is SARFT the bureau in charge of that?)

Iceroll, did you make sure to roll the 12 points for "Belleville Rendez Vous" into Triplets' score? It's the same movie.

I enjoy Robin Hood, even though I sometimes feel like I'm not "supposed to." So it's a quasi-guilty pleasure.

I enjoyed Frozen and I think that's excessively obsessive. I remember thinking that when I originally SAW that post.Frozen is just one recent movie that I particularly enjoyed. Same with GOTG. I don't make them my life.

For all the worries when Disney bought Marvel that they would micromanage and dictate their creative/business direction, it looks like Marvel is still autonomous enough to be able to decide "We're NOT doing anything with BH6 to tie into the Disney movie."

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So up to now, up 17% in gross versus 16.6% in admissions. Actually pretty close - I wonder, did 3D percentage stay relatively the same, or did general price inflation just balance out the drop? And how big was the German 3D share for HTTYD1 to begin with?What prompted me to start this: Comparison of South Korean admissions with BOM's latest available totals for the two films in South Korean won (Rsyu or anybody else have an accurate final KRW total for HTTYD1 or current KRW total for HTTYD2?HTTYD1:2,603,857 adm. / ~27.06 billion KRW grossHTTYD2 (to date):2,965,790 adm. / ~23.06 billion KRW gross (as of Sunday - I have no no local gross info for Mon.-Fri.)That's an almost 14% increase in admissions...but an almost 15% decrease in gross.As mentioned on the South Korean thread, the 3D share for Dragon 1 was 76% (that's considerably bigger than even the domestic 3D percentage) but the 3D share for Dragon 2 is only about 26%.(As a side note, this is an example of how comparing local currency and USD will yield different results due to exchange rate changes. HTTYD2's $22.6m cume is only a 10% decrease from HTTYD1's $25.1m. Comparing different weekends on BOM, $1 used to be equal to almost 1,200 KRW, now it's only worth 1,020.)Another list of questions for Rsyu or another Korean: Have regular non-3D ticket prices gone up or down since 2010? Are 3D tickets more or less expensive in 2014? And do 3D tickets have a higher or lower premium vs. standard tickets now compared to 2010?