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The criticism is about Will Smith's Genie. And the problem is on two fronts. 1. They should never have released a pic of Smith that wasn't the real thing. False advertising. 2. People who are criticizing are not reading the article.

'Tis the season to be overly negative? Seems to be a lot of bashing and unfounded criticism based on some pics. Not sure if that's just people trying to cause the movie to tank or from Disney haters or what? It's not like this movie is poised to be an Oscar contender. It's just a fun take on the classic.

Maybe during the Christmas day parade?

Again, did you read the article? Did you see the other posts about the Genie?

That I agree with. That was my first impression. Why give people a false impression of what the film is going to be? People will see this on news stands. I suppose they will have another article later on and the trailer (probably early 2019) will surprise people. As for Aladdin, he's a thief. He stole the shirt.

The movie can't make only $300 million off of a $140 million OW. That's a 2.14 multiplier. Ain't gonna happen. But I don't see the OW being as high as $140 million. That being said, the movie won't be a total failure unless Disney decides to throw it under the bus. And they won't do that for one of their all time beloved tales. (Artemis Fowl on the other hand....) I can see $115-$125 million OW and $330-$360 million domestic. Maybe higher if the film can escape the bad press we see on boards like this. EW never does a film justice, especially THIS early.

For people who didn't bother to read the article: The final version of Will Smith’s Genie in his blue floating lamp form isn’t quite finished — the film is due in theaters on May 24, 2019 — but Ritchie gives EW a tease of what he’ll look like. People are either overreacting, want this to tank, or are placing value on the EW cover alone. I'm personally excited for the movie and think it will be fine.

Wait so Will Smith isn't going with the blue look? That's....awkward (unless that's at the end when he becomes real). Okay nevermind. I just read the article and saw that the blue form isn't quite done yet. So this is just preliminary. Good to know.

I have very mixed feelings about how MPR's box office run is going to go. I think that many people are wanting a huge film to fill the gap of not having a SW film this holiday season. People think that MPR could make 50% of a SW film. But the reviews are mixed, the songs have been declared forgettable and the film doesn't do anything that the original didn't do. It may end up seeing a steeper drop past the holidays for a run that takes it to around $200-$220 million domestic overall. Good but not great.

I can see MPR doing Cinderella type numbers.

Memorial Day "curse" is as valuable as the Red Sox curse prior to 2004. All you need is a good enough team, er, movie to be huge that month. Will Aladdin be it? Who knows? Solo and POTC5 sure weren't.

I actually have to mostly agree about Nutcracker. It was, for the most part, a straight forward story. Kiera was a bit corny but the story was easy to follow and really played out like a modern Wizard of Oz or a Narnia movie. But again, it doesn't matter. If this movie was released 20, 30, 40 years ago, it wouldn't create a stain on the hopes of a new material film. Instead, in 2018, it just goes along with WIT, Pooh, and ME saying that it won't be long before NO new material films will be made.

Point is that ALL movies that aren't SW, Marvel, Pixar, and a very small group of other successful franchises can be described the same way. Everything that has come out suffers the same fate.

"Original" or first time fantasy/big budget/sci-fi/potential franchise films can only stoop so low before studios just stop putting them out for theatrical release. This is what has been happening and what will happen for a short time before it all ends and films like this go straight to streaming. The downward trend has been devastating for new properties this year. Wrinkle In Time, Nutcracker, and now this. Not a whole lot left to do but bury these ideas.

Yes lesser known properties have essentially become the new franchises. And popular franchises have become genres themselves. Thus, new SW stories and new Marvel films about characters that are not as well known will become the new NEW franchises. It's new stories with a familiar universe attached.

But do we have the climate for an original franchise? The best and most original new properties in the past 10 years (or maybe 20) have been animated films.

Read the article about the "franchise machine". It's actually pretty sad and it's discouraging for anyone wanting to make movies that are fantasy, sci-fi, or have any sort of bigger budget. It tells a tale of being stuck in a continually dwindling environment of franchise films where no original films can break through and more and more franchise films will begin to fade. Marvel can't last forever. Nor can Star Wars. Disney live-actions, Jurassic Park, Avatar, etc. Something somewhere will have to come along and carry the torch. Too bad something like Mortal Engines can't cut it.

People underestimating or not even talking about TS4. It won't be Incredibles 2 simply because we've already had 2 proper sequels and the competition from SLOP2 (another one people aren't talking about). But TS4 could come close to Finding Dory. From April to July it's all about how much those late spring/summer films can squeeze in before TLK. And this talk about Aladdin flopping? No way. Just not on the front line of 2019.

DOMESTIC 1. Lion King $710 million 2. End Game $667 million 3. Star Wars 9 $630 million 4. Frozen 2 $465 million 5. Toy Story 4 $450 million 6. Aladdin $370 million 7. Captain Marvel $315 million 8. Spiderman FFH $300 million 9. Dumbo $260 million 10 It 2 $240 million 11. SLOP 2 $235 million 12. Jumanji 3 (if released) $225 million

Considering no posts in a week and an expected drop to $26 million, this movie has ZERO chance (in my opinion) of hitting $200 million domestic. Even with a holiday spike, it will barely make over $180 million domestic. Surprising with the hype and being THE Disney animated for the holiday.

By my calculations, a $70 million Wednesday-Tuesday would mean about $30 million Friday-Sunday. $10 million average per day? That sounds extremely low considering the hype and praise. Jumanji went in without much hype and praise and built steam as it went along. MPR has a ton of hype and steam already behind it. Jumanji still made $19 million on Christmas day. What am I missing?

Made me think of a movie about the singing bass.

Avengers will probably be moved to the last week of April like IW.

Aladdin a flop? Um...no.

Pure evil!!!😜