Looks decent, I wonder in terms of timeline if this become another trilogy if this is leading to the Apes becoming closer to the Apes of the original film and the landing of the Icarus.
This is a dumb question but are the numerous TV movies from Hallmark, Lifetime etc covered under the AMPTP or not? I imagine they shoot so many per year that you wouldn't really notice.
Star Wars has never been a cheap franchise, even the first film was $11m which was still $3m overbudget.
Marvel is dependent on the character, Spider-Man can't be done for under $150m for example and a new X-Men film probably isn't going to be cheap either.
With Elemental, you can see the budget on screen as well. I think if people want animation jobs to stay in the US, they shouldn't be calling for Pixar or WDAS to cut their budgets.
I don't think you can make Marvel or Star Wars on the cheap without a noticeable dissolution of quality and cutting WDAS and Pixar budgets would see backlash. People go on about Illumination and SPA but in the case of the latter, the stories about the work conditions is a sign that cutting budgets isn't always a good thing.
People are being majorly hyperbolic if they think Feige will be replaced or Marvel will be shut down by Disney. Even without the MCU, it's a major revenue driver for Disney.
Amazon wouldn't be able to buy Disney, buying MGM was easy because that was a film and television studio. Disney are too big to bought, it'd be like Microsoft buying Sony.
Being too negative is one thing but some people on here with others take that to another level. It doesn't hurt to have happy thoughts once in a while.
TBH Expendables 4 was doomed either way and Saw X wouldn't have needed much promo from actors since it's a long running franchise. Hunger Games is really Lionsgate's last hope for 2023.
I suspect it's probably a bit too late to move Migration although it's not being released in many markets until February so there's a chance it could move.
Migration won't do badly but I don't think it's going to be another SLOP or even Sing.
I do find it funny that people are so down on Disney even though Wish looks like a hit.
$65m for the FSS would be slightly off what Frozen got a decade ago so huge success. I think it'll be closer to what Moana did for its three day opening.
It's interesting that it took until a decade and a half after Walt's death for Disney to go into adult oriented films with Touchstone as well as things like Tron and it saved them because both the animation department and the family live action films weren't doing well at the time.