WB did a Super Bowl ad for this. It was their first major Super Bowl ad in nearly 20 years. They wouldn’t have done that if they weren’t pulling all the stops in trying to sell this thing. Let’s also not forget all those hyperbolic endorsements from celebrities and influencers, including Tom Cruise and Stephen King.
Frankly, I don’t understand why this was the movie WB chose to bet so much on, but I suppose that’s in the past now.
Isn’t the Justice Department attempting to crack down on Hollywood’s obsession with mergers? Please tell me they would block Sony from buying Paramount.
I don’t doubt that this movie made a good profit for Paramount when factoring in merch sales, but since when are those factored into these annual reports?
I wouldn’t dare try to dispute the idea that Barry Jenkins is genuinely passionate about The Lion King, but I’m fairly certain that Disney hiring was mainly so they could have a prestigious name (“From Academy Award Winner Barry Jenkins”) attached to this project than anything else. No matter how much personality Jenkins may want to insert into the film, he’ll still have to follow the usual Disney notes.
It wouldn’t really need to be a bigger IP to hypothetically make more at the box office. I still think this’ll make more worldwide, but Sonic 3 winning at the domestic box office wouldn’t surprise me at this point.
This is gonna be, what, the fourth live action incarnation of Scooby? Is Jenna Ortega gonna play Velma or something?
Also, interesting that it’s apparently going to Netflix and not Max.
“This looks like A.I.” is basically just a fancy new way of saying that something looks like crap.
Anyway, my expectations are pretty low here. I have a bit more faith with this than I do with the 2019 film, simply because Barry Jenkins is mo Jon Favreau, but I’m still expecting a safe cookie cutter Disney product.
Random though, but it’s kinda amusing to think that five years ago, the MCU was on top of the world, while the Fox X-Men series was completely washed up and on its deathbed, and now in 2024, Marvel is banking on a movie that focuses heavily on the Fox Marvel projects to rejuvenate the MCU.